I remember in the 2000s thinking it was completely unrealistic that the dominance of Windows might ever come to an end. Too much old software written only for it that no one is going to rewrite for anything else.

Then smartphones became a thing and we found out it was in fact possible to rewrite a lot of important software for them.

There are operating systems that started to be developed not very long ago, e.g. Redox and SerenityOS. Those may have the answer to your question.

You can check things like this at isup.me - it doesn’t show an error for me and I can access that instance too, so maybe it has been fixed.

In my country the law is that if there is a crosswalk within a certain distance, 25 meters if I recall, you have to use the crosswalk. Otherwise you are allowed to cross elsewhere after making sure the road is free.

(How do you know how long 25 meters is? Most trams in my city are 35 meters long, so if an entire tram platform is between the nearest crosswalk and you, it’s legal there.)

Yes, but then when would I scroll through Mastodon in order to find articles to post here on Lemmy?!

I cannot find it anymore, but remember recently reading a blog post about a language where their concept of directions was “toward the river”, “away from the river (or: into the jungle)”, “down the river”, “up the river”, and they expressed only those directions. So when a western researcher asked them how they called “left” and “right”, they gave different answers every time, or something like that…

I think “allen Ernstes” is more accurately translated “in all seriousness”, not “actually”; so: “the moderator here, in all seriousness, deleted…”.

If the Harry Potter universe taught me one thing, it is that a world of magic is a terrible place. Anyone could be anyone else transformed, people can read minds, etc etc etc., no wonder Alastor Moody became so paranoid.

It’s also a much more obscure game, my parents have a copy of it (so I played it many times in my childhood) but I’ve never encountered anyone else with one, nor do I remember seeing it sold.

Also we usually didn’t call it by its German name “Was soll ich mich sorgen? Mach du dir Sorgen!” (more or less a direct translation of the above English), but just called it the “Selbstverteidigungskarte” (self-defense card).

There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Magazine_Card_Game

I only played it in German, where the names are different, but according to that article, the card is called “What Me Worry? You Worry!” in English: if you are getting something bad done to you, you can play that and instead do the same thing to the person who did that to you.

Already a thing: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/skyfall-ai-can-ai-run-business-without-human-ceo-1809856

There are plenty of carnivore species that are also prey. House cats and some other small cat species are one example. Polar bears mainly eat seals, which are also carnivores.

Most popular programming languages have English-language keywords and that can’t be changed, so we certainly have to learn those.

How we learn to name symbols (variable/function names), that obviously depends on the programming course. But most real-world code has most symbols written in English with the possible exception of business-specific terminology that the business doesn’t use in English. The same is true of comments.

It’s not just (in) the EU though.

There just aren’t any good guys in this story.

Meta and its platforms suck and the world would be a better place without them. People who are claiming online platforms should be held liable for being “addictive” suck, too. Should I be able to successfully sue my Lemmy instance admin too because I like to spend time here too much?

I’m reminded of my parents limiting my forum time because they thought I (then a preteen) was “addicted” to forums in the mid-2000s. I still don’t think they were right about that, and I don’t sympathize with people now claiming the equivalent thing about Instagram et al. either.

Governments are only now starting to introduce stronger regulations

yes, and are thereby killing any opportunity for us, the people, to solve the problem ourselves by operating platforms independent from big tech >:( Meta will be able to comply with any regulations governments will ever think of, their business depends on it; fediverse instances meanwhile…

Joke’s on them, I use an ad blocker, so those 1741 partners can do all the calculations they want about which ads to show me… I won’t see those ads anyway. :P

not to my knowledge; if there is, please show me a documentation because I (who may have to do it) am not aware of it

It would probably be possible to enforce this with a bot (with moderator rights) that deletes all posts that don’t match the rule, but I don’t have the resources to operate something like that.

I think it would be a good idea, but would appreciate any input.

Two monitors, so I can have Lemmy on one and keep the IDE in my peripheral vision on the other.