Ah, the good stuff. Too early in the day for my fix though :P

“Reinforcement Learning From Advertiser Feedback”

That’s the gist of this century thus far, isn’t it? :P

Not offended in the slightest. Their response already allayed my worries that it was someone from Reddit thinking karma farming works here.

I’m a big fan of Xkcd #1053 myself. ;)

2025-09-18

What’s up with the old reposts today?

Edit: And it looks to be just you doing that, @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com, so what’s up?

I read that back then and was wondering if there were any new developments. Looks like checking the comments always pays off.

Because it’s genuine? I dunno. That’s the vibe I got.

What if we put it on Uranus though?

Damn. How long were those sheets?

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I’m aware. But it’s not just Palestine being censored, it’s currently anything the current U.S administration doesn’t like. So anything anti-trump/Zionist/Israel/ICE falls into this category.

I’m saying the title is misleading because it could be construed as “a social media app/platform specifically made for Palestinians”, which is what most people that haven’t heard of the app before would assume by reading the title alone.

Clickbait? The developer is Palestinian/Australian, the app’s audience is global, and it’s not just Palestine-specific. So what’s up with the sensationalised title?

You guys don’t see what they’re scared shitless about? It’s the fear of an EU-based true open source Android fork/competitor.

Also when they say FOSS will not contribute to “economic growth”, they mean Alphabet’s. Greedy pigs.

Hi. Egyptian here. And no. The music you generally hear that’s being attributed to that period is just the sensationalised Hollywood vision of what I would have been like.

What you’ll usually come across is Arabian music, not Egyptian. It’s not the pharaonic style, which I assume is what you’re asking about. It would be more akin to Coptic music.

Another missing criteria is that many instruments emerged in different eras, over thousands of years, so there’s that too.

I think the most important instruments that should be the oldest and seem ubiquitous are the Darboka (also called Tabla in present day Egypt) and the Ney.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across an Egyptian that doesn’t love the sound of the Ney on a primal level. This is what it sounds like: https://youtu.be/wYQ_ol3L9Ag

And this is the closest/most-faithful rendition of a real song that makes sense that I’ve ever come across in the wild: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntnBuQAvFjA (by Peter Pringle)

There are also some renditions of real songs like this one: https://youtu.be/0TJR_l-uSVo

Unfortunately, I can’t enthusiastically recommend this one as an authentic example, because while the lyrics are historically real, rhe rendition is still not faithful, because they didn’t exclusively use period-appropriate instruments.

I think there are also some other examples from the recent Grand Egyptian Museum opening ceremony (at least I heard someone say that, but aren’t sure because I didn’t watch it personally)

I wouldn’t recommend those as reference material because they’re essentially promotional material designed to captivate tourists, and with a healthy side-serving of propaganda for the Egyptian audience (hence why I opted out of watching that).

It was an honest misunderstanding and I asked for clarification before making any assumptions. So not that weird. :)

Oh god. And I thought Amazon’s Mechanical Turk was terrible…

How low can Bezos go? Wtf is wrong with this timeline

They were, factually, Indian.

Whom are you referring to? A specific group/project?

And how does being Indian specifically factor into this? 🤔

I find the concept of paper clips superior

I was talking about cooling and a practical example of “working around the rules”.

As for refrigeration in particular: any similar mechanism can do this too. Example: if you can figure out a material that emits IR in the ballpark for that specific range of wavelengths, you can use it as an active shunt.

Also read somewhere before (not sure when or where tbh, but it might’ve been an old school 2000s forum discussion or something) about a way to possibly achieve it via phase change cooling at a molecular scale iirc. It wasn’t viable at the time and we made light of it, but with the material science advancements of today? Who knows. Maybe someone figured it out.

You don’t overcome thermodynamics, but you can work around them. For example:

When you cool something you take heat energy out of it you have to do something with that heat energy you can’t just delete it.

Or you can shunt it into space so that it doesn’t heat the atmosphere on its way out. That’s called radiative cooling and it’s brilliant.

And it can be done at home with household items. See Nighthawk’s YT channel for more info: https://youtu.be/N3bJnKmeNJY

And that’s just one out of many possible approaches. Interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_surfaces_(climate_engineering)