radix

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Not my site, but credit where it's due: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/

Up through 2020 is at the archive, and this guy uploaded that latest version to github as well.

Edit: through 2020 is at the archive as zip downloads. 2021 through 2024 is available as their normal wayback archive for browsing.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago

And they always include the newest year, just in case a 5-week-old is using the website.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

They're never gonna financially recover from this.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.

North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Would you eat them in a box?
Would you eat them with a fox?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I did a pretty extreme weight loss a few years back, and in two months, I lost 20 pounds.

Even that was a bit more than is recommended without strict medical supervision. Two pounds per week is kind of the upper bound of "normal" weight loss. Don't attempt more without a very, very good reason, and an even better doctor.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Whatever I would do, I most certainly wouldn't post it on the internet.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You can't attach it to the floor, but can you use some good double-sided tape or super glue to attach some steel weights to the underside of the corners?

Any home improvement store should have some flat bar. 1/8" or about 3mm should be flat enough to avoid a tripping hazard, but check local regs for commercial properties.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like an automatic thing, so any nicknames or euphemisms that catch on would just get added to the list.

That said, it all depends where you want to fall on the respectful/rude spectrum. I'd go with rude: "The most unpopular President in at least 150 years" is both accurate and specific to Trump. "The owner of xAI, the world's leading distributor of CSAM and NCII" for Musk. Longer descriptive statements are harder to auto-block without catching a lot of false positives.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no market Microsoft won't half-ass* their way into.

* Purely as an expression. Teams is nowhere near usable enough to give it that much credit.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"I lost my job, my house, and most of my friends. My kids won't talk to me, my retirement is wiped out, and I have to pass through 12 armed checkpoints to go anywhere in town.

But I'm also seeing fewer people putting pronouns in their bio, so I guess it was all worth it."

 
 

Tyrannus tyrannus is too powerful.

 

Abolish ICE

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[Steam] Metro 2033 Redux (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by radix@lemmy.world to c/freegames@feddit.uk
 

Free to keep if claimed in the next ~48 hours.

 

"One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.” "

 

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

 
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Useful Idiot (en.wikipedia.org)
 
 

Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

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