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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crap, well now I keep it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I see a repo the generic opera reference here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For domains, you actually own them. If you define ownership as being able to trade them compared to leasing something where you are not allowed to sell the item for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You usually get the book corresponding to your faith, so that would be an option. Given that the Bible (can’t speak mich about it but way less about the others) has chapters and verses and what not, addressing single words is simple.

  For the “name of relative is the code”, yeah that needs a good memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your options depend on how much code you can agree on. Ask about imaginary relatives map each name to a meaning, so asking about the health of Aunt Judy could mean that the prison refuses your access to a lawyer and telling you thought about Uncle Sam could mean they keep you in solitary. Or whatever facts you want to communicate. Your revolutionary friends could respond in the same manner. The flaw is in being limited to previously agreed upon code words.

  If you have access to a common book, you can refer to words by page, line and word number. You could embed the numbers as words in a story you are writing to your (imaginary) child. “Behind the seven hills, there were five houses with nine rooms each” can translate to “take the 9th word on page seven, line five”. Obviously you need the exact same copy of the book for this to work, the Bible is quite common for this cipher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA told me that, one mission in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be an instance of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

  Wanting to fit in but not knowing how to do it right.