python -c 'print((61966753*385408813*916167677<<2).to_bytes(11).decode())'

$ python
>>> b"Hello World".hex()
'48656c6c6f20576f726c64'
>>> 0x48656c6c6f20576f726c64
87521618088882533792115812
$ factor 87521618088882533792115812
87521618088882533792115812: 2 2 61966753 385408813 916167677

because i thought the situation described by the post was tragicomic (as was somewhat expressed by the line from it quoted in the post title)

Who is we???

Perhaps OP is a member of the US congress, trying to figure out what to vote for? 🤪

There is a nice sample of Michael Parenti talking about this kind of use of the word “we” at the beginning of this song. (lyrics here)

As the image transcript in the post body explains, the image at the bottom is a scene from a well-known 1998 film (which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2014 selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”).

This meme will not make as much sense to people who have not seen the film. You can watch the referenced scene here. The context is that the main character, The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) has recently had his private residence invaded by a group of nihilists with a pet marmot (actually portrayed by a ferret) and they have threatened to “cut off his Johnson”. In an attempt to express sympathy, The Dude’s friend Walter (played by John Goodman) points out that, in addition to the home invasion and threats, the nihilists’ exotic pet is also illegal. The Dude’s retort “what, are you a fucking park ranger now” is expressing irritation with that observation, because it is insignificant compared with the threat of the removal of his penis.

This meme attempts to draw a parallel between this humorous scene and XZ developer Lasse Collin’s observation that the XZ backdoor was also a violation of Debian’s software licensing policies.

Thank you for reading my artist’s statement.

something listed on this page: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

I think it’s pretty great that Zuckerberg went all-in on the thankfully-wrong bet that his Second Life knockoff would somehow be popular and that people would actually want to strap a computer on their face to use it. 🤡

Which is to say, VR isn’t particularly high on the list of things I’m concerned about giant tech companies’ control of.

I recommend reading The Verge’s review of the Apple Vision Pro which concludes:

Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream. This is the best video passthrough headset ever made, and that might mean camera-based mixed reality passthrough could just be a road to nowhere. This is the best hand- and eye-tracking ever, and it feels like the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen are going to remain undefeated for years to come.

As someone who doesn’t want to live in a world where head-mounted cameras in public spaces become ubiquitous or even socially acceptable, I found that review to be good news.

/c/eleven@lemmy.ml

I highly recommend Phillip Rogaway’s The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work even if you aren’t interested in cryptography specifically, but especially if you are.

instance name checks out

It’s not GNUIMP it’s GIMP

what do you think the G is for

(before it was Kool, KDE was a reference to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment)

I’ve never once in my life heard an American use clock in a personal manner like that

this comment is in poe’s law territory but just in case, fyi: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clock#Verb

xkcd#2501:

Anil Dash is posting on threads?! lmao 🤡

It means that lemmy.world is using https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js to track their users’ behavior and activities 😞

I am deleting this post per community rule 3 (asklemmy is not for questions about lemmy); there are other communities where it would be appropriate to have a thread to discuss this.

I just went looking for this document and found it for sale here; meanwhile over here there is a helpful PDF with a watermarked line drawing of the CD-ROM they’ll sell it to you on.

Fuck ISO so much.