As with every legal topic on the Internet: depending on your (international) jurisdiction.

Nice. Thanks for sharing that.

As much as I’d like it to be, it doesn’t have the network effect/popularity that Reddit does. It covers maybe 70-80% of my Digg+ needs, but there are many topics/subs I want that Lemmy just doesn’t have.

“Be the change you want to see” is always there: if a topic/sub doesn’t exist, you can always create it yourself. But no good deed goes unpunished, so you’re now the owner/moderator…

It’s regional. I grew up in Australia, where it’s pronounced as it is in the US: dah-tah. But I now live in the UK, where it’s pronounced day-tah.

The same is true of “router”, the network device (but not the woodworking tool): rau-tah vs roo-ter.

Working in IT made it a ballache for a while until I remembered to always change my pronunciation for them. 🙄

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

Been there. Christ, it was hard. But the vet team left us alone for the end. The best of the worst situation, so to speak.

Ten years later and I still tear up at the memory of it.

Knowing I have the same experience coming in the near future sucks. But it’s better than the alternative, I guess…

Sending me news links that are social media posts containing a link to a news article. Especially if it’s from Xitter: no way I’m logging into that place just to see replies.

It tells me that they didn’t read the article and that they expect me to care what the shit posters reacting to the headline think.

Definitely agree. I had zero interest in sculpture until I walked into the Louvre and d’Orsay museums in Paris. I was transfixed by the sculptures there. Specifically the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Rape of Persephone, and the Venus de Milo.

As in staring at each piece for nearly an hour, unable to imagine how the artist got that out of stone. It blew my mind, and the memory of it still does.

I don’t care how good your photos are, or whatever visualisation technology you’re using, nothing - absolutely nothing - compares to standing in the same room as the real thing.

Conversely, being in the same room as the Mona Lisa was unexpectedly disappointing. It’s so small and hard to see with 800 fellow tourists crammed into the viewing room. That probably is better examined online, though seeing it in person is an experience.

The Sistine Chapel is also something worth seeing in person. You can’t judge the scale from photos.

Haha, I recognise myself in OP’s comment, I think. I was soundly downboated for my comment. 😄

Internet points are the objective for some people, regardless of the platform or meaning. I’m usually reluctant to tell someone they’re having fun the wrong way - whatever floats your boat - but I’d much prefer some kind of reputation based on quality rather than the groupthink “hur hur, that made me spit out my drink” system that Reddit and Lemmy use.

But what do I know. I’m just some Internet rando with opaque motives, just like the rest of us.

Edit: For the ideologues spouting the tired “Lemmy doesn’t have karma!” party line, the number alongside your username is what people are taking about, not what we call it. FFS.

Why do people constantly ask this question in this community? I swear this gets asked at least weekly. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Karma farming isn’t a thing here. Yet people seem happy to groundhog day the hell out of it…

Finally. I’ve been using <blah>.arpa ones for years.

Two of my favourites are:

• I’m touching cloth.
• Dropping the kids off at the pool.

Thanks for looking into that, and for the reply - this would explain a lot.

Coupled with mlmym issue 104, noting that those settings are always stored client-side in the cookie, it explains what I’m experiencing: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/104

Thanks, and for that Issue link. As you say, I expect it’s just nuking the cookie and everything related to it just disappears.

At least it’s on someone’s radar. :)

Edit: I sent a message to support, as suggested by slazer2au, and got a response pointing out that 30 days seems to be hard-coded into mlmym: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/blob/a518844b005179623d0d7a31f45966cd8a6b8a96/routes.go#L794

That and those settings all being stored client-side explains everything. Not sure why those choices were made, but now I know why.

If I’m sick in public and don’t know the cause (i.e. could be COVID), I’ll wear a surgical mask. If I’m in an environment where COVID/similar may be likely from others, I’ll wear an N95 mask.

I have boxes of each, left over from the coronalypse, so it makes sense to me.

Nice. But as a BitWarden user, it’s useless to me. I’ve never put all my eggs in one account basket.

Passwords on one service, MFA on another, email on yet another, etc.

Saw that in the cinema and went into real (medical) physical shock at the kerb-stomping scene. I’d never thought of or seen that before. Holy crap, it shook me for hours after as I warmed up again, etc.

First line of the article:

Two of the biggest deepfake pornography websites have now started blocking people trying to access them from the United Kingdom.

This isn’t (yet) the UK blocking access to them as part of a Great Firewall of Britain thing. This is the sites themselves blocking visitors from the UK, the same as porn sites for various US states.

As with porn sites, it’ll be using the geoIP tag of your IP address, which is notoriously unreliable, especially near geopolitical boundaries.

Using a VPN or even a third-party (rather than your ISP’s) DNS server will often get around them. However, doing so will eventually probably get you in trouble.

Another subscription model, you mean?

I suppose you adapt, as you don’t have an alternative nor a frame of reference of what “normal” is?

Like people born without a limb, or those who discover they’re double-jointed or hyper-extensive/-flexible when their classmates react at their ability to touch their thumb to their wrist.

It’s definitely curious and worth understanding.