Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Memes@sopuli.xyz•Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pagesEnglish
72·4 days agonb(short for nota bene) would actually be a good name for a modern replacement for themancommand 😂
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do both Northern Ireland & Scotland print their own bank notes?English
10·5 days agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
[…]
Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is a "workable basis on which to negotiate"?English
12·6 days agoYou asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican?English
8·19 days agofor one thing, you’re in a country where this once happened 🤦
I am a white European Spanish woman
Race is a social construct and in the eyes of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).
Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census
and also, outside the US:
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech SmartphoneEnglish
3·20 days agounfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.
many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Will both street performers & buskers accept my money?English
6·21 days agoto all five of your questions: yes
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You're missing at least fiveEnglish
3·23 days ago(well actually) you forgot Poland
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•How much proof is there that smart tvs and phones listen to you?English
8·25 days agoRegarding TVs, WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 publication in 2017 included “Weeping Angel”, CIA malware for Samsung TVs which streams audio from them while they’re in “fake off” mode.
https://mashable.com/article/cia-samsung-tv-hack-weeping-angel
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This Phishing email... What is the IP?English
37·29 days agoIt’s good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:
IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each. For the visual representation, those grouping are used. The hextets might be written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.It’s long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?English
2·29 days agoSupersingular isogeny key exchange (SIKE) is very secure post-quantum replacement for Diffie-Hellman…
SIKE!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•How to disable this blinking light on a WD External Hard Drive?English
3·30 days agobased on the other comments here i had to double check if this thread was in !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml smh my head
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•CrackArmor: Critical AppArmor Flaws Enable Local Privilege Escalation to RootEnglish
21·1 month agoYou’re correct on both points (🤦♂️ indeed).
I’ve now edited this post to link to their advisory text file instead of their advertising-heavy blog post about it which I had initially linked when the above comment was posted. Thanks.

















sorry, did my comment trigger you? 🙄
nobody called anything a microaggression or said anything about the non-abbreviated word manual; jokes based on UNIX’s abbreviation of it being homonymous with the common noun man have existed since the
mancommand was created.