She would follow an online guide to change the emoji font, not noticing that it’s for Windows 10, not back up the registry before editing the seguiemj.ttf entry to Noto Color Emoji.ttf and thus freezing any program trying to render emoji, breaking the OS because there’s one in her username on the login screen. No, Windows 11 can’t handle her.

Changing the default emoji font is easy and safe on Linux with fontconfig, just add the font name among aliases to sans-serif in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf (user) or /etc/fonts/local.conf (global) and you can use any emoji font you can get your hands on. Heck, even grub comes with emoji (monochrome, obviously) in its default unicode.pf2 font.

In the US, cops are afraid to be killed by people too. Or love pretending to face tough criminals (and their dogs, apparently.) That’s why SWATting is so overpowering.

Of course, text prediction machines would create low-entropy passwords, that would be awful.

They mean “coded with AI”.

Really? I don’t think it’s even possible to fully relex English letter by letter without making something very unpronounceable because it is nowhere near phonetic.

As per a Reddit comment, it’s really a conlang, just leaning quite a bit on English and other Germanic languages despite the apparent attempts to make it look all foreign:

Eh, Dovahzul isn’t just a relex of English. Yes, it’s isolating and has a Germanic phonology, but its grammar works fairly differently if I understand correctly. Verbs don’t inflect for person or number and the language also supports zero copula. The language has no continuous and verbs with no accompanying auxiliary can be interpreted either present or past, as opposed to the present+future | preterite distinction of Germanic. You can also just use the participle inflection with no auxiliary to express the perfect aspect.

Nouns also can take suffixes indicating the possessor, articles are usually omitted and a distinct article exists to mark formality, and adjective order relative to the noun it modifies, as long as it is next to the noun, is arbitrary.

And this is just the canon stuff. Check out thuum.com if you’re interested. I agree that Dovahzul could have perhaps been better done, but it is by no means a direct 1 to 1 relex of English. Sure, it isn’t super complicated and in some ways kind of resembles a relexified creole à la Afrikaans, but it isn’t devoid of creativity.

That said, this is a really interesting project and I like the Tibeto-Burman aesthetic, although typically monosyllabic morphemes with complex clusters is a pretty Germanic trait if you ask me

There’s an entire dictionary and the Dragonborn song does in fact use these translations and the specific grammar. Yes, the vocabulary is such that the same pairs of words tend to rhyme as those in English, but that’s a phonetic mapping, and the number of syllables isn’t correlated as strongly as between other Germanic languages.

As for the runes, this comic uses simply English written in the Dovazhul runic script, possible because the near-1:1 mapping between the 26 letters and 34 runes (in fact, the only word changed is beseech → “BESEEKH” because of the lack of a “C” rune (probably not a concious choice by the comic’s author, this font does c→K automatically); no runes that map to digraphs are used, for example your → “YOUR” rather than “YO[UR]”. This can be considered a relex or simply a substitution cipher. If Dovazhul text actually quoted English words, they would probably not use the substitution, they’d leave it as-is or rewrite phonetically like Russian does.

What is it for, then? Just let them enjoy things.

It’s a laptop so the battery will keep the RAM powered. Very clever and practical, especially for files so confidential you only have one copy − data burglars will be looking for disks. /s

o noble and mighty dragons, we beseekh* you, grant us safe passage through your territory.

we are but humble adventurers on a quest that may yet bring hope to our troubled realm…

It’s just a substitution cipher
https://www.dafont.com/dovahkiin.font?text=o+noble+and+mighty+dragons%2C+we+beseech+you%2C+grant+us+safe+passage+through+your+territory&psize=xs

* originally beseech but Dovazhul doesn’t have a C equivalent; the font (below) reuses the K glyph

There is enough text, would be easy to decode with basic frequency analysis but searching among “cipher fonts” made it show up. I think even Google Lens (like @NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world probably used) could identify it

Also, how’s the small Möbius twist handled? Just sewn on top?

Only asocial media

↑ Legitimate use of homoglyphs ↑

Well, how do you think most ideographics were created? Graphical representation of an idea.

Weird, both versions seem to exist.

Wiktionary

denary

Yes, that’s technically the correct 10th term in the Latin-based unary-binary-ternary-… sequence but nobody calls it that… I wondered what your mother tongue is but I couldn’t find a language in which the preferred name for “decimal system” would use den- rather than dec-, dek-, des- or a completely different word. Not to mention you avoided senidenary for obvious reasons…

Of course, they helped build the pyramids.

