Longitude, not Latitude.
Valen
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I guess you’re supposed to see how long it takes to recognize Shinji and Kawrou from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Less than 1 second for me.
Valen@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed281·1 year agoIt’s totally Marjorie Taylor Greene
Will the TV even setup at all if it can’t connect? I expect it’ll stop working until it can talk to the company again.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast.English644·2 years agoSpreading election lies (and that’s what these deepfakes are), needs to be a felony, not protected by the 1st amendment.
Valen@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US says UFO sightings likely secret military testsEnglish10·2 years agoWhy is it so hard to understand that an Unidentified Flying Object is simply something flying that the observer doesn’t know what it is. We know that the aerospace industry makes new planes, and that many of these are secret designs that we don’t have clearance to know about. Thus, many, if not all, UFOs are simply classified aircraft. Simple.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaintsEnglish101·2 years agoI like to deadname X and always call it Twitter.
Yes, I already know that I’m a sad, sad excuse for a lifeform.
I’d like something like multi-reddits. I want to be able to define specific groups of communities to show together, instead of having to either have a mish-mash of everything, or having to view each community on its own.
Valen@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•North Korea cracks down on homes converted into Airbnb-style lodgingsEnglish291·2 years agoPeople are vacationing in North Korea?
Oh, it’s for North Koreans who vacation in other parts of North Korea. Because they can’t vacation in South Korea.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Richest 1% own more than 40% of country's wealth: ReportEnglish17·2 years agoMildly infuriating? This is revolution level infuriating.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Is there a way to lookup data linked to your Advertising IDs?14·2 years agoThe data is for sale, so you should be able to buy it. Good luck buying only one person’s data though.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyrightEnglish15634·2 years agoSo they’re admitting that their entire business model requires them to break the law. Sounds like they shouldn’t exist.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … HackersEnglish16·2 years agoSo the bricking is because there are chips in the ink cartridges. And why are there chips in the cartridges? Because HP wants to charge exorbitant rates for ink.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint allegesEnglish2·2 years agoMy MIL doesn’t like to read things on the screen, she much prefers paper. So she prints lots of webpages. sigh
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquakeEnglish1·2 years agoNo. But the asshole wants me to call it X, so I’m not.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquakeEnglish111·2 years agoI just call it twitter because I like dead-naming it.
Unpopular opinion: I’m old school and would probably use perl.
Control key shortcuts.
Valen@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•It's fine until you run out of disk space31·2 years agoYou really need to index your tables. This has all the hallways of a Cartesian cross product.
Yeah, being a former science teacher, correcting it was a knee-jerk reaction. :-)