nitroemdash

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[SOLVED] Will this allow people to comment on my posts? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure Piefed should be repurposed for a personal blog over using Pixelfed or another blogging platform?

Bought this sandwich at an Italian gas station. What a hoax in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
The body you really want in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Someone will want a body made of antimatter and the earth is gone.

You randomly get a free 50k no catch what do you do with it? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 26 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Not work a day in my life. My country is so poor that's enough to sustain me for 50 years.

but seriously this fast food situation is getting out of control [Tommy Siegel] in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 15 points 2 weeks ago

And each of these apps is no less than 500 MB

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 weeks ago

Less incentive to fight it for website developers.

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Union of Fascist Little Ones (en.wikipedia.org)
Would AI Be Hated As Much If It Wasn't As Resource Intensive? in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 weeks ago

Would be even more. The main harm of AI comes from malicious actors being able to ruin the internet forever with practically undetectable bot spam costing cents to run. Also taking jobs in art, where automation was never possible as efficiency is not what art is valued for.

Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's not the regular Fast Forward button.

In our tests, a “Skip Ahead” button appears on-screen as soon as an ad-break starts. Just one tap of the “Skip Ahead” button moves a listener to the beginning of the next section, after the ads have finished. It only appears for ads, promos or intros.

Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So you cannot inherit a 1.1M house or artwork? No one would be able to own property in New-York?

Also one needs to account for inflation. In 100 years 1000'000 would be equivalent of what is now 20'000.

Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 weeks ago

The net worth of the world's billionaires is over $16 trillion in 2025¹. 1% being 160 billion. On average, around every 4000 USD send to the most effective charity saves someone's life². So around 40 million children.

This doesn't account, of course, for the difficulty of selling large amounts of stocks without them losing value and the fact that, as low-hanging dangers are depleting, each subsequent child would be more costly to save.

¹ Wikipedia contributors. (2026, August 3). The World's Billionaires. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:47, August 11, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_World%27s_Billionaires&oldid=1367525482

² GiveWell. (2026, February). How Much Does It Cost To Save a Life? https://www.givewell.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-save-a-life

Painful to recover from in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's usually “how to succeed in life” intelligence, not “realization of abstract k-skeletons as k-skeletons of intersections of convex polyhedra in R^2k−1 in life” intelligence if that doesn't make you money.

One More Time in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just get used to eating from durty ones.

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What's up with frequent downtimes? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf to c/meta@lemmy.wtf
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We are fifth least stable on lestat.org

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Where can I get a collection of Wikipedia articles in e-book format? (lemmy.wtf)
 

I hope asking a question about Wikipedia is not against the rules, couldn't find nor confirmation nor contrary in the sidebar.

I have a PocketBook reader that doesn't support Kiwix. Would need an EPub or another primitive text format. I know a tool to save an archive on epub exists, but no already packed thing with a top 50000/100000 collection.

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2026 Ebola epidemic (en.wikipedia.org)
 

On 14 May 2026, an epidemic of Ebola was reported in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the 17th Ebola outbreak in the DRC and began only five months after the end of the previous outbreak. <…> An imported case from the DRC was also reported in France.

P.S. I wonder if we, like the Reddit counterpart, allow asking questions about Wikipedia itself here. I have a PocketBook device that doesn't support Kiwix. Is it possible to convert entire Kiwix archive file to EPUB?

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Any way to read Wikipedia on a PocketBook offline? (lemmy.wtf)
 

Kiwix app doesn't seem to be an option. It supports EPUB, and Wikipedia has an option to compile articles to EPUB. Are there pre-compiled books?

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Lenin was a mushroom (en.wikipedia.org)
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How accurate can your position be calculated from a photo of the sun you post online? (lemmy.wtf)
 

Imagine you are a popular content creator on PixelFed, many followers, but many stalkers also. You don't want people to know where you live. One day you post a picture of the sun out of your window. Exact time is attached in metadata. Assuming GPS metadata is stripped, can someone, using inclination of the sun to the horizon, Nautical Almanac and some math calculate your latitude and/or longitude, and to what precision? Assuming also meteorological data archives on cloudiness, etc.

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Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later? (lemmy.wtf)
 

Feelings I had for my classmate were obviously one-sided (pretty sure of it), so I made a reasonable decision to never confess to not make things awkward. In a few years since we graduated I finally moved on, although I never loved anyone this much since.

Yet all this time I had a desire to tell her about them. I would definitely want to know if someone loved me this much ever. Would she? I don't know. I don't even know if she is in a relationship right now or not.

I would really want to cite some scientific study that "Over 80% of girls have their self-confidence lifted after being told they were secretly admired (p<0.05)", but can't find one.

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The Great Masturbator (en.wikipedia.org)
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Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? (lemmy.wtf)
 

A typical budget plan offers perks in roughly these proportions (per month):

  • 15 GB of mobile data
  • 10 hours of calls
  • 200 SMS

It may be 300, 500, but I've never seen more than 1000 SMS even on 100 GB plans.

An SMS is limited to 160 bytes. Hence one GB of network bandwidth is equivalent to 6250000 SMS. 500 SMS limit is not even a thousandth of a percent dent on the mobile data limit.

What comes to phone calls, a single SMS could fit in half a second of audio dial-up way.

Why not increase the limit?

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I would rather remain the last woman in a world of men than the last man in a world of women (lemmy.wtf)
 

This hypothetical "would you rather" question pops up on Reddit and Lemmy once in a while, and every time the popular answer is the latter, implying risk of sexual assault. As if in a world of women there won't be enough ready to do the same. Yes, women statistically, on average, less prone to desire to commit a sexual assault, but it doesn't matter if one in ten or one in a hundred is ready to do this if no one else wants to stop them.

Why would they? While sexual assault by men against women is one of the few unforgivable sins in our culture, with huge prison sentences and no life in prison from cellmates, with saving a woman from this being one of the most powerful trops in literature to show characters's nobility and a proper reason to award a civil medal, rape of men by women is treated as a joke or a comedy trope. It can't even be called "rape" according to many dictionaries and legal codes, e.g. the British one.

Would whatever left of police (and there are few women employed in police) actually protect you in this case? Or is it more likely to be yet another “Raped? Baby, men can't be raped” case?

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Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known ChatGPT User (futurism.com)
 

While analyzing a dataset comprising millions of conversations with an old version of ChatGPT, these innocent academics encountered a user who is — it’s no exaggeration to say — the final boss of AI gooners.

Specifically, this anonymous horndog spent months using the OpenAI chatbot to generate vividly detailed pregnancy fanfiction about the high school characters in the visual novel series “Doki Doki Literature Club!” (itself a bizarre piece of media that the uninitiated will need to research for themselves.)

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