ok, I have to address the elephant in the room: is the bad image quality intentional (part of the joke) or not or what is going on here?

in case it gets fixed, here it is right now:

TIL that there is a 2x size version of many xkcd comics, which the explainxkcd bot seems to have downloaded and which looks a lot better: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:superstition_2x.png / https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/superstition_2x.png

no longer true everywhere because in some places around the world, laws have forced Apple to change this

Just a few days ago I posted this article https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how_apples_key_tactic_could_prevent_japans_smartphone_act_from_improving_browser_competition/ on Lemmy where you can read more about the current state.

Wird irgendwo auch erklärt, wieso gerade 2000? 🤔

Ja, ungefähr so hatte ich das auch in Erinnerung, was ich irgendwann einmal gelesen habe. :D

wot? I thought compiz was fairly well known but maybe I haven’t kept up with what is or isn’t well known nowadays, been using Linux for too long :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_manager#X11_and_Wayland

Weihnachten ist, denke ich, absichtlich ziemlich genau zur Wintersonnenwende (und nur deshalb nicht genau an ihr, weil astronomische Berechnungen in der Vergangenheit ungenau waren)?

It’s a thing some people occasionally do. By itself it’s neither a good idea nor bad idea, but people have certainly been confused by it before. It’s better to use software for its actually intended purpose, that is less confusing both for oneself and everyone else.

2026 wird deshalb nicht das Jahr des Linux-Desktops, weil es nicht das Jahr des Desktops (egal mit welchem OS) wird. Smartphones sind nun einmal heutzutage die meistgenutzten Computer für Privatanwender …

Einmal hab ich eine Geschichte im Internet gelesen, wo das, was du beschreibst, passiert ist – und der Benutzer dann dazugesagt hat, dass er dachte, der Inhalt von Fehlermeldungen sei nur für Techniker bestimmt. 😂🤦🤷‍♂️

I have long found it more useful what the middle mouse button does on Windows (start scrolling) and hope that becomes widely adopted, even outside browsers, on Linux one day too. Good step in that direction.

Agreed. This is a potential problem, but not an unsolvable one.

Bei den meisten Online-Shops (zumindest nach meiner Erfahrung) muss und kann man doch gar keinen Benutzernamen angeben, sondern loggt sich mit der E-Mail-Adresse ein? Ich verstehe das Problem nicht ganz. Bei Amazon ist das jedenfalls so.

I’ve recently said this in another thread, and I’ll repeat it here: this problem would easily be solved by changing content liability laws (e.g. section 230 in the US) so that anything recommended by an algorithm counts as speech by the platform and the platform is liable for it if it turns out to be illegal (e.g. libellous).

That would mean that you could operate a forum or wiki or Lemmy or Mastodon instance without worrying about liability, but Facebook, YouTube, TikTok would have to get rid of the feature where they put “things that might interest you” that you didn’t actually choose to follow into your feed.

None of that has anything to do with anyone’s age.

“Dieser Fehler muss 2026 korrigiert werden”: @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de will CSU-Regierungsbeteiligung komplett kippen

If headlines were honest: France seeks to prohibit early teenagers from social interaction with peers unless they are good at doing it offline.

If I hadn’t had the Internet in the years before my 15th birthday, this would in my retrospective opinion have amounted to near torture.

Can we finally get politicians who grew up with the Internet into power? How many more years must people the age of Macron be allowed to make these kinds of decisions? 😟😡

I wonder if that was intentional, to post this at a time when there are different years in different parts of the world. :D

Why would things from 12 years ago not be nostalgic?!

The problem with that is: https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/

My own idea, don’t make it depend on platform size.

Make it depend on the existence of recommendation algorithms: anything recommended by an algorithm counts as speech by the platform.

If that were the law, any forum or wiki no matter who operates it isn’t liable, but Facebook or TikTok would need to quickly turn off all options except “show me chronologically what the accounts I explicitly followed posted” (of course “most liked in the last 12 hours” or similar would also still be ok, but “this too might interest you based on your previous activity” wouldn’t). That would also turn them into actually useful communication systems.

One could say the map simply counted transcontinental countries as where the majority of the population lives, but French Guiana isn’t colored like Europe.

Also interesting that the southern border of Mexico is apparently the border between North and South America.

Philosophically it is certainly interesting it didn’t capitalize “god”, suggesting it might be polytheist.