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- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 day ago:
Absolutely, I hate this shit. It feels incredibly fake and overbearing if it’s an automatic/“broadcast” message.
Sometimes it’s designed so that it’s actively dangerous too. I said “Siri, kill me” to my phone and it started calling emergency services. Are they trying to get people fined for abuse?
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 days ago:
It really doesn’t hurt to know a bit of the IPA, at least the characters for your own language… I see so many horrible phonetic “transcription” “systems” people use when describing how to pronounce a word, it’s crazy
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 days ago:
Since you mentioned Chinese, there’s also an interesting thing in languages that have Chinese characters as their writing system origin and use names based on it (Chinese languages of course, Japanese, Korean and I think also Vietnamese) where names of historical or important people are translated via their written form and not their pronunciation. For example, the Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru 石破茂 is called 石破茂 (shí pò mào) in Mandarin, written with the same characters. (Been a while since I read about this so I forgot the examples where the name is pronounced significantly different and in all of these languages but this is a good enough example)
- Comment on What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
8 points! 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 3 weeks ago:
It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.
Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 5 weeks ago:
It solves encrypted RCS being a Google extension. Hooray for standards.
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 5 weeks ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 1 month ago:
RIP bozo. I should play this soon before they get nuked legally, huh. I’ve heard it’s good.
- Comment on It works for anything 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 month ago:
You can install AdGuard on iOS, it will at least block ads in the browser.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 1 month ago:
The server list is still there fwiw. But yeah the matchmaking update was awful.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Swift is pretty close. I’ve been trying it out recently after writing years of Rust and it’s been great so far (and pretty much completely eliminates the big tooling complaints I have about Rust…).
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 month ago:
It’s slow but stagnation is a disingenuous way of putting it. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
NAT brings no security, especially in this scenario. If you want to prevent malicious software from opening ports, you use a public facing firewall on your gateway. Which you should have for IPv4 as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I can speak a bit, I’ve been learning Russian for a bit more than a year at uni. I actually wanted to take it in high school already but they didn’t have it where I went, I had to take French.
Я немного говорю по-русски, учу язык немного более, чем год в универе. В гимназии на самом деле уже хотел принять класс, но там не был а вместо должен был принять класс о французском языке.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All of the names containing “rus”/“русь”^1^ ultimately come from Русь from where Russia and Belarus both inherit their names.
So, the name of the country Belarus literally means “White Rus”, and it seems like the Dutch word I assume you’re talking about for the country (Wit-Rusland) was borrowed from the Russian word белоруссия and (incorrectly, I guess?) translated as white (бело) + Russia (руссия) despite the “руссия” also in this word referring to Rus and not Russia (spelled differently as Россия).
^1^ the word Россия, too, but from what I can find it is borrowed from Greek and the others including Русь from Arabic, hence the different vowel
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
Documents and Settings
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
nix
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
Macintosh HD
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 3 months ago:
As someone has already written in another comment, the Apple Music app.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 months ago:
Also, they
- Fucked over Unreal fans by dropping the new Unreal Tournament the moment Fortnite took off (this one is personal, I was looking forward to that)
- Fucked over people who bought Fortnite Save the World (the original paid PvE mode of the game) by dropping that the moment the Battle Royale mode took off (this is objectively worse than UT because people paid for this)
- Comment on You stand at the edge of a ruined town square. (Textpocalypse.art) 3 months ago:
pick lock on door
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
okay ❤️ yay ❤️
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 4 months ago:
The only game on my phone! Great game.
Probably not nearly close to top hours though. I haven’t even beaten it once yet.
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- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
They do actually, the iTunes store still exists. I haven’t used it though since while it’s DRM free at this point, it’s not lossless.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
Ah, alright. Thanks for looking!
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t even know how to hold a local music library on macOS these days. The app that used to be iTunes is now just called Music right?
Yeah. I have a local library consisting of some albums I bought, some which aren’t on streaming services, and some other stuff such as game soundtracks + also use Apple Music streaming. They complement each other really well.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 months ago:
Interesting. I can’t find anything about the FLAC licensing issues. Do you have a link?
(Also, correction — Wikipedia says macOS in general can play FLAC. I guess it’s just the Music app that can’t import them.)
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 months ago:
Yep. Lack of format support is usually to blame on the one who doesn’t support the format. You can absolutely blame Apple for this too though, their apps can’t open e.g. Matroska video or FLAC.
And perplexingly, they don’t support uploading HEIC, their own image format of choice, on the web iCloud Photos. So there’s that too.
(At this point my music library is stored as ALAC because it’s well supported in both Linux and Apple’s OSes. Really wish it wouldn’t have to be that way though. Someone needs to tell them about ffmpeg.)
