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- Submitted 8 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Submitted 10 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
No idea about “most people”, but I absolutely still use a laptop. In fact using my laptop is more or less my default activity when I’m at home.
- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 2 days ago:
The books imply that Harry doesn’t find Hermione very attractive. (Remember: Hermione isn’t Emma Watson.)
- Comment on What does this open source software notice mean? 4 days ago:
and is saying that it somehow means Facebook owns it
owns what?
It does mean that Facebook owns the copyright to a software component that TikTok (apparently) also uses. They licensed it under a free and open source software license, so anybody (including TikTok, including you, including me) can download it and use it as part of their own software. It does not mean Facebook owns TikTok, nor that Facebook owns any other piece of software this is used in.
If you want to see more examples of similar notices: if you are using Firefox, enter about:license into your URL bar. If you are using Chrome, enter chrome://credits there. You’ll find that these browsers, like many pieces of software nowadays, rely heavily on open source components developed by third parties.
- Comment on Anon discovers real life 6 days ago:
You realize this thing right here is social media too, right? :o
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 1 week ago:
everyone was born January 1, 1970 or something when that question is asked for purposes of age verification
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 week ago:
nonexistent really
The trick is: drink as much water (by volume) as you’ve had alcoholic beverages before going to sleep.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 29 comments
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 2 weeks ago:
Now that so many things we use every day have computers in them, many causes of death are related to computers.
Many modern cars (especially electric cars) are basically computers that drive; cars kill many people. The same applies to planes. Software bugs in medical software might cause you to receive improper care, which could kill you. Computers might control a lock which might lock you in a room until you die of dehydration or starvation.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
People exceed the speed limit on highways, but usually not by a lot. If they exceed it by a lot, it is usually enforced, e.g. by speed cameras; but of course some people still sometimes get away with it, no enforcement of any law is perfect.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
no idea where you’re from, but it’s true in many European countries too
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sleep deprived probably
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 3 weeks ago:
By definition in a dictatorship, there are either no parties, or there is only one party, or the parties that are not the one the dictator belongs to are not allowed to be in actual opposition to the ruling one or attempt to become the ruling one. (That last one is the case in North Korea and was the case in East Germany for most of its history.)
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean “instead of”? There are many kinds of taxes in my country, which is in the EU. I pay a huge cut of my salary in taxes every month even before I pay VAT on things I buy.
- Comment on What is the best post sort for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
I switched to “new comments” a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 4 weeks ago:
doesn’t have to be for long, just as long as it’s making the situation better
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 4 weeks ago:
put on socks and open a window
- Comment on General thread 5 weeks ago:
Who is General Error and how did he get on my hard drive?
- Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Growswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 17 comments
- After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legalwww.androidauthority.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legalwww.androidauthority.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 164 comments
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 5 weeks ago:
I still do, but I’m not very young anymore, most people who regularly use TikTok are probably younger than me.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 5 weeks ago:
sorry, I probably should have checked, I have no objection to mods deleting this thread if this violates the rules here
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 44 comments
- Comment on What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ? 5 weeks ago:
I actually know about this law from a book (I think) about amusing laws and court decisions. It certainly does sound funny to have a sentence start “if the person who has been declared dead appears personally in front of a court”.
- Comment on What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ? 5 weeks ago:
Not really. My country’s legal system, at least, foresees that someone may be mistakenly declared dead and so provides in the Todeserklärungsgesetz (§ 24):
(1)Wenn der für tot Erklärte persönlich vor Gericht erscheint und die Aufhebung der Todeserklärung verlangt, so hat das Gericht, falls die Identität des Antragstellers mit dem für tot Erklärten unzweifelhaft feststeht, ohne weiteres Verfahren die Aufhebung der Todeserklärung auszusprechen.
which translates to:
If the person who has been declared dead appears personally in front of a court and demands the cancellation of the declaration of death, then the court has to, if there is no doubt as to the identity of the applicant with the person who has been declared dead, without further procedure declare the annulment of the declaration of death.
- Comment on How transferable is this account that I'm posting from across the fediverse? 1 month ago:
As I wrote, try looking for a piefed, mbin or friendica instance you like.
- Comment on How transferable is this account that I'm posting from across the fediverse? 1 month ago:
We had a similar thread recently here: discuss.tchncs.de/post/27868444
You are registered on a Lemmy instance and from those you can only follow communities (that are structured the way Lemmy communities are, but the backend doesn’t need to actually be Lemmy), not people. Mastodon, PeerTube etc. are places where people post to their own profiles, so you can’t follow those from Lemmy, you need to create an account on e.g. Mastodon to do that. You can combine both worlds with some backends (piefed, mbin, friendica).