To prevent them from floating away of course (look at their shadow)
ChaoticNeutralCzech
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QR codes can have arbitrary looks even without dirty tricks (abusing the error correction to add a logo or taking advantage of central sampling to color all but the middle 3x3 square of each data pixel) but boy, is it hard.
Examples:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31694735/18805217 (strings a long number in Number mode (3 decimal digits per 10 bits) to the URL, and somehow the resulting number turns out to be a small even number times a very high power of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkWjzqMbuA (uses padding bytes plus maybe some of that "intentional damage" in QR codes with logos)
It is designed to especially penalize ⬜⬛⬜⬛⬛⬛⬜, which is a part of the finder pattern (big squares in the corners) and the swastika.
I get it. Having a super secure browser installed on a government-issued work device likely raises suspiscion. Use Tails on your own machine.
To make you check and rickroll you indirectly. Iťs an edited screenshot, you don't see metadata of unavailable videos
CES
You don't need to read further to find out. Ed Zitron attended and called it the "Anti-Consumer Electronics Show".
That formulation is by the journalist, I just copied the headline.
~~fediversesearch.com~~ another site uses a similar Google trick but instead of a specific domain, it filters by footer text that appears in the default Lemmy UI such as "Modlog".
Also known as "virtual set"
You want Kinky Polymer-Os? Sorry, the cis machine broke, this batch of Organic Cereal is all trans. Here's a discount as an apology.
You can't fit 25 squares into a square 4.675x bigger unless you make them smaller. Yes, that will increase the volume available for syrup.
They say lab is short for German Labor, which is short for Romanian laborator, which is short for Latin laboratorium.
Today's news told in names of two Czech companies.
Unfortunately, it took backlash from EU to turn the needle but they did it. Now one "only" needs 2 doctors' recommendation, 1 year testing period, and then 2 more notes from doctors.
Transcript
4 panels 2x2:
pride month is over
[picture of entrance to Proficis, a small printer repair company]
but you no longer need to get castrated to change your official gender
[picture of trailer with ☺️Happy Trans CZ s.r.o., a transport company]
This lamp by OSRAM uses the LEDVANCE trademark, implying it is an LED replacement for fluorescent tubes. I repair LED bulbs (and tubes but broken ones are still rare) as a hobby, and while going through bins I have to avoid fluorescent ones (even CFLs in fancy globes). Welp, there goes my yet-flawless way to tell: "if it says LED, it's LED". I really need to shine through most of them! Shining a light through this one reveals nothing inside but a heated electrode at either end (aside the phosphor coating, and a gas mixture including a little mercury vapor), the normal components of an FL tube. LED tubes would include a driver and an LED strip (and usually a PTC at the other end). I mainly use the method to reveal the kinky or twisty tube of "sneaky" CFLs with milky balls.
Also, the company took a while to leave Russia but at least they did
| Acronym | Title | Language/Country |
|---|---|---|
| ОСАД | Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор | bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬 |
| ОСАД | Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор | mk Macedonian 🇲🇰 |
| SAA | Severoatlantická aliance | cs Czech 🇨🇿 |
| NATO | Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation | da Danish 🇩🇰 |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦 |
| Nato | Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon | no Norwegian 🇳🇴 |
| ONAV | Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags | de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪 |
| ΟΒΑΣ | Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου | el Greek 🇬🇷 |
| OTAN | Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte | es Spanish 🇪🇸 |
| OTAN | Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord | fr Fr*nch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪 |
| OTAN | Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord | it Italian 🇮🇹 |
| OTAN | Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte | pt Portugese 🇵🇹 |
| OTAN | Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord | ro Romanian 🇷🇴 |
| PALO | Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon | et Estonian 🇪🇪 |
| PAPL | Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto | fi Finnish 🇫🇮 |
| ÉASzSz | Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete | hu Hungarian 🇭🇺 |
| AB | Atlantshafsbandalagið | is Icelandic 🇮🇸 |
| ONAT | Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité | lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺 |
| ŠASO | Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija | lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹 |
| ZALO | Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija | lv Latvian 🇱🇻 |
| OSAS | Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma | me Montenegrin 🇲🇪 |
| OSAS | Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma | sh Croatian 🇭🇷 |
| NAVO | Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie | nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪 |
| OTPA | Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego | pl Polish 🇵🇱 |
| DAB | Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu | se North Sámi 🇳🇴 |
| OSAZ | Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy | sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿 |
| SAPO | Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija | sl Slovene 🇸🇮 |
| OTAV | Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior | sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰 |
| NAFO | Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen | sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮 |
| KAAÖ | Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü | tr Turkish 🇹🇷 |
Data mostly from Wikipedia. No warranty. For example, Slovak is arguably not an official language in the Czech Republic, just mentioned as “mutually intelligible” in certain laws but I followed Wikipedia and included it. Languages are grouped by the acronyms and sorted by their 2-letter codes. Those are based on their Wikipedia URL or my guess (sucks to be you, Montenegrin speakers, should have made your own Wikipedia). Countless Sámi languages are represented by North Sámi, the only one with a NATO Wikipedia article.
Changelog from v1 I originally posted on Reddit: Hungarian ÉASS → ÉASzSz (the "sz" stays together in acronyms because unlike most letter pairs it makes a single special sound).
One of the largest business shipping solutions in our country.
Transcript
Logistics centre of the company TopTrans. A huge number of trucks is parked at the loading depot. The logo is an androgynous antropomorphized lightning.
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Whatever, as long as they're all there in some capacity. I feel like my brain is good at equalizing within reason. I had headphones that when unplugged a bit, they probably put the capacitive mic in series with the drivers, muting a mid frequency band, effectively making it sound like someone used a shitty "vocals removing" tool.
And of course, missing bass (tiny phone speaker) or anything over 5 kHz (MW band of AM radio) doesn't sound good either.