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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Misskey and its forks already supported quote posts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why Facebook puts so much junk in the links, but there’s a setting for Safari to remove that automatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be related to the setting to remove tracking information from shared links? I’ve appreciated not having to manually take that crap off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that was something that’s been available in Chrome. Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a subtle thing, but I really appreciate that when sharing a link from Safari on iOS it puts the address on the clipboard without the “m.” automatically, so I don’t have to edit it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they used separate style sheets. Going way back in time, to the early days of smartphones and back when non-smartphones had mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout for tiny screens or even an entirely different, simplified page. Early adopters to mobile browsing tended to hang on to that separation much longer than newer sites that took advantage of CSS that could adapt to the screen size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just had a hospital group employee tell me to simply email medical information⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you in a jurisdiction subject to HIPPA? That would seem like a pretty easy violation to report. Otherwise see what your jurisdiction’s medical privacy laws are and who you can report that to.

  As much of a hassle as Epic My Chart and other portals can be, I do appreciate how they make medical things more secure and an annoyed when I see small places with nothing that try to tell us to just use email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve bought from 7digital a time or two in the past and had no problems. Obviously there are issues with Amazon as a company, but I think they were the first big name to offer DRM-free MP3 purchases and I used it a lot back when it first launched, especially since they offered a selection of albums each month for just $5. They should have most mainstream music available for purchase, depending on which country you’re in. According to this Wikipedia page listing music stores they only offer 256 kbps MP3 but I was sure most if not all were upgraded to 320 kbps now, although of course you would have to re-download anything if you had downloaded the lower-quality version previously. That Wikipedia page is a good link to other stores as well, with a number I’d never heard of including specialty stores.

  Also, along with someone else’s comment mentioning ripping CDs like the old days, check to see if you have a local record store. It’s been a mantra since at least the Gen-X days to “support your local scene.” I know in Raleigh the longtime staple Schoolkids Records is still alive and kicking, although their Chapel Hill store closed last year. It might take some digging but it can be worth seeing if there’s a local store in your area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to github pages?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-hosting there are some ways to fight back, or depending on your opinions on Cloudflare it seems they’re fairly effective at blocking the AI crawlers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to github pages?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually a surprising amount of free static website hosting out there. Besides GitHub, GitLab, Cloudflare, and Netlify come to mind offhand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They used to sell those on the xkcd store and I was going to link to them but it seems the store is closed now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, the explain link says the dimensional sizes originated from the wood being cut at the listed size while green, then shrinking as it dried. I was told that it was done for construction purposes, where the wood would likely be covered by plywood or drywall that would bring the dimension up to size. I never questioned it before; that always seemed plausible enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3d print your own model rocket.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $40 sounds like a lot for what you get

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Italians were also targeted. Being from a Catholic country was sometimes enough to get targeted. Always found it funny (Woody Allen marriage funny, not Woody Allen film funny) that the Protestants who came to what is now Massachusetts seeking “religious freedom” meant it only for themselves and drove out anyone who didn’t subscribe to their views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta World Conflict?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s NHK, or one of the Japanese broadcasters anyways, that has actually been pressing for 8K since the 1990s. They didn’t have content back then and I doubt they have much today, but that’s what they wanted HD to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you recognize this PC case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It reminds me of a Compaq we had around then. HP had bought Compaq at the time and used the brand on some of their low-end PCs. I don’t know if they were sold in Germany under that name, but it might be another angle to pursue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re comparing very different sizes geographically. This chart seems to indicate that around 2015 there were about 1.6 billion miles or 2.5 billion kilometers of telephone wire deployed across the US. Running fiber or coax across the same distances is costly. Electricity and telephone service reached just about every house in the 1930s because the government paid for it as part of Depression-era spending, then declared that these items were necessary utilities that must be provided to new homes and businesses constructed later. A lot of the telecom companies were hoping to get the government to do that again. There have been some bills providing government money for these, but the telecom companies have been trying to take the money but do the bare minimum or only roll out wireless service, and the government has been slow providing funding. Meanwhile SpaceX has been trying to say they should get the money instead because they can get everyone online faster and their low orbit constellation doesn’t have the latency issues of the satellite internet traditionally available to rural customers. I think they cancelled the money that had been awarded and gave it to SpaceX back when Musk was running the government this spring. And of course, none of the companies want the Internet classified as a utility because then they have to provide equal access to everything instead of trying to slow access to Netflix unless Netflix pays them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw something within the past year or so that looked like a new version of Paperboy and I got excited but then it turned out it wasn’t and I was disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding on, there can be good reasons to have arrest records be public and accessible. It can be beneficial for people to know if someone in the community has engaged in dangerous activity that could threaten others around them. Even if that person is able to avoid conviction or negotiate a lesser charge, you might personally want to change your interactions with them. The most common example might be with sex offenders, but that’s also being used for a lot of disingenuous arguments right now, so I’ll offer some others. Say someone is arrested for driving while intoxicated, perhaps someone you know. You might have never noticed them intoxicated before but perhaps they’re just good at hiding it, and you would probably choose not to ride in a vehicle with them driving or let a family member ride with them. Or perhaps you see someone arrested for a violent assault and you’ve also had past experiences with them that were also violent or threatening but never felt like it was worth reporting or felt that reporting the crime might make you less safe. If you or others know that person is in jail it can be easier for you and others to come to the prosecutors to report your own experiences and make it easier for the prosecutors to get a dangerous person out of the public.

