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29 days agoMike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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White noise. I bought a white noise machine years ago when I lived near a large emergency room that had ambulances going by all day every day. It really helped with the sirens, and when I moved away I kept using the machine. My brain now interprets the white noise as profound silence, and I sleep so deeply that I don’t know how I ever got by without it.
TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.
I just use Everything desktop search and let the files fall where they may.
Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.
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.
27·5 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
Annual commemorative pastry observance
Super Mario Brothers 2
15·6 months agoBust this trust.
Stop, drop, and roll
Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night’s aria.
The classic sci-fi short story A Pail of Air touches on this.
Windows 95 had to change the time zone selection map because of disputed borders.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823
“Please” is short for “if it pleases you” or “if you please”. It’s used to turn a command into a request. It’s probably not used on Lemmy, etc. because we’re not requesting things of each other a lot.
He seems to be confusing “freeware”, which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with “public domain”, which is the absence of a copyright.
I wouldn’t willingly live anyplace else.
At least “crushed by asteroid” is not contagious.