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Cake day: July 3rd, 2024

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  • I’ve had this same experience on Linux Mint. I’ll run apt update & apt upgrade and, occasionally, if Firefox is one of the things being updated, new tabs and new pages won’t load and will tell me I need to do a system restart to continue browsing.

    I always update manually, so it never happens without me initiating the update first. But sometimes I’m like, “Dangit, didn’t realize this update would require a restart to keep using Firefox.”



  • I’m all for taking precautions, but it seems a bit odd for them to conclude that the weather was “too dangerous” for performers, but not “too dangerous” for hundreds of fans to congregate to see the show. Seems like they would’ve cancelled the show entirely if the weather seemed hazardous enough. But I’m no expert. (I have no issues with lipsyncing or pre-recording vocals either; that’s just showbiz)

    I saw Weird Al live about 8 years ago and a huge storm rolled in about halfway through the show. They told everyone to head home and that the show was over, and they were right to do so; the drive back home was perilous with zero visibility for long stretches due to the heavy rain.




  • I’m decently familiar with deepfakes and I totally didn’t notice Tarkin being off when I saw Rogue One in theaters. I was like, “Wow, that actor has barely aged a day since the original trilogy. Good for him.” I later learned about it being special effects and was like “Damn, they did a good job. Totally fooled me.”

    Like, I can see it when I look at it now, only after being told. But the first time, on the big screen? Didn’t notice at all.

    I’ve seen some really neat deepfakes over the years. One of my favorites replaces Jack Nicholson with Jim Carrey in “The Shining”, so the creepiness kinda helps, lol