  On the flip side, the US is supposed to have the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty. Publicizing arrests before a conviction can make that harder, and there are plenty of examples of innocent people who were “convicted in the media” but later found not guilty in court. That can often place a burden on innocent people to continue defending themselves for years afterwards.

  In theory an open and transparent judicial process makes the system harder to abuse. In an effort to prevent punishing innocent people for crimes they did not commit, a judicial process might be designed in way that sometimes allows guilty persons to avoid punishment. The public has a right to know about threats so they can take actions to protect themselves. Wrongly accused individuals should not have to be burdened by false accusations after successfully defending themselves. People who have served their sentence for crimes they committed should not continue to be punished after completing their sentence.

  Balancing these different interests is challenging and I think it’s pretty easy to say the current system is not at a good balance. Perhaps a good balance isn’t possible. The world is far more complicated than little comments online can make it seem. I think it’s pretty easy, though, to say the government should not be arresting people and making money by selling information about those arrests. A commercial entity taking that information and publishing it for a profit can also be morally questionable and should perhaps have legal restrictions. Outlets that exist solely to find the most attractive mug shots are at least in bad taste. But the question gets harder the closer this gets to a reputable news organization that is also trying to responsibly balance these considerations.

  I’d certainly be interested to see the results of a lawsuit based on the original question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember in the ’90s/’00s there were a few Mazda and Ford vehicles that were basically the same, most obviously to me the Ford Ranger and Mazda B-series pickup truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like DRAM, FeRAM’s read process is destructive, necessitating a write-after-read architecture.

  So that’s why it’s still called RAM? It can hold the data a long time but the data is lost when it’s read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit for PC Video Review⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend in high school was really into this game and got me into them. He was even creating a lot of custom skins for models. I played a lot of them until it turned into a more The Fast and the Furious-type game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this was one of the possible disasters that could happen in Sim City 2000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really have answers for you, but you might find this website helpful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in Cloudflare’s case the free tier website owners are more an example of just giving the users a limited product in hopes of enticing them to upgrade to the paid product with more features and better performance. Cloudflare might get some benefit in the ability to track end-users across more websites as part of their efforts to determine who is a real human versus a potentially-malicious bot, but I don’t think that really gives the same ROI like Facebook or other services extract from their “free” services where the users are the actual product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨17k+ indexed adult games from itch.io on goony.dev⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole saga has been fascinating in that it has revealed an entire side of gaming I really didn’t know existed. I’m not looking very deeply into it, but just seeing how much exists and how many categories and classifications go into it is surprising, although I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised given how long I’ve been online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think IP addresses federate? I think only your instance admin can see your IP address. In any case, though, you should generally always assume that your up/down votes on any service are recorded and tied to your username. If you can come back later and change your vote, that vote is tied to your username. It may not be visible to other users, but the server admins can absolutely see what you’re doing.

  Reddit might not make your votes publicly visible, but they’re absolutely tracking them and using that information to select what you see, including advertising. They might not directly share those votes with advertisers, but they almost certainly are sharing your interests based on your votes. And you should assume Reddit and others will comply if the government comes asking for what users liked a post the government opposes, or who downvoted a post praising a new government initiative.

  It depends on your threat model, but your threat model might change. Freedom of speech might be curtailed by politicians even when that’s supposed to be unconstitutional. What might be safe to do online now might become unsafe in a year or two.

  YSK: every action you take online, even as simple as an Upvote or Like, might be recorded and may come back to haunt you