potate

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What artist have you recently started really listening to? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] potate@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bob Vylan - like early Rage Against the Machine. Found out about them when they got banned from entry to the US - which is how I'm discovering most of my music these days.

(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] potate@lemmy.ca 137 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Legitimately one of my favourite YouTube channels. Tech deep dives (generally on extremely esoteric topics), sarcasm, and interesting insights.

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Uncontrolled release at oil well near Lloyd; residents frustrated with lack of communication (panow.com)
Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] potate@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

The blog post is an incredible read.

‘We will fight’: Activists are unbowed after Hungary bans Pride events as part of wider LGBTQ+ crackdown in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] potate@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

The courage of these folks is pretty inspiring.