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Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Oh ffs we’re calling the word “manual” a micro aggression now?

sorry, did my comment trigger you? 🙄

nobody called anything a microaggression or said anything about the non-abbreviated word manual; jokes based on the UNIX's abbreviation of it being homonymous with the common noun man have existed since the man command was created.

Unitree breaks the world record with a 10m/s running robot in c/technology@lemmy.ml
Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

nb (short for nota bene) would actually be a good name for a modern replacement for the man command 😂

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"It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?" (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106

In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:

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The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age, which is a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or [...] (en.wikipedia.org)
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The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age, which is a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or [...] (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Salmon problem is an outdated argument in favour of placing the Indo-European urheimat in the Baltic region, as opposed to the Eurasian Steppe (en.wikipedia.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45737778

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland

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The Salmon problem is an outdated argument in favour of placing the Indo-European urheimat in the Baltic region, as opposed to the Eurasian Steppe (en.wikipedia.org)
 

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland

Why do both Northern Ireland & Scotland print their own bank notes? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, ...

which ones are accepted where is... complicated:from wikipedia:

Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

[...]

Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]

🤡

White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was Sent in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the edit history on Shehbaz Sharif's tweet shows that it began with "Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X" when it was first posted 😭

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Dividing line between metals and nonmetals (en.wikipedia.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45704483

via this comment https://lemmy.ml/post/45697510/25057323

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Dividing line between metals and nonmetals (en.wikipedia.org)
 

via this comment https://lemmy.ml/post/45697510/25057323

Near the In-n-Out in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

certain 2-parters are counted as 1

this explains the total of 170

a handful are credit only

as a main cast member he is in the opening credit sequence of every episode, which explains IMDB saying he's in every one.

but how/where did you arrive at the number 163? i only arrived there by seeing that Memory Alpha lists 160 character appearances (which I see now does single-count Emissary and presumably two other two-part episodes) and then checking the mirror universe episodes to see if there were any without the Chief in them (and finding two) and then remembering Far Beyond the Stars.

anyway i guess either of the numbers in the meme could be correct, but not both at once: 163 is correct if you double-count three two-part episodes, and 170 is correct if you single-count them. 🤓

(and the numbers in my first comment are inconsistent in the same way.)

Near the In-n-Out in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fucking Chief Miles O'Brien appeared in 163 of 170 episodes, Dude

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) "FALSE" meme

For one thing, there were 173 episodes of DS9.

And while Colm Meaney does appear in 163 of them, he is only portraying Chief Miles O'Brien in 160 episodes: in Far Beyond the Stars he portrays Albert Macklin and in The Emperor's New Cloak and Through the Looking Glass he portrays mirror universe Miles O'Brien.

I am curious where the creator of this meme arrived at the number 163, since IMDB incorrectly says that Meaney is in all 173 episodes.

ps:

good meme nonetheless

When I was a kid, I remember hearing "Remember to wash behind your ears!" a lot on TV shows, and in movies. So, although, my parents never said that, I always washed behind my ears. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

anyone dry behind the ears knows to wash there

*Fighting Words* - new Razor 1911 demo, celebrating 40 years in c/piracy@lemmy.ml
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

thanks, i edited the post to link that instead

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Fighting Words - new Razor 1911 demo, celebrating 40 years (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.ml
3 comments fedilink
 

released at Revision 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911

Anon is worried about AAA sales in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is a "workable basis on which to negotiate"? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

You asked a question and answered it yourself?

I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said

There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere

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What is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is a "workable basis on which to negotiate"? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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  1. The US must fundamentally commit to guaranteeing non-aggression.

  2. Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.

  3. Acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program

  4. Removal of all primary sanctions on Iran.

  5. Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign entities that do business with Iranian institutions).

  6. End of all United Security Council resolutions targeting Iran.

  7. End of all International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program.

  8. Compensation payment to Iran for war damage.

  9. Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region.

