[-] scurry@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Awaken from thy slumber XMPP! Bring us new and better implementations and standards, and the network effect we once enjoyed now solidified by law.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

At one point it was both. At one point they internally added support for longer file names in DOS, and then a later version of the filesystem also started supporting it. I think that on DOS and Windows (iirc even today), they never actually solved it, and paths on Windows and NTFS can only be 256 characters long in total or something (I don’t remember what the exact limit was/is).

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Yes. Memory and storage were at a very high premium until the 1990s, and when C was first being developed, it wasn’t uncommon for computers to output to printers (that’s why print() and co are named what they are), so every character was at a premium. In the latter case, you were literally paying in ink and paper by the character. These contributed to this convention that we’re still stuck with today in C.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The article indicated that, apparently, Shorts is even more unprofitable than regular YouTube. So they don't even have that going for them

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’m guessing it’s also not feasible to get her a visa on the other side, meaning nowhere to go. I also wouldn’t be surprised if her family being more closely watched and targeted if they leave isn’t also part of why they feel they can’t.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Not since the Romanian police got him, that’s for sure.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if they stopped, but American kids at least used to be taught both Celsius and Fahrenheit. At least in some parts anyway. I was taught both as a kid, with my school largely banning the use of Fahrenheit by staff on campus even, for instance.

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

A game where using the in-build chat is a bannable offense.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi is fairly nice, but it's another Chromium. Similar to Brave, they've said they won't be including the Topics API, so it doesn't quite feed into the monoculture. (Disappointingly, they seem like they won't be disabling WEI, Google's latest land grab. Admittedly, for understandable reasons that mirror the original DRM for the web a decade ago, the blunt fact is that they seem like they'll go along with it anyway.) Considering the team is (supposedly) largely shared from some people that used to develop their own engine (Presto, before Opera switched to Chromium), I could also believe they could (possibly would) hard fork Chromium if they felt it necessary. If this is enough for you, then I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time with it, and I've enjoyed it well enough when I've tried it. Personally, I don't daily it.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry they’ll follow you to space.

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

My dogs are spoiled brats. One of them half the time will turn her nose up at anything I give her, only accepting some of what I’m currently eating, even if what was given her is the same or better than what I’m having.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

When I worked delivery, at multiple places, we did in fact not see a dime of this fee. Got chewed out by customers a couple of times over it though.

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