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schnurrito ,

oddly enough those also correspond approximately to how well I (native German speaker) know each of these languages; but why is there a stereotype that us Python devs and Esperantists need to shower more? :(

schnurrito ,

tests are for confirming your code STILL works if someone ever changes something

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The report cites Meta, the largest social media company in the world, for its vast role in permitting and enabling far-right propaganda and movements to use its platforms to grow members and garner support in the US and abroad.

yeah allowing free flow of information is bad for democracy…

in what kind of bizarro world do we live nowadays anyway

schnurrito ,

There are hidden cameras that look like power strips.

schnurrito ,

Do we need a general term? Someone who uploads their videos to a video platform is probably a “video producer”.

www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Conten…

www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creato…

schnurrito ,

video → video producer

audio → musician, podcaster, … depending on the type of audio

text media → author

schnurrito ,

I don’t have a very good answer to that either tbh; do we really need to do that so often?

schnurrito ,

no, this is one of the worst answers on Stack Overflow

OP had a specific question to capture opening tags. The thing OP asked about can be done with regular expressions. It is true that arbitrarily nested languages like HTML cannot generally be parsed with regular expressions, but that is not what OP asked about.

schnurrito ,

??? Non sequitur

schnurrito ,

Is this valid HTML? My understanding is that that attribute value needs to be escaped, i.e <value of "myattribute">.

schnurrito OP ,

Nothing of course. I post stories about KOSA in order to make people aware what’s happening about it.

schnurrito ,

so by now even Microsoft acknowledges that it has lost the battle of making computing synonymous with Windows?

FOSS release of Windows when?

schnurrito ,

and this is why nowadays I use different usernames on EVERY website I register on unless I use my real name anyway and want the things I do there to be associated with me

schnurrito ,

No but there might still be something in my comment history that someone could use against me.

schnurrito ,

and here I thought complaints about the ribbon were late 2000s, early 2010s stuff, incredible we still get these kinds of things in 2024

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ISPs are rich too?

schnurrito ,

Melons (not watermelons, these things) ought to taste good. Pizza usually has ham on it and “prosciutto con melone” is a well-known dish.

schnurrito OP ,

I mean I agree with that in principle, but: before the Internet, of course big corporations influenced kids and adults! Before the internet only big corporations had the resources and practical ability to distribute any information to a lot of people.

The promise of the internet was that we would have a society where we could all have a say and the flow of information would be democratized. You are right that, because of “algorithms”, that promise hasn’t really been fulfilled.

schnurrito OP ,

I certainly agree that the Internet should be by and for individuals; whether we can in the long term do completely without corporations, I am not sure, but the current “algorithmic curation” is definitely a problem.

schnurrito OP ,

I remember reading once that in the very first years of the existence of the German Democratic Republic, television was the form of mass media that was most critical of the regime. It just wasn’t as influential yet as newspapers and radio, so they didn’t care about it as much; when it became more popular, it too came more under the control of the communist regime.

schnurrito ,

which isn’t a bad thing either if you want to encourage people to have more kids (which of course is debatable whether that should be a goal, but many people think it should)

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I live in a country where the voting age is 16. It used to be 18 and I don’t think this change has caused many concrete policy changes: young people aren’t big or unified enough a voting bloc to meaningfully affect the results.

I tend to be in favor of letting young people have more rights at a younger age in general (in part because I remember being young and not seeing any good reason why I shouldn’t), so I’m definitely not in favor of raising it to 18 again or further.

schnurrito ,

Stallman was right.

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when he said that software should be free as in freedom, because that would solve this problem

schnurrito ,

that’s right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads

How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with?

Suppose I lost my phone and I could use find my phone to find it. The problem is I don’t have my phone in order to find my phone with. I don’t have a computer I don’t have a laptop All I have is a phone. How on earth would I use find my phone to find my phone?

schnurrito ,

You don’t, if you have absolutely no way of accessing the internet or a phone network other than the phone you want to find, you’re out of luck and have to find it manually.

schnurrito ,

maybe someone once performed a command like “for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them” and didn’t exclude subdirectories from that

no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that

‘Clearly chicken you weirdo’: People respond to JD Vance sharing video he claims shows migrants grilling cats (www.independent.co.uk)

Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio “eating cats” — but instead appears to show nothing more than...

schnurrito ,

Lots of people were 100% convinced in 2016 that there was no way Trump could win. I know because, TBH, I was one of them. So I don’t think it’s anywhere near out of the question that Trump might win this year; I do not know it, neither do you, neither does anyone else.

schnurrito ,

I think that mainly mocks the idea that if only people talked to each other more, communicated with each other more, tried to see things from the others’ perspective, then everything would be great and everyone would arrive at a common conclusion.

schnurrito , (edited )

There is no inherent security problem with changing the content of the clipboard. That doesn’t do anything until the user pastes it somewhere; of course if that “somewhere” is a command prompt, then that is a security problem, but users really ought to check what they’re pasting there before they execute it (yeah, I know, “ought to”).

It would be possible to do it the way you say, but that would mean that the user would need to allow that for many websites; I don’t think copying from apps like Google Docs would work anymore, and “here’s your access token, click here to copy it to the clipboard” features certainly wouldn’t.

The screenshot in the OP would then probably be changed to include a step “click: allow clipboard access”; I think most people who fall for the screenshot in the OP would also fall for that.

schnurrito ,

I am not seeing any movements by governments that would “restore some freedom for individuals”, anywhere in the world. All I am seeing is censorship.

schnurrito ,

If the Australian government is going to regulate ex-Twitter, it’s going to be writing a law that applies to all websites (or maybe: all websites above a certain size), including here on the fediverse; not just to ex-Twitter.

schnurrito ,

One side’s “wisdom of the crowd”, “truth” and “knowledge and democracy” is the other’s “conspiracy theories”, “disinformation”. 🙁

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