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TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls4·2 years agoEvery android phone I’ve had had a one-press ‘Emergency’ underneath the 0 on the lock screen, is it not the same for others? (although I’d argue that is too easy to hit)
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub25·2 years agoHonestly, the most surprising thing is that they managed 6 successful dives to titanic before it failed.
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Chat@beehaw.org•askBeehaw (not-so-serious edition): what's the dumbest thing you did as a teenager?English14·2 years agoI was 11, and handled the ‘samples’ at a BNFL booth (at an airshow) where a geiger counter was set up, it wasn’t til the demonstration guy returned and demonstrated to someone else how the coin-sized samples set off the counter that I realised it wasn’t a ‘self service’ type demonstration. The samples were labelled with their atomic symbol, and the most reactive samples were labelled as uranium (about 20mm diameter) and plutonium (about 5mm diameter). At the time I told myself they were likely fake, since leaving a plutonium sample lying around wouldn’t be very likely.
I’ve not died of radiation poisoning or cancer yet, but it’s only been 41 years.
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•All programs should tell you where they store config files5·2 years agoThere’s also $HOME/.local/share for ‘static data files’ as part of XDG.
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM saysEnglish2·2 years agoMy ipad only has 50MB of free ram after the OS loads as it is, I’m not updating ios any further - and I’d probably be just about willing to pay to downgrade back to ipados 12 to make it usable again
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer To Fight In A CageEnglish3·2 years agoHey now, badgers are lovely creatures
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?2·2 years agoThat IS what happened, in april.
What happened this month is that the API users (aka 3rd party authors) expressed their dismay at trying to work with reddit’s announced changes or getting any movement out of reddit that would allow them to continue.
We could always just throw the cage into the water off the coast of nova scotia, i hear it’s a hot destination for billionaires this time of year.
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Russia Acted In 'Good Faith' In Ukraine Invasion8·2 years agoRussian stooge stooges for Russia. What a thrilling development.
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-DrivingEnglish7·2 years agoAlso a loudspeaker pops up from the centre of the bonnet and starts screaming ‘pedophile!’ at every driver who doesn’t respect elon’s authoritay
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Opera Debuts 'One' Browser With Built-in Generative AIEnglish1·2 years agoIt doesn’t appear to
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Monkey scripts for Lemmy UI to replicate compact layout from old.redditEnglish3·2 years agoThis makes lemmy more usable than kbin for me
TheElectroness@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Explainer - Missing Titanic submersible: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it?English7·2 years agoAs coffins go, it’s pretty.
Tomato flavoured milk sounds delicious.