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Some people are just evil … in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
POV: you spent 30 minutes to write a well-worded, well-structured post (it only took the AI mod a millisecond to remove it) in c/reddit@lemmy.world
Satellite Imagery in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[SOLVED] Will this allow people to comment on my posts? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Bought this sandwich at an Italian gas station. What a hoax in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
The body you really want in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
You randomly get a free 50k no catch what do you do with it? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
but seriously this fast food situation is getting out of control [Tommy Siegel] in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world
Would AI Be Hated As Much If It Wasn't As Resource Intensive? in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Would be even more. The main harm of AI comes from malicious actors being able to ruin the internet forever with practically undetectable bot spam costing cents to run. Also taking jobs in art, where automation was never possible as efficiency is not what art is valued for.

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    Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages. in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's not the regular Fast Forward button.

    In our tests, a “Skip Ahead” button appears on-screen as soon as an ad-break starts. Just one tap of the “Skip Ahead” button moves a listener to the beginning of the next section, after the ads have finished. It only appears for ads, promos or intros.

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    • Have you came across Lemmy post in a search Engine? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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    Where can I get a collection of Wikipedia articles in e-book format? (lemmy.wtf)
     

    I hope asking a question about Wikipedia is not against the rules, couldn't find nor confirmation nor contrary in the sidebar.

    I have a PocketBook reader that doesn't support Kiwix. Would need an EPub or another primitive text format. I know a tool to save an archive on epub exists, but no already packed thing with a top 50000/100000 collection.

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    2026 Ebola epidemic (en.wikipedia.org)
     

    On 14 May 2026, an epidemic of Ebola was reported in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the 17th Ebola outbreak in the DRC and began only five months after the end of the previous outbreak. <…> An imported case from the DRC was also reported in France.

    P.S. I wonder if we, like the Reddit counterpart, allow asking questions about Wikipedia itself here. I have a PocketBook device that doesn't support Kiwix. Is it possible to convert entire Kiwix archive file to EPUB?

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    How accurate can your position be calculated from a photo of the sun you post online? (lemmy.wtf)
     

    Imagine you are a popular content creator on PixelFed, many followers, but many stalkers also. You don't want people to know where you live. One day you post a picture of the sun out of your window. Exact time is attached in metadata. Assuming GPS metadata is stripped, can someone, using inclination of the sun to the horizon, Nautical Almanac and some math calculate your latitude and/or longitude, and to what precision? Assuming also meteorological data archives on cloudiness, etc.

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    Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later? (lemmy.wtf)
     

    Feelings I had for my classmate were obviously one-sided (pretty sure of it), so I made a reasonable decision to never confess to not make things awkward. In a few years since we graduated I finally moved on, although I never loved anyone this much since.

    Yet all this time I had a desire to tell her about them. I would definitely want to know if someone loved me this much ever. Would she? I don't know. I don't even know if she is in a relationship right now or not.

    I would really want to cite some scientific study that "Over 80% of girls have their self-confidence lifted after being told they were secretly admired (p<0.05)", but can't find one.

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    Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? (lemmy.wtf)
     

    A typical budget plan offers perks in roughly these proportions (per month):

    • 15 GB of mobile data
    • 10 hours of calls
    • 200 SMS

    It may be 300, 500, but I've never seen more than 1000 SMS even on 100 GB plans.

    An SMS is limited to 160 bytes. Hence one GB of network bandwidth is equivalent to 6250000 SMS. 500 SMS limit is not even a thousandth of a percent dent on the mobile data limit.

    What comes to phone calls, a single SMS could fit in half a second of audio dial-up way.

    Why not increase the limit?

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    I would rather remain the last woman in a world of men than the last man in a world of women (lemmy.wtf)
     

    This hypothetical "would you rather" question pops up on Reddit and Lemmy once in a while, and every time the popular answer is the latter, implying risk of sexual assault. As if in a world of women there won't be enough ready to do the same. Yes, women statistically, on average, less prone to desire to commit a sexual assault, but it doesn't matter if one in ten or one in a hundred is ready to do this if no one else wants to stop them.

    Why would they? While sexual assault by men against women is one of the few unforgivable sins in our culture, with huge prison sentences and no life in prison from cellmates, with saving a woman from this being one of the most powerful trops in literature to show characters's nobility and a proper reason to award a civil medal, rape of men by women is treated as a joke or a comedy trope. It can't even be called "rape" according to many dictionaries and legal codes, e.g. the British one.

    Would whatever left of police (and there are few women employed in police) actually protect you in this case? Or is it more likely to be yet another “Raped? Baby, men can't be raped” case?

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