Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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6·10 hours agonb(short for nota bene) would actually be a good name for a modern replacement for themancommand 😂
9·2 days agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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3·2 days agothe edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭
2·2 days agothanks, i edited the post to link that instead
from the title i thought this was going to be about AAA batteries
Why is the pipe required tho?
it isn’t really. what is required for it to consume memory very rapidly is for each invocation of the function to call itself more than once. using the pipe is just one way to do this; it would work just as well if the pipe character were replaced with an
&
:(){ :|:& };:is a classic fork bomb for bash (and other shells which allow:as a function name).running it will likely cause your system to need to be rebooted.
2·5 days agoYou mean GrapheneOS? Or is GraphiteOS a different OS I’ve not heard of?
two years later: GraphiteOS is now a thing that exists https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_graphiteos
The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.
I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don’t deploy them to combat before they’re 18.
I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.
And see also:
You’re ignoring the fact your article also doesn’t provide source
Which article are you saying doesn’t provide a source? I see only two articles linked in this thread and they both refer to several sources 🤔
I am sincerely baffled as to what your perspective about this story is.
Do you believe that EU and US officials are spreading Russian propaganda via the Associated Press about Russia supplying drones to Iran (which, as you said earlier, you believe they do not in fact have the ability to manufacture) and therefore Russia’s denial is actually true but also part of their cunning plan to deceive us?
Or what?
Of course Russia denys it
But… just a few hours ago didn’t you deny it too? 🤔
(“No they aren’t” was your first comment in this thread)
No they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.
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Russia put out propaganda
The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.
I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?
Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.
for people who want more than a social media screenshot about this:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/
- the actual paper: https://teenspecies.github.io/pdfs/NeuralCorrelates.pdf
(ht to @bjorney@lemmy.ca who already linked the inevitable relevant xkcd…)
3·16 days agounfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.
many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.
unsurprisingly the HN comments are full of people defending Apple and telling OP he’s wrong about each of his points 🤦
The headline VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker strongly implies that they are going make less cars as a result of their military business, but the article actually says this “shift” is at one of their car factories which they had planned to shut down next year.
The article also neglects to mention some relevant information about the VW Group such as its origins and who owns them today (although they are a publicly traded company, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the German state of Lower Saxony, and the Porsche family respectively own 10.4%, 11.8%, and 31.9% of the shares, and the Porsche family holds 53.3% the voting shares).
sorry, did my comment trigger you? 🙄
nobody called anything a microaggression or said anything about the non-abbreviated word manual; jokes based on UNIX’s abbreviation of it being homonymous with the common noun man have existed since the
mancommand was created.