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  • Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human

  • Philosophers reinventing basic manners is just like when tech bros reinvent trains and busses.

  • Surely this was Batman 1966's alternate car-build? (it's the 1962 Ford Seattle-ite XXI)

  • Imagine the turning radius on that thing.

  • Title

  • I’d say he looks like a live-action version of Beaker from the Muppets, but I would never slander Beaker like that.

  • Pentagon threatens to cut federal funding to 30 universities over foreign academic partnerships

  • I call this a win-win. The Pentagon loses access to some of the best and brightest minds, and the universities learn not to take money from a fickle, political body. It sucks for the people who had research depending on this funding, but with the exception of the 2 schools in blood-red Oklahoma these schools were all in blue states on Trump's shit list, they probably saw it coming.

  • Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data

  • Who's to say they didn't though? With the possible exception of not checking the IT company's financial health (and maybe they did but decided it wasn't a risk), the process worked as intended. They outsourced their storage and backups. The data is still stored and backed up. They were able to follow a remediation protocol (ie speaking to the judge) to regain access.

  • Lore Dump [Litterbox Comics]

  • Having just dropped a kid off at college, I will tell you: the platitudes you've heard from others the whole time you've been a parent are all correct. It DOES go fast. They ARE the best times. You WILL look back on them fondly.

  • Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound

  • This would be highly efficient.

  • Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data

  • Having worked with huge, slow organizations before, they probably had a mandate in place to outsource this kind of thing, and nobody in-house to evaluate the solution, so they picked an "expert" company who then went out of business.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    artifex @piefed.zip

    Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound

    actu.epfl.ch /news/these-tiny-drones-are-powered-by-sound-2/
  • datahoarder @lemmy.ml
    artifex @piefed.zip

    Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data

    www.tomshardware.com /software/cloud-storage/judge-clears-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-70-years-of-archival-tv-data-court-rules-station-owns-50tb-of-data-in-iron-mountain-servers-after-host-went-under

  • Suggestion: Things you post are kept with you, even if it's deleted everywhere

  • If you’re being fediverse-specific you could set up your own instance, federate with everything, and have it save only the content you’ve interacted with. It’s a pretty narrow archive so it wouldn’t be too resource intensive. And if you’re techy it wouldn’t be too hard* to write a native activitypub client that did only this if you were active on eg lemmy and mastodon and pixelfed

    • for certain definitions of “too hard”
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    artifex @piefed.zip

    Modder exploits GeForce NOW to run a full Windows desktop through a simple file swap

    www.tomshardware.com /service-providers/streaming/geforce-now-exploit-lets-you-access-the-full-windows-desktop-through-a-simple-file-swap-modder-runs-local-ai-models-on-ultimate-tier-with-48gb-of-vram-and-no-restrictions
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    artifex @piefed.zip

    Modder exploits GeForce NOW to run a full Windows desktop through a simple file swap

    www.tomshardware.com /service-providers/streaming/geforce-now-exploit-lets-you-access-the-full-windows-desktop-through-a-simple-file-swap-modder-runs-local-ai-models-on-ultimate-tier-with-48gb-of-vram-and-no-restrictions

  • PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archi…

  • The data is all still there. They were using a subcontractor (who went under) that stored the data at Iron Mountain. Since the subcontractor was the customer and not PBS, PBS needs a judge to declare that they own the data so they can retrieve it from Iron Mountain.

    Still, 3,2,1, folks.

  • The correct response

  • Probably not. My kids are all monotonic.

  • The correct response

  • Well yeah, otherwise they’d be called judgegullos.

  • Homer's not popular enough to wear a pink shirt to work!

  • It’s a shame. Everyone looks good in pink.

  • The grocery cart divide: How rural and urban America sort themselves

  • Listen, I love biscuits n’ gravy, but if they come for my avocado toast they’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

  • Surprisingly Sophisticated 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshell Engravings Found

  • Sapiens is so heavily overfitted that I almost couldn't finish it the first time I read it through. You could say the same about Dawn of Everything , except that Dawn 's purpose was to show that there were not just counterexamples for many generally accepted things, but in some cases new evidence that totally overturns some of that "common knowledge."

  • Neat - For neat stuff you found @lemmy.world
    artifex @piefed.zip

    Dithered QR code generator

    www.andrewt.net /dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

  • Surprisingly Sophisticated 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshell Engravings Found

  • One of my favorite books. Though I have to read it with 10 Wikipedia tabs opened.

  • Surprisingly Sophisticated 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshell Engravings Found

  • I don’t like this headline. A human from 60,000 years ago would be anatomically identical to a modern human, brain included, so of course they mind would be able to produce sophisticated ideas. A better headline would have been about there are few examples of abstract mathematics from that long ago.

  • He can't STFU can he?

  • Someone’s about to get booted off of X.

  • Based

  • I will be using “tendentious hellscape” in all of my meeting notes going forward. Thank you.

  • science @lemmy.world
    artifex @piefed.zip

    There are Quadrillions of Miles of Fungi Underground. These Scientists Plan to Map It.

    www.npr.org /2026/06/16/nx-s1-5855231/how-to-map-quadrillions-of-miles-of-underground-fungi