schnurrito
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- Submitted 1 day ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 1 day 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 👁️⃤ 5 days 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? 1 week 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)? 1 week 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"? 1 week 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"? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 _💪_ 2 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? 2 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? 2 weeks ago:
you got a five thirteen!!!
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 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? 2 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.
- Comment on Someone said I post an average of 6 posts a day. Where did they get that type of information? Not upset curious cause it's another way I can compliment others with facts about them. 2 weeks ago:
No, you just need to look at the total number of posts, account creation date, calculate the difference between today and the account creation date, then divide the number of posts through the result. Easy math I would expect any average teenager to be able to do.
- Comment on Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is? 2 weeks ago:
Of course. At some point in your life you too didn’t know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi were. You weren’t born with your current knowledge.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 2 weeks ago:
As for Miranda rights, there’s a comic here lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2637 that explains how those work.
In general it doesn’t matter if they aren’t read to you unless the prosecution wants to use your self-incriminating statements against you in a criminal case. Then those statements might not be usable as evidence, but that’s the only consequence.
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re right; the point is that those files will then probably be copied on other file systems that could handle long (and lowercase) file names too, so that may be one way to end up with them without the files coming from the 1990s.
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 3 weeks ago:
Others have correctly explained that this is because filenames (on DOS) used to have only uppercase letters.
Interestingly, it’s not completely outdated. Many standalone digital cameras, even ones produced in the 2010s or 2020s, still produce filenames like IMG_1234.JPG or DSC00011.ARW or similar.
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 3 weeks ago:
No, I don’t recall hearing about it before; reading up on it now.
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 3 weeks ago:
As for groomers on Roblox, this just sounds like techdirt.com/…/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-con…
I got my first own computer at age 10 and from then on usually browsed the Internet unsupervised.
I remember that for the first few years of doing so, I took age checks very seriously. A website says “this is an adult website, you must be over 18”? I would click cancel. A forum has a checkbox “I agree to the terms and conditions and am at least 13 years old”? Not registering there (a few years later: wait, I can now honestly say yes to this!).
This of course changed when I became a teenager, but I knew what I was getting into at that point. I don’t think this is that atypical…
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 3 weeks ago:
You don’t see the difference between a parent deciding this for their child vs. the child doing it themself?
Age verification laws certainly wouldn’t stop parents from uploading pictures of their children, the parents are adults after all…
Not all (not even nearly all) “social media” typically involves posting pictures of oneself, e.g. how many times do you see pictures of users here on Lemmy? But I’m not aware of any age verification law that is limited to websites where people can post pictures of themselves.
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 3 weeks ago:
It’s not the desired outcome people are against
Yes, I am.
I think you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who disagrees with the idea that children shouldn’t be exposed to the full power of the unfiltered internet, and that’s what makes these laws so insidious.
“Children” being people of what age?
The Internet is a communication system originally intended for military communication; the WWW for exchange of articles and data among scientists and academics. It has evolved, from those roots, to being a collection of nearly all human knowledge, all human endeavors and thoughts. But its intent was never that it would conform to any cultural (or even legal) ideas of what is appropriate for young people to see…
If parents (who are supposed to be experts on their children) believe that their child isn’t yet developmentally ready to be exposed to nearly all human knowledge, endeavors, and thoughts, then they shouldn’t give that child (unsupervised) access to a communication system that contains exactly that. But I personally believe it’s generally good for children, certainly older ones and definitely teenagers, to be exposed to a wide variety of ideas, exactly as can be found on the Internet…
- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 3 weeks ago:
Meat with berries is not an absurd idea at all? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingonberry_jam
In fact, I ate some for lunch today. :D
- Comment on YouTube money for charities 3 weeks ago:
The money ultimately comes from advertisers, and it increases the profits of those social media companies, or how do you think their business model works…
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 3 weeks ago:
Only if the colonists manage to produce food and other necessary resources on the Moon. If they don’t, the colonial power can cut off their supplies and crush any such ideas.
- Comment on Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup? 3 weeks ago:
Because the UK is where the sport originated and they already had separate national teams before anyone knew soccer would one day be an internationally successful sport and founded organizations like FIFA to organize it internationally. The idea of an international soccer match started with England playing against Scotland. So they got to keep that as an exception.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 3 weeks ago:
because different places thought of standards that would make sense independently; xkcd.com/927/
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 4 weeks ago:
Once a day on average, early 30s male. Has been that way forever for me.