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- Comment on How did they come up with states names in America? Or even how did they come up with county names? 21 hours ago:
Different for each one, remember the US states weren’t founded all at the same time; the original 13 were once British colonies and named by the British, while the ones that came later have names from a variety of other sources.
- Comment on Chicago schools tell Google they'd rather lose Search than be forced to accept AI 22 hours ago:
Ah, ok, that makes a bit more sense, thanks.
- Comment on Chicago schools tell Google they'd rather lose Search than be forced to accept AI 1 day ago:
Am I the only person who doesn’t understand these news stories at all?
Both Google’s search and its AI services are (as far as I can tell) just websites you can access through a web browser. What exactly were schools planning to do? Block school computers from accessing the domain gemini.google.com? How can Google prevent them from blocking that, but allowing other subdomains of google.com?!
Am I just completely failing to understand what is going on here, on a technical level?
- Comment on What is bacon not good with, on, or in? 3 days ago:
and some people think pineapple with pizza is bad (it’s not)
- Comment on What is bacon not good with, on, or in? 3 days ago:
Cakes and other sugary dishes.
- Comment on lol 3 days ago:
What does it mean apart from “for the win”? It definitely meant that in the online spaces I was in when I was a teenager.
- Comment on UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids 3 days ago:
I mean that isn’t exactly the talking point I would want to use against age verification… We don’t have to dispute that calming children down with videos isn’t especially good for their development in order to argue against censorship and against keeping young people from having fun, having access to information, and socializing.
- Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on How soon do you get there? 1 week ago:
I’ve never flown in the US; I live in the EU and generally aim for 2 hours if I have checked baggage, 1.5 hours if not. That usually causes me to still have significant waiting time after the security check, but better safe than sorry.
- Submitted 1 week ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 3 comments
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 1 week ago:
It doesn’t restrict Trump, by himself, at all. Trump is the president, i.e. the head of the federal executive branch, which is by itself unaffected. Anything that Trump (or his successor) had the authority to do last week, he still has now and will still have after the new Congress is inaugurated.
What has been changed is the majority in the legislative branch, this means that all new federal statutes in the US will (after January) need to be passed by a majority in that new Congress, in which both houses have a Democratic majority, meaning that the Republicans can no longer pass new legislation all on their own.
- Comment on Could a normal person make an actionable run for president? Or just hold a local office with a criminal background? 1 week ago:
That depends on which language people are posting in. I can assure you that Germans do the same thing in all online spaces written in German, which is a language also spoken by us Austrians as well as most Swiss people, Liechtensteiners and citizens of some other countries too.
- Comment on How do you avoid the "third rail"? Wouldn't it be on different sides depending on where your headed? 1 week ago:
huh???
- Comment on What is "open browsing"? And why is Reddit getting rid of it? 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t show what your website has to offer to logged-out users, why would logged-out users ever start to become interested in it and thus becoming logged-in users?
Commercialized social media was a mistake. It’s time for the public to figure out a real solution to how to fund online communication infrastructure; I don’t want a system where users pay for access (because that excludes poor people, most minors, etc.), but clearly making it funded by advertisers isn’t having desirable results either.
I wonder if social media could be run by governments (similar to public television and radio broadcasting), or by ISPs (like they used to run Usenet servers). Federation could mean we don’t have to choose, we can have a mix of these and other concepts.
- Comment on If at a restaurant a guy is choking and I give them the Heimlich and accidentally break a rib while trying to save his life. Can I be sued? 2 weeks ago:
Legal questions can’t be answered without information on jurisdiction.
Usually the answer is: yes, you can be sued because you can be sued for anything (suing just means: asking a court to award damages, not actually getting them), doesn’t mean the person suing you will get very far.
- Comment on I'm not changing the sheets, I don't care. 2 weeks ago:
Vacation apartments have been a thing for a lot longer than Airbnb. There are entire chains of vacation apartments, like visionapartments.com/en and www.limehome.com/en/ (I have stayed in both, but never used Airbnb at all).
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
It tests whether there really are no stupid questions.
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
because it’s impossible to make general statements about how “people” in general vote; each voter has different motivations for voting
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
There are enough voters who don’t vote straight-ticket that it occasionally happens that different elections with the same electorate at the same time have different parties winning. For example in 2024, voters in Nevada elected a Democrat to the Senate, but gave the state’s electoral votes to Trump
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
Different voters vote differently. This is really testing the limits of the sub IMHO.
- Comment on What's going on with PHP? 3 weeks ago:
WordPress powers a huge percentage of all websites, and that’s written in PHP. MediaWiki is too, although that’s obviously a much smaller percentage.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not “happened to”; read the title text if you want to remove all reasonable doubt that it’s a reference to it.
- Comment on Why do media always specify a car's model in news stories? 3 weeks ago:
Do they always do that?
I just looked through recent articles on vehicle-related incidents on a major local news website for my city, and that doesn’t seem to be the case at least there.
- wien.orf.at/stories/3376060/ doesn’t mention it, though it does have a photo of the car in question
- wien.orf.at/stories/3375812/ isn’t directly about a car crash, but is about someone getting assaulted over vehicle-related behavior; doesn’t mention the car model
- wien.orf.at/stories/3375778/ doesn’t mention it
I was unable to quickly find a recent story on that site that does mention it, so your premise doesn’t seem to be exactly true; maybe it’s true where you live, but not everywhere in the world.
- Comment on I grew up in the age of the Cold War. And was taught to hate Russia. All the way up to the fall of the USSR. What the hell happened between then and now? Is their like a timeline or something? 3 weeks ago:
There was never a reason to hate Russian people, any more than any other humans on Earth. During the Cold War, there was a very good reason to reject the USSR for being communist, not for being Russian.
Now that Russia’s state ideology is no longer communism, that is no longer applicable. It’s still a very authoritarian country that does a lot of bad things, recently more of them than in the 1990s; but still considerably less bad than what the USSR was doing.
- Comment on Can we estimate the size of the Internet ? If so, what size would it be (in GB, TB or whatever) ? 3 weeks ago:
We had the same question just a few days ago: discuss.tchncs.de/post/69097816
- Comment on Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more? 4 weeks ago:
Are you sure social media is growing? Pretty sure I live in a world where there is a lot of governmental and societal backlash to it. Age verification laws, addiction lawsuits, etc.
But I have considered online communication to be a societal good ever since I first discovered it, and have no intention to change my mind on it (which is why I am here). So the answer to that is also no.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on What was the most suggestive "out of context" public conservation piece you've ever heard? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t understand that either and thought the question was talking about awareness campaigns for environmental protection or something, and wondered that that was oddly specific. Clearly I need to improve my understanding of mistyped English.
- Comment on Are you able to tell which language is which by looking? 4 weeks ago:
On these charts, no idea.
In real texts, it’s not that hard because Japanese text usually has kana in it. I can’t read kana, but I can recognize some of them as being kana, even if I don’t know what syllables they represent.