Also, this is canon:

(Minions, 2015)

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I’m sure this line in Chris Titus Tech’s Winutil will go well

Disable Windows AI

<#Line 962#>     Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *Copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

https://winutil.christitus.com/dev/tweaks/z--advanced-tweaks---caution/windowsai/

Yes, in digital logic, ones and zeros are almost always represented as LOW (negative pole of power supply) and HIGH (positive pole of power supply), such as 0 V and 3.3 V, referenced to ground. This is based on properties of both bipolar and CMOS transistors, fundamental logic elements, where zero base-emitter current or zero gate-source voltage means they’re non-conductive (I hate using open/closed for obvious reasons). However, high-speed and/or long-distance communication pretty much requires differential signalling, which is pure AC measuring between the two conductors. (Just compare SCART (coaxial analog baseband signal, RGB+bidirectional composite SD A/V) and DP or HDMI (shielded twisted digital differential pairs, unidirectional 4k+ A/V) cables by thickness and bandwidth.) And much like sound, radio waves can only be AC.

A piano/guitar string is plucked and then vibrates at its own natural frequency (plus in practice, higher modes aka harmonics/overtones defined by where it’s plucked and mechanical design). Wind instruments are designed to create continuous oscillation from constant flow of air by amplifying reflected waves with incoming air pressure energy (blowing straight into a cylinder won’t work, hence the weird pipe shapes, holes and reeds). Either way, they resonate at their design frequency. So do self-oscillating piezo buzzers, they have a tap on the crystal that provides delayed feedback (electrical pulse of the mechanically reflected wave) feeding into a transistor that “kicks” the crystal again at the right time. Meanwhile, a speaker membrane, ideally does not have a resonant frequency (responds equally to disturbances at any frequency between 20 Hz and 20 kHz) and needs to be pushed constantly to create sound. Like the membrane of a mechanical phonograph/turntable, the shape of the wave it should create is delivered to it in real time, except electromagnetically. That’s why player pianos need very little data (literal punch cards: one bit per beat and string (ignoring dynamics), so up to about 240 × 88 ≈ 2.6 kB per minute, uncompressed, or 240 B/min per channel) to reproduce entire songs as opposed to audio recordings that require samples at decent precision (16 bits is generally good enough) at at least 2x the highest frequency to be reproduced (about 5 MB/min for one CD-quality channel, uncompressed). Yes, if you feed a pressure wave into a tube, string, drum membrane etc., you will be able to hear any sound out of it (although its frequency response will cause distortions unless it’s specifically designed with a flat one, like a phonograph horn).

Yup. When you add an electron to one end of a wire, the change in the electric field will be felt very quickly (high percentage of light speed) across the wire and the electrons, now outnumbering protons, will repulse and want to shed the extra one from any point in the wire.

Like when you add an atom to a sealed gas container.

I could add to this analogy. Yes, the wind passes from a high-pressure point to a low-pressure one but that’s just direct current. The weather can change, reversing the wind every few minutes (alternating current) and you can still harvest it with a turbine (for example, a lightbulb filament or heater lights up in either polarity) but it wouldn’t help a ship with a basic sail travel to a destination (much like DC motors, it would change direction when polarity is reversed). And then there’s sound, akin to very quick polarity changes where particles never travel very far. It doesn’t carry much energy but the waves travel faster than wind and can be modulated with a signal to carry information. Both wired and wireless electronic communication is kind of like that. (Except wireless is decoupled from the charged particles that create the waves, the disturbances in E and B fields propagate on their own without matter)

There’s a HUGE number of electrons in everything with a massive total negative electric charge but almost exactly balanced by protons. That’s why electrons move very slowly in a conductor but still transmit lots of current (electric charge over time).

Accumulating charge in a place is what charging a capacitor or battery is, it creates voltage (potential difference). Charges in an electric field store energy but also their presence/absence can represent data (DRAM and flash memory) and the field has various effects we can use, such as deflecting the beam in a CRT oscilloscope or controlling a stronger flow of electrons in a vacuum tube (valve) or field-effect transistor.

And the current also creates magnetic field with some similar effects (deflecting the beam in a TV CRT) and some different ones (attracting magnets in a motor, inducing current in a transformer’s secondary winding).

Plus, both fields can oscillate at a vast range of freequencies and travel in waves, making radio, microwave ovens, vision, UV sterilization, X-ray machines etc. possible (although each of these applications uses the properties of EM waves at specific frequencies differently).