daychilde
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- Comment on A man in France was beaten after throwing rocks on firefighters 3 days ago:
I have a bone to pick with you
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 4 days ago:
Not that the problem isn’t a problem, because it is, but: I use the Dexcom G7 (as a type II) and for anyone concerned about this, you can get a receiver - a little device that will show the readings. It’s more convenient on the phone (although the phone app FUCKING SUCKS DONKEY BALLS…), but you don’t have to use the phone. With my insurance, it was $50, so that’ll vary, but it’s an option.
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 4 days ago:
Pretty girl stirring up a fuzz linking her insta. Totally legit.
Found the fucking misogynist.
- Comment on Amputee told he needs more proof for blue badge 1 week ago:
Well, “good” to see this shit is still happening. I only know about it from The Last Leg a few years ago bringing it up.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
lol, the link got translated as well and points to lemmy.world/post/53047256/ɯoɔ˙ǝldɯɐxǝ˙ɯɯɯ//:dʇʇɥ
Ah, well, it’s less amusing being encoded. oof.
And it doesn’t work in NZ because 1) doesn’t exist and 2) no dropbears there :)
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 1 week ago:
No quick answer, but i’ve passed it on. I do know there are still some issues affecting availability, so it may yet be a little bit, I’m sorry to say - please feel free to poke me again in a week or two, but hopefully you might not have to. :)
- Comment on Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. 1 week ago:
Author’s bullshit that passwords are inherently insecure is, well, bullshit. WEAK passwords are weak, yes.
Meanwhile, anything that can fail if I lose my device (or it gets stolen or broken) means it’s just a matter of time before I’m permanently locked out.
I know how to secure my passwords. We need to train people how to generare secure passwords and manage them effectively.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
only works in Australia
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
The internet is older than the world wide web, and that’s just one service that exists.
Having a server directly behind the domain like example.com originally wasn’t common. Back in the days, you might want to make an FTP connection or a pop3 connection, or telnet or gopher, which would typically use like ftp.example.com, mail.example.com, telnet.example.com, gopher.example.com. None of these examples are web servers. You wouldn’t get a webpage back from them.
So when the world wide web became a thing, it was common to set up www.example.com and serve webpages from that subdomain.
The thing that changed in the mid 90s as the internet started to become more popular was that the world wide web quickly took over as the main thing people used when connecting to sites for information or data, so after a while it became common to have the web server respond to requests sent to the bare domain itself. (We’re ignoring ports for the sake of simplicity)
Although that change meant that you could go to example.com for most sites, or www.example.com for most sites, people had already learned that “www dot something dot com” meant a website, and so many people typed www even if it wasn’t necessary. And because there was no harm in having this set up, the tradition continues to this day to set up that subdomain and typically point it to the main web server.
But there’s no reason you have to. You can set things up so that requests to example.com get a different website than www.example.com. But it will confuse your visitors, so most people don’t.
So to answer your question: We stopped needing to say “www” in front of websites URLs by the mid 90s for the most part, but it stuck in the ‘common knowledge’ and is still around today because most people have no clue how it all works. In other words, your question is partly wrong, but the part that’s right has been true for almost all of the public internet’s history. :)
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
These are all domain names and DNS servers are used to resolve these to different IPs.
These are all subdomain names. And subdomains can point to a different IP, or they can point to the same IP. They can also use a CNAME record to point to another [sub]domain name, and it’s probably most common to have an A record on the main domain with the IP and just use a CNAME on the www subdomain so that it always points to the same place the main domain points.
DNS does not know anything about http or https or any other protocal like that. It just resolves the domain name to an IP/set of IPs. The only thing it can do is point www.microsoft.com and microsoft.com to the same location so that you can use either to get to the webservers.
