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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to subscribe to Linux format! I got the back issues on exactly/Exact Editions too, so for a while I could also view every issue on my android tablet. Those were the days.

I don't even know if Exactly is still around anymore.

Edit - nope, I was thinking of New Humanist magazine, oops. But I did used to get Linux Format through the door. I remember they used to have rackspace ads on the plastic weather cover

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yea, no. This is only considered 'work' if you're a physics teacher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

And quickly, before it's closed down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Same for composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams. Since the last name starts with a 'f' sound, people think it's 'Ray Fiennes' or 'Ray Vaughan-Williams'. Granted Vaughan-Williams is a very niche example that most people would not have heard of.

I hope I'm not wrong in hyphenating his surname.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was thinking Tom Scott or Auto Shenanigans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

FUCK no. At least it's coming from truss, who is trying to be relevant. That's all. Anything with her name on it is doomed to fail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Am UK citizen living in US. Halp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Send them.... Back?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, the design of the plug also implies the design of the socket. I was born in the eighties, and I've never seen an electrical socket without a switch, except for the appliance socket used for the cooker, which is behind where you install the appliance - the switch is higher up, above the countertop where it is accessible.

Basic extension trailing sockets don't, most of the time unless you buy a snazzy one. But it's by no means a recent development.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Tom Scott has a video all about the UK power outlet plug and socket and it's an engineering marvel. The switch is just one feature.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

after making ~~a gesture at a Trump inauguration event resembling~~ a Nazi salute

There, Grauniad. I fixed your copy for you.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35274860

You weren't there, man...

 

You weren't there, man...

 

When we used reddit, and you found a link on Google or in an email that went to reddit.com, it would open up that link in Boost. Same for the email notifications when you got an inbox message or a comment reply - following the link opened up your inbox in Boost, not your web browser.

Since there are an almost infinite number of instances to match the URL for, is this behaviour just not possible with Lemmy, by the nature of the fediverse?

I think I remember Android having a manual option to set default apps for certain links, so I'm going to try and set Boost the default app for links starting with my home instance. Not sure if Boost will necessarily understand the links though and how to process it..

 

What if reddit joins the fediverse? What are the implications for that if it were even feasible? We would end up with subreddits as communities on Lemmy such as [email protected], perhaps.

What are the community's thoughts on this, given the new app by Meta that has attempted to join our free society? Do we just defed, and hope that all the popular instances all do the same?

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