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Napoleon crossing the Alps wearing his bicorn hat

They should have figured it when Biden barely won in 2020 sigh

Clay vessels, creamy yellow in colour, with black hand painted decoration. Top left - Minoan Marine Style pithoid jar with many handles decorated in the Minoan Marine Style, with octopuses, tritons, rocks, and coral. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC. Top right - flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs indicate the seabed. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom left - jar decorated in marine style with an octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom right - krater decorated with a stylized octopus, 1370-1300 BC.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Marvellous clay pots with octopus decoration made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete about 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Human beings have been confidently creative with truth for several thousands of years before LLM existed...

There's truly nothing like social media to show you the worst sides of people you (used to) respect. Also I hope you haven't just painted a big target on your back with this post :/

Bluesky really feels like the mirror universe version of Twitter. Abusive assholes stay abusive assholes no matter what "side" they belong to and there's really a ton of them here.

I’m happy to see I’m not the only one who does that! Years ago I used to keep up with the myriad of plugins and tools needed to remove DRM myself but I honestly can’t bother anymore (and I don’t have the time!) so now I just download them and move them to whatever device I feel like using.

The app is still terrible. How hard can it be to remember the previous position in the timeline between sessions? Or to not jump to the most recent post when refreshing? And don’t get me started on the lack of an iPad version.

IPv6 firewall Activating the IPv6 Firewall is optional. When the firewall is activated, security on your network is enhanced, but some network functionality will be lost.

Oh and the IPv6 firewall? In some models it defaults to off. Or the ISP considers it "optional": www.centurylink.com/home/help/in...

You're assuming people know what they're doing, but surprise, most of the times they don't. Search for "Technicolor firewall" or "port forwarding" or any other tangentially related term: you'll find a ton of Reddit discussions where users turn on and off any option they see until they get a result.

It's literally one checkbox on my ISP-provided home router: IPv6 Firewall Enabled/Disabled.

Misconfigured NAT means that your devices can't connect to the public internet, misconfigured IPv6 packet filtering means your devices are suddenly exposed to the public internet, and you may not even notice. The security implications are quite different.

I've read that many seemingly plural surnames are actually remnants of genitive. That looks plausible for Renzi and Andreotti, at least.

I'd use bluesky more if this app wasn't so terrible. Are they even trying?