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10 days agoJust lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
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I want Roland Emmerich to make a movie out of the short story A Pail of Air.
tl;dr/spoiler: ~20 years ago, a black hole passed through the solar system and captured the Earth, dragging it inexorably away from the Sun. This causes great earthquakes, tsunami, and other immediate civilization-ending catastrophes, but the real disaster comes when the atmosphere freezes and falls like snow to the ground. The original story follows a young boy born after the cataclysm whose chores include collecting buckets of frozen air.
27·2 months agoLooks like compatibility hacks for various websites.
Interventions - are deeper modifications to make sites compatible. Firefox may modify certain code used on these sites to enforce compatibility. Each compatibility modification links to the bug on Bugzilla@Mozilla; click on the link to look up information about the underlying issue.
User Agent Override - change the user agent of Firefox when connections to certain sites are made.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing
21·2 months agoIf social media companies exist to collect massive troves of personal info from users–and they do–then there is a valid national security concern over social media controlled by an adversary. This is distinct from the individual privacy concerns towards domestically-controlled social media.
2·3 months agoMmm-bop
Be, is, are, was, am, were, being, been… are all the same word.
When in Vegas sell light bulbs.
2·3 months agoThe TOS doesn’t say anything about crimes like murder, and of course you can’t waive that anyway.
What it does say is that any disputes arising out of the use of their website are subject to arbitration. If the plaintiff is correct and Disney is liable because they posted the menu on their website, then that would be a dispute arising out of the use of their website.
The plaintiff doesn’t say that Disney owns it, though. They are basing their argument on the fact that Disney posted the restaurant’s menu on their website. The website is also under the Disney+ TOS. So, if the plaintiff is correct and Disney is liable then the TOS probably applies.
Annual commemorative pastry observance
Fritz Leiber’s short story “A Pail of Air”.
This story portrays the effects of the most terrifying natural calamity I have ever encountered in fiction: Earth being ejected from the solar system. In any other disaster there’s still hope because even though humanity might die out, life on Earth would eventually recover. Not so in this case. Without the Sun we’re fucked. Even the air freezes (hence the title).
“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”
Lisa needs braces!
Super Mario Brothers 2
15·3 months agoBust this trust.
Stop, drop, and roll
Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night’s aria.
This timepiece is of your forefathers.
The classic sci-fi short story A Pail of Air touches on this.
I just use Everything desktop search and let the files fall where they may.