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Or Windex.

Occasionally they take the “investigation bungled by police” angle, but that’s the exception rather than the rule.

Not trying to discourage anybody from switching to Linux, but Nook is also available for Windows and Mac if that’s not an option for you.

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk

The movie with Jet Li and Jason Statham? I get it.

Snikt.

Mate, wtf is an old carburator?

Which one is the wrong one?

I like the idea that these were your first impressions of China, as in you stepped off a plane, had one look around and thought “Wow, this place seems like a ruthlessly effective technocracy that has achieved very impressive outcomes for its citizens but it’s certainly a cultural-slash-societal system I never want to live in.”

The big headline is understandably that it crashes into a fake painted wall like a cartoon, but that’s not something that most drivers are likely to encounter on the road. The other two comparisons where lidar succeeded and cameras failed were the fog and rain tests, where the Tesla ran over a mannequin that was concealed from standard optical cameras by extreme weather conditions. Human eyes are obviously susceptible to the same conditions, but if the option is there, why not do better than human eyes?

Adding on to this, while this article is fast approaching 20 years old, it gets into the quagmire that is web standards and how ~10 (now ~30) years of untrained amateurs (and/or professionals) doing their own interpretations of what the web standards mean–plus another decade or so before that in which there were no standards–has led to a situation of browsers needing to gracefully handle millions of contradictory instructions coming from different authors’ web sites.

• Martian Headsets - Joel on Software

Here’s a bonus: the W3C standards page. Try scrolling down it.

As long as we’re filling out our fantasy browser brackets, I’m hoping that the Servo engine and browser/s can become viable. Servo was started at Mozilla as a web rendering engine only, before they laid off the whole team and the Linux Foundation took over the project. Basically revived from the dead in 2023, the current project is working on an engine and a demonstration browser that uses it. It’s years away from being a usable replacement for current browsers and the engine is certainly the main project. A separate browser which employs Servo as its engine is a more likely future than an actual Servo browser.

Still, you can download a demo build of the official browser from the web site. Currently, it’s only usable for very simple web sites. Even Lemmy/Mbin display is a little broken, and I think of those as fairly basic. YouTube is out of the question. One of the sites that’s been used to demonstrate its capability to render web pages is the web site for Space Jam (1996) if that gives you any idea of its current state.

And specifically, a reference to It’s the Sun Wot Won It, a headline in the Murdoch press, not-good-enough-to-be-toilet-paper tabloid rag The Sun, crowing that they had enough influence in the 1992 general election to secure a win for the Conservatives.

I feel like Google would tell you the same thing if asked.

Same for Interstellar for Android, which supports both Lemmy and Mbin accounts.

If you’re accessing via the official web viewers, you’re out of luck, as far as I know. Both Lemmy and Mbin have open issues requesting keyword filtering, if anyone wants to follow progress or contribute.

Haha, that one ClickHole article has its own Wikipedia article:

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point - Wikipedia

I wouldn’t bother taking anyone who uses “this country” unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.

I wonder if the magic rule understands double negatives. If you tell a vampire “You ain’t never coming in here,” can they enter? What about sarcasm? “Oh yeah, I’m definitely inviting you in.”

That’s a pretty normal part of the fediverse. Somebody from your instance has to be subbed to a community for your instance to start pulling in its posts. Anything that was posted while nobody was subbed doesn’t exist on your end.

Even though there is some network effect just in terms of there being much less content on the threadiverse than Reddit, I do feel like this is something we’re somewhat shielded from. For the most part, we’re not here to follow specific people: my friends aren’t on Lemmy/Mbin, or maybe they are, I don’t actually know or care. I have a Mastodon, but a lot of the people I’d theoretically be interested to follow are still on Twitter, or BlueSky, or Threads or something. It’s not enough of a pull factor to make me join any of those, but it’s probably why I barely use Mastodon.