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People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan
  • Nope. Just so that you don't starve in a crisis. Grass tastes gross. ;)

  • People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan
  • Humanitarian crisis for sure.

    Tangent. If I was a mad genetic scientist with no ethics, there are a few things I'd do -- engineering a virus to deliver a few "software patches" to our DNA. One of those things would be to engineer the production of cellulase as an enzyme in our digestive system -- so we can get energy from grass and such in an emergency. Probably the Law of Unintended Consequences will make this worse for humanity somehow (Begun the Grass Wars have!). Mosquitos also get blood sucking removed, in an attempt to make them purely pollinating insects. Vote for Troy as mad scientist!

    Won't help the hungry in Sudan now, though. So I'm open to better ideas. Sadly, I largely have bad ideas. If I'm on the side of full external military intervention, it would be considered "colonial". It's hard to propose any solution that isn't just "send aid" -- and you don't want to do that because it gets seized by the parties involved to support their conflict. Do we just watch it play out and accept refugees? That's lame -- how many millions will die in each of the above scenarios. Fuck.

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  • I've heard it phrased: "once is never, twice is always"

  • Music Players
  • No one commenting on your playlist? You're cathartic music experience is showing :)

  • periodic tablets
  • A man who has big books... has a big... bookshelf.

  • How to open a textbook
  • My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can't fight it. You can't not fight it. It just wins.

  • What's your most treasured data?
  • Early computer aided art and programs I've written, dating back decades.

    In the mid 1990s I used ImpulseTracker to create music. The music sucks. But losing the original source .IT files would be heartbreaking.

    Likewise, my first programs, written as a child in MS DOS batch files circa 1991 -- basic menu driven interfaces that facilitated launching my installed sharware... I don't have the games the program points to anymore, but that isn't the point ;)

  • Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputees
  • Not after reading their comment history.

  • Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputees
  • All people who think porn is bad are bad. They are projecting their own unhealthy suppressed sexualities onto others because of the shame they associate with their own sexuality

    -- DancingBear, 7 days ago

    Thus I am concluding you are pro Russian and taking all opportunities to block all porn starring Ukranians. Which will be basically every site on the internet. A pity, since you seem to like it a lot.

  • Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputees
  • NSFW, but the next obvious thing to do is...

    https://www.xnxx.com/search/Josephine+Jackson

  • What's your look on the Fediverse?
  • Fourth panel. AI trained on all the above, floods it all with generated content rendering the signal-to-noise ratio too terrible to tolerate, even for corporations.

  • Newegg AI rule
  • Fair. :)

  • OpenJDK Project Wakefield - The Wayland Desktop for JDK on Linux
  • Oh hell no. I can't stand java paradigms haha. Only ever had to write one production java program and that was enough. Wish them luck though -- the rising tide floats all boats and such, particularly in open source :)

  • OpenJDK Project Wakefield - The Wayland Desktop for JDK on Linux
  • Building a toolkit from first principles is fun, I'll admit.

    I toyed with using libxcb and ctypes to make a pure python GUI toolkit once. Got as far as rendering on a screen and and event loop. Then got bored when I realized how much work it was going to be. I suppose someone could do the same with libwayland :)

  • How rich people get rich
  • It's a specialized scientific equipment business. I build some equipment, do some customization and repairs on their party equipment, loan other equipment, train users... A high capital business where I wagered everything on my own success. It was six months between my first two customers, and now I average about six hours.

    No Mary Kay ponzi shit.

    E: should add, I started it because my previous employer owned the intellectual property on my prior device. I wanted to own my future work. Seizing the means of production (by quitting and going solo).

  • On the moorlands above Portree, this ridiculous view towards the Storr presented itself [OC]
  • Blue orange colours
    Movie posters everywhere
    Look like this photo

  • OpenJDK Project Wakefield - The Wayland Desktop for JDK on Linux
  • I may have been born under a rock, but does Qt have java capabilities? Wonder why GTK is listed but not Qt. Unless I'm like two decades out of the loop, which is possible :)

  • Newegg AI rule
  • In Canada, it might work. There was a court case where an airline had to honour its chatbot.

  • Will robots can Replace Humans?
  • Are you a robot?

