Witches and Warlocks Are Real, Apparently...
https://lemmy.world/post/36993646
Witches and Warlocks Are Real, Apparently... - Lemmy.World
Today I stopped to grab replacement frames for my daughter’s glasses. The lady
asked about my daughter’s name (Hermione). Me: Like the girl from Harry Potter.
Clerk: Oh I’ve never seen those movies, I don’t believe in the witches and
warlocks and such. Me, jokingly: Well it’s all make believe, nobody actually
thinks that witches or warlocks are real. She then informed me that they are
indeed real and she’s a member of a missionary group who “casts them out” all
the time… This is a fully grown (looked to be 45-50ish) adult woman, who is
allowed to vote and reproduce, who straight up believes that magic, witches and
warlocks are real, and not only that, she is a member of a larger organization
of people who go out on “missions” to “cast out” these evildoers. And she works
in a business where she holds at least some authority over an aspect of peoples’
health and well being. The crazier thing is, she’s not the first person in this
area I’ve met who thinks witches and warlocks are real life people out there
casting spells and shit. And that is why Trump won re-election.
TIL You Can Be Silently Shadow Banned on Reddit
https://lemmy.world/post/35469140
TIL You Can Be Silently Shadow Banned on Reddit - Lemmy.World
Basically what the title says. I commented on a post and sent a link to my
comment to my wife to get her take on the post and my response. To start, the
link just takes her to the topic and not my comment. If she tries to find my
comment it isn’t listed. If she manually goes to my profile and tracks down the
comment all it says is “[Removed]”. However, from my perspective the comment is
still live with 1 view and no activity. I’ve tried closing my browser,
refreshing the page and everything and for me the comment is still visible even
on the page for the post. For everybody else though it has been removed. The
crazy thing is the comment isn’t even controversial; somebody asked for marriage
advice and I gave some. The “removal” seems to be automated too because I sent
her the link basically as soon as I posted the comment and it was already shadow
banned.
Trump's order to "protect" voting could disenfranchise millions.
https://lemmy.world/post/27402850
Trump's order to "protect" voting could disenfranchise millions. - Lemmy.World
Trump’s executive order on voting rights. I may be misinterpreting this (correct
me please if I am), but it sure sounds like you won’t be allowed to vote if you
didn’t opt for a “RealID” version of your license. A regular driver’s license
contains no information regarding citizenship status, at least in my state, so
it wouldn’t count. A lot of low income people in rural America have skipped
getting a “RealID” because it’s more expensive. If this order goes thru, that
decision may cost them their right to vote. This could disenfranchise millions
of low income voters.
Check Your Optical Media - Lemmy.World
So I’m re-ripping my DVD copy of MAS*H to re-encode to a new codec, correct some
mistakes I made with my original rip, etc. For example, I noticed that, since
this was one of the earlier shows I ripped, I completely missed the fact that
there’s a second “No laugh track” English audio track that I didn’t rip the
first time around. Anyway, these discs have been out in my shed for a number of
years now and I have noticed a few of them have started de-laminating in spots.
This one in particular, disc 1 of season 4, failed to read once so I pulled it
out, cleaned it good and put it back in. It has one large bubble between the
layers that isn’t apparent on the label side so I don’t think it’s anything to
do with the label getting damp or anything. There’s also a wide band of what
appear to be very tiny little micro bubbles in a complete circle around the
disc. If it doesn’t get destroyed in the compression, you can see them in the
lower portion of the photo. After letting it warm up and cleaning it a bit I
tried again and on the second try it slowed down and thrashed around for a few
moments when it got to that same section, dropping into kB/s read speeds, but
eventually got past it and succeeded in making the ISO. I guess I’m going to
have to make space to keep complete ISOs of shows and movies I particularly
like, like this one. Man, those Bluray images are ridiculous though.
Today I Learned GoG Has a "Dream List"
https://lemmy.world/post/26428368
Today I Learned GoG Has a "Dream List" - Lemmy.World
So today I learned GoG has a “Dream List” where people can vote for and even
post their thoughts on games they would like to see on GoG. I voted for Mass
Effect Legendary Edition.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected
https://lemmy.world/post/25903806
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected - Lemmy.World
Seems like so far, as far as anybody knows, only the Zotac “Solid” cards are
affected. First paragraph reads: TechPowerUp has discovered that there are
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too
few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac’s GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes
with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part
of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable
impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090
Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090
Founders Edition card. At the time we didn’t pay attention to the ROP count that
TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other
reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.
OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere
https://lemmy.world/post/25754749
OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere - Lemmy.World
Subtitle: Qualys finds two worrying bugs in OpenSSH When I checked my personal
rigs Debian had already released the patches and my home server had already auto
updated itself.
Liberals invented trans people a few years ago...
https://lemmy.world/post/16898935
Liberals invented trans people a few years ago... - Lemmy.World
I heard this on “Last Week Tonight” and couldn’t help but to throw together a
quick edit.
Liberals Invented Trans People...
https://lemmy.world/post/16891308
Liberals Invented Trans People... - Lemmy.World
The other day I saw this clip on “Last Week Tonight” and just had to throw this
together.
I made a post on Facebook that included the word "hack"...
https://lemmy.world/post/482538
