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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That's probably the best way to sing it. Sure, you have some great versions like Giorgio Gaber's, but nothing beats a bunch of common people doing it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago
Merdolini & friends hanging together
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'Sta mattina mi sono alzato...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I like the titanosaurs in general - they look at the same time majestic and goofy. Like Patagotitan mayorum:
Scale diagram showing Patagotitan mayorum alongside two humans. The background is made of squares, each representing a square metre; the humans don't reach two squares of height each, while the dino is 13 squares tall, 26 long.

and Udelartitan celeste:
Artistic representation of Udelartitan celeste.

As far as I know the P. mayorum was the biggest land animal to ever exist, as it could reach up to 30-something metres. The U. celeste is smaller, "only" 16m long.

Fun fact: the trees in the artistic rendition of the U. celeste are likely close relatives to this one from my banner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The site works fine for me, but the same software is available from Github if desired.

Note I'm recommending anime streaming software (instead of an Anitaku-like site) because it's a bit less likely to be taken down.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

As Kolanaki said, copyright holders killed it.

If you're looking for alternatives give Hayase (formerly Miru) a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I agree with 90% of what you said, so I'll focus only on the disagreement.

What you are proposing (to message OP to clarify what they meant) is the rational thing to do. Not what the mod did - they basically assumed why OP said it, assumptions are not rational.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

PTB.

Sometimes, people express themselves poorly. And sometimes they hit some association they weren't aware of. That's clearly your case here; you were calling ChatGPT "she" instead of "it", this screams "L2+" from a distance, and a quick glance at your profile shows you're from Sweden.

So why the bloody hell is the mod in question assuming racism, due to some association native English speakers in USA do???

In that situation, they should've clarified that the association is seen as racist by some people. And then watch closely how you answered it; if you said something "ops, I wasn't aware of that, my bad", you're probably not a racist.

(The association between minority groups in USA and "their women is masculine" was new for me too - I'm not from USA either. Thanks ratboy@hexbear for explaining it.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

It's mostly babble from OpenAI to justify continuous development, while misleading people through the usage of malicious metaphors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The "graveyard run" is simply because googlebux run dry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't think they replaced the sun-dried raisins with honey, otherwise the honey taste would be a bit too strong, too obvious. Instead my guess is that they used it as an additive in the final product, if the resulting passum was too dry. Because:

  1. As the text mentions, there's a shortcut for making passum - to boil the must instead*. If the issue was space, time, or labour they'd likely do it instead of relying on yet another parallel culture.
  2. Grape sugar content might vary quite a bit from one harvest to another. And yet it you're doing large scale production you want some consistency.

*you can do this at home with some grape juice. Even the unfermented version is delicious, it becomes syrupy (andgreat on vanilla ice cream).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Got it - thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

X11: even regardless of whatever non-Linux takes the forker holds, forking X11 seems to be such a bad idea. The X11→Wayland migration is being painful, and now we see the light at the end of the tunnel might as well improve Wayland instead. Cue to the next piece of news (Ubuntu and Manjaro ditching X11).

I wonder if Denmark ditching Microsoft is directly related to Schleswig-Holstein doing it. Specially given they're neighbours.

Google ditching Android: may I be honest? I think smartphones are wrong the grounds up. They should be more like miniature PCs; in this case, meaning "if you're able to run an OS in a PC, you should be able to run it in a phone, and vice versa". But of course hardware vendors give no fucks, right? PC-isation of smartphones means people replacing parts too, and noooo, you can't have people not ditching their whole phone after few years!

 

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SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.

 

Aue, patrue placentae! (Oi, tio do pavê!)

 

It's a 10m papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, one of the cities buried by Vesuvius' volcanic ash in 79 CE. It's fully carbonised but they're using a synchrotron to create a 3D model of the scroll without damaging it. Then they're using AI (pattern recognition AI, perhaps?) to detect signs of ink, so they can reconstruct the text itself.

The project lead Stephen Parson claims that they're confident that they "will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety". And so far it seems to be a work of philosophy.

 

The title is a bit clickbaity but the article is interesting. Quick summary:

A new ancient population was recognised, based on genetic data. This population has been called the Caucasus-Lower Volga population, or "CLV". They were from 4500~3500BCE, tech-wise from the Copper Age, and lived in the steppes between the North Caucasus and the Lower Volga. .

About 80% of the Yamnaya population comes from those people; and at least 10% of the ancestry of Bronze Age central Anatolians, where Hittite was spoken, also comes from the CLV population. The hypothesis being raised is that the CLV population was composed of Early Proto-Indo-European speakers (the text calls it "Indo-Anatolian").

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I'm sharing this pic because it might be useful, to advertise Lemmy in Reddit meme communities and the likes. It isn't supposed to be a full info dump, just to spread the word that Lemmy exists and give people some room to ask questions about it.

The copypasta is from @[email protected]. The meme is from @[email protected].

Here's the source SVG file in case anyone wants to edit it.


