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Alas Poor Erinaceus

@ zdhzm2pgp @lemmy.ml

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(Not as scary as I look, I promise)

. . . but sometimes I just trail off . . .

[er-uh-ney-shuhs]

  • PetroDollar Is Dead, Yuan Is Replacing the Dollar in Oil Trade - The End for U.S. Economic Power

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  • Very probably true, but I just get so sick and tired of the US's behavior that it's very tempting to root for its downfall.

  • Reserve your child’s first private email with Proton Mail (is this a joke by any chance...?)

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  • That is one of their domains, isn't it?

  • PetroDollar Is Dead, Yuan Is Replacing the Dollar in Oil Trade - The End for U.S. Economic Power

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  • Indeed 🙁

  • PetroDollar Is Dead, Yuan Is Replacing the Dollar in Oil Trade - The End for U.S. Economic Power

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  • Good 👍🏻 Strangely enough, though, whenever I read about what will replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, it seems like the Euro is usually mentioned before the yuan, whereas you'd think it would be the other way round 🤔.

  • The NY Times profiles another ordinary American (Lauren Sánchez Bezos) Apparently she's happy!

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  • Thanks! 👍🏻

  • Question: What are the worst books on Project Gutenberg (or other terrible public domain writing)?

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  • Bulwer-Lytton is your man.

    'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus tonight?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb.

    'Alas, no! dear Clodius; he has not invited me,' replied Diomed, a man of portly frame and of middle age. 'By Pollux, a scurvy trick! for they say his suppers are the best in Pompeii'.

    And so forth.

  • The NY Times profiles another ordinary American (Lauren Sánchez Bezos) Apparently she's happy!

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  • She funny-looking.

    I shouldn't make fun of someone because of how they look, sorry.

  • The NY Times profiles another ordinary American (Lauren Sánchez Bezos) Apparently she's happy!

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  • Got a link?

  • The NY Times profiles another ordinary American (Lauren Sánchez Bezos) Apparently she's happy!

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  • I wonder, do the editors of the NY Times know the meaning of the term "tone deaf?"

  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Leaving X (Twitter)

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  • The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don't understand why they're still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don't even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

    Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don't remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don't they wake up?

    I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were "trapped" by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there's an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

    EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I'm in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the "f", the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.

  • If you could have your email provider based in any country, which one would you choose? Which one do you think has the best privacy protections?

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  • Iceland, maybe?

  • Trouble pinning app to panel on Cinnamon 22.3

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  • To answer my own question, I just learned about the xprop WM_CLASS command. Run in the terminal and then click on the window you're having trouble pinning.

    On the, I guess, "readout" next to WM_CLASS, it should tell you the correct name of the window for the purpose of naming the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. In the case of Krokiet the correct name is "linux_krokiet_x86_64.desktop," not something I would have ever guessed. Then the app will appear on the menu with the name "linux_krokiet_x86_64.desktop," however, you can then use the menu editor to rename it to your liking, it pins, and then everything is peachy and the world is forever filled with rainbows and light.

  • Your Taxes Pay for Nothing

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  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml
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    Humble suggestion: include link to releases/changelog under Hamburger Menu>Help

  • Is there an Android calendar widget that works with Fastmail?

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  • To answer my own question, there's KashCal, but I'm not sure I want to share my email password with another app . . .

  • Android @lemmy.ml
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    Is there an Android calendar widget that works with Fastmail?

  • What did you hope they'd find on the moon?

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  • TMA-1.

  • How do I get rid of the VPN logo?

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  • Switch to LibreWolf?

  • Solar is winning the energy race

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  • Wouldn't it be nice to live in a country you could be proud of?

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

    www.rawstory.com /date-announced-for-national-strike-aimed-at-crippling-trump-no-work-no-school/

  • Recommended (and relatively up to date) documentaries on the history of drone warfare?

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  • There's this, but I tend to think of 60 Minutes as a program to scare old people (older than me! 👴)

  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Recommended (and relatively up to date) documentaries on the history of drone warfare?

  • White with Fear: How America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power

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  • I can still get to it; maybe it depends on where you're trying to access it from?

  • Documentaries @lemmy.ml
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    White with Fear: How America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power

    www.pbs.org /video/white-with-fear-tielvg/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

    www.wired.com /story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/
  • Good News @lemmy.ml
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    Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    What could you buy with the money spent by the US during the Iran war's first week?

    apnews.com /article/iran-us-war-spending-graphic-73172462ca2ea91ff19e107c4822a970
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright
  • Linux Mint @lemmy.ml
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    Trouble pinning app to panel on Cinnamon 22.3

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Young Americans Aren’t Buying Old Narratives on China

    www.currentaffairs.org /news/young-americans-arent-buying-old-narratives-on-china
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    💻🧼 The best way to clean my laptop...?

  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ml
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    The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

    www.wired.com /story/jolla-phone-2026/
  • Proton @lemmy.world
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    Is the Linux mail desktop client ever going to get a collapsible (right) side bar like the web version has?

  • Good News @lemmy.ml
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    'Toilet wars’: US naval crews face plumbing chaos en route to Middle East

    www.middleeasteye.net /trending/missed-funerals-toilet-wars-us-naval-crews-strained-en-route-middle-east
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    'Toilet wars’: US naval crews face plumbing chaos en route to Middle East

    www.middleeasteye.net /trending/missed-funerals-toilet-wars-us-naval-crews-strained-en-route-middle-east
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

    www.theguardian.com /books/2026/feb/24/america-says-goodbye-paperback
  • Linux Mint @lemmy.ml
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    Anyone used antidot or XDG-Ninja on their mint? Is it safe?

  • KeePass @lemmy.ml
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    Minor issue with KeePassXC and LW

  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml
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    Minor issue with KeePassXC and LW