wjrii

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[–] wjrii 11 points 5 days ago

56k modem noises

I particularly remember the heart-dropping feeling of the repeated changes in pitch as it negotiated a lower baud rate to account for the shitty wiring my dad DIY'd.

[–] wjrii 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Also, you just know that Molly's handy with an ulu.

[–] wjrii 45 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Everybody's really nice, but they're super into virtuosic prog rock and won't shut up about it.

[–] wjrii 4 points 6 days ago

Somebody's pet ferret once showed up on my parents' back porch in when I was in college. No way to track, and signs resulted in nothing. They gave it to my sister's then-GF.

Cute little bugger, like a cat but friendlier. Kinda stinky though.

[–] wjrii 9 points 6 days ago

TIL James Taylor has a song called "Country Road."

It is not about West Virginia.

[–] wjrii 1 points 6 days ago

I mean, he did go to the notorious third-tier toilet known as... Yale.

[–] wjrii 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

She has laid the groundwork as a kind of MAGA-acceptable Super-TERF. She's a power-fantasy for all the evangelical stay at home moms, the Boss Bitch who will protect them from the bad people: yes rapists, but especially any trans women who make them feel uncomfortable.

She'll be given a leash exactly long enough to bite anyone who is less powerful than she is.

[–] wjrii 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yup. The word "legitimate" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and he's just hoping that no one asks the follow up, "How do we determine whether a use of power is legitimate?"

[–] wjrii 7 points 6 days ago

You seem pretty heated about it.

[–] wjrii 1 points 6 days ago

Riiiight!

So probably still about Beatty then.

[–] wjrii 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe this belongs in "No Stupid Questions," but is there a reason for the many accounts who post a few things in this community and are then deleted?

[–] wjrii 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That song was clearly written about Jack Donaghy.

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They expect to release 1.0 in a week or so.

 
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It's gonna happen. (lemmy.world)
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...despite spending more time than usual.

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Unexpected generation gap (self.casualconversation)
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I am mid-40s. My daughter is 11. I take her to school, among other driving things, and usually play NPR. Whenever she needs to refer to what she's hearing -- usually to ask if I'll turn it off so she can pull up some godawful thing where a random Youtuber squawks discordant lyrics to a Pokémon video game score -- she calls it a podcast. I've stopped correcting her, particularly since most of the "shows" release as podcasts by the next day anyway.

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Preferences (lemmy.world)
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Not that it's much to brag about, or that I'm rare for having done so, but I definitely called this one. I am really not sure how they ever really thought FreeCAD just needed Cloud PDM to make a dent in the commercial market. Hell, part of me wonders if the devs actually believed that, or if this was all a low-grade Robin Hood grift to plow some VC resources into FreeCAD for a couple of years. 🤣

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29 January 2025 in Brussels. Probably the next good candidate for a 1.0 release event as well. Latest blog has them down to four release blockers, though that number can certainly drift back up as well.

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As someone with an all-southern (US) education, this one evokes some eye-rolling memories.

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