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TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media

I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:

The Densest City on Earth

Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness

Inside Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City

There is also a book on the city called City Of Darkness Life In Kowloon Walled City, which I found on archive.org in high resolution. It is full of photographs and detailed accounts of the comings and goings within the enclave.

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Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference
  • I mean the man is directly responsible for blocking several Supreme Court justices from being appointed while Obama was president, which led to roe v wade being overturned so uh, Moscow Mitch couldn’t drop dead any faster in my opinion.

  • User profiles need a sort by controversial

    I don't know who needs to hear this where, but being able to sort a user's comments by controversial would be a quick way to get a gauge on how generally inflammatory a user is when moderating one of their comments.

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    I block prolific crossposters
  • Am I on your blocklist? I’ve done some cross posting of my own content. Things have settled down now, but I know for awhile there it wasn’t really clear which communities were going to take off.

  • [ APP STORE RELEASE ] Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store!
  • Oh I know. I’ve just been burned many times in the past with upgrading iOS on older phones so I generally avoid it these days until I have a compelling reason to upgrade. Forced obsolescence and all that

  • Can you support Remove Read From Feed like Joey did for Reddit
  • If I had a nickel for every post I’ve seen asking this question in the last 60 seconds, I’d have two nickels.

    Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice. Check out Voyager because it just got this feature today.

  • Susan ate too many heinz beans
  • The last comma should have been a period. For some reason on that particular font the period showed up in the center of the line instead of at the bottom and it looked really weird.

    Edit: for what it’s worth, the original meme had a comma too for some reason

  • It's Free Real Estate

    In true antique meme fashion, I pulled out the outdated pirated copy of photoshop that I have no idea how to use for this one.

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    The keyboard
  • This was surprisingly interesting! Thanks for posting it. I didn't think there was anything noteworthy to glean from it, but @Contramuffin@lemmy.world mentioned down below that USB doesn't have interrupts, which I was unaware of. I especially liked how he covered different types of USB keyboards running at different speeds, and he briefly covered n-key rollover, or the lack thereof on the two keyboards he had on hand as well as why some key combinations fail due to shared wiring in the keyboard. The latency discussion between PS/2 interrupting and USB being polled for data at the end of the video was also fascinating.

    Edit: Ben Eater did a follow-up video on how n-key rollover works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lPzTU-3ONI

  • The keyboard
  • No worries! Usually the memes here aren’t so technical. I only got the joke because I was required to take a class on operating systems for my degree, and we covered interrupts.

  • The keyboard
  • I don't know if everyone here is just a galaxy brain or what, but I'm surprised nobody has asked or explained the joke. The red bird is a CPU running lines of assembly instructions and the crow is user input causing an interrupt to press the e key. This particular type of interrupt exists because it would feel really bad if you were typing, and the text didn't show up until several seconds later when the CPU felt like processing the (hopefully) buffered input.

    Quality meme op

  • With the Steam Summer Sale ending, what are your favorite Co-Op games?

    I am looking to make some last minute purchases to play with one or more friends, and I have poked around Steam's Co-Op page. I'm curious what new co-op games everyone on Lemmy is playing.

    I just picked up Raft and Deep Rock Galactic the other day, but you can never have too many new (never played) games!

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    Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports
    www.consumerreports.org Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports

    Consumer Reports tested 28 dark chocolate bars and found cadmium and lead in all of them. Here's how to limit your heavy metal exposure.

    Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports

    For all the chocolate lovers out there, careful because effectively all dark chocolates have lead and cadmium in them. Lead is especially dangerous and some brands have alarmingly high amounts.

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    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1182769

    > ! This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut. >

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    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1182769

    > ! This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut. >

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    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    ! This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut.

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    Found this on my toe after swimming in a lake [Solved: Leech]

    It was in a small lake in Washington, and I noticed it as I was about to drive home.

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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml Jessica @lemmy.world
    TIL: Pill Bugs (Poly Polies) are actually crustaceans and still have gills!
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    Anyone here remember JoeCartoon flash animations?

    I was just reminiscing of the early internet elsewhere, and I randomly remembered https://joecartoon.com/. Crazily enough, the site is still running! I must have watched every single flash animation on that entire website as a teenager.

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    The Jim Power NES Demake is insane! Does this look like an 8bit game to you?

    Here's a 2 minute video showcasing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZPg3RODGZ48

    The graphics blow Kirby's Adventure out of the water!

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    So r/Apple just opened back up. This didn't age well...

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/180455

    > Seems there are plenty of Reddit bootlickers lined up ready to oust all the protesting moderators. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1668683335718035457 > > Worse still, the mods at r/Apple caved and voluntarily reopened instead of letting Reddit replace them: https://web.archive.org/web/20230616040715/https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/apple/comments/14al426/rapple_blackout_what_happened/ > > They also have no intention of moving their community anywhere else... https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/jo6k0ox/

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    Does lemmy.world allow criticism of the CCP?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/98323

    > Apparently there's an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

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