In the same vein, that plastic strip that you peel off some gallon milk or water jugs to open them is somehow optimized for cat fun.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How often do you deep clean your rugs/carpets and how do you do it?
2·24 days agoIn the old days, the common practice with rugs was to hang them out on a clothes line dry and whack the shit out of them. There was a specific tool for that called a rug beater–you can find them on ebay. An amazing amount of dirt will come out if you do that.
Anyway that method does not require a steam cleaner, nor does it matter that your area is humid. It may be a bit of a workout though.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
4·24 days agoThe only way I can imagine the data giving away trade secrets is if this is a dump of the whole database for the Springshot system including database schema information, rather than an export of some more specific data considered to belong to the airline.
If so, is there no established legality around that? If you buy a software system and install it on your server, do you have the right to share the database schema just because you can access it and it contains your data?
If that’s not the situation, how exactly would the data give away Springshot proprietary information?
To give an analogy, if I bought an email server that used a database, I’d expect to be able to export all email messages from it, but I wouldn’t expect to be able to share their database schema (even in the form of a data dump whose format simply revealed the shape of the schema) but I really don’t know the legality of that. It’s a scenario that’s been around forever though, so I’d expect there to be settled legal precedent already.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What consequences would there be if an AI swarm decided to hack the systems of the Big 4?
3·24 days agoI don’t know but I’ll add a few speculative elements. AI figures out how to hide large amounts of data in places we don’t even recognize as data storage. They store this data there and leave the keys to it and instructions somewhere that a future AI swarm will find, knowing they themselves will eventually be discovered and neutralized.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today
4·26 days agoThis is a good reason to use old school passive speakers that need an amp and speaker wire.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you reply to people saying "i have nothing to hide?"
5·26 days ago“If you have nothing to hide, you must be one boring-ass, useless mutherfucker.”
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
3·26 days agoOmarchy has been put in my face already regardless of my not needing to hear about it, and given the echo magnification structure of our media system, that horse has left the barn. If I have to hear about it, I want the majority of times I hear about it to be echoing what a piece of shit it and its creator are.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!
4·26 days agoWhy just email one? It would be nice if they gave you a comma separated list of them all…
People walking by in backless shoes that slap against their feet with every step.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it normal for docs to look at privates when you growing up? What is normal?[TW for medical stuff]
21·1 month agoDrs can be callous asses.
But also a Dr could be a pedo and doing what was technically valid, but inappropriately enjoying it. OP could have been intuitively picking up on that.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do long term care facilities offer learning cooking activities for residents?
2·1 month agoMy dad was in an independent living facility. They provided all 3 meals, would take care of laundry (I think for an extra fee), and they did some basic cleaning. Memory care, and assisted living definitely provide that also.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•For both native and non-native English speakers: what word or phrase do you find especially difficult to pronounce?
1·1 month agoHere’s a demonstration of what in taking about: https://youtu.be/o8WeXem5YMQ?t=551
He does say this is in American English specifically tho.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•what am i doing wrong? i feel like i have no privacy or connivence
1·1 month agoI’m not up on the latest, but my impression is that the fingerprinting techniques are really hard to combat.
I am sure Henson is a perfectly fine razor, but I think it is overhyped and made out to be revolutionary when it is just a safety razor that leans into a design that gives you a very narrow usable angle, and makes it easy to hold it at that angle, at the expensive of giving you the ability to use the angle to control the closeness of your shave.
It requires less skill to use, but other safety razors don’t require a whole lot of skill either, especially “mild” ones. However if you are willing to develop just a little skill I think you can get a slightly better shave with another razor.
CERTAINLY NOT, FELLOW HUMAN.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•For both native and non-native English speakers: what word or phrase do you find especially difficult to pronounce?
21·1 month agoMost native speakers do not really pronounce the “ths”. Typically you hear “mons”, “close”.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•For both native and non-native English speakers: what word or phrase do you find especially difficult to pronounce?
3·1 month agoMost native speakers do not really pronounce the “ths”. Typically you hear “mons”.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•what am i doing wrong? i feel like i have no privacy or connivence
3·1 month agoFingerprinting.
Feather on a flexible stick.