My son sent me this:
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RE: What are the rules for sockpuppets here?
@otter I'm inclined to say, "Don't be a dick," but that would eliminate most of the non-sockpuppet accounts, too.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
From tumblr (I think), by way of my son; original source unknown:
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
My son sent me this. It's not new, but I don't remember seeing it posted here before.
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RE: WTF Bites
The Register asked Apple about its patent strategy, just because we enjoy the ritual of sending email and having it ignored.
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RE: Gululu - The Interactive Water Bottle Tracker
@PJH What exactly does it track? Does it track the bottle's location? 'Cuz for $129, my biggest concern would be, where did my kid leave it when he ran off to play?
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RE: Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
"Don't you fucking dare Google, or I will run you through a goddamn woodchipper."
All of Google? I am now hoping that Google bombards you with Coldplay 24/7.
Latest posts made by HardwareGeek
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Benjamin-Hall said in Nope, you eat it:
@Arantor I guess it's better than trying to oxygenate water and ending up with H2O2.
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RE: In other news today...
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
it did at one point embed
I've seen that happen several times recently. I'm almost tempted to think the forum might be slightly less broken than usual.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Arantor said in Nope, you eat it:
they were literally saying that water didn’t hydrate you and didn’t contain hydrogen
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Arantor said in Nope, you eat it:
(At least she didn’t try to claim that it was H3O rather than H2O as I feel that would have some seriously adverse reactions)
Did you mean H3O+? I'm fairly sure neutral H3O doesn't exist, or at least doesn't last long enough to matter. However, H3O+ does exist and is quite common. As for seriously adverse reactions, that depends very strongly on how much of it is present.
: Ordinary H2O actually contains H3O+ at a concentration of 1E-7 mol/ℓ (6E+17 ions/ℓ) at 25°C (with an equal number of OH- ions). Stomach acid naturally contains H3O+ at a concentration between about 0.1 and 0.001 mol/ℓ. Highly acidic foods such as lemon juice are similar, with around 0.01 to 0.001 mol/ℓ. So, obviously it takes rather a lot of H3O+ to cause serious adverse reactions, although higher concentrations can indeed cause very serious damage.
2: It's a bit more complex than that. Experimental evidence indicates that H+(aq) exists in 3 forms, H3O+, H+(H2O)2, and H+(H2O)2(H2O)4, with the latter form being dominant, although the total amount of all the forms is as previously discussed.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Zerosquare I read chapter 1. I'll go back and read the rest of it at some point — if I remember, so probably not.
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RE: In other news today...
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Have you seen that Roku has patented (or applied for a patent) for a way to inject ads directly into an HDMI port?
Yes, I've seen the Louis Rossman video that someone posted above.
You actually clicked the link? The is disappointed in you.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
'tank' (the one that goes boom)
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin said in In other news today...:
advertising is generally unethical.
See my post about Roku.
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RE: In other news today...
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Just when I thought I couldn't hate advertisers more than I do.
Have you seen that Roku has patented (or applied for a patent) for a way to inject ads directly into an HDMI port? You can pay a lot of money for an ad-free experience — premium YT/Netflix/Prime/whatever, DVD/Blu-ray, maybe even your own home videos — and Roku will inject ads anyway. If it detects a loading screen or pause in the HDMI video stream, it will display an ad instead of the "paused" video, possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data. Imagine watching a video of your baby being born, pausing it because the actual baby started crying, and coming back to see an ad for adult products, because Roku's analysis of the video data thought you were watching an "instructional" video.
I'm not sure if this is actually on the market, yet, but it's in their plans.