Whatever USA decides to use to measure something, whether its inches & feet, bananas, football fields, or other randomly decided units of measurement.
PineRune
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Facts to remember the next time some French guy on the internet makes fun of Freedom Units™. The Metric system is basically arbitrarily defined as well, since the thing they meant to base it on was incorrect.
Edit: I forgot the /sarcasm tag and pissed off some French guys on the internet.
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Technology@lemmy.world•ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025)English
781·21 days agoThis article is dated “9 October 2025” which would make it almost a year old.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•For my birthday today, I played morrowind, oblivion (original), and Skyrim in 2 hour intervals, in order, repeating the cycle.i had a ton of fun. All on LinuxEnglish
13·30 days ago+1 for physical strategy guides! I’ve started collecting them, since most of them are pretty cheap these days (some are like $80+ though). It’s nice to be able to unhook oneself from the Internet and be able to enjoy games completely offline again, and these guides help complete that notion.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.English
20·2 months agoThose all sound like fake VPN apps that I wouldn’t trust anyway.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared onlineEnglish
28·2 months agoThe vandalism was putting them up in the first place.
I’ve heard it tastes very similar to breast milk, which was the source of nourishment and life for almost everyone as a baby. This unknowing association with something so vital for survival is supposedly why it’s such a popular flavor.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that every year, the most powerful people in Michigan meet on an island for 3 daysEnglish
44·2 months agoFor those confused, they meet in Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, which is an inhabited island in the Great Lakes and a tourist location. Not some random uninhabited island in the Pacific.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.English
1·2 months agoMaybe we just need more affordable phones.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This dogshit zero information design is taking over everything and it sucksEnglish
28·3 months agoIt’s all about driving metrics now. If people need to click on/select a movie to see more about it then that adds numbers to page views and increases time spent in the app. They can also see who and how many do or don’t watch a movie after clicking on it to further drive their algorithms.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I took this today in San FranciscoEnglish
34·3 months ago- Tells people to stop hiring humans
- Markets AI to look like a human
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Technology@lemmy.world•Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleEnglish
51·4 months agoIf they don’t get arrested for premeditated murder, then I doubt they’re actually getting in any trouble for
planning the murderstalking.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against GoogleEnglish
851·4 months agoTLDR:
a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.
I’m getting pretty sick of these bots posting links to news articles without anything other than a clickbait title.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most commonEnglish
22·4 months agoI’m wearing a watch with a sapphire lens right now! From what I understand, the tradeoff between different watch faces are how easy/hard they are to scratch vs shatter, with sapphire being the most scratch proof and a plastic polymer (I don’t remember which) being the most shatter resistant.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most commonEnglish
21·4 months agoThey are very hard to scratch, but also probably easier to crack. I’d hate to drop a phone with a sapphire screen.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy gamesEnglish
253·4 months agoif Valve is using their position to keep prices higher…
I can literally go and buy games on sale at 50-90% off during any of the multitude of sale events that are constantly happening.
PineRune@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codesEnglish
15·5 months agoTLDR: the article implies it might not be Motorola planning this, since it’s laundering a redirect through a fashion influencer’s site. The redirect only happens on certain update versions of Motorola’s included Smart Feed app on certain phones, and not all of them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hikeEnglish
1·5 months agoIt is a Samsung like other comments have mentioned. It sounds like a Jellyfin app was added for Samsung recently according to them, so I’ll have to check it out.
I still want to build a stream box though.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hikeEnglish
141·5 months agoThe only reason I’m still using plex is the smart TV I have doesn’t support Jellyfin.
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).


Looking through the info they have on me, it seems entirely made up of information regarding past purchases and shipping locations. It mentioned having 2 people at my address, but said other person has an account linked to mine and with the same shipping address, so it’s all relatively shallow information. I didn’t see any deep dive “HOW DID THEY GET THAT??” stuff that would otherwise be alarming.
Edit: I should add that I don’t own or use any of their Alexa products or any related technology. Those might spy on people a little more thoroughly.