  • Caption this.
  • Air Bud 22

  • The Visual Effects of Godzilla Minus One

    Just won the Oscar for best visual

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    FediLore + Fedidrama @lemmy.ca Troy @lemmy.ca
    Got my first lemmy.ml ban

    I'm kind of okay with this. It was a reasonable take -- not a hot take or an incendiary comment or something. Mods using their power to shut down discussion -- expected on that instance I guess ;)

    !

    This is my first time getting any sort of ban on any lemmy instance. Now I just need to get banned on a right-wing server for some other centrist take, to keep balance in the universe ;)

    How many of you have experienced this on lemmy.ml?

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    Isao Tomita -- Gustov Holst's The Planets -- Mars
    music.youtube.com 土星 - YouTube Music

    Provided to YouTube by Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. 土星 · 冨田勲 · Gustav Holst 惑星(プラネッツ) ULTIMATE EDITION ℗ Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. Released on: 2011-06-01 ...

    土星 - YouTube Music

    One of the weirdest and most amazing things you'll ever hear -- a synth arrangement of classical music, write weird and wonderful.

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    Hasbro Earnings News (D&D profits)
    Hasbro Loses $1.06 Billion in Q4

    Hasbro lost a billion dollars this year, but D&D made a tonne of profit. And they laid off 1100 people. What I can't understand is how they're business model works. And how laying off 1100 people will allegedly save $400 million dollar (someone check my math, but does each employee cost 350k+ each?)

    Anyway

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    Existence (album) - Aleks Michalski

    Creative commons, very smooth space ambient album.

    I was wrong yesterday when I said Stellardrone was the only CC licensed Space Music in my collection. This is also pretty good stuff. :)

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    Light Years (album), by Stellardrone

    Pay what you want, creative commons licensed. Use for your open source space game ;)

    YouTube version: https://youtu.be/NDJn0SQehb4

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    Productivity (Album) by Azuruk

    Bit of a stretch to call this space music. Glitch(dub)step with great future sounds. Best with decent bass.

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    Exclusive: Ukrainian general wants Canada’s 83,000 decommissioned rockets | Globalnews.ca
    globalnews.ca Exclusive: Ukrainian general wants Canada’s 83,000 decommissioned rockets | Globalnews.ca

    Ukraine is asking the Canadian government for 83,000 mothballed CRV7 attack rockets to meet urgent military needs. Ottawa is concerned the rockets may be unsafe to ship.

    Exclusive: Ukrainian general wants Canada’s 83,000 decommissioned rockets  | Globalnews.ca
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    Tropics are sizzling this winter.

    Source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=tropics

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    Ask Cars: Fixing foggy headlights

    I'm assuming I can polish the plastic on the headlights in my 2006 Toyota Matrix. I plastic is still "clear", but all the road grit over the years have pitted and fogged the surface. Any advice on material for polishing?

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    EarthPorn @lemmy.ml Troy @lemmy.ca
    [OC] Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Canada

    high arctic desert. Yes there's water, but no real vegetation.

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    "When You Try To Quit Baldur’s Gate 3" by Arcaderage

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22528095

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    How to Use Dungeons & Dragons' Most Terrifying Homebrew Monster (False Hydra)
    www.cbr.com How to Use Dungeons & Dragons' Most Terrifying Homebrew Monster

    The false hydra is a terrifying homebrew creature in Dungeons & Dragons that, if used right, can offer one of the best TTRPG experiences out there.

    How to Use Dungeons & Dragons' Most Terrifying Homebrew Monster
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    Solar Fields - Prisoner X (Mirror's Edge Catalyst)

    Mirror's Edge Catalyst was a parkour game (mostly), and the music reflects this. Solar Fields is one of my favourites in the space music/idm scene. :)

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    Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything
    schmud.de Untangling Non-Linearity

    How the simple link became the foundation for artificial intelligence and all dynamic media.

    Untangling Non-Linearity
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    U.K. walks away from trade talks with Canada | CBC

    > Sticking point is how much access U.K. producers should have to the Canadian cheese market

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    [Satire] Palworld Modder Receives Cease and Desist From Guy Who Looks Exactly Like Nintendo Attorney
    hard-drive.net Palworld Modder Receives Cease and Desist From Guy Who Looks Exactly Like Nintendo Attorney

    MODESTO, Calif. — A modder who replaced the native creatures of breakout hit Palworld with Pokémon was instructed not to continue his work by a…

    Palworld Modder Receives Cease and Desist From Guy Who Looks Exactly Like Nintendo Attorney
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    troyunrau Troy @lemmy.ca

    Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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