Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•PSA: Debian 11 ("bullseye", currently "oldoldstable") Long Term Support reaches end-of-life todayEnglish
3·4 days agoiirc the Linux kernel dropped support for pre-Pentium x86 in the last few years, so any distro with 486 support now would be using an unmaintained kernel.
I think if you want a maintained operating system for your 486 today, NetBSD is probably the thing to run.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Ladies and Gents: The Pedophile Trump Nazi RegimeEnglish
43·4 days agosome number of the dozens of people who upvoted this now incorrectly believe that hegseth has a tattoo with a funny misspelling. how does it being a meme make promulgating misinformation about about consequential people a good idea? 🤔
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Ladies and Gents: The Pedophile Trump Nazi RegimeEnglish
36·4 days agoNot everything is AI buddy. Plus it’s funny no?
i meant “AI” in this sense. and sure, it is sort of funny, but it’s also, imo… shitty, actually, to cause people to believe ridiculous-and-untrue things (especially about someone like hegseth) because if/when they find out that they were misled it tends to sow doubt about the many ridiculous-but-true things they’ve also learned about him.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Ladies and Gents: The Pedophile Trump Nazi RegimeEnglish
18·4 days agoEveryone sees the No Regerts, right?
everyone realizes that one is actually
photoshopAI, right?
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Food served to US service men & women.English
11·5 days agoProbably fake or misleading
fwiw the first and last images in this post both were first published in this USA today article back in April, attributed to anonymous crew members of the USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln.
There aren’t enough calories pictured in these images

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•New clean energy comes out. *look inside* It’s just boiling water again…English
12·1 month agoi’m not a physicist but iiuc orbiting the sun is actually pretty necessary 🤔
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Imagine thinking a country literally called "Coast of Ivory" is landlockedEnglish
10·1 month agoThe colors match? It’s true the color next to the Côte d’Ivoire label does correspond with a blob which could overlap with the country’s actual location, but… none of the countries depicted here correspond with the shapes of any actual countries. The entire thing is generative slop.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Imagine thinking a country literally called "Coast of Ivory" is landlockedEnglish
14·1 month agoJeffrey Graham is the person who’s presentation included this slide.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries
And other times 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3000004
0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3000004
You’re off by 0.000000399999999955991114575226674787700176239013671875
(0.1 + 0.2 is actually 0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125)
(And 0.1 is actually 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625, and so on. People unfamiliar with IEEE 754 may be surprised by the output of
python -c 'print("%.60f" % 0.1)')
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps?English
0·1 month ago640B ought to be enough for anybody





























original tweet:
still online here: https://x.com/primawesome/status/1178671690261286918