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They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.

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I think I understand why this is bad, but I am not confident in my technical understanding of the mechanics here. Will appreciate an explainer :)...

In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?

I know gator-aid and its like advertise that they have lots of them. And I know sometimes I feel bad if I sweat a lot and just drink water. But are they just advertising… salt? Are there different kinds of electrolytes, and if so are they interchangable?

Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them “hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it”, or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?

Why is the recent news around the LK-99 room-temperature superconductor such a big deal? What material impact would those findings have on electronics and modern technology?

I’m completely out of the loop.

I like shopping in book stores. There’s something about wandering the aisles and waiting for a book to jump out at you that I can’t get shopping online. Unfortunately, whenever I compare the price of a book Amazon has every in-person store beat, often pricing their offerings 30%-50% lower (or around $10/book in my...

Inspired by this comic: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fbf267fc-575d-40bb-ad9d-3bcb15cd6a77.png

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I feel like whenever I see the ampersand on this website, it’s followed with “amp;”. I’ve noticed it other places on the internet also. Why does this happen? Is it some programming thing?...

I’ve been trying to keep up with it but I just don’t understand how he profits from this scheme?

I’ve heard a lot about this game, but I just don’t know how to play it. Can someone fill me in?

Im always confused by RGB. I learned that if you want orange, you mix red and yellow. If you want green, you mix blue and yellow, if you want purple, you mix red and blue....

So almost every GDPR cookie consent banner out there has a section for "legitimate interest" cookies that they can leave on by default and you will inadvertently accept even if you choose "Reject all" unless you go to the detailed settings and disabled those too....

For example, anyone could use Let’s Encrypt to get a trusted certificate, so what makes this trustworthy? Or why not trust everyone that signs their own certificates with a program like OpenSSL?

I keep seeing references to RICO in the Trump Georgia stuff. What is it and how is it relevant to that case?

What is it, what are its consequences, how does it work, why is it there, why do we care about it?

Also why is it sometimes called a federated ID? Does it have to be an email address or could any value work?

I really don’t have a lot of background on cluster munitions; it only really came into my perception in response to the controversy over the US providing them to Ukraine. As I understand it, the controversy is because they often don’t all explode reliably, and unexploded munitions can then explode months or years later when...