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[–] tal@olio.cafe 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is "The Paradise".

I assume that this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8K7YCYSic

[–] tal@olio.cafe 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can't name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven't, you might give it a shot.

kagis

https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

[–] tal@olio.cafe 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlfriendInCanada

Girlfriend in Canada

A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they're either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn't visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here's her entry in his phone's contact list. No, you can't see a picture.

The idea is that since "she" lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her "boyfriend", it's particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions.

The tactic could be scaled up.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Hmm.

So for some software, you can just increase the price.

But...I wonder what that will do to the cost of video games. Typically, those are closer to one-off releases, not packages where new releases exist and are regularly purchased or subscriptions are in place.

I'd expect this to increase the cost of maintenance, if there are legal obligations on publishers to monitor, notify, and deploy security fixes for their software and upstream. You'd think that it might encourage vendors to EOL software sooner; pull it off Steam or the like, mark as no longer supported.

Maybe there are some exemptions somewhere that affect those.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not the first intervention in Haiti.

The reason that both a lot of Haitians and a lot of countries didn't want another international intervention was because the prior ones tended to wind up with everyone unhappy and complaining about the situation. The most recent one was UN aid after the earthquake. The UN force that was sent included some soldiers out of some country that had cholera, which started a cholera outbreak, which wound up with angry Haitians calling for reparations and countries who felt unappreciated for what they were doing.

kagis

Looks like it was some soldiers from Nepal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_Haiti_cholera_outbreak

[–] tal@olio.cafe 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What’s the big deal with POSIX? Why are ppl constantly discussing what is and isn’t posix compliant?

The short version: it's a least-common-denominator standard that spans multiple Unix and Unix-like systems, so if you write to it, your software can fairly-trivially run on various systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

Windows has some level of Microsoft-provided Posix support, which is what the post is alluding to. I am fairly confident that it doesn't have full Posix compliance. Cygwin, a separate, non-Microsoft, open-source effort, might qualify.

kagis

Okay, apparently it does confirm to a portion of the Posix standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

The subsystem only implements the POSIX.1 standard – also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 – primarily covering the kernel and C library programming interfaces which allowed a program written for other POSIX.1-compliant operating systems to be compiled and run under Windows NT. The Windows NT POSIX subsystem did not provide the interactive user environment parts of POSIX, originally standardized as POSIX.2. That is, Windows NT did not provide a POSIX shell nor any Unix commands out of the box, except for pax. The NT POSIX subsystem also did not provide any of the POSIX extensions that postdated the creation of Windows NT 3.1, such as those for POSIX Threads or POSIX IPC.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The teenager was later found “alive and well” on September 26.

"Well" other than the self-inflicted gunshot wound, one imagines.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 11 points 3 days ago

My impression is that it's hard to find powerful specs alone on an Android tablet. That seemed counterintuitive to me


I'd think that the extra space would help


but I think what's going on is that everyone gets a smartphone, and they make that their primary mobile device. Then if they have the funds, they get a tablet, most-often for dedicated movie viewing. The market for that is pretty price-sensitive, so tablets don't generally cost as much as flagship smartphones. As a result, most tablets tend to have good speakers and a decent display, but unimpressive radios, compute capability, and most other things.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillette

In September 2025, he called for Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal to be executed for encouraging anti-Trump protests, claiming that she supported the "overthrow of the American government".[8][9] Gillette had previously expressed support for people arrested as a result of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, calling them "political prisoners".[9][10] Earlier that month, he had also made social media posts that reject the concept of Islamophobia while calling Muslims "savages" and "terrorists".[11]

He doesn't sound like a very nice person.

EDIT: Honestly, most of his Twitter stuff is yelling, too.

https://x.com/AzRepGillette

e.g. to pick a random item:

Senator Mark Kelly:

This Pride Month, we honor the courage and contributions of LGBTQ+ Americans who’ve fought—and continue to fight—for equality in Arizona and across the country. Our country is better because of you.

Representative John Gillette:

What about D-Day... always your pathetic pandering. Our country is free because from D-Day - Aug 17 th, 33K Americans died defeating tyranny. We remember that, not groomer awareness month.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 3 points 4 days ago

Nothing immediately comes up for me, but do you remember approximately when you viewed/downloaded it? If it was in a web browser, could sort by date viewed and start going through your browser history.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suppose that people not liking NSFW questions is why Reddit had both /r/tipofmytongue and /r/tipofmypenis, to separate the two sets of questions.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 4 points 4 days ago

You might also crosspost to !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world.

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