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- Comment on Was there a Cold War conflict where the Soviets funded the right-wingers and the Americans funded the communists? 6 hours ago:
The closest I can think of: I think there was a crazy time when the People's Republic of China and, to a lesser extent, the US were together(!) backing "Democratic Kampuchea" (i.e. the Khmer frickin' Rouge) against the invading (USSR-allied) Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its proxy, the People's Republic of Kampuchea.
So, the US, softly, backing a bunch of far-left lunatics against a less-far-left bunch backed indirectly by the Soviets.
From Wikipedia
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between the Khmer Rouge-led Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It began in December 1978, with a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia which toppled the Khmer Rouge and ended in 1989 with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. This Cold War conflict was part of the Third Indochina War and Sino-Soviet split with the Soviet Union supporting Vietnam and China supporting the Khmer Rouge.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 5 days ago:
The Straits of America!
- Comment on What the Internet Was Like in 1998 3 weeks ago:
It's only July but we're already complaining about Eternal September.
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- Comment on Just a silly little GIF( 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 4 weeks ago:
Try asking in !piefed_meta@piefed.social , !piefed_help@piefed.social or https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues
I've only been on PieFed a month or so and they've already dealt with half a dozen things I've mentioned, from bugs to feature requests.
- Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenshippublicdomainreview.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 4 weeks ago:
So you're saying the Titanic took down the Twin Towers?
ZOMG The Titanic took down the Twin Towers!!!
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on UK: Chinese asylum seeker allowed to stay in Britain because he “cannot be expected to lie” about his support for Taiwanese independence 1 month ago:
As usual with Taiwan, it's... complicated.
Residents of mainland China, which is now under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC), were identified as nationals given the pre-1949 history of the Republic of China. In May 2023, Executive Yuan released a policy memorandum to clarify that: "The people of mainland China do not have ROC nationality, and hence are not ROC nationals." (中國大陸人民不具中華民國國籍、非屬中華民國國民)[12] Legal scholars, on the other hand, argue that the matter is not resolved as executive branch explanations are not legally binding to courts. Hence, unless amended by the Legislative Yuan, both the Nationality Act and the Cross-Strait Act still include citizens of Mainland China (i.e., the PRC) as ROC nationals.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on I'm the creator of Seedit and I'm here to share how it works and clear up some Concerns/FUDS 1 month ago:
I do like the idea of a P2P system. I used to be on ZeroNet but there were just too few people and too little content to stick with it. I hope something like this takes off.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 1 comment
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- Comment on Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and ‘A Better Tomorrow’: AI-Powered Kung Fu Film Plan Debuts in Shanghai 1 month ago:
So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?
- Comment on Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds 1 month ago:
Basically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.
Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed's business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?
No. So it ain't EEE.
- Comment on 📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media 1 month ago:
My software chops begin and end with:
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD"
20 GOTO 10Good to hear devs are working on it.
- Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! | Internet Archive Blogsblog.archive.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on 📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media 1 month ago:
Thanks for the info.
In the meantime, I opened a new tab, input my instance, waited for the home page to load, searched for 'elena rossini', compared the top two results (her channels?), went with one, looked at its list of videos and saw that it didn't include the video in question, went back, chose the other account and discovered it has zero videos.
???
Saw your reply, tried new search: "Introducing the Fediverse"... 471 results with hers not visible among the top results. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Looked again at your reply, copied that video link that Mesa originally gave and searched... and it works! (Although... how did Mesa get it? I can't see it anywhere else.) Finally I can upvote it. Sheesh!
Also, tried searching for "fedifuture@videos.elenarossini.com"
- a search term that I think you can only find if you have already found the video? Catch-22?
- finds the right channel (which is neither of the ones found in my original search)... but no videos... not even the one it just found when searching for that URL. Same when I'm on the page of the video on my instance ( https://peertube.wtf/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN ) and click on its channel name... no videos.???
So, there's a chance of me being able to eventually interact with the video... if someone else somehow finds an underlying URL and helpfully gives it to me and I then copy and paste it into my instance's search bar.
Meanwhile with content on every non-fediverse social network, it just takes one click to reach and interact with it (comment, upvote etc).
A social network system that breaks the basic building block of the web, the link, seems to be shooting itself in the foot. I hope the fediverse comes up with a much more user-friendly solution soon.
- Comment on 📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media 1 month ago:
I'm still new to the Fediverse; how do I view that link in my home instance of Peertube so that I can save, upvote, comment etc?
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 1 month ago:
Me neither.
- Browser: Zen (fork of Firefox)
- Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
- App: FreeTube
I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.
Every now and then, videos won't play because of some change by Google, usually it's just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 month ago:
My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up... and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)
(Just don't try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 month ago:
Why would anyone not like Russia or North Korea? They're led by great guys, lovely guys. So strong! The haircuts. The uniforms!
- Comment on Two Venitian Islands housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity 1 month ago:
Thanks for the interesting read!
Maize came to Italy (and the rest of the Old World) from the Americas as part of the Columbian Exchange, but not all the related knowledge and customs came with it.
A diet centred on simple maize actually leeches nutrients out of the body, hence vitamin deficiency diseases like pellagra.
People in America had for millennia treated maize with a process called nixtamalization (simmering in an alkaline solution), which changes the maize's properties, increases its nutritional value and prevents pellagra. People took the crop around the world but crucially not this process (or least, it didn't "stick"; people decided they didn't like the changed flavour and didn't bother with it).
So people outside of the Americas, like those in the Veneto (the mainland region by Venice), suffered health problems despite their full bellies. (This also happened among poor non-native people in the southern United States, who also had a diet heavy in maize but also no knowledge or custom of nixtamalization.)
I live in Mexico, in the state of Puebla, not far from where maize was domesticated and nixtamalization invented. I'm also not far from a town called Chipilo, where people speak... Venetian.
Because in the late 19th century, Venetians chose to emigrate away from the unnixtamalized maize- & pellagra-induced poverty in their homeland... and ended up in the place where maize and nixtamalization came from and never suffered pellagra again, and became prosperous.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipilo - Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 months ago:
Only started with Reddit last year, left when the country it's based in started to threaten the country I'm in and a bunch of others, too.
