What's the most severe example of a fake version of a book you've ever seen?
  • dominiquec dominiquec 2d ago 100%

    The first Don Quixote book was so popular it spawned a lot of fake sequels. Cervantes killed off Don Quixote in the second book to preclude any more copycats. That's what I remember anyhow from the preface of a paperback edition from way back.

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  • Physicists Generated Sound Waves That Travel in One Direction Only
  • dominiquec dominiquec 1w ago 100%

    Ah, like the Cone of Silence from "Get Smart!"

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  • Boxer - by Bill Mayer
  • dominiquec dominiquec 3mo ago 91%

    One of the noblest and saddest characters in one of the most cruel stories ever written.

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  • Guo Cuon -- Vietnamese salad rolls -- made from freshly harvested lettuce
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    As I recall it was longaniza, cucumber, and carrots.

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  • Guo Cuon -- Vietnamese salad rolls -- made from freshly harvested lettuce
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    Yeah, I should have taken a cross-sectional cut to show what was inside. Next time....

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  • Ebooks library (cross platform)
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    I don't know if this will fully meet your requirements, but my combination, which I'm happy with, is Moon Reader Pro on my Android devices and Ubooquity on my server.

    Moon Reader has a Sync to WebDAV option but I haven't needed to use it. If you're not inclined to pay for an ebook reader software, there is also Librera which is free.

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  • What 90's movie or media trope would be great as a stranger things style show?
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don't think we've had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.

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  • Everything going on has got me down, I need a break. What's something good that's happened in your life recently?
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    My daughter just started school. She's pretty stoked about it, and so are we.

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  • Sacred Grounds Groover Blend from Australia
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    Just drip for now, but I'm going to try it with French press and Aeropress soon.

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  • Smoothest brew I've had in a while, no hint of sourness or bitterness.

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    Banana pancake with a topping of chocolate, whipped cream, and peanuts
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    Sorry, all gone! (It was yummy!)

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  • Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 96%

    It would help if we knew even just a smidgin of what these titles are.

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  • Vegetarian sisig with fried egg
  • dominiquec dominiquec 4mo ago 100%

    My wife used fried tofu in this case. The tofu brought the texture while the sauce and the other garnishings carried the flavor.

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    Mr. Moustache
  • dominiquec dominiquec 5mo ago 85%

    Immortalized! Thank you!

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    Mr. Moustache

    Found this stray cat while out on an evening stroll.

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    https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/abstract/S1360-1385(24)00057-8

    Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.

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    Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
  • dominiquec dominiquec 6mo ago 100%

    For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.

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  • Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
  • dominiquec dominiquec 6mo ago 100%

    The key idea from the article is --

    ...Companies making more than $5 million annually by using Post-Open software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers of the participating open source project(s). That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization.

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  • Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?
  • dominiquec dominiquec 6mo ago 100%

    I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.

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  • spectrum.ieee.org

    ...replacing the previously hydraulic version. Insert obligatory welcome statement here.

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    cloud.google.com

    What's worrying about this report is that it's coming from Google itself. With Russia's full-scale invasion in its third year, Sandworm (aka FROZENBARENTS) remains a formidable threat to Ukraine. The group’s operations in support of Moscow’s war aims have proven tactically and operationally adaptable... ...Mandiant continues to see operations from the group that are global in scope in key political, military, and economic hotspots for Russia. Additionally, with a record number of people participating in national elections in 2024, Sandworm’s history of attempting to interfere in democratic processes further elevates the severity of the threat the group may pose in the near-term.

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    aeon.co

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14276504 > Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

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    www.technologyreview.com

    Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via [Synthetic Memories](https://www.syntheticmemories.net/), a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has been working with immigrant and refugee communities around the world to create images of scenes that have never been photographed, or to re-create photos that were lost when families left their previous homes.

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    arstechnica.com

    On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside [tweeted](https://x.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702) an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

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