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- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 1 hour 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 hours 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 hours 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 hours ago:
Different voters vote differently. This is really testing the limits of the sub IMHO.
- Comment on What's going on with PHP? 3 days 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 days 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? 4 days 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? 6 days 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) ? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on What was the most suggestive "out of context" public conservation piece you've ever heard? 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
Some websites still have it, for example youtube.com and openstreetmap.org redirect to those URLs with www. in front of them at least for me.
Other comments already correctly explained that the original idea was that the third level domain would indicate what kind of server it is: www.example.com as opposed to irc.example.com, ftp.example.com, smtp.example.com, whatever. That convention existed before the WWW was invented; when it was, it was just yet another kind of service that existed on the Internet.
The WWW has by now developed into pretty much the default service people use the Internet for, so it’s usually no longer necessary to add www., although it’s still technically possible for www.example.com to point elsewhere than example.com, or even for one of them to work and the other not. Whether the version with www. redirects to the one without or the other way round, is something most people don’t even notice…
As for why we don’t say it, the reason is approximately the same: the WWW is now generally understood to be the default service of the Internet (many people don’t even know they are different things), so when you mention a domain name nowadays, it’s assumed by default that you are talking about what’s served on that domain on the web, not something else.
- Comment on Roughly how big is the internet in matters of like storage such as gb and tb or more? 1 week ago:
This question doesn’t really have an answer because the Internet, by itself, doesn’t have an amount of data at all. The Internet is a computer network; it transmits data, doesn’t store it. Computers connected to it do.
So you are going to need to define exactly what you mean, such as: all data accessible through the Web? Only data accessible to the public on the Web? Also data accessible through other services than the Web, such as emails on servers with no webmail interface?
Even then one problem with the question is that some data is stored more than once, for example this comment of mine will be federated to several fediverse instances, do you count it once per instance? Once per physical copy made during the operation of that instance (such as backups)? You can see that the question suffers from poor definition.
- Comment on If the NAACP is for colored people, why is there not one for Asian People, White People, People of Middle Eastern Desent? 1 week ago:
I think some of these do actually exist?
- Comment on What are some awesome science YouTube channels for preteens? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how much preteens will like them, but there are channels like MinuteEarth, MinutePhysics, MinuteFood, which I’ve occasionally enjoyed watching, and think I would have if they had existed when I was a preteen too.
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 2 weeks ago:
In the scenario of a virus that kills most people (i.e. more than 50% of the worldwide human population), I expect the entire world political and economic system to collapse, probably including most or all of these companies, though not only them.
- Comment on How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business? 2 weeks ago:
COVID didn’t kill most people, not even most people who got it.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
The article also says:
After graduating from university in the early 1990s
Yeah. Out of touch old person not getting how important the Internet is for young people and their happiness and social development. Can we get people like that out of positions of power finally please?
- Comment on EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio. 3 weeks ago:
The purpose of nearly all Internet regulation is to make sure only the largest, richest tech companies in the world can comply with them and survive.
www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence is a 30-year-old document, but absolutely still relevant and utopian.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 3 weeks ago:
In November of any year or just 2026? 😛
- Comment on If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress? 3 weeks ago:
The president of the US is the head of the federal executive branch. Anything done by the executive branch, you could undo, including release people detained by the executive branch. I don’t know enough details about which illegally detained people you’re referring to to answer the question more completely.
- Comment on If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress? 3 weeks ago:
How many countries are there whose current (or recent) head of state or government has the surname “Trump”?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 2 comments
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 4 weeks ago:
Only one per day? what-if.xkcd.com/27/ explains what would happen if it were 86400 times that.
- Comment on Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)? 4 weeks ago:
A disc as well as its packaging still cost money; also, a physical store needs to pay rent and salaries.
- Comment on Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)? 4 weeks ago:
But for physical goods, the minimum price is what the store paid for acquiring or producing it in the first place. That isn’t a consideration for digital goods.