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  • Skłodowska-Curie also spoke Russian, French, English and likely German.

  • You don't get to pick 3. Which is the top one?

  • Obligatory AI ≠ LLM. How would scrapers benefit from the LLMs they help train? The defense is obvious, LLM-generated slop traps against scrapers already exist.

  • Hey! IPv6 is valid in the inter-network context and needs no dots!

  • What kind of "light validation"? I'm guessing a .*@.* regex match.

  • I've reached redirect loops on all Microsoft accounts I've had at school or work... Apparently a very common problem that's existed for years.

  • There is a Czech saying "Kdo židli má, bydlí": Who has a chair, lives (in the reside sense).

  • Yup. The real reason for lack of invasions is "not worth it".

  • Which IOF?Disambiguation

    Edit: Is IOF for "Israeli occupation forces" used outside Al Jazeera?

  • The ferret (domesticated European polecat) of the Mustelidae (badger, weasel) family is actually closer to canines, belonging to the Caniformia (dog-like) suborder that also includes wolves, bears, raccoons, otters ans seals.

  • In a literal sense, you only need one exception to disprove an "every" claim.

  • I have a free 1 MiB/day plan. I only pay €8/year to top up the prepaid SIM. This would be AMAZING in 2005 but now the number of webpages that work on my 2G feature phone via Opera Mini is shrinking. Not to mention, there is no privacy because of the transcoding server. A stock-firmware 4G smartphone would eat through this data in a minute just with background apps calling home.

    With the right software (rooted Android, custom clients, transcoding server at home) one could theoretically get all day of use of text- and sparsely image-based services such as email, RSS, SSH, timetables, Lemmy... I'd need at least a data blocker for backhround apps, a kiB meter in the notification bar and a confirmation pop-up for every transaction above 10 kiB (this can be estimated by content length).

  • They are regional indicators, groups (usually pairs) form the flags, which are in fact multiple characters but behave like a single glyph in a text editor. You can input them and other Unicode "fonts" using the Irregular Expressions keyboard. Their rendering differs wildly but they are usually small caps, sometimes in boxes (dotted or blue) or bold/filled blue themselves.

    For people using Lemmy clients that only show usernames, @Kolanaki@pawb.social's display name is "🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮". Without spaces nor zero-width non-joiners, the name becomes "🇰🌀🇱🇦🇳🇦🇰🇮" (LAos, NAmibia, KIribati) - you can copy the name into an editor, delete the spaces yourself and see the flags appear. I'd be really surprised if any automatically inserted ZWNJs.

  • Good luck trying to break through the mobile cartels.

  • Meanwhile Czech carrier cartel:

    BTW free Wi-Fi exploits are overrated with widespread HSTS

  • And the author wrongly said

    PD will not negotiate down to 1W power levels

    The correct way ro ask for 0.8 W (5 V, 0.16 A) is to request 5 volts, any current. Doesn't matter if the charger is capable of 500 mA (legacy USB), 1 A or 3.1 A. The PD standard can accomodate the watch, it's just that the watch lacks active electronics that are required to talk to the charger (and even the supplied C-C cable is non-compliant by being power-only).

    Edit: apparently PD allows 0.1A steps between 0.1 A and 3 A for 5 volts so it's technically possible for a PD charger to deny power to the watch if it's VERY underpowered and can't even put out 1 W. Still, it's the watch's fault for lacking correct PD implementation.