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What’s in a name?
  • Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

    https://xkcd.com/327/

  • Green Roofs Can Save Cities Money
  • Yeah. There was an incident in the university where I studied that the whole roof collapsed. https://hongkongfp.com/2016/06/10/city-university-may-sue-contractor-rooftop-collapse-investigation-report-released/

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    Enable gif autoplay?

    I couldn't find a setting to enable gif autoplay. Is it hidden somewhere?

    I have enabled video autoplay but the gifs are still not playing.

    I'm using eternity v0.1.2 from fdroid.

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    What are these in the sea?

    What are these dotted ball shaped things I circled in yellow in the image?

    I thought they may be sea urchin skeletons. Though the things in the image may be too many and too large?

    They are in a mural in Brighton, England. The subject is "Protecting Costa Rican Wildlife", so I guess they are of some native species there.

    !

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    The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) had an itch
  • It just had a thought.

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    Any good smart power strip not made in China?

    I'm looking for a smart power strip, which allows me to remote control and schedule on/off.

    Last year I bought Hey!'s smart power strip. Hey! is a UK brand, but turn out its products are just branded Chinese products. I used it anyway but it just bricked itself last month.

    For quality, safety, and security reasons, I would prefer a non-made-in-China smart power strip.

    Compatibility with Home Assistant is prefered, but not 100% required. I'm interested in switching to Home Assistant but I haven't yet.

    Thanks for any suggestions!

    cross-posted: https://lemmy.world/post/4556320

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    Any good smart power strip not made in China?

    I'm looking for a smart power strip, which allows me to remote control and schedule on/off.

    Last year I bought Hey!'s smart power strip. Hey! is a UK brand, but turn out its products are just branded Chinese products. I used it anyway but it just bricked itself last month.

    For quality, safety, and security reasons, I strongly prefer a non-made-in-China smart power strip.

    Compatibility with Home Assistant is prefered, but not 100% required. I'm interested in switching to Home Assistant but I haven't yet.

    Thanks for any suggestions!

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    How do you deal with shops that have more than one category?
  • a book store with a café

    This is easy because the tags don't overlap.

    shop=books
    amenity=cafe
    

    a café by day and a wine bar by night

    I saw something like this before, and they are usually two businesses with different names. I used two separated POIs (points) placed in the same building area to denote them. In this way, I can also put different names, opening_hours etc to the two POIs.

  • What are the edits like this, and what do they mean?
  • This is a longstanding issue that wheelmap knew and promised to solve.

    Some info from the OSM talk mailing list.

  • sauce rule

    In this information era, some of the few people who are resilient against fake news are the weebs. They're always asking for sauce. Be like weebs.

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    Owl security
  • I guess Disney can't employ owls because they would attack Mickey.

  • posts/comments aren't reaching feddit.uk
  • Thanks for checking. I've just sent an email to feddit.uk to see if they have any idea on their side.

  • posts/comments aren't reaching feddit.uk

    My posts and comments to feddit.uk communities aren't going through. I can only see the posts and comments on this instance but not on feddit.uk.

    For example, this post doesn't appear in https://feddit.uk/c/brighton

    Is there any technical problem or is one defederated with another?

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    Waitrose hit by middle-class vegetable shortage
  • Let them eat cake!

  • Sleeping cat on her back

    A featured picture by Umberto Salvagnin on Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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    Image uploader turning images sideways
  • It still happens to me as of today.

    I've found the relevant GitHub issue, which says the fix is to compile lemmy with pict-rs v0.4.0-beta.7 or later versions.

  • Costco: Brighton and Crawley among potential new UK stores

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    1969: The Man With a PIGEON Living on his HEAD | BBC News | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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    Wow, what a comp for doing free consulting work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • At least you're not rewarded with more ads.

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    TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic’ version of app, say campaigners
  • Not using TikTok is still an option and that's what I chose.

  • What is this spider?
  • Didn't know big spiders is a thing here. I thought only Australia has these... But I guess this one is still tiny in Australia standard.

  • What is this spider?
  • Thanks! I'm relieved. I knew I read /r/OopsThatsDeadly too much.

  • What is this spider?
  • I caught it in a container while it stayed still. Released it outside in some green area. I'm now kind of interested in seeing how fast it can run. Not sure I'm looking forward to it...

  • What is this spider?
  • Have just released it outside. Wished it live happily ever after.

  • What's this Bug? @lemmy.ml andyli @lemmy.world

    What is this spider?

    Found this at home in England. I moved to England from Hong Kong not long ago, so I'm not familiar with local spiders at all. Maybe it's very common?

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    Kai Tak Airport - Major international airport closed in 1998 where planes literally almost crashed constantly due to right-hand turn over the city
  • I lived in Kowloon when Kai Tak Airport was still in use. We had planes flying super low above our place all the time everyday.

    Here is a picture I found on Wikimedia Commons that illustrate how low were the planes.

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KaiTakAirport-2.jpg

    It was very noisy as you can imagine.

    The schools in Kowloon had air cons installed pretty early when air cons were still considered expensive and not very common among school buildings. It was necessary because the windows had to be closed for all time for soundproofing.

  • Infuriating Password Policies
  • Have you played the password game yet?

    https://neal.fun/password-game/

  • Bow before the pigeon god, worm!
  • Indeed it is what a giant pigeon god statue in a temple would look like!

  • > Dishwasher salmon is an American fish dish made with the heat from a dishwasher, particularly from its drying phase.

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    Job interview be like
  • I don't know how to quit vim.

  • www.somersetwildlife.org Barn owl webcam | Somerset Wildlife Trust

    A page where you can watch our wonderful barn owl livestream.

    Livestream of a barn owl family in the UK by Somerset Wildlife Trust.

    >For the past three years, our barn owl box in the Blackdown Hills has been inhabited by our barn owl couple - Finn and Trude - and the previous two years Finn and his other lady owl, Orla. > >We are so delighted that Finn and Trude have hatched 4 fabulous owlets this year. They are on the brink of fledging so we're expecting a bit of a barn owl circus in the barn as they flap about finding their wings to venture out on their own.

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    Carbonara Vermicelli Roll

    Pretty nice fusion cuisine. Coffee Lowa, Hong Kong.

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    www.psu.edu New glass cuts carbon footprint by nearly half and is 10x more damage resistant | Penn State University

    Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly less energy to produce and is much mor...

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    That S sign which is common to see in children's notebooks or graffiti on walls.

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    hole at the entrance of house

    I moved to England from Hong Kong recently. I found that it is common to see these holes (tiny doorway arch looking thing) in front of houses. What are they?

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