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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
DRM is still a thing, as is region locking
Lots of Youtube videos can’t be seen in some countries for example. Netflix and other streaming platforms show different things on different dates depending on the region.
I remember when it was a thing, because it’s still a thing!
- Comment on Living without a private vehicle in Brisbane is impossible for residents due to the city’s sprawling layout and limited public transport options 2 weeks ago:
Well shit. I’ve lived here for 30 years without owning a car. Guess I have to buy one now…
- Comment on NaRuLe 2 weeks ago:
Chemistry cat!
- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 2 weeks ago:
That would be the missing bit! Cheers
- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 2 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m missing something in this article. If he was taking the music but also faking the play counts with bots, how were other artists missing out?
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
All you had to do was brew a coffee…
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
I want the opposite! I currently use a fold phone because phones are too small :P
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care whether it’s technically android or not, I care that it’s not a tool to let google in to my life.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
It’s a fork of android? Is that meant to be a “gotcha” or something?
My point is, this is the last time I let google control my phone.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
It’s an Android fork that has been degoogled
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
At this stage, I’m thinking one of the Motorola phones that will run Graphene out of the box.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
There was even an entire standards document drawn up (as a practical joke), called the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP 1.0). To this day though, there the server status response 418 - I’m a teapot still exists. It was defined as part of HTCPCP as the error code returned when you tried to get a teapot to brew coffee :)
Web nerds took their coffee seriously! Or maybe they didn’t? Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
And again, confirming that my current phone will be the last android device I own.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 3 weeks ago:
Your first two options contradict each other
1) It adds fat 2) It doesn’t add fat, because your body burns up fat when you sleep
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Native english speaker, B1 spanish.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a John Farnham song
- Comment on Native bee / wasp ID 4 weeks ago:
It could be Leucospis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucospis) which are parasitic wasps that prey on solitary bees
- Comment on Eyes of Iran: How the Islamic Republic secretly monitors citizens in real time 5 weeks ago:
This is widely documented in hundred of articles?
A reasonable article would acknowledge that this
- Comment on Eyes of Iran: How the Islamic Republic secretly monitors citizens in real time 5 weeks ago:
Cool. Now tell the story about similar technologies used by the nations invading Iran
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 weeks ago:
That was my bad. I was espousing federation, not AP specifically, and I see that federation is built in to the idea
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 weeks ago:
It seems to me that activity pub could still be useful for a couple of reasons. If you live in the suburbs of a city, then bring able to also access an instance for your suburb and your city might be useful.
And if you live in multiple locales, or if want to stay connected to your old home town etc
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 5 weeks ago:
lbz and pbz were defederated from lemmynsfw for hosting communities like that, and we are defederated from fedinsfw for the same reason
- Comment on Turns out Generative AI was a scam 5 weeks ago:
Generative AI was a scam
So is Substack…
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what I meant too. Men and women almost universally have different vocal patterns though, even when they ostensibly have the same accent.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 month ago:
All of them?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 month ago:
The ones we have installed respond to IR signals from your TV remote. It doesn’t matter what the signal is, just point the remote at the smoke alarm and it will turn off
