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- 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? 10 hours 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? 1 day 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? 1 day 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Interestingly, it’s not completely outdated.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) 1 day 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) 2 days 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) 2 days 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) 2 days 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 🥩 2 days 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 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days ago:
because different places thought of standards that would make sense independently; xkcd.com/927/
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- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 1 week ago:
Once a day on average, early 30s male. Has been that way forever for me.
- Comment on What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree? 1 week ago:
As for pricing, this happens elsewhere than America too, at least here in the eurozone it is very common too. There’s an article about it here which may or may not explain this to your satisfaction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
As for 9 out of 10 doctors: our numeral system is based on 10 (because we have 10 fingers), so 10 is a number people can easily grasp, so to speak…
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 1 week ago:
I think Dutch is even more closely related, and AFAIK has somewhat simpler grammar. To me as someone fluent in German and English, but who’s never learned Dutch, Dutch looks like a mix of German, English, and gibberish.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 1 week ago:
Compared to English: yes, definitely. English doesn’t really have case markings outside of pronouns, nor adjectival declensions, not even grammatical gender.
Compared to Mandarin: probably German is easier, I agree on that.
Compared to Japanese: I don’t know enough about Japanese to know for sure, but by the standards by which it has “three writing systems”, the Latin (and Cyrillic and Greek) alphabet also has two (uppercase and lowercase). :P
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 1 week ago:
German is a hard language for nearly everyone. If it didn’t happen to be my first language, no way would I want to learn it.
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There are short videos on YouTube (search for “westerners’ Chinese tattoos”) where a Chinese person reads out what some of those tattoos translate to, some are hilarious, others just gibberish…
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 week ago:
If you mean here on Lemmy or other markdown based sites, I think the reason is that it would become incoherent in terms of the HTML it generates.
HTML is supposed to be a format that describes meaning, not presentation. The meaning is that Lemmy comments consist of paragraphs (p elements) like any piece of text does. The way to start a new paragraph is to type two newlines in a row.
On occasion text isn’t divided into paragraphs, like your example of poetry. The way to represent that meaning in HTML is a br element. You already described how to generate that in Markdown. But that is a rare special case. Makes sense that it requires special syntax so we are sure people did it accidentally.
Old forum software like phpBB or SMF worked the way you imagine. If I am not mistaken they translated a newline in the BBCode to an HTML br element, unfriendly to screen readers and automated technologies in the ordinary case where text was divided into paragraphs.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 week ago:
Legislators decide things like that…
The limit has to be somewhere. Most experienced drivers can still drive reasonably safely after drinking small amounts of alcohol, e.g. one glass of beer; they can’t after drinking ten glasses of beer. So a limit had to be drawn somewhere. It’s different in different jurisdictions, for example AFAIK there are some countries in Europe (Czechia?) where the limit really is 0.0 or very close to that.
- Comment on Was there ever a candidate for President of the US, who actually stepped outside the lobbyist crap and gave real and honest answers that were not rehearsed? 1 week ago:
I mean politicians do occasionally get interview or debate questions they might not expect, in which case they have to answer something too…
I recommend this video: youtu.be/T8QOE-IWo3I
- Comment on Why is the comment system on lemmy so weird? 1 week ago:
OK, that looks similar to the interface I am using…
But why would you not expect replying to a comment to be the most visible, most easily accessible, “default” action? It’s certainly what people do the most.
- Comment on Why is the comment system on lemmy so weird? 1 week ago:
??? Can you post a screenshot in order to explain to the rest of us who don’t know what “Blorp” is?
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 1 week ago:
There is a variety of ways to define “terrorism”, but most definitions more or less explicitly exclude actions by military forces.
This may to some extent be a good thing: I at least want the government to be constrained by normal criminal substantive and procedural laws when fighting terrorism. When it’s fighting a war (i.e. against a military force), entirely different rules apply.
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 1 week ago:
I remember reading that at least in some jurisdictions, food producers are legally required to store samples of the food batches they’ve produced that haven’t expired yet, or something like that… so that implies they need to put something on there.
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 2 weeks ago:
I think because that’s what customers want. Very few customers send that many SMS messages, especially nowadays that Internet-based messengers have mostly replaced them; but a lot of customers want a large Internet data limit in order to watch short videos or things like that…
FWIW, looking at providers in my country, I found:
- 1500 minutes or SMS: www.yesss.at/en/tarife
- 1500 or 3000 minutes or SMS: www.s-budget-mobile.at/home
- unlimited minutes or SMS: www.redbullmobile.at/tarife#Sim-Only-Tarife www.magenta.at/handytarife/tarife-ohne-handy#0 www.a1.net/handys-tarife/tarife-ohne-bindung www.drei.at/n/telefonie/tarife/sim-only-tarife
So your premise is not exactly true, at least not worldwide.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 2 weeks ago:
Who is the “ruling class” in this context? Governments, billionaires, someone entirely different? Because I think you’ll find it might not be the same people doing each of these things…
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 2 weeks ago:
No, he’ll receive a Nobel Peace Prize for the achievement of being US president while not being Donald Trump.
Tell me you don’t remember 2009 without telling me you don’t remember 2009.
- GhostLock: 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Any Local User Root in 5 Secondsthreat-intelligence.redeyesecurity.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments