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- Comment on Who takes charge on evacuating citizens if that individual is a dual passport bearer? 1 hour ago:
As far as France is concerned, the person is a French citizen, nothing else matters. As far as the US is concerned, the person is a US citizen, nothing else matters. So they will both likely be ready to evacuate the person, and the practical result will be that the person is allowed to choose.
I mean: I don’t think they can force anyone to evacuate. If the person says “no, France, I’m not getting on your plane, I’m waiting for the American one”, then what can anyone do about it?
- Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 6 days ago:
because these politicians know extremely little about the Internet
I started participating in online communities in the 2000s. The “social media” we had back then was web forums, organized by topics and sorted chronologically. I was young enough at the time that it is now permanently stored in my brain that that is the normal way the Internet should be like, and everything popularized since then (recommendation algorithms, the idea that we should follow people instead of topics, even the idea that websites shouldn’t be specific to certain topics) is a deviation from normalcy.
I know, rationally, that those deviations from normalcy are now the new normal (even the fediverse is “only” an attempt to improve further on that, not a move toward the Internet of the 2000s), but there is still a part of my brain that doesn’t accept this.
But I very strongly suspect that those politicians, in Australia and elsewhere, who are now trying to regulate the Internet, never posted anything to a traditional web forum, or edited a wiki, or anything like that. To them, “social media” became a thing (at all!) in around 2008 to 2010 when they created Twitter and Facebook accounts in order to communicate with their voters. (Reality check: social media has been a thing since, at the latest, the 1980s, when Usenet was invented.)
If they don’t know that the Internet is not Facebook, then it’s unsurprising when they regulate the internet as if it’s all just Facebook, so that all that will be left is Facebook. Sad times we are living in.
- Comment on On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed? 1 week ago:
one satirical website summarized it like this: inadequacy.org/…/2001.9.12.102423.271.html
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Try clicking, hovering or tapping on that “X time ago” thing. I just tried it on your instance and it seems to work there too, definitely does on mine.
- Comment on Why doesn't gnu.org load on my WiFi? 1 week ago:
If it only happens on your wifi, this sounds like a problem with your wifi. It may have misconfigured DNS or similar.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 week ago:
I just hate the idea of someone defending a billionare or trillion dollar company for any reason.
Then you have a very simplistic worldview. There are many disputes where different large companies are adversarial to each other, so if you have an opinion about them at all, you need to defend one of them.
For example occasionally media companies will try to get laws passed in various countries to make social media platforms pay for linking to journalistic. A stupid and nonsensical idea for many reasons, but by calling it that, I may have just “defended” Meta?
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 week ago:
“Defending” when accused of what? The question is somewhat meaningless without knowing that.
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 2 weeks ago:
Can’t argue with that
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 5 comments
- Comment on German joke 2 weeks ago:
People who genuinely think Germans cannot be funny should check out Otto Waalkes.
- Comment on German joke 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
French will be more useful, Italian probably easier.
- Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll revealswww.computerweekly.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on What is open SSL ? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
I thought that was real, but will be eliminated?
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 4 weeks ago:
and also: data centers do not consume “as much water as possible”, they consume exactly as much as they need
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 4 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 👁️⃤ 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of things in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/…/9_November_in_German_history
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on is there any language that doesn't have four basic directions? 5 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)? 1 month 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.