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[-] progenyofthestars@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Source: https://xkcd.com/927/.

Not posting with alternative text is like missing half of the xkcd.

[-] DeflectedBullhorn@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, somehow this escaped me all these years. I feel like I’ve got a bunch of fresh XKCD to read now.

For the uneducated: On a mobile browser you just press and hold the comic (long tap). On a computer you hover over the image and the alt text will appear next to the cursor.

The alt text in this one was:

spoilerFortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[-] Rokin@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

One of my favorites

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[-] Koen967@feddit.nl 25 points 1 year ago

Wasn't the standard USB-C? Maybe we should just create the Universal USB, the U-USB.

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

With their naming standards, it would probably be called "U^2SB, Universal Super Fast Serial Bus"

[-] ZIRO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's USB-C.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 year ago

This of course ignores all the other times a new common standard succeeded

[-] Vithar@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Doesn't that almost always require a significant government intervention/regulation.

[-] volodymyr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Phone and laptop chargers converged from numerous standards to just a few all on their own I think, no?

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.

Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a "naturally emerging" single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them...

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in such a situation you should always try to compare the standards, look at the userbases and suddenly there are only very few that actually make sense. If everyone just does this, one standard will eventually crystalise as the one to use (or at least depending on the situation). Character encoding is an interesting example, because nowadays (almost) everything just uses UTF-8, despite there having been many.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 year ago

UTF-8 is absolutely magical in how it's backwards compatible with ASCII. Windows still uses UTF-16 which makes supporting Unicode filenames and stuff a huge pain compared to linux. At least pretty much the entire web is UTF-8.

[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is the reason I was super hyped by the synergy of the fediverse, all the support and use of activity pub. And god I hope Facebook doesn't ruin it. This community has grown so rapidly and organically, I just wanna see it continue to thrive.

[-] MR_@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

And god I hope Facebook doesn’t ruin it.

How could it? I think FB is more of a threat to Mastodon than it will be to Lemmy, no?

[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but I just hope their meddling doesn't fuck activitypub and somehow cause the protocol to go completey defunct

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[-] vd1n@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I finally got a proper USB 3.012542 cable.

[-] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

It's bad when the actual naming scheme is more ridiculous. See USB 3.2 gen 2x1. Hopefully usb 4 simplifies things, but let's be honest, it probably won't...

[-] Oakholm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Ahh this was the one they talked about on the WAN show

[-] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You should have just linked to the page. It would have embedded the image, right?

[-] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Python packaging in a nutshell.

[-] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In how many ways can you package a python?

Just tie a knot with it and throw it in a bucket.

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