Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Wikipedia says:
The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]
But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:
Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.
(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English3·7 天前You better find a way to make it easy, soldier, or I’m gonna start pushing buttons!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visasEnglish28·7 天前in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
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in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.
in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.
wouldn’t want it any other way
where is this?
edit: via this comment I see it is Stonehenge von Tiefenpölz, aka Fränkischen Stonehenge built by artist Alexander Lämmlein between 2018 and 2023 in Tiefenpölz, Upper Franconia.
you can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.
you can read here about why they added systemd.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English9·8 天前The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity.
The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)
… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux onEnglish5·14 天前I’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century
I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.
Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!
were you careful to be sure to get the parts that have the key’s name and email address?
It should be if there is chunks missing its unusable. At least thats my thinking, since gpg is usually a binary and ascii armor makes it human readable. As long as a person cannot guess the blacked out parts, there shouldnt be any data.
you are mistaken. A PGP key is a binary structure which includes the metadata. PGP’s “ascii-armor” means base64-encoding that binary structure (and putting the BEGIN and END header lines around it). One can decode fragments of a base64-encoded string without having the whole thing. To confirm this, you can use a tool like
xxd
(orhexdump
) - try pasting half of your ascii-armored key in tobase64 -d | xxd
(and hit enter and ctrl-D to terminate the input) and you will see the binary structure as hex and ascii - including the key metadata. i think either half will do, as PGP keys typically have their metadata in there at least twice.
how did you choose which areas to redact? were you careful to be sure to get the parts that have the key’s name and email address?
Those countries won’t be too happy if Israel is kidnapping their citizens.
One might expect them to care, but the Foreign Minister of Sweden was pretty unconcerned
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logicEnglish191·21 天前This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:
“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."
To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.
edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•The legal issues raised by Trump sending the National Guard to L.A.English105·22 天前The Russian trolls are working overtime to justify military action against American people at the objection of the governor and mayor.
For sure, the American people could never be ignorant xenophobic bigots like that on their own, it must be foreigners influencing them and/or posting those comments!
it’s a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress