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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco.
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    13 days ago

    That SMART acronym is for internal computer drives, has been in use since about 1995, and is a wonderful thing - the drive keeps track of how many errors it encounters reading, how many bad sectors on the drive, how many hours it’s been powered on, and a whole bunch of other stats.

    And then, you, the user (/sysadmin) can, while sitting at the computer, get a report of all these stats and notice if the drive is starting to fail so you can plan a replacement instead of it just dying unexpectedly.

    Someone might have made an acronym for “smart” light bulbs, but it would be completely unrelated to the internal computer drive acronym.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Harris vs. Trump spoiler’s supporter says the quiet part out loud
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    4 months ago

    Nah, the problem is the fascists.

    The democrats are in a tough position. If they did come out hard against the actions of the IDF then the Trump campaign would pounce on that.

    Israel has positioned itself so strongly in people’s minds as the-same-as-Jewish that large sections of the democratic base would be uncomfortable voting for “the anti-israel party”.

    (not to mention all the actual Jew-hating groups out there who would 100% take the opportunity to do horiffic hate crimes and claim they were just supporting the Dems)

    Ugh, politics sucks.

    Keep working on harm reduction, y’all, in any way you have energy for ❤️

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Harris vs. Trump spoiler’s supporter says the quiet part out loud
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    4 months ago

    I’m not a US citizen, but I know people who are, and they’re mostly just pissed and fed up with democrats funding fascism and genocide.

    I know, it’s the US, this shouldn’t be surprising, the opposite would be more surprising, but in this particular case it hits their family.

    It’s like: option 1, your family is murdered, but no one in this country is affected by it, so no one cares (they sure haven’t cared much for the past 70-whatever years) Option 2, your family is still murdered, but maybe rise of overt fascism in this country will compel people to take action?

    Anyways, I’ve obviously spent a lot of energy trying to understand their perspective (I’m not going to change anyone’s mind), so I’m just sharing.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Was browsing through the Immich cursed knowledge library. This is quite interesting.
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    5 months ago

    So if I download an image from the web with GPS data, and then open it in an app that just reads images (so it doesn’t need location permissions)… That app (on some phones) gets a modified version of the file?

    Which could make me think that the image doesn’t have location information.

    Which could result in me uploading that file using a browser (that does have location permission turned on) to a website, and I think it’s safe to share because there’s no private information in the image, but my phone has conspired to mislead me.

    Yes, that is cursed.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoAskBeehaw@beehaw.org•What are your favourite neopronouns?
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    6 months ago

    Lois McMaster Bujold, writing science fiction in 1986 about a genetically engineered hermaphrodite used it/its for pronouns (when not using she or he)

    I remember reading a goodreads answer later that she would have used they/them if it had been in common enough usage that she had encountered it.

    (though in my mind '86 is relatively recent, but maybe I’m just old)