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- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 day ago:
I am not. I am from a country whose constitution starts with the statement that it is a democratic republic.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 2 days ago:
Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don’t even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that’s hardly an explanation without more elaboration.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 2 days ago:
In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.
What do any of these laws have to do with serving the people? Do they have anything to do with the will of the people?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
“Fediverse content” is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?
But it usually doesn’t show up very prominently, and which instances’ copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 6 days ago:
You can name them with a string that helps you identify them while you’re editing, then only when you’re finished run search and replace to replace those names with numbers.
Or I guess you could write it in MediaWiki which does exactly this automatically with its references feature. 😁
- Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 46 comments
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
Maybe the US to some extent because of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
Yes and Romance languages of adjectives, not really what OP asked about tho… 😉
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 week ago:
Even at 16 I would have understood that I can’t force that clerk to accept such a bet and that clerks will probably recognize me after a few times of doing that in the same place.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
I agree with that of course.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
and it seems to be not true at all that “California just killed” anything, so far the bill has only been introduced, not passed as the title implies
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but not mainline Pokémon games.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Never in my life have I been as excited about a video game release as I was in 2004 for Pokémon FRLG.
Now I haven’t touched them in a long time and have no idea why anyone might be excited about games we already know everything about. But then again there are children out there who are the same age as I was in 2004 and they might never have played FRLG on the GBA.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
TBF these are games that were originally released with separate cartridges for each language, so this isn’t an especially surprising thing.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 2 weeks ago:
A piece of paper is white at first. After you’ve drawn colors on it, you’ve made it closer to black. If you draw in many different colors, it will eventually be black.
A screen is black (emits no light) at first. After you’ve made it emit light, you’ve made it closer to white. If you make it emit all colors at the same time, it is white.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 2 weeks ago:
They can’t. Judicial appointments are for life. Laws require another majority in Congress to repeal again.
The place they’d have the most power over is the executive branch. They could rescind executive orders, replace staff, etc.; but “all of Trump’s bullshit” isn’t possible, never has been for any previous president.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 3 weeks ago:
phpBB-like bulletin boards (first one I became active on was based on something called UBB which I’ve never seen elsewhere) -> wikis -> IRC -> instant messengers (although I’d sporadically used those before IRC already technically) -> reddit -> lemmy
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 3 weeks ago:
sad John Perry Barlow noises
- Comment on Why am I able to edit communities that don't belong to me? 3 weeks ago:
On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)
Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 3 weeks ago:
No one should.
Think about how much you’ve paid in taxes in your life. What could possibly be wrong with trying to get some of that money back?
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 4 weeks ago:
Similar thoughts here: slatestarcodex.com/…/new-atheism-the-godlessness-…
Particularly interesting is this comment:
One really interesting addition to me is that the early internet was a very, VERY free speech place. It loved Gish Gallops of enormous numbers of arguments from all sides and the idea that you would tell anyone, even the most foolish, that they should be banned was verboten.
In fact, early atheists loved creationists posting! It gave them content because these people were so obviously wrong. And creationists the same, because it allowed them to fight back too.
The modern deplatforming support on both sides is another sign that that era is gone.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 4 weeks ago:
Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 4 weeks ago:
EA, not FIFA. The games are nowadays not even called FIFA anymore.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 4 weeks ago:
The random place in your head is likely a CGP Grey video about animal domestication. 😁
- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 4 weeks ago:
Yes it does. It is possible to comment on Lemmy posts from Mastodon if the posts were for some reason federated to a Mastodon server.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 5 weeks ago:
Don’t look at “all”, just “subscribed”, then subscribe to things you want to see.
- Comment on On increasing antisemitism, how antisemitic is European jews killing arabs? 5 weeks ago:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
If at all.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 1 month ago:
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be
apparently we are now supposed to think that that is a good thing, huh
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 1 month ago:
This is probably supposed to be a link to this: torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-t…
There are a few communities where that link was posted correctly: discuss.tchncs.de/post/53133358