TechLich

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[–] TechLich 26 points 4 months ago

The most popular brand of matches in Denmark is called Tordenskjold. In the late 1800s, Sweden had a large export production of matches, so a Danish manufacturer put Tordenskiold's portrait on his matchbox in 1882, in the hope he could once more strike at the Swedish (Danish: give de svenske stryg).[13] The Tordenskjold brand was bought by a Swedish company in 1972.[14]

Ouch.

[–] TechLich 66 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Haha, the internet did not fit on a 1.44mb floppy in 1998. Curious to know what was on this‽

1998 was well into the CD-ROM era and the internet was full of .mp3s and .isos by then.

[–] TechLich 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Raccoon was fantastic and you should be proud of what you accomplished! It's a great app and I'm sure whatever else you work on in the future will be awesome.

[–] TechLich 70 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's not that it's on the 172.16.0.0/12 range. That's totally normal and used for all kinds of stuff.

It's that it's in 172.16.42.0/24 which is the default dhcp settings for a wifi pineapple. It's the /24 mask given on the .42 that's a little suspicious because that's not a common range for anything else.

Being assigned one of those specific 253 hosts with that subnet mask would definitely make me think twice.

[–] TechLich 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pretty sure it's an autocomplete (like copilot or something)

They were typing

progress != "Hold"

And the ai autocomplete suggested

progress != "Hold onto your butts!"

Hence why the completion part is in grey (it's a suggestion)

[–] TechLich 1 points 7 months ago

I think they mean that, because he was there to commit violence to someone else and just killed whoever happened to be in the house, it's not a good example of gendered violence against women since he probably would have killed a man who answered the door too (not walk away without killing anyone).

I'd say that it's actually a pretty good example though since, he was trying to find his ex-wife. Presumably to kill her. So an example of a violent man targeting a woman and then killing other women instead... It's something that's been in Australian news a lot lately with the recent protests following a depressingly large number of women killed by their partners so far this year.

[–] TechLich 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like they controlled for that and did a bunch of different statistical models to break it down by different demographics and economics. That said, I'm finding it hard to find the original paper. It's not linked to in the article or any of the AP versions I found. Nature has a link to Google scholar but that comes up with nothing and it's not referenced in the researcher's publications on the Oxford site yet. Maybe it went to the press already but the actual article isn't out yet?

It does sound very broad though and difficult/impossible to draw any causation. Still interesting through as it does kinda show that any negative causative link that might exist between well-being and internet use is not strong enough to outweigh other positive factors that are correlated with it (even non-causative ones).

[–] TechLich 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And an IBM Model M in the background‽

[–] TechLich 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Looks more /usr/bucket/cat

[–] TechLich 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

But what volume would it be? Is it a small amount of glitter or a lot? What's the g/cm³ of glitter? What about tiny bits of uranium? I feel like all the little bits of air between the glitter particles would lower the density compared with just a solid block of uranium which would increase the volume but....

I feel like someone should put some numbers in this thread.

[–] TechLich 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I was going to come up with something fun and clever to keep it going but the next line of the real song starts with "cream-coloured ponies" so I think we should probably just leave it here after all.

There are some of the internet's things that we don't need to enumerate.

[–] TechLich 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's universally true. Most parts of Australia I've been to have the same nuance of "females" often being used by assholes in a demeaning way and seen as somewhat dehumanising in some contexts (but not all).

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