But if it tried, wouldn’t the frogs fall in the water? I doubt the tiger can gracefully catch a frog off its own back.

Yes, but not just that. Opening a document in Word is for the writer.

A pet peeve of mine is when I’m sent a user guide as a Word document complete with squiggly lines under the words it doesn’t know.

Even worse is when a colleague sends a document like that to a customer.

PDF is a published file format, I find it hard to imagine a world where you could convince me downloading the user manual for my motherboard or downloading Lego assembly instructions should come as a word document.

I bet this person thinks all raster images should be bitmaps. Sorry maybe that was too harsh.

Everyone says the machines put us in a late 90s Matrix because it was the peak and it keeps the people happy so they can use us as batteries.

But it seems more likely that they put us in the late 90s so we can re-live the downfall of humanity as punishment.

Rumor has it that it exploded.

Maybe that’s it. Maybe Elon is just another puppet, doing the bidding of someone else because he’s got himself into a pickle he can’t get out of.

Always in my mind is that this was part of the plan. If Tesla loses all this value then Musk can buy up the stock and take full control.

Its worth considering when you see the S&P 500 falling, too. Maybe it’s all in the plan.

I have a theory that this is all planned. Tank share market, buy lots of shares, in a few years they get all their wealth back and more.

We never have any issues, why do we keep all these IT people around? Let’s get rid of them.

A lot fewer possibilities than that! No special characters, all lower case, it was a word in the dictionary.

Those were different times.

I still sometimes think about my first email address, and how it had a four letter password. Just signed up at Yahoo, it wasn’t anything special.

NZ here, shows:

You might be right. Looking close up the edges don’t stand out as being faked, I just didn’t look that close before. Though the arm on the right (his left arm) is full in focus and the box right next to it is very out of focus.

To be honest it’s been so long since I’ve seen a photo that wasn’t autocorrected up the wazoo that I can’t remember what things are supposed to look like anymore.

Isn’t it just the thing that smartphones do these days where they slightly blur the background to make the person stand out more? Like you might do adjusting the focus, but faked.

I was curious about Open Street Maps, since anyone can edit it.

Gulf of America comes up specifically as an official name for US, and there is also a note about how if you change the English name without agreement in the discussion then it will be reverted:

Discussion is here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571

It seems the general consensus is that the US have that as an official name, but it’s not the common English name so name:en stays as the Gulf of Mexico.

I am at the point I don’t know what’s satire any more. But at the very least it’s real.

I love the recipes that rely on pre-prepared steps to hit their timeframes.

Ingredients:

• Julienne cut carrots, blanched
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 cups pasta, cooked al dente

I mean there is possibly an opportunity to use water from cooling data centers to feed back in to steam powered power generation (like nuclear or fossil fuel stations), or is that not how it works?

DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.

Most people will use their internet company’s DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it’s blocked instead of to the website server.

More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.

ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites