because at the time it was impressive and now it’s not

When I read things like this, I struggle to understand the economic logic behind it.

How much money does Microsoft really expect to get from more people using Edge instead of Chrome? I mean, both of them are provided free of charge anyway. Does the control over the default search engine or the advertising technology or something like that really bring them more money than these “rewards” cost?

wat

*looks at username* oh, I remember that username from a few previous threads…

Reforming the GDPR is in principle a good idea because many of the terms used in it are so vague that it’s completely unclear what it does or doesn’t mean.

Somehow I suspect that improving this isn’t what’s going to happen…

Pretty sure “flora” and “flower” are related words, yeah.

I don’t think I understand the question.

The Internet isn’t supposed to have a “center”, at all. If it ever does, something has gone wrong.

Federation, like what we’re doing here, can make it so that everyone’s personal “center” can be whatever platform they choose to use most of the time. Someone trying to communicate may be using an entirely different one, it will still get federated to whatever you prefer.

thanks, that looks promising, will look into it

I don’t really need a way to scroll with vim keys; when I’m not actively typing something, the arrow and pgup/pgdown keys (and especially the space bar) are easier to reach than hjkl.

What I would really like is to have modal editing in text fields in the browser, e.g. writing Lemmy comments like I would in vim. Is there an extension for that too? :(

What part didn’t work? I use that all the time in IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code.

“Government computing” is way too broad a term for there to be a standard for it. There are many open standards for many aspects of computing, and adopting them is obviously a good thing, but every institution has different needs.

In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.

Mia from Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Maybe they planned to make some changes, but never got around to them or at least didn’t get them to work the way they intended.

I’m too young to have gotten chain emails 30 years ago, but https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/courtroom.quips.html may be from that era too.

In any case, there have been way more people than those two in world history who have had the first name “Joseph”, and it works equally well for all of them.

I don’t use one except for work (to connect to corporate networks).

A VPN mostly changes which entity you have to trust (from your ISP to your VPN provider). I don’t have a reason to distrust my ISP any more than any VPN provider. I don’t have any need to regularly get around any geoblocking.

When I do privacy-sensitive things, I use Tor, which is actually effective at hiding who I am and what I am doing.

We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible “g” followed by an audible “n” when reading “GNOME” and find it weird that the ordinary word “gnome” is pronounced with a silent “g” in English. The cognate in our first language is “Gnom”, pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

That would cause me to miss many interesting threads that were created at a time when I happened not to be looking at Lemmy.

“New comments” it is for me, that causes threads to get bumped to the top as long as other people still find them interesting.

no, exit codes work the other way round: 0 = success, !0 = error