CNAME is the record that is used to point e.g. www.microsoft.com to microsoft.com. They could use an A record for www.microsoft.com and use the same IP as the A record for microsoft.com, which would accomplish the same thing, but would have to be updated when the IP for microsoft.com changes.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
Most websites have a CNAME for “www” pointing to the main domain. Certainly all the webhosting panels I know of do it automatically, because there’s no great reason not to. Some people will use “www” and so if it fails, that’s a silly thing to have fail.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
ALSO two words, although I know you never claimed otherwise. ;-)
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
So you don’t hve a problem with the rich WHITE lady, just the moderately rich BLACK lady.
I think it’s clear what you have a problem with.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
One word for you though, per capita.
That’s two words.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
When you’re working two jobs to survive, you do not have time to cook from scratch.
When education fails to educate, you do not have knowledge how to cook, nor understanding of the reason why one might want to.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
this will fall on dumb ears.
In fairness, you did say “MAGA” after all. ;-)
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 1 week ago:
Why are those poor shift workers rotating? They’re gonna get seasick!
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 1 week ago:
no dumaas u cant look into curtains CURTAINS BLOCK THE VIEW it is teh pont of them
;-)
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 1 week ago:
“It’s curtains for the city council, see?”
;-)
- Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households. 1 week ago:
For a start, that is over 10 years, so annually it’s a tenth of that (according to the site’s lies)
- Comment on Why Grandma Why 2 weeks ago:
It truly is a pity to see people continuing to support content that ultimately goes back to a known transphobe.
- Comment on Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton 2 weeks ago:
Small-scale meat production would use as much water as large-scale, I can only imagine. And that’s a good thing. We don’t want to get sick from tainted meat.
- Comment on Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton 2 weeks ago:
Households provide food if you’re a zombie or serial killer (and cannibal).
- Comment on Some mums be like 3 weeks ago:
I actually came into the comments to post the exact opposite, so it’s convenient to be able to disagree with your comment since disagreement is the foundation of internet discussions (is joke).
But seriously, it is a good and helpful thing: news.ufl.edu/2021/…/the-importance-of-baby-talk/ - random source I just googled, feel free to find your own :)
And is noting “is joke” isn’t sufficient, I’m not here to say you’re wrong, just that I had read it was a good thing previously, and came into the thread to post that :)
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s just handy - thank you!
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 3 weeks ago:
I hadn’t responded in this thread immediately for various reasons, but just so you know: We generally do. I banned the first instance of that spammer a couple of days before they came back. I wasn’t around when they created the second account, but it was only in existence for a couple of hours. They haven’t yet come back again. :)
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry for the delay, I’m a new admin and I was only a lemmy user. Some admins have been a bit busy IRL so a few things have gotten a little behind.
I’ve taken a look over there and I’m now starting to keep a bit of an eye over there.
Of course, we’re all volunteers, and while sometimes we’re EXTREMELY quick on spotting spam, it can also be an hour (or few) if we’re not around and/or it just doesn’t pop up in a way we notice.
So definitely report spam you find. Personally, I wouldn’t mind a PM if you’d like. I’m still learning some of the fediverse bits. I’m working on some tools to help make some of it a little easier to moderate - for example, reports on lemmy.world are decent for moderators, but it’s a bit more difficult for them to be useful for admins, so it’s often better to start a thread here or use one of the other methods to contact us for when an admin is needed.
So there are some very limited reports on piefed.world - I’m honestly not sure how we prefer y’all report spam to use, so I’ll ask my fellow admins when they have a little time - but especially meanwhile, definitely poke me and I’ll be glad to take a look.
(Can’t speak on the outdated version, alas, but I’ll pass that along - these threads do get sent to us, it’s just a matter of when someone has time to address issues)
Please don’t give up on us yet :)
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
Do you think “best” means “perfect”?
I see no point in continuing to discuss this with people who don’t understand language.
You can feel free to same similar about me, don’t care.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
Oh, so you guys are doing the stupid thing where you redefine words.
Okay, whatever, have fun with that.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
Scandanavia is pretty much doing just about best in the world. I think they’re largely showing what can be done. Perfect? No. But better than the fascist shithole the US has become.
I don’t see anything besides capitalism working at ALL out there.