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will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?English12·3 months agoGene sequencing wasn’t really a thing (at least an affordable thing) until the 2010s, but once it was widely available archaeologists started using it on pretty much anything they could extract a sample from. Suddenly it became possible to track the migrations of groups over time by tracing gene similarities, determine how much intermarrying there must have been within groups, etc. Even with individual sites it has been used to determine when leadership was hereditary vs not, or how wealth was distributed (by looking at residual food dna on teeth). It really has revolutionized the field and cast a lot of old-school theories (often taken for truth) into the dustbin.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?English63·3 months agoThat humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’English12·3 months agoI’d say it’s ironic since vance literally became famous by celebrating American peasants, but for him it’s probably less about them being peasants and more about them being Chinese.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why haven't you created your own instance yet?English3·3 months agoSome of the instances have a community bent to them. Slrpnk and beehaw come to mind most immediately, but there are lots of others that are focused on gathering a specific niche of humanity and getting them to interact with one another.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who is your oldest "hear me out" that you can remember from childhood?English731·3 months agoI think Maid Marion from Disney’s Robin Hood basically invented furries.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto pics@lemmy.world•When seen from inside, the Statue of Liberty looks like she's frowningEnglish12·3 months agoShe’s French, so probably thinking something dismissive about American cheese.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Apple and Musk Clash Over Satellite Expansion PlansEnglish14·3 months agoAs much as I hate the thought of Apple being even bigger and more pervasive than they are, if satellite cellular is inevitable and unavoidable I’d vastly prefer an Apple service to MuskNet.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any lemmy web-ui clients that allow filtering by keyword yet?English3·4 months agoVoyager is mobile-first, but can be run as a webapp frontend that you can host locally (out of a repo or docker container), or set up for web access. If it’s just keyword filtering you’re after you can also use ublock origin rules to do that (in fact there was a lemmy thread today talking about it somewhere) You can set rules like
lemmy.ml##.post-listing:has(.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala|rfk/i))
and the content will simply not render.
That’s fair enough. I’ve gotten a number of non-devs hooked on docker containers for running self-hosted apps that didn’t have a desktop counterpart, but admittedly they were otherwise technically oriented. OP might want to look into it if they’re so inclined, but it’s easiest to just use Voyager from the website :)
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I think this is going to be unpopular :(English161·4 months agoVoyager can be run in windows as a webapp - you can try it at https://vger.app/posts/lemm.ee/all, or even run it locally in a docker container with no dev knowledge needed
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why hasn't anyone tried making a combustion engine using fusion?English7·4 months agoThere is one variant called Magnetized Target Fusion that kinda-sorta works like this, where the “cylinders” are made of liquid Lithium. On each “stroke” of the engine:
- A rotating chamber of liquid Lithium is spun to make a cylinder of liquid metal
- 500 pistons situated at the site of each spinning Li pool are precisely synchronized to push the liquid metal inward, turning it into a sphere
- Fusion fuel (H plasma) is injected into the middle
- The intense pressure forces the fuel to undergo fusion, pushing the pistons back out and distorting the Lithium back into a cylinder
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you do for "idle time" on your phone?English17·4 months agoDuolingo. My whole family has caught the bug. I hear the little ba-ding! noise from all corners of the house all evening long.
Y todavía no puedo hablar bien español 😕
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•'Jetsons' robot finally arrives: Sweater-wearing Neo Gamma android helps with household choresEnglish17·4 months agoI’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some From Pirate BayEnglish30·4 months agoUse the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•New couch is being delivered finallyEnglish7·5 months agoIs that the one from Costco? I sat in something very similar there last week.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?English14·5 months agoVery slowly.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your go-to long form Youtuber?English1·5 months agoI love Technology Connections, but i do have watch at 1.75X or else it’s too long form for me.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If I like synthwave music, which other genres should I pay attention to?English6·5 months agoTo me synthwave sounds like a lot of trance or progressive trance from the late 90s/early 2000s - Tilt, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & Digweed, Tiesto, BT
Keyword blocking keeps me on voyager on desktop. Unless I’m making a new post (which I don’t like the voyager interface for) and then it’s back to the web UI
If money counts as a freedom unit then yes, probably (maybe)