AllOutOfBubbleGum

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's causing that round-trip time to be so high?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Just stop dual booting. This is self-inflicted harm. Setup a VM or find a native workaround.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice, I'm part of that .05% Debian 12 crowd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Wow, is that the Debian logo on your calf? If so, that's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Anything that's warm emits light, both organic and inorganic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermography

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, it's just a heap of junk!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I stayed on Myspace long past when the majority jumped ship. It eventually lost what made it special when the boy band guy bought it to twist it into something more music focused. But I still preferred it to the sterile, uniformity of Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to do the same thing to a few people back in the day. Linux distros used to ship with the X listening port just conveniently wide open and the config set to allow input from any other device on the LAN. I'd start with only one xeyes, and then they'd close it. I'd do it a few more times until they got irritated with me, and then I'd push it further by putting xeyes into a bash loop to open dozens at a time.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wrote a simple script once that ran in the background and all it did was toggle the state of the caps lock key every 30 minutes. I set it up on a co-worker's computer as a scheduled task for an April Fools prank one year. I thought for sure he'd figure it out pretty quickly, but by mid-day, he had completely disassembled his keyboard, convinced the button was getting stuck due to gunk buildup. Eventually I ended up just disabling the task so he thought he had managed to fix it himself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm at the point now that I don't even bother checking ProtonDB unless it's a really expensive purchase. Most things work out of the box for me. With some games that have a native Linux client, the Windows version will actually run better for me.

 

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dark-energy-rattling-view-universe.html

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post something like this, but here we go. The above link is of new findings from DESI (the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) that's been written about by a handful of news outlets this week, and the TL;DR is that the expansion of the universe might not be as consistent as previously thought.

My question is: Could it be possible for the overall universe to only look like it's expanding because the expansion is currently happening within our visible universe? And that in other portions of the universe, far outside of our visible universe, it might be stationary, or even contracting?

To put it another way, could it be possible that the universe as a whole is rippling or oscillating, maybe due to the effects of the big bang, and that our visible universe is such a tiny spec, that from our perspective it only appears that the entire universe is expanding?

I've watched a number of talks where astrophysicists have said that the big bang didn't start from a single point and expand outward like it's usually depicted, but that it happened everywhere all at once. So, from my limited understanding, it doesn't seem like that would contradict what we see from the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

Am I way off base here? Or is this one of those questions that simply can't be currently answered?

Thanks in advance.

 
 

I go to investigate, and they had managed to plug the HDMI cable of one monitor into the other monitor.

 

Dunno if there are any anchovy lovers here, but these were excellent.

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