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dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What acronyms are you annoyed to see take on other meanings?English
9·9 months agoA group of separatist rebels in the Philippines formed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
MILF, for short.
Combination cleric and bard.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My kids don’t like to watch cartoons or movie explicitly made for kids. What are some good movies targeted toward adults that kids can watch?English
54·9 months agoThe Princess Bride. It’s got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which brands do actually care about a healthy customer relationship more than profit?English
545·10 months agoLEGO comes to mind. Not cheap, but definitely knows how to keep a healthy and active relationship with their customers.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebatesEnglish
1·10 months agoNeither is their CEO.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does an American accent sound like in your native language?English
5·10 months agoLike Yosemite Sam.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?English
1·10 months agoI’m only partly kidding. I do play from time to time, but not as much as I thought I would, hence the “regret”. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?English
111·11 months agoRetro handhelds.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was the first thing you ever stole?English
2·1 year agoWow, that’s a Dostoyevskyian level story right there.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most severe example of a fake version of a book you've ever seen?English
4·1 year agoThe 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.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 BooksEnglish
622·2 years agoIt would help if we knew even just a smidgin of what these titles are.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percentEnglish
1·2 years agodeleted by creator
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost LicenseEnglish
4·2 years agoThe 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.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit SandwormEnglish
42·2 years agoMy point being that they deem this serious enough to release publicly themselves instead of an internal memory, and that this is about an active threat actor rather than a mere vulnerability.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AIEnglish
6·2 years agoAnd those papers get used as training data for next iteration of AI. Reinforcement learning!
dominiquec@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitosEnglish
6·2 years agoThank you. I’ll look it up.
dominiquec@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?English
32·2 years agoYou da MVP! Thanks for sharing your experience.




















Breathing.