napoleonsdumbcousin
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- Comment on A heart-warming story 6 days ago:
O+ is common, but O- is rare.
A person with O- can only receive O- blood.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
The text changed in the museum refers to the origins of a specific line of Egyptian kings around 1650 BC. I think neither the history of the Philistines nor the history of the kingdom of Israel is relevant to this.
As to the question if they have the history of Palestine/Israel/Canaan/Levant somewhere else in the museum? I don’t know. If not, they would have a serious knowledge gap there. That topic deserves its own space, not a footnote in the Egyptian section.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
Well Levantine is the broader term, so you need it to define the more specific term Canaanite.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
Apparently it is about the Hyksos, so 1650 - 1550 BC.
The oldest mention of the predecessor term “Peleset” is from 1150 BC.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
AFAIK it is common practice to call them Canaanites:
Thus, while “Phoenician” and “Canaanite” refer to the same culture, archaeologists and historians commonly refer to the Bronce Age pre-1200 BC Levantine peoples as Canaanites, while their Iron Age descendants, particularly those living on the coast, are referred to as Phoenicians.
- Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays 1 week ago:
the group claimed: “Applying a single name – Palestine – retrospectively to the entire region, across thousands of years, erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity.
It is understood that the “Palestinian descent” has been changed to read “Canaanite descent” in the Hyksos panel.
What they did is technically correct, Canaanite is the correct term for the time period. The term Palestinian did not yet exist.
But it is certainly no coincidence that “UK Lawyers of Israel” did request that change now.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
Ah, ok I understand.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
It is a replacement of SMS and MMS on cellular networks with more modern features
en.wikipedia.org/…/Rich_Communication_Services
I have no deeper knowledge of this topic, but to me it seems like Wikipedia is disagreeing.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.
Well yes of course, but you are still giving away your data, regardless of intention. And a privacy feature of GrapheneOS is that it redirects location data requests to the OS by default. Thats why you have to disable it in the settings if you want Google to have this data.
RCS is neither.
AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.
Correct, I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly. Kinda defeats the purpose I would say. It is the right thing that this is blocked by default and you have to actively turn it on.
also RCS Is this a country-specific topic? I don’t know a single person who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate. Everybody here uses WhatsApp or Signal.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
As someone who uses GrapheneOS with sandboxed GooglePlay on his only smartphone (with daily usage for years at this point): I don’t know what kind of adjustment you are referring to. I never had to adjust to anything, because I never encountered anything that GrapheneOS couldn’t do that stock Android could. Follow the installation process and after that the phone behaves like a regular phone, except you have way more options regarding security and privacy.
Is your friend trying to use GrapheneOS without any Google services maybe?
- Comment on UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries 3 weeks ago:
Until they get forced to implement an off-switch, you can block them with uBlock Origin in the meantime.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 months ago:
When it comes to VPN my choice is always Mullvad.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 months ago:
After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.
The linked article in the post claims that the crew never met again until the person filming the documentary tracked some of them down.
They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant.
- Comment on Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 extended security updates in Europe 4 months ago:
Updates are free if you want them to be.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 months ago:
Recently a user here did the math on that and the fair/eco part of fairphone is really miniscule (they spend less than 5$ per phone and a big part of that are fairwashing credits). Unless you need the repairability or the specific specs, you might be better off to buy a cheaper phone and just donate money to a good cause.
Here is the original post: lemmy.world/post/32013987
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 10 months ago:
He also listed uninhabited Australian islands and a US military base on an otherwise uninhabited UK island as separate countries. So I would guess China decided that the country list is basically meaningless.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 1 year ago:
Pegasus spies on all the data on a phone. If a phone is really infected with that, then location access is the least of your worries. But this is not relevant anyway, because 99,9% of people will never be a valid target for such high-level spyware.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 1 year ago:
Stop spreading rumours.
Just disable the location permissions.