What travels faster - blood from an artery, or Wikipedia’s accuracy on the 3rd word of a person’s page?
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British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
perviouslyinerto Not The Onion•Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump saysEnglish17·28 days agoSounds expensive. How much does it normally cost to rebrand an organisation of this size?
(and that’s without needing to rewrite references to it in any legislation!)
This is like Technology Connections having to explain what an MP3 CD is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIR23emsWY
Of course Lemmy people follow Deviant
Most monitors has got to be the security guard’s CCTV, so it does track!
perviouslyinerto politics •Trump is deporting so many immigrants that it could cause inflation to hit 4% next year, top economist says74·1 month agooh no, small farms will go bankrupt and have to sell to larger farms that Trump’s friends own… Oops, what an accidental bribe!
Obligatory Micro video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-rRXWhElI
perviouslyinerto World News•‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her headEnglish5·1 month agoDid it make a difference when China built that big container port in Peru and started connecting it with railways to the Atlantic coast?
Looking like the Moscow metro?
perviouslyinerto No Stupid Questions•If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?4·1 month agoFor a somewhat recent real-world example of hiding things in this kind of situation, maybe look at how ‘paramilitary’ people in Northern Ireland hid things by putting them in walls and then decorating the wall.
Maybe some “outlet” in your house is actually the connector to the NAS sealed into a void space?
perviouslyinerto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?6·1 month agoThat’s already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.
Same issue with white balance settings in cameras - the setting should be non-linear to give the same perceived change per step.
For a decently-sized real world example, you could study John Lewis, the UK line of department stores.
perviouslyinerto No Stupid Questions•If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?22·2 months agoSorry if this is obvious to everyone, but how would having a hidden hard disk help with living in a dictatorship?
Couldn’t you just let someone in another country take care of archiving it?
perviouslyinerto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•What’s the deal with the abundance of eBay listed laptops lacking drives?English12·2 months agoI’ve sold or given away a few computers recently, and always remove the HDD first (and list it as such)
Obviously I don’t want some stranger to have all my documents - and deleting the data might not completely work.
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