artifex

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Looking for glass food storage containers made in Europe in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago

Bormioli Rocco is an old Italian glassware company that makes various containers and glasses, but they do also have some stuff made in china so you have to check to see what you’re getting.

The hunt for the world’s rarest duck in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So it's a... Duck Hunt ?

(sorry, I'll see myself out)

Elon Musk just opened a restaurant in Los Angeles. This is the menu. in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck Elon, but man do I love all-day breakfast.

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Betelgeuse’s companion star revealed in new images (www.sciencenews.org)
 

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

Through the window, Rocky Mountain National Park in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

It’s like a Bob Ross painting!

Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, any lemmy instance will display both federated and blocked instances https://lemmy.zip/instances

Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah per my note above is one of those lists in /instances specifically the blocked instances? On lemmy they’re clearly marked in a “blocked” list. On piefed the lists are different.

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Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? (piefed.social)
 

A lemmy server's /instance page shows lists of federated and blocked instances, but piefed's version doesn't seem to have this (you see Online | Dormant | Gone forever | Trusted - and I'm not 100% clear on what some of those mean). Is it possible to see a list of servers that my piefed server has defederated/blocked?

It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] artifex@piefed.social -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, one real concern is that bottom-of-the-barrel lawyers will continue to just use their $20/month chatGPT subscription, and not something more lawyer-centric that will (eventually) be able to weed out the true stupidity almost 100% of the time.

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It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says (arstechnica.com)
 

While the thought of lawyers lawyering with AI gives me the icks, I also understand that at a certain point it may play out like the self-driving car argument: once the AI is good enough, it will be better than the average human -- since I think it's obvious to everyone that human lawyers make plenty of mistakes. So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it's still a net gain. On the other hand tho, this could lead to complacency that drives even more injustice.

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One of my weird, purple avocados (files.catbox.moe)
 

There are several old avocado trees on my corner, including the one that makes these small (tho not usually this small) green avocados that turn purple and shiny like an eggplant when fully ripe. The taste is pretty typical for a green avocado -- so much less fatty than a Haas -- but with a nice floral note that I haven't come across in other varieties.

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ESA's Invictus spaceplane project revives the SABRE hypersonic engine (thenextweb.com)
 

When Reaction Engines went bankrupt a few years ago there was much speculation about when -- not if -- their technology for a supercooled hybrid ramjet/rocket engine would be picked up by another entity. It seems we now have our answer as the ESA hopes to revive and complete the ambitious project for a single-stage-to-orbit, air-breathing spaceplane.

Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 26 points 3 days ago

Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, but today there native son Gen-X and Millennial shits are voting just as hard R as the old folks used to. I’ve been here the whole time and watched the whole state transition from “haha” dumb to “dude, wtf?” dumb.

Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

When this happens to me it’s usually a cloudflare problem. Sometimes it fixes itself in a day or two. A few times it has been broken for weeks and I’ve had to use a VPN to reach it.

Car and Driver magazine, June 2025 in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s choice as in “choose your weapon,” and not “muh freedoms”. Either way tho, material from a magazine literally called Car and Driver seems a bit low effort for this community :)

it's a you in c/dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
[–] artifex@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

Mario? Is that-a you?

Revised estimates of temperature changes under net zero CO2 emissions | Our findings indicate that 50 years after abrupt emission cessation, the multi-model median temperature change is −0.19 °C in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

As long as we haven’t already hit any of the important tipping points that cause runaway effects of their own, right? (Eg methane clathrates, minimum albedo, etc)

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps (techcrunch.com)
 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps (techcrunch.com)
 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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