EDIT - @[email protected] had a great take on this idea, I need to share it here:

 
 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/1499265

What a Christmas present!

Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical branch of the Indo-European languages. If that branch is real, it means that the Italic and Celtic languages are closer to each other than to other Indo-European languages.

This hypothesis has been raised multiple times in the past, due to a few shared morphological features between Italic and Celtic languages; for example, the *-ism̥mo- superlative. But that's on its own weak evidence, so this genomic data makes wonders to reinforce this hypothesis.

And also to bury the competing (IMO rather silly) Italo-Germanic one.

Graeco-Armenian is similar to the above, but between the Hellenic languages and Armenian. There were lots of competing hypotheses "tying" both branches to other "random" Indo-European branches; for example I've seen Indo-Greek, Italo-Greek, Armeno-Germanic, Armeno-Albanian...

 

In case anyone wonders about the star:

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1.6 introduced two amazing features to make mad money from fishing.

Pic related - it's the first Summer, I didn't ship all the fish (I couldn't smoke all of them in time), and I'm making 20kg/day, even being bad at fishing.

The bait maker is unlocked by Fishing Lv6. It requires 3 iron bars, 3 coral, 1 sea urchin. You put a fish there, and get 5~10 pieces of bait targetting that fish.

But why would you waste fish to get more fish, instead of using bug meat for the bait? Because you can target the most lucrative fish - like I did with sturgeon there, if I used normal bait I'd be getting carps instead.

Then there's the fish smoker. The recipe is from Willy's and it costs 10kg. You need 10 hardwood, 1 river jelly, 1 sea jelly, 1 cave jelly.

The river and sea jellies are not a big deal to get. The hardwood will likely require luck in the mines or an upgraded axe. Cave jelly is a pain, you need to fish in the mines for a while. (Ideally at Lv100, but Lv20 does the trick.)

But oh wow. It's worth. It doubles the price of the fish, but it keeps quality. Check the iridium quality sturgeon, it's 1200g! Lucrative fish tend to be unruly, but if you fish at good spots you can reliably get gold quality fish; 1.5 from gold quality * 1.5 from angler profession * 2.0 from smoking = 4.5 times the original price.

It does require coal but once you got the cash rolling you can buy it from Clint, that's what I'm doing.

 

Archive link: https://archive.ph/cIz4A

It's dated to be from around 2400 BCE. The article doesn't clarify if it's a true alphabet or an abjad, but either way it's interesting.

EDIT: see also https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-oldest-alphabet-discovered/ for a less pop-linguistics narrative of the same discovery.

 

[Idea] If you don't want to see huge flags taking space over actual drawings in the Canvas, pick the biggest flag that you can find to deface.

As long as a lot of people are doing that, the ones templating larger flags will be forced to reduce their layouts and give more room for actual drawings.


[Reasoning] When it comes to country flags, I think that the immense majority of the users can be split into four groups:

  1. The ones who don't want to see country flags at all.
  2. The ones who are OK with smaller flags, but don't want to see larger ones.
  3. The ones who want to see a specific large flag taking a huge chunk of space.
  4. The ones who want to see the whole canvas burning, like the void.

I'm myself firmly rooted into #1, but this idea is a compromise between #1, #2 and #4.

Typically #3 uses numbers (and/or bots) to seize a huge chunk of the canvas to their flags. Well, let's use numbers against it then. As long as #1, #2 and #4 are trying to wreck the same flag, we win.


[inb4]

But what about identity flags?

Not a problem. They're typically bands instead of thick squares, and people drawing them are fairly accommodating.

But what about [insert another thing]

Even if [thing] is a problem, it's probably minor in comparison with huge country flags.

What should be the template?

None. We don't need one, as long as everyone is working against the same large flag.

Just draw something of your choice over the flag, preferably over its iconic features.

But I'm not creative enough for that!

No matter how shitty your drawing is, it's probably still way more original than a country flag. So don't feel discouraged.

That said, you can always help someone else with their drawing. Or plop in some text. Or just void.

Why are you posting this now, you bloody Slowpoke?

I wish that I thought about this before Canvas 2024. But better later than never. (And better early by a year for Canvas 2025.)


EDIT: addressing on general grounds some whining from group #3 (the ones who want to see a specific large flag taking a huge chunk of the canvas space).

You do realise that this sort of "war against the largest flag" should benefit even you, as long as the biggest flag is not the one you're working with, right? Even for you, this makes the canvas a more even level field. Let us not forget that you love to cover other flags with your own.

 

I'm sharing this here mostly due to the alphabet. The relevant region (Tartessos) would be roughly what's today the western parts of Andalucia, plus the Algarve.

Here are the news in Spanish, for anyone interested.

The number of letters is specially relevant for me - 32 letters. The writing system is a redundant alphabet, where you use different graphemes for the stops, depending on the next vowel; and it was likely made for a language with five vowels, so you had five letters for /p/, five for /t/, five for /k/. Counting the "bare" vowels this yields 20 letters; /m n s r l/ fit well with that phonology, but what about the other seven?

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