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- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 day ago:
Can’t argue with that
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 day ago:
Depends on where in the world you are. I suspect OP is unaware this isn’t universally true; isn’t there a “US-defaultism” community somewhere here where this could be posted…
- Comment on How do I join a "subreddit" I found on a different lemmy? 2 days ago:
The question is somewhat confusing because in the Lemmy interface there isn’t really a difference between local and remote communities. If you can access a remote community from your instance, you have the same subscribe button there as on a local one. Difficult to help you without knowing what you’re currently doing and seeing.
- Submitted 2 days ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 5 comments
- Comment on German joke 2 days ago:
People who genuinely think Germans cannot be funny should check out Otto Waalkes.
- Comment on German joke 2 days ago:
Native speaker of German here and I am not sure about that. German tends to put verbs in the end in a lot of sentences, but apart from that, it’s mostly possible to use English-like word orders in German too; I don’t think the difference is significant enough that it would change the entire style of humor.
- Comment on The German army is trying to attract recruits at Gamescom, the world’s biggest video game convention 4 days ago:
I don’t know anyone who was on the fence, and decided to enlist after visiting the army booth at Gamescom lol
The idea is, like of most marketing, probably more that some people might not have been very aware that it was an option and that there are these kinds of jobs in the army.
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 4 days ago:
French will be more useful, Italian probably easier.
- Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll revealswww.computerweekly.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on What is open SSL ? 1 week ago:
The community is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely confusing and incoherent questions”.
- Comment on Why don't smaller countries get together with other smaller countries and form a "bloc" that could go in the game of the big "Superpowers"? Instead of the US, RUS, and China all the time? 1 week ago:
Which smaller countries? Others have mentioned the EU, which is one example. There is also the Arab League.
- Comment on What would happen if I was elected President, and took all the tariff bullshit off of these countries? Balanced the budget, opened up the Reagan Reserves? 1 week ago:
Trump is hardly an ordinary person, he was a public figure long before becoming president. In the TV series, it’s literally a random history teacher.
- Comment on What would happen if I was elected President, and took all the tariff bullshit off of these countries? Balanced the budget, opened up the Reagan Reserves? 1 week ago:
It is in Ukrainian, which is a language I do not understand. I watched it subtitled to my first language (German), but AFAIK there are also subtitles in English. Not sure where, nor whether there may even be a dub, you will have to look for that yourself.
- Comment on What would happen if I was elected President, and took all the tariff bullshit off of these countries? Balanced the budget, opened up the Reagan Reserves? 1 week ago:
The President of the United States isn’t its absolute ruler; they are the head of the executive branch, i.e. the branch that (clue is in the name) executes the laws passed by the legislative branch (Congress), and then only on the federal level. For example the budget is passed by Congress…
Questions like this remind me of this TV series that I watched a few years ago: en.wikipedia.org/…/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV…
That portrays very well what might (probably would) actually happen if a random ordinary person with no political experience were elected president of a country, and what challenges they would face.
- Comment on How are there people who don't know Alaska and Hawaii are states? 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was real, but will be eliminated?
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 2 weeks ago:
and also: data centers do not consume “as much water as possible”, they consume exactly as much as they need
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- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t inherently hate advertising and have on occasion learned about products or brands through advertising that I then actually ended up buying. Without advertising, you too might not know a lot of the products you’ve bought in your life.
I do block most ads online, but still see plenty of advertising in public spaces, or on television or radio when I watch/listen to those.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of things in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/…/9_November_in_German_history
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- Comment on is there any language that doesn't have four basic directions? 4 weeks ago:
I cannot find it anymore, but remember recently reading a blog post about a language where their concept of directions was “toward the river”, “away from the river (or: into the jungle)”, “down the river”, “up the river”, and they expressed only those directions. So when a western researcher asked them how they called “left” and “right”, they gave different answers every time, or something like that…
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 4 weeks ago:
If the Harry Potter universe taught me one thing, it is that a world of magic is a terrible place. Anyone could be anyone else transformed, people can read minds, etc etc etc., no wonder Alastor Moody became so paranoid.
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a much more obscure game, my parents have a copy of it (so I played it many times in my childhood) but I’ve never encountered anyone else with one.
Also we usually didn’t call it by its German name “Was soll ich mich sorgen? Mach du dir Sorgen!” (more or less a direct translation of the above English), but just called it the “Selbstverteidigungskarte” (self-defense card).
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 4 weeks ago:
There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Magazine_Card_Game
I only played it in German, where the names are different, but according to that article, the card is called “What Me Worry? You Worry!” in English: if you are getting something bad done to you, you can play that and instead do the same thing to the person who did that to you.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 4 weeks ago:
Most popular programming languages have English-language keywords and that can’t be changed, so we certainly have to learn those.
How we learn to name symbols (variable/function names), that obviously depends on the programming course. But most real-world code has most symbols written in English with the possible exception of business-specific terminology that the business doesn’t use in English. The same is true of comments.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 5 weeks ago:
not wrong though, we are lucky that the apparent sizes of the moon and sun are as close as they are on Earth :D
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 5 weeks ago:
Two monitors, so I can have Lemmy on one and keep the IDE in my peripheral vision on the other.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 5 weeks ago:
you got a five thirteen!!!
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 5 weeks ago:
I’m scrolling while waiting for code I wrote to finish running, so I’m not supposed to be doing anything else really.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 5 weeks ago:
A US Representative from New York: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
I agree that this should have been spelled out because the abbreviation AOC can stand for other things too and web search engines don’t necessarily think of this representative as the primary meaning.