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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 monthsEnglish
391·2 days agoShould that not be the job of a defense attorney? Surely the defendant knew he didn’t commit that crime; so how come the defendant didn’t look through the documents with his attorney and go “wait, this isn’t right”? If not even the defense is competently representing its own interests, no wonder things like this happen.
Plenty of things in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•'Unlock my f---ing anime': Houston man arrested after threatening call to governor's officeEnglish
31·4 days agoWe really need to teach the general public about Tor.
…or maybe not because that could cause governments to become a lot more interested in attempting to block or limit it too… :(
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon.world cancels famous German author Kazim's posts - now he left Mastodon completelyEnglish
5·7 days agoI think “allen Ernstes” is more accurately translated “in all seriousness”, not “actually”; so: “the moderator here, in all seriousness, deleted…”.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.
8·10 days agoYes, this is true (although the name change happened years before the major version was no longer 10) and doesn’t contradict anything I wrote. But the first version of Mac OS X was an entirely new OS technologically unrelated to Mac OS 9; not the case for later version jumps.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are you ready for the day the internet splits?
1·10 days agoTrue, that usually costs money though, while Tor is free.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.
6·10 days agoIn general no, at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS the name change happened several years before the architecture change. But I don’t know what the distinction is on that graph; it’s possible it just depends on how the OS is called in the user agent string?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.
21·10 days agoThe OS was renamed at some point; the first versions of the Unix/NEXTstep-based OS made by Apple were named Mac OS X, then at some point they switched to “OS X” (which hardly anyone ever actually said), then at some point to “macOS”. So it’s somewhat silly that they are separate lines and I don’t know what the difference is on that graph.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are you ready for the day the internet splits?
2·10 days agoexcept that laws about social media usually target any online service regardless of technology
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are you ready for the day the internet splits?
2·10 days agoI don’t see Tor solving the problem of I.D. verification on social media, for example.
It does by disguising the location you’re accessing the website from, which may or may not have such laws.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•UK Surveillance Bill: wider powers will take UK closer to becoming a surveillance state
1·11 days agoI was wondering how much closer it can get than it is now… then I noticed the date.
not wrong though, we are lucky that the apparent sizes of the moon and sun are as close as they are on Earth :D
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism linkEnglish
3·14 days agoWhy would he be against vaccines now?
While I don’t have the answer, it isn’t anything new and predates the pandemic: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/17/fact-check-republicans-run-afoul-of-medical-thinking-with-autism-assertions/
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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•[meta] Suggestion: can we make it mandatory that every normal post here has to have the "ELI5" words in the title like in the original sub?English
2·14 days agonot 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.
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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•[meta] Suggestion: can we make it mandatory that every normal post here has to have the "ELI5" words in the title like in the original sub?English
5·14 days agoI think it would be a good idea, but would appreciate any input.
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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•[META] New mods wantedEnglish
9·15 days agoI would be willing to help out. I am on Lemmy pretty much every day.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•What is the best alternative to google maps, not for navigation, but for business discoverability and reviews?
12·16 days agoFinding restaurants can be done with the same OpenStreetMap-based apps as navigation. I use OsmAnd all the time to find out where restaurants are.
But OpenStreetMap doesn’t have a review functionality, nor is it trivial to add one from an external site to one. Apparently there have been efforts in this direction, but I don’t know a lot about them: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Reviews
So I don’t have an answer for reviews. But the review databases that currently exist are a manipulation battleground which people should take with a grain of salt anyway.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Juno Computers begins work on a Qt-based OpenStreetMap navigation app
6·17 days agoOf course those would be good things. It still doesn’t sound like priority #1 when it comes to software freedom alone especially in a world where smartphones are mostly not open systems designed for installation of any new operating systems.



















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