Multiplication. It’s why it’s on the numpad.

Also, normal non-technical text also never uses these keyboard characters @^\|_ ` but they are there. If the computer keyboard was designed for proper typography, there would be keys for nbsp, curly quotes or the em dash.

Auch, wenn es sich um Kategorie abartige Kostüme handelt?

(Ist “abartig” das richtige Wort? Der Übersetzungsdienst, den ich normal verwende, bietet etwas anderes an.)

As a person regularly writing regular expressions, the usage of * in a written language rubs me the wrong way. I wouldn’t mind Mitarbeiter/innen, similar to how Czech does it (prodavač/ka, although some are impossible to shorten like skladník/skladnice, as skladník/ce sounds too weird, much like Krankenschwester*innen would).

After that story was published, nobody uses the swirl effect to hide their identity anymore. This is edit: satirically another pedophile, which was outed by accidentally opening his homework folder on a livestream.

They did this stunt at the Olympics opening ceremony.

People have played actually burning pianos (usually old, crap ones) but getting good tunes out of the instrument is not compatible with heating the strings that much, they detune and snap. I think they just used a keyboard built into an otherwise empty piano case with some gasoline.

You’re on one of the best-moderated instances unless you hate trans people.

These aren’t articles, they’re just memes. The discussion below is mostly just “aww” and “I’d like a demon friend too” so it’s not too important. Of course, the reposting should not be overdone: perhaps limit the bot to a single top post every day.

So would @Rolando@lemmy.world and @Piemanding@sh.itjust.works. That makes four!

I am too busy to create it though.

I am using Shreddit on Linux. It goes through each line in comments.csv from the GDPR export I requested, which is more complete than the data PowerDeleteSuite gets access to. PowerDeleteSuite basically clicks through your comment history on old.reddit.com and submits edit requests, while Shreddit uses the powerful API (it’s not paid for personal use but you need to register the client, see the github page) and will find all comments thanks to the legally-mandated completeness of the GDPR export (if supplied; it will use the API to retrieve the comment list otherwise). BTW, you can alter the comments.csv for a custom filter (for example, I want to use a Czech string in Czech subreddits). You can use it on Windows (and it’s an easier installation) but because of non-POSIX shenanigans, newlines in the replacement string won’t work there.

If using PowerDeleteSuite, make sure to download the log file it supplies before you close the window or your original comment content will be lost!

There are like 5 people here to talk about my entire country of 10 million while the Reddit community gets 2000+ every day. Even a karma farmer would help here as long as it’s not a bot and occasionally replies to comments.

I was just re-wiping my Reddit comments with an updated text yesterday and apparently, the word “enshittification” is banned on r/hellsomememes. Seriously?

I miss the content though, and I have too much of a life to create a fediverse community and fill it with content even if it’s stolen. Can somebody break Reddit’s ToS and set up a reposting bot?

Me who chose the AMD Ryzen version of a laptop last year instead of Intel Raptor Lake because it was $10 cheaper:

I think the product line is older than that

I thought the average !programminghumor@lemmy.world user is already FOSSpilled. Of course you don’t have to use the FOSS tools but they are convenient enough to be able to make this in 10 minutes.

Anyway, the relevant commands are

yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba" --no-mtime --convert-subs srt --write-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs
# aegisub needs srt; we don't need above 480p

aegisub "The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].en.srt"
# now go rewrite appropriate lines in gui, apply style and save as "LoveShack.ass"

ffmpeg -i "The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].mp4" -filter_complex "[0:v]subtitles=LoveShack.ass[s];[s]crop=w=640[f]" -map [f] -map 0:a -ss 49 -t 21 -acodec aac -vcodec libx265 -crf 20 crowdstrike.mp4
# crf 20 for generously high quality because file size is small anyway

# or for Lemmy upload (no sound, WebM to prevent encoding...
# ...and subsequent ffmpeg timeout errors; my instance limits uploads to 10 MiB)
ffmpeg -i "The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].mp4" -filter_complex "[0:v]subtitles=LoveShack.ass[s];[s]crop=w=ih/3*4[f]" -map [f] -ss 49.5 -t 21 -vcodec vp9 crowdstrike.webm
# note that Lemmy instances limit videos to 900 frames (usually 30 s) by default

I didn’t bother recreating your subtitle and cut timing but I did crop the video to 4:3. The frame rate is doubled and so is the apparent resolution, while the file size is 6x smaller; the Lemmy version is also about 6x smaller but I went for low-bitrate 720p:

It’s really not any harder than what you are currently doing. You’d just use a more reasonable video codec. But you do you, it’s not that bad.

GIF from YouTube

YouTube doesn’t provide GIFs. It provides videos. Conversion to GIF is an unnecessary step. Use yt-dlp, Aegisub and ffmpeg for a FOSS way of downloading a video, trimming it and burning subtitles into it.

GIF is really terrible as a video format. You can upload actual video with sound on Lemmy (most instances use a 20MB, 900-frame limit, also server-side ffmpeg often times out) or Pixelfed (15MB, unknown frame limit).

Yes, I know you didn’t bother to use an AI or commission an artist to sing the new lyrics but you could mux in an instrumental version (or heck, even just leave the original) for me and others who may remember the melody from the radio but don’t associate it with the music video.

Maybe even split-flap displays, or printed advertisements

The cause is a malfunction of the Crowdstrike monitoring solution, which employees use to spy at anything ever done on company hardware. They do have a Linux version and it has been reported to cause kernel panics (not sure if during this incident).

But yes, Windows on public information displays is dumb.

Years of colonialism convinced you that China is actually British /s