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- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 5 months ago:
Problem is, people rarely realize the importance until they’re lost. Plenty of posts from 90s and 2000s containing valuable insights are probably lost forever. Remember that not everything online is in English, either.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
Wake up, developer. We have an OS to burn.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
It’s not that simple, cuneiform and hyeroglyphs had been accompanied by sophisticated systems representing phonemes and grammar elements of the languages it was being written with. People make the same mistakes regarding chinese characters (older scripts or more “primitive” scripts equated to simple drawings and nothing else). 🤷
- Comment on This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom 10 months ago:
The fresh smell of MBA graduates.
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 1 year ago:
Had clients from CJK countries, can confirm. First complaint is everything being too sweet or salty, and second complaint is the rice being undercooked for their tastes… and also salty.
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 1 year ago:
New gTLDs have been released constantly since ICANN dropped the restriction. Also consider that a lot of Lemmy instances are run by individuals as a side project. That means they’ll reuse or nab whatever cool sounding domain they can get to spin up their new instance as quickly as possible.
Personal theory of mine is
*.itjust.worksmeant to stand for “It Just Works” until they decided to give their Lemmy thing a go. - Comment on Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users 1 year ago:
I suppose many of them probably are posting behind VPN or Tor.