If I remember correctly, in Light & Magic they talk about how they came up with the design of the M.Falcon (and George Lucas wasn’t much involved). In fact, let me check… Ah ha:

Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television. Under pressure and mentally blocked, Johnston was sitting in the kitchen when he spotted plates on the counter. He imagined sandwiching two together like hamburger buns to create a saucer-like ship. The Millennium Falcon started to take shape.

The carbonite thing feels like more of a straightforward copy, though.

If there is anything I know about technology, it’s that moving everything to The Cloud is the current trend.

Currently it’s shoehorning AI into everything, surely?

But good stuff, always nice to see pointless bad ideas proved possible!

I’m talking about people downvoting from all - if you’re seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you’re viewing all then downvoting something you’re not interested in is a dick move.

I haven’t watched, but assuming it’s good I’m guessing it’s idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they’re not personally interested in.

It doesn’t help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don’t like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you’re training.

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature… user error

Gotta love the Register

@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website here’s to you, everyone’s favourite stargazing memelord! Without you, Lemmy would be a quieter and less funny place. Cheers!

A great read, thanks for sharing.

At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

I really hope this is successful, it’s really got the spirit of what made the early internet great.

That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization […], but there were probably other extensions not doing that well.

The article goes out of its way to not do what you’re accusing it of. I don’t understand how you’ve managed to read the article as having the opposite slant as what it actually does.

I started but then I noticed the scrollbar and realised it’s a lot longer read than I have the attention for right now - to the “read later (yeah right)” pile with you!

I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don’t think that’s hopeful, unless you argue that we’re sensible enough to heed said warnings.

I’m curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn’t see you it mention in your post or blog, so I’m assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you’d normally use that?

I’m assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it’s an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn’t want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

It is possible to die from eating spicy food, like this 14 year old in the US: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-chip-challenge-pulled-shelves-teen-death-rcna103906

You’re forgetting about security updates, which would also be blocked. It’s definitely more of a problem if the whole of Mozilla gets blocked than some plugins that have workarounds and alternatives.

If Russia blocks security updates, that’s worse for Russian users than having to go to GitHub to install a plugin.

I guess my argument would be that you can choose/configure Linux to use many of the Windows conventions, whereas Mac has its own way of doing things that need learning.

The article uses the word modified, but it sounds like it’s just talking about configuring it and using it as normal.

The ban comes after Fartz posted footage [on Instagram] in which he sparked up a bong during one of Phish’s shows at the venue in April.

The footage […] was accompanied by the message, “First bong hit to be ever ripped in the Sphere Las Vegas, somebody called Guinness World Records”, in which Fartz tagged the venue.

So he removed all the venue’s plausible deniability, then suffered the consequences. sadtrombone.com

Shine UV light on salty wastewater? Definitely sounds pretty straightforward.