Wait until you learn what the other seven parts of a byte are called when the first one is called a bit.

Both you and @radix@lemmy.world came to the same conclusion I did that “operating astern” might mean “we are slowing down” but the impression I got from Wikipedia was that flag was for literally travelling backwards, and the ship is clearly not doing that.

Interpretation 2 is that the first flag is the blue Peter referring to obstruction (usually fishing nets) and it is instead a reference to Jucika herself, kind of a “hey, you, the thing in our way”.

Interpretation 3 is the in-port meaning of the same flag, which is “come aboard”

The third flag about having a pilot aboard is also a little weird and I can’t be sure whether he’s saying the ship has crew or whether they’re asking if she needs guidance back to shore.

Still fairly mystified by Jucika, especially the spotted neckerchief. Spots don’t seem to be a good match to anything.

… though I do like the idea that the shorts mean she might be calling herself a firecracker.

The flag code may actually mean something, but it’s a bit hard to interpret. The middle flag is “you are in danger” which certainly fits the circumstances, but the others are a little harder to interpret, as is Jucika’s response. Her shorts, for example, could be interpreted as “I’m carrying explosives”, which probably isn’t what she’s going for.

Veterans as in “in receipt of an army pension” veterans? Because that seems like a way to begin to deal with the issue.

Yeah, I think this guy was at my house the other day.

I have a lamp on a digital timer. Day in, day out, it comes on at the same time and goes off at the same time, whether I’m here or not. We’re talking well over 15 years at this point. Might be pushing 20.

The other day I went into that room for the first time that day after dark and the lamp wasn’t on. Thought the bulb had died. Manually turned the lamp on via the timer. I was able to deduce from the number of button pushes it took that the timer had been in auto mode and that the lamp should have been on. But it wasn’t.

Absolutely no reason for it to have been off. The lamp, the bulb and the timer have all continued as if nothing weird happened since then.

Therefore maybe a ghost did it.

A rare case of “I can fix her” rather than “I can fix him”. With the same predictable conclusion.

And maybe a missing body part or two.

These things should not exist, but if they must then they should be put to this sort of use.

Enjoy your levitating cat.

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” ― Douglas Adams

(Copied from an online source because I never remember the exact wording.)

One of the Easter eggs of this quote is that when it was uttered in the 1980s BBC TV adaptation, the scene cuts to a man, seen only from the back, disposing of his clothes and possessions and walking naked into the ocean. That man was Douglas Adams.

Ah. You’re saying both are equal because they both count for nothing and two zeros are equal.

I disagree that “gift”, despite being a singular example, is nothing. 1 > 0.

I have to disagree with the idea that “giraffe” is equally reasonable as a reference. Yes, it has an F in it, but it’s not exactly the third letter, is it?

The point is that there is absolutely no precedent for a soft G in that situation. The question is “Would you say that it was pronounced “jif” if the creator hadn’t said it was pronounced that way?”, and you’d have to look at what already exists in English and conclude that, no, you wouldn’t pronounce it that way.

For comparison, look at the number of people who pronounce “gibs” with a hard g when it’s derived from “giblets” which isn’t. There’s clearly some kind of rule being followed here, even if it hasn’t been strictly codified anywhere.

Not one of those has F or V as the third letter. Name an English word that starts “gif-” or “giv-” where the g is soft. I’ll wait.

He loved nothing more than jivving jifts to his wife and family at Christmas.

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Is it worth getting?

Maybe someone else will have a better answer. I used it once in a blue moon to naively hack at some audio, and will install it or Tenacity to do the same in future as and when the need arises. In fact, I’ll probably end up going for Audacity and a wary eye for telemetry opt-ins because Debian seems to have a native package for it. Tenacity seems to be Flatpak-only.

I worked for a company that sold third level domains. The company got bought out a few times as it kept going bust and the market consolidated, but unfortunately, the final owners did not understand what they had - I’d long left by that point - and they let the root domain lapse.

Perhaps as a saving grace, no-one had been maintaining the infrastructure (I was one of the last), and it ceased to function at a technical level long before the domain ended up lapsing. That gave people an unpleasant kick up the rear end to move their important stuff elsewhere if they hadn’t already. (The price we sold it at compared to actual domains ought to have been a hint that it wasn’t for important stuff, to be fair.)

I heard talk of a potential lawsuit against the ultimate asset holders, but I don’t think anything came of it.

Theoretically, the current owners of the domain could do what this guy talks about in order to try to collect mail for those accounts, but they’d have to know which subdomains to set up in order to do that.

I had one of those domains, and yes I got my stuff onto a proper domain not long after I left.

I also had a couple of accounts with a non-Google free e-mail provider that went under. Unrelated to my employer. The domain ended up belonging to an individual who probably gets a heck of a lot of email for former users of that service.

Surprisingly, the Internet seems to look mostly favourably on Audacity these days. I never really kept up with it at the time, but apparently all the allegedly heinous (mis)features were opt-in. (Further verification of this may be required.)

I can’t tell if that’s the result of a really good scrubbing of bad search results or whether they genuinely cleaned up their act.

Either way, Tenacity, the fork that came about as a result of the controversy, still exists, and apparently has themes to change the look just like Audacity is claiming to have done now, so if you’re uncertain, that’s always an option.

Point taken. I have added a qualifier.

Reminder - if you subscribe to the name change - that the mnemonic for the Great Lakes has changed from HOMES to SHAME, with America right in the middle of it. You couldn’t make this up.

“Wood-based hair removal effective but hurts like hell”