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Cake day: October 4th, 2023
  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney generalEnglish
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    1 day ago

    your foreign minister was Madonna

    This is like that.

    kagis

    Not that much like it, apparently.

    https://www.nme.com/news/music/madonna-shares-support-for-ukraine-with-release-of-sorry-remix-video-3170167

    In the early hours of this morning (February 26), Madonna took to social media to share a fanmade video set to a remix of her 2005 song ‘Sorry’.

    “Russia’s Pointless and Greed Driven Invasion Of the Ukraine MUST be stopped!!” the queen of pop captioned the post. “Please Send in Humanitarian Aid to help millions of citizens of the Ukraine who’s lives are being affected by this CRISIS at this very moment !!

    “Putin has Violated Every Human Rights Accord in Existence. Putin has no right to try to erase the existence of the Ukraine. We support you President Zelensky!! We are praying for you and your country! 🙏🏼.”

    She concluded: “God Bless You All! Lets not feel helpless when confronted by Geo-political Actions of this magnitude. There are things we can do.”

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to townEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well, it depends on what you want it for.

    I wanted specifically to find a search engine that has a subscription-based model and does not generate its income from data-mining and ads. It doesn’t retain search logs. For me, it’s what I had wanted for some time – a service where I was the customer rather than the product – so I am pretty happy with it.

    It has some other features, but I generally don’t care much about them other than its “Fediverse Forums” search lens, which lets one search the Threadiverse (Lemmy/mbin/piefed).

    looks

    It looks like they also have a Usenet archives search engine that I haven’t looked at. I might look into that, as I used to use Usenet archives search engines.

    I’m happy with it. Depends on what you’re looking for, though.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to townEnglish
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    3 days ago

    “I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” she says.

    The sheriff disagreed.

    “She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or ‘anything’ could have happened,” recalls Patterson.

    Even if his mother was walking there too, it’s not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She’d just be some extra mass to fling.

    Kidnappings – and a number of other serious crimes – are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.

    kagis

    https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/zmldiz/til_there_are_only_between_150300_kidnappings_of/

    There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.

    Even more lopsided than I’d expected.

    And as for “anything” happening, I’d imagine that “anything” could have happened at home, too.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•On the importance of backupsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Plus, even if you manage to never, ever have a drive fail, accidentally delete something that you wanted to keep, inadvertently screw up a filesystem, crash into a corruption bug, have malware destroy stuff, make an error in writing it a script causing it to wipe data, just realize that an old version of something you overwrote was still something you wanted, or run into any of the other ways in which you could lose data…

    You gain the peace of mind of knowing that your data isn’t a single point of failure away from being gone. I remember some pucker-inducing moments before I ran backups. Even aside from not losing data on a number of occasions, I could sleep a lot more comfortably on the times that weren’t those occasions.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Washer estimated "1 minute left", took 13 minutes to finishEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I know that modern dryers often use a humidity sensor, and I can imagine that it’s maybe hard to project that.

    But I don’t know what sort of sensors or dynamic wash time a washer would use. I thought that they were just timer-based.

    kagis

    Oh. Sounds like they use water level sensors and time to drain is a factor, so if the draining is really slow, that it’ll do that.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1dd4k6g/my_clothes_washer_has_had_one_minute_left_for_the/

    My clothes washer has had one minute left for the past 7 minutes. (i.redd.it)

    Funny… Someone else had a similar issue a few days ago. This was my reply to them:

    This sounds like a drainage issue. Not uncommon. I first learned of this on my previous washer several years ago.

    The machine took a lot longer to drain than it should have, so what should’ve taken a minute or two, took 15.

    A potential cause is that your drainage filter is clogged. Most people don’t even know they have one, much less how to clean it.

    In MOST modern washers, it’s behind a small hatch on the front of the machine. (It may be located elsewhere, depending on your model.). Open the hatch, pull out a short hose, unplug the stopper on the hose to drain any excess water (into a small container of some sort). Then remove the filter…

    The filter itself is typically a cylindrical piece that resides next to the hose. The filter may need to be unlocked somehow to remove it, but either way, once you slide it out you can clear it off of any buildup of hair, lint, and other gunk that’s collected on it.

    Check your user manual (or Google) for your specific model.

    If they have a display capable of it, might be a good idea for washers to suggest to the user that it’s draining slowly and that checking the filter might be in order.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•SF Couple Moved to France a Year Ago, They're Already Kind of Sick of ItEnglish
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    10 days ago

    She’d eagerly looked forward to cooking meals in France beforehand, but Joanna says that she had trouble finding quality produce to cook.

    “You go to the supermarket, and the produce is terrible,” she says. “You pick up a piece of celery and it falls over. It’s so limp. So old and so horrible. Who would eat this?”

    Also: the couple has struggled to make friends, McIsaac-Kierklo has not yet mastered the language (or learned much of it)

    “I honestly don’t think we could have put in any more effort to acclimatize to the French way of life,” adds Joanna, who describes their experience as “a nightmare.”

    Don’t give up, lady. Try and bond with them by talking smack about French produce loudly and clearly in English. You’ll get through sooner or later. Even the French will eventually give in to determined gregariousness.