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We're probably going to find out eventually. For instance, I have never once in my life had any manner of account for any traditional social media. Just reddit (not anymore) and here. That's it.

So good luck with that, fuckers.

There is no surer way to ruin a work of literature for someone than to force them to write a book report on it.

The phrase "and it came to pass" appears 1,404 times in the Book of Mormon which means that it comprises about 2.5% of the entire text.

Joseph Smith was vainly attempting, and badly, to mimic the tone of the King James version of the bible because he felt that this would somehow lend an air of legitimacy to his nonsense. Never you mind that he was tried and convicted in 1826 of running a divination/dowsing scam involving "seeing stones" with a modus operandi that is nearly verbatim the same cockamamie grift he used to claim how the Book of Mormon was "revealed" to him... some four years later. It's painfully obvious that Smith not only made the whole thing up (aside from the gospel of Mark which he cut-and-pasted more or less directly from the KJV) but he also should have hired a more competent author to ghostwrite the damn thing for him.

Aside from the terrorism aspect, the remaining non-blown reactors were still providing power up until I think 2000 before it was finally fully shut down. Russia has obviously had a fixation on trying to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure and outside of any other potential fuckery is probably concerned that Ukraine will be able to power it back up again if they need to, especially if more of their infrastructure elsewhere is blown up.

Plus, even if the Russians lose Ukraine will still be left holding the bag for cleaning up and repairing whatever additional damage was done to the containment structures.

Same way I didn't know about the -U update parameter, I'll bet you. You ask yt-dlp to list its flags and arguments and it spits out a listing into your console that's about nineteen miles long because apparently it can do anything.

The only command line tool I use regularly that's comparably capable and even more byzantine is ImageMagick.

I generally upvote stuff to reward engagement and effort. Anything I pass by that looks like a creative work someone is putting forth themselves I'll upvote. Also pretty much any response to anything I post or comment on. Often times comments I respond to as well.

I only downvote utter bullshit, i.e. people spouting things that are categorically not true, or bad faith arguments, or just people being argumentative in general when there's no reason to be so.

I don't give enough of a flying fuck if we hypothetically disagree, only if your position is so odious that it is in fact literally objectively wrong or intentionally misleading.

Or utterly useless bots that no one asked for. I'll downvote those, too, but I haven't seen too many of them anymore in the corners that I regularly haunt.

Well, fuck. Just at this exact second you've taught me that I've been doing that the hard way for ages, by actually going to the project's github page.

Anyway, another shout out for yt-dlp regardless. I get a giggle every time I see one of those sporadic news articles involving the music recording industry still whinging about piracy. Er, the record labels themselves pathologically post every single track ever recorded to Youtube to rake in that ad revenue, and it's all free for the taking. If you decide you'd like to be proud owner of any of them forever you can just hit it with the ol' yt-dlp -x.

I am continually amazed at the number of non-Youtube sources that yt-dlp Just Works with as well. It seems any video content posted online that you'd like to gaff can be handily vacuumed up with it, regardless of the site operator's desperate attempts to prevent you from doing so.

You can be preemptively banned from a community or even an instance if the mods and/or operator have decided they don't like you. The open source nature of the Fediverse being what it is, various tools and clients have been developed that allow select individuals with whackmobile hobby-horse viewpoints with varying degrees of insanity to sweep users' post and comment histories for opinions or keywords they disagree with, singling you out to add to their ban lists. Merely being known to associate with the "wrong" instance (lemmy.ml and hexbear are popular targets) can score you a ban even if you've never posted anything at all.

Ostensibly this type of capability is supposed to be beneficial for keeping known bad actors and bots out of our spaces. But human nature being what it is, more prosaically it's often used by instance operators or community moderators to... let's just say, self-gratify themselves over the notion of getting back at their perceived enemies from a position of safety and no repercussions, in order to Teach Them All A Lesson or whatever the hell.

Some people even purposefully create ragebait communities with the express purpose of enticing others to comment there so that the creator can get their rocks off by being nasty to the participants and have a little power trip over banning everybody. We had a rather prominent one of those right here earlier in the year, in fact, which I now notice appears to be gone.

The Internet remains, as ever, a strange place.

Straight out of the pack it would probably be factory formatted as ExFAT. If you had the correct patch on a Windows XP machine (KB955704) it would literally be plug and play.

MBR's volume size limit is 2 T(i)B. You don't need GPT for these types of storage sizes.

This is, I'm sorry to say, baloney.

In 2002 Windows XP was already out and natively supported NTFS volumes. So did Windows 2000. XP even supported ExFAT volumes with a patch which was released in April 2001. If you're a Linux nerd, ext2 or ext3 could easily handle the partition and file sizes required. ext2 had already been available for decades at that point and ext3 was released in 2001 and readily available by 2002.

Without media, the current Wikipedia (according to itself) is a hair over 24 gigabytes not including images and media, which'd fit on a 32 gig flash drive that, while it would be absolutely amazing to 2002 users just based on its sheer usable volume, would handily accept a bog standard NTFS partition readable on any XP or Win2k machine.

There were no flash storage based drives bigger than one or two gigs in 2002, but there were plenty of external USB hard drives in that era that readily exceeded the 4 gig FAT32 file size limit. I know this well because I was there at the time, and I owned several of them. You had to manually format them as NTFS to be able to use the entire capacity effectively and with large files, but they absolutely did work over USB... Just not if you bunged them into a Windows 98 or ME machine. A modern flash drive would be no different. In all practicable terms you could mount a volume up to 2.2 terabytes (i.e. round thousands) or 2.0 tebibytes (powers of two, if you can countenance sounding ridiculous for using the word "tebibyte") in XP/2K if it were formatted NTFS without having to engage in any chicanery or third party tools. Even a ten year old could do it. You plug it in, and it'd Just Work.

Including media the entirety of the Wikimedia Commons is something like 420 TB, which would be a challenge even today to load onto a single USB flash drive. If you were going to include the media (images and videos) these would probably have to be downscaled significantly in order to fit on any single portable drive, even current ones.

The text content of Wikipedia would be no problem whatsoever. USB 3.0 didn't exist yet, though, so at best you'd be chugging along loading everything at 2.0 speed if you had a compliant board and all the correct drivers for it (and were running at least Win2k service pack 4). You'd want an HTML dump, not one of their database dumps, because running the current Wikimedia software and database versions would be a challenge for sure. But a browser from 2002 shouldn't trip up on any Wikipedia content except perhaps any .webp images (2010), or h264/h265 video content.

You'd have a much bigger problem if OP warped you and your USB drive back to 1998 or worse, 1995.

It would probably work on Musk. I'll bet you his ego is that fragile.