daychilde
@daychilde@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 5 days ago:
Maybe. Remember that the oligarchs control our media. Wonder why it sounds like Demorats never get anything done and Republicans strangely get a pass?
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 5 days ago:
Coture in the Senate, required to vote on legislation, required ⅘ or 60 votes. Dems will have around 55.
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 5 days ago:
It requires 60 votes for cloture in the Senate, allowing legislation to be voted on.
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 5 days ago:
Alas, no. 60 needed in the Senate.
- Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc 5 days ago:
bc the dems have a majority (but not supermajority) in congress they can still pass bills through both houses and force trump to veto them.
The Democrats need 60 votes (⅘) for cloture - ending debate on a bill and allowing for a vote.
So they still do not have enough for that.
- Comment on Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail? 1 week ago:
A one person affair is just masturbation. ;-)
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 1 week ago:
Minor update: No promise on timeline, but it is known and is on the list, things just haven’t allowed for time yet. “Soonish” has a wide range of meanings, but it will be “soonish” rather than “way laterish” or never, soooooo, please do continue to be patient :)
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 1 week ago:
Thank you for your patience and for the poke. I know that real world has keep the coupld of folks that might do this busy recently. I don’t know if there’s a reason other than that for the delay, but it’s probably just that. I’m poking them again on it, which is what I can do.
- Comment on How come fat chance and slim chance both mean the same thing? 2 weeks ago:
I’m only upvoting you through my narrowed eyes because I hate you so much. lol
- Comment on How come fat chance and slim chance both mean the same thing? 2 weeks ago:
Of course you can say that. It’d be wrong, but you absolutely could say it. ;-)
- Comment on How come fat chance and slim chance both mean the same thing? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on context. “Slim chance” might technically allow for a small chance, but a lot of the time it’s used, it’s used to indicate that the speaker considers there to be no actual chance. Like if you say “That’s probably not gonna work” you probably actually mean “I believe that is going to not work”.
But this discussion is interesting, because I’d imagine “fat chance” only came about as a sarcastic way of saying slim/no chance. I’m pretty sure it’s like “disgruntled” where nobody is actually gruntled. Language is delightful. :)
- Comment on A man in France was beaten after throwing rocks on firefighters 3 weeks ago:
I have a bone to pick with you
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
only works in Australia
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
ALSO two words, although I know you never claimed otherwise. ;-)
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
One word for you though, per capita.
That’s two words.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
“It’s curtains for the city council, see?”
;-)