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  • Oh wild. When I first saw this on lemmy it was white and gold. Then I clicked the image and looked and thought, "yeah, that's what I figured." Then I scrolled up and it was blue and brown. Can see white and gold again. Fun.

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  • I've read a bunch from both authors and think your point checks out. Gainan has much more variety. I'm not sure it matters though.

    My guess, worthless as it is, is that Gaiman's best works celebrated the marginalized. Loved them and taught you to love them. Respected them. His work taught people that his actions are terrible.

    On the other hand, Stardust. Maybe my guess is totally wrong. Shrug

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  • I think time wasn't super kind to it. And I don't remember how clear it was in the movie that Scott's just not a good dude. My memory of the story is that the core is: Scott is bad. Scott accepts that. Scott starts doing better. But maybe that's just my headcannon.

    It's a good lesson though! Just because you were bad doesn't mean you are bad. You can change. Life isn't a simplistic video game. It's a lesson I've needed from time to time.

  • JD Vance has changed his name multiple times over the years
  • The story reads as totally normal. Not many men change their name that much but, "I want the same last name as my grandma who I love very much and not my second dad who I don't talk to" feels right and good and maybe even sweet. The man's a monster. This is fine.

  • What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system??
  • I've always wondered about Unicode normalization and passwords. I don't know a ton about it, but I think it's that things like ö and be represented as one character for the whole thing or two, one for the umlaut and another for o. That means that there are at least two sequences of code points that make the same... Glyph? I forget the word. The thing you see on the screen.

    Anyway, what if you have that ö in your password and one browser/keyboard/os/lovecraftian nightmare makes the mark one way and the other does it the other way? They aren't the same bytes. So they won't hash the same and you just can't tell why. Without digging super deep.

    There are standard ways to normalize the Unicode but I don't imagine most password systems use them. Maybe it's some intermediate layer. But I kind of doubt it. Those are complex, evolving standards.

    Oh. And that "evolving" thing might make trouble for password systems. Are these standards backwards compatible in the way they'd need to be for a normalization upgrade not to break any passwords?

    Oh God, what nightmare have I found?

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  • Brandt said he enjoyed being a meme, and he did frequently use the catchphrase, although he did say that his high school English teacher would not have approved of his usage of "ain't".[6][20]

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    scifilists.sffjazz.com Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books (Pre-2000)

    Top 100 lists and reviews of the all-time top science fiction books, films, television shows and short fiction.

    I've always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me.

    A while ago I tried to read the ones I hadn't. It was a lovely tour. My biggest surprise was enjoying Childhood's End.

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