  10. Cease-fire on all fronts, including Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

... are the 10 points, according to https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/iran/iran-10-point-plan-war-us-israel-trump-hormuz/

There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere:

Here are two of Trump's recent posts about it:

Xenia rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Why is the pipe required tho?

it isn't really. what is required for it to consume memory very rapidly is for each invocation of the function to call itself more than once. using the pipe is just one way to do this; it would work just as well if the pipe were replaced with an &

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3.255 famous hot dogs per wiener dog (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
14 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45638721

screenshot is of https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/06/science/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-lunar-flyby/717b8b89-e5fb-5159-8994-f1288c58cdf1

252,756 miles is 406,771 km, btw

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3.255 famous hot dogs per wiener dog (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/anythingbutmetric@lemmy.ml
2 comments fedilink
 

screenshot is of https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/06/science/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-lunar-flyby/717b8b89-e5fb-5159-8994-f1288c58cdf1

252,756 miles is 406,771 km, btw

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YouTube notifies folk musician "You are now sharing revenues with the copyright owners of the music detected in your video" after an AI company cloned her voice & claimed ownership of her recordings (www.theverge.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45607884

article text

A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll

Murphy Campbell plays public domain ballads, but YouTube accepted the copyright claim anyway.

by Terrence O'Brien

Apr 4, 2026, 5:52 PM GMT

In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she’d never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals.

She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them to streaming platforms under her name. I ran one of the songs, “Four Marys”, through two different AI detectors, and it seemed to support her suspicions with both saying it was probably AI-generated.

Campbell was shocked, “I was kind of under the impression that we had a little bit more checks in place before someone could just do that. But, you know, a lesson learned there,” she told The Verge. It took some time before Campbell managed to get the fake songs removed, “I became a pest,” she said. And even then, it wasn’t a complete victory. While the offending tracks don’t appear to be available on YouTube Music or Apple Music anymore, at least one can still be found on Spotify, just under a different artist profile, but with the same name. There are now multiple Murphy Campbells — “Obviously, I was thrilled by that,” the real Murphy Campbell said.

Spotify is testing a new system that would allow artists to manually approve songs before they appear on their profile, but Campbell is skeptical after being burned. “I feel like, every time, an entity that’s that large makes a promise like that to musicians. It seems to just not be what they made it out to be, but I’ll be curious to try it out in the future,” she said.

This was just the beginning of Campbell’s nightmare, however.

On the day that a Rolling Stone article was published, discussing Campbell’s brush with AI imitators, a series of videos were uploaded to YouTube through distributor Vydia. Those videos have not been posted publicly, and it’s unclear if anyone other than the uploader, who goes by Murphy Rider, has seen them. YouTube declined to comment for this story.

Those were used to claim ownership of the material in several of Murphy Campbell’s videos. Campbell received a notice from YouTube reading: “You are now sharing revenues with the copyright owners of the music detected in your video, Darling Corey.” The most confusing part, the songs at the center of these claims are all in the public domain, including the classic “In the Pines,” which dates back to at least the 1870s and has been covered by everyone from Lead Belly to Nirvana (as “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”).

Vydia has since released those claims, and spokesperson Roy LaManna says the person who uploaded the videos has been banned from their platform. Of the over 6,000,000 claims filed by Vydia through YouTube’s Content ID system, 0.02 percent were found to be invalid, which LaManna says is, “by industry standards is like amazing.” Continuing, “we pride ourselves on doing this the right way.”

LaManna also says that Vydia has no connection to Timeless IR or the AI covers that were uploaded to streaming platforms under Campbell’s name. While the timing is certainly suspicious, LaManna says the two incidents are separate.

Vydia has received a lot of blowback including, LaManna says, “literal death threats” which have led to the offices being evacuated. Campbell isn’t about to let Vydia off the hook, but notes that it’s not solely to blame. The worlds of generative AI, music distribution, and copyright are complex with multiple points of failure and opportunities for abuse. “I think it goes way deeper than we think it does,” Campbell says.

you can hear some of her music here: https://murphycampbell.bandcamp.com/album/murphy-campbell

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