I think it was 16MB or 32MB.

I’ve had it in my desk for decades and occasionally use it. It’s pretty slow and small, but for many files, that’s fine. Never had any shennanigans from it.

I think that the move to USB-C is going to finally kill it, though. I’ve got a 128GB USB-C drive that I carry with me now.

There are a few browser plugins that suppress them. None are going to catch and eliminate every one of them, but they can reduce the frequency. I use I still don’t care about cookies.

I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days.

Some institutions support authenticating using hardware keystores, like YubiKeys.

PieFed does (the “passkey” button).

I could do without another two years of President Donald Trump until he’s finally out of office. At least this time, he’s going to have Democrats in Congress with investigatory powers, but I’d just as soon not have to have him creating his endless stream of disruptions at all.

Probably partly philosophical questions among some over whether your teleporter is a duplicator with an execution feature.

there are a large number of people in the middle of the org chart whose job is basically summarizing PowerPoints from below and then pass up.

Middle management?

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

Middle management is the intermediate management level of a hierarchical organization that is subordinate to the executive management and responsible for “team leading” line managers and/or “specialist” line managers. Middle management is indirectly (through line management) responsible for junior staff performance and productivity.[1]

Strategic functions involve analyzing a subordinate group in terms of productivity and financial effectiveness, creating a strategy of improving the current situation and reporting to the executive management in the form of attending a boardroom meeting or a discussion.

I don’t think that I have a lot of interest in sight-seeing.

However, we do have some candidates for potentially-habitable exoplanets, where we don’t have enough information due to our distance. Hard for astronomers to gather data. But you can see it — maybe take photos or whatever.

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

Maybe consult with people who study them, get the most-likely candidate on that list and travel there and report back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(disease)

Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals.[1][2] Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

EDIT: This is a new one on me. Apparently Russia has a penis-theft disinformation campaign targeting France…in the modern day.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, newspapers reported incidents of genital shrinking in Western Nigeria. Since late 1996, a small-scale epidemic of genital shrinking was reported in West African nations. Affected individuals in the African outbreaks often interpreted the experience as genital theft, accusing someone with whom they had contact of “stealing” the organ and the spiritual essence, causing impotence. The perceived motive for theft was associated with local occult belief, the witchcraft of juju, to feed the spiritual agency or to hold the genital for ransom. Social representations about juju constitute consensual realities that propose both a means and motivation for genital-shrinking experience.[17]

The epidemic began in Nigeria and Cameroon, and spread to Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal by 1997.[17] Cases were reported in Cotonou, Benin where mobs attacked individuals accused of the penis theft and authorities ordered security forces to curb the violence, following the deaths of five people by vigilantes.[55] Later reports of outbreak suggest a spread beyond West Africa, including the coverage of episodes in Khartoum, Sudan in September 2003; Banjul, Gambia in October 2003;[17] and Kinshasa, DR Congo in 2008.[56]

Comparing West African genital-shrinking epidemics with koro in Southeast Asia, the latter has symptoms centered on genital retraction (instead of shrinkage) and fear of death (which is absent in African cases).[17] A study analyzing the West African epidemics from 1997 to 2003 concluded that rather than psychopathology, the episodes were the product of normal psychological functioning in undisturbed individuals, who were influenced by the local cultural models or social representations.[17]

In 2025, rumors spread in the Central African Republic and Mali that certain people were stealing the penises of men who shook hands with them. A Russian-linked disinformation website attempted to capitalize on these beliefs by claiming that French intelligence services were using handshakes to steal African penises, then shipping the organs to France by boat in order to combat decreasing fertility rates in Europe. This claim was part of an ongoing effort by Russia to supplant French and Western influence in Africa.[57]

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

I wasn’t aware.

Apparently a bunch of really solid roles, but drug addiction, then breaking away from her family, then AIDS, then AIDS-related death at a young age.

I mean…you’d auto-block anyone discussing use of said phrases as well.

did you get hacked? check.

$ grep “Accepted password” /var/log/messages

That’s a really bad check unless you have an external box receiving logs and you’re looking there, because the first thing that a sophisticated attacker is going to do if they get in as root is remove the signs of their presence.

Now, now. Starbucks is a very successful business.

“Here’s a bunch of money. I want you to identify and put forth your strongest arguments in favor of Ken Paxton for Senate.”

If it’s market rate, just pay it back. Don’t have a use for it. People won’t be lending money at a rate that one can reliably expect to make a return.

If it’s way below market rate for some reason, and it’s long-term, then maybe invest it. I’d want to understand why I’d be getting a loan on those terms, though.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/ipsos-survey-jury-service-and-legal-system

The survey shows that one in ten Americans have served on a jury in the last 10 years

So if you extend that, figure 79 year life expectancy, minimum of 18 years (dunno if that’s true in all states, but it is in at least some), that’s 61 years that you probably have to potentially serve on one. Figure maybe ~1% chance each year, then 61% chance over your lifetime.

If you mean specifically as the target of a post, you can post a link to whatever you want (well, at least an http/https link…I don’t think that all protocols are supported, though I haven’t checked).

However, I don’t believe that the img-rs instance that Lemmy instances normally run to allow hosting images will accept mp3s. So you’d have to upload it elsewhere (catbox.moe or something like that) that can accept mp3s and then link to it.

checks

At least on lemmy.today, yeah, it doesn’t accept it.

The only format that I know that supports audio that img-rs will accept is WebM, and only if it has a video component.

Combining an image and mp3 audio file into a WebM:

$ ffmpeg -i denver-international-airport-blue-mustang-statue-blucifer-1600x1067.jpg -i 11325622-tr707-crash-cymbal-241376.mp3 11325622-tr707-crash-cymbal-241376.webm

Yields (hosted on lemmy.today’s img-rs):

The situation may be different for PieFed and for Mbin, and note that not all clients may be able to handle WebM, though the Lemmy Web UI is fine with it.

If you have a time machine that lets you solve a problem in your timeline by going back in time to solve it, then you also eliminate the reason causing you to go back in time to solve it, which means that you aren’t going to go back in time…

Says it doesn’t work while being carried, but it’s got a 60 foot range, so I guess you could brain some critter with the pet rock by throwing it, then cast it to whack 'em a second time. Nobody’s prepared for the boomeranging pet rock.

Hello darkness, my old friend…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2619092-stone-shape

Stone Shape

You touch a stone object of Medium size or smaller or a section of stone no more than 5 feet in any dimension and form it into any shape you like. For example, you could shape a large rock into a weapon, statue, or coffer, or you could make a small passage through a wall that is 5 feet thick. You could also shape a stone door or its frame to seal the door shut. The object you create can have up to two hinges and a latch, but finer mechanical detail isn’t possible.