I don’t think having a textual article auto-scrolled and voiced adds anything at all, and people who do want that can do it themselves, and have it set to their choice of accent, speed, etc.

Video links tend to do worse than text links on Lemmy, so you’d probably have been better off all round just posting your original blog post.

This is just a bad text-to-speech reading of a Medium blog post.

Edit: I see the author has satire in the list of tags, so perhaps if I’d stuck with it longer I’d find it’s a joke…?

That elongated, streamlined shell made me assume this was a joke or hoax at first.

Figuring out how to solve a problem on an OS I’d used for a few weeks fortuitously solved a problem I’d created trying to solve a different problem on a different OS a few years ago. We learn by doing!

I loved this bit, I think everyone in tech has a similar story of some kind.

Bah, I see this was already posted here a year ago - only two comments showed up when I searched for the url before posting!

Ériu, Banba and Fódla are from Lebor Gabála Érenn, Ireland’s creation myth, and they each wanted the whole country named after them (and still can be, poetically). This is a mythologised history, not etymology.

Also, downvoting someone you’re debating with is extremely bad form.

The names Ireland and Éire both derive from Old Irish Ériu, which in turn comes from Proto-Celtic ɸīweriyū meaning “fertile soil”. The Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Ivernia, also comes from this same root

Not sure why you’re mentioning Ireland, did you think it was named after Kathy Ireland?

Also, there’s things like the Mediterranean that is much saltier than the Atlantic, despite plenty of water flowing back and forth. There’s sealife that’s only found in the Med, like the Mediterranean monk seal.

Ah yes, I see what you mean. OP has posted content from Ten Epstein Revelations You Might Have Missed, which is the article that I see after the Israel/X story.

You scrolled past the (annoying) “read more” button and are now on the next article.

Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I’ve seen on Lemmy for ages

Also there’s the style of delivery - old acting used to be very exaggerated and hammy, then there’s the kind of flawless but somewhat natural style that OP is talking about, through to today’s more realistic “mumbling” style that everyone complains about.

Bad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASN

I’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?

I had to laugh - that lot have absolutely no clue when it comes to security. Even in a VM I’m not sure I’d trust running Clawdbot (or whatever it’s named this week).

On a Boeing, they’re zip ties holding them together

edit: FYI, this shop is OP’s shop

Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).

These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

Only 116 days until Towel Day

[he wrote] a sequel to 1984.

I didn’t know this bit of his story. Anyone read it? I’m assuming it’s not very good/coherent but perhaps he was as gifted a writer as he was a coder.