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Philosophy moment in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Time to expand the protocol with encryption

forgot the name of website in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Oh no, here comes Nintendo after a massive brain fart

TIL that "cock" has been used as slang for penis for several hundred years in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Today I learned that Wikipedia is becoming also a curated urban dictionary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_(sexual_slang)

What is fediverse basically ? How does it work ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I suppose you are on lemmy. Lemmy is kind of the reddit of the fediverse. Imagine that now everyone can create their own reddit server with blackjack and hookers. That is the server you are on, someone decided to create a server for the world. But now I am on another server with different owners, rules and mods (basically blackjack and different hookers). I can interact with you on your server and you can interact with me on my server because our servers are federated.

Now imagine that you can do this for every social media. Reddit, X(itter), Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok, WhatsApp. Everything is available in the fediverse (with more or less issues depending on what you are looking for).

What are the odds that my daughter's socks drawer contains exclusively single socks? Over 20 socks but not a single pair in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This seems so unlikely that it may be done on purpose. Is there a way to calculate the probability of this being on purpose? For instance, if she had 30 pairs of socks to start with, it seems unlikely to reach 20 single socks if they are randomly lost. Intuitively it should depend on how far we are from the expected value of single socks after losing N socks, but idk how to model nor calculate this.

What do you miss from reddit? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I saw it somewhere and it just sticks. I assumed that pronunciation as well

The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

To connect it to a dock station and have a full desktop experience. That is my use case

Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What is the advantage of Bluesky's model over Xitter? Are they just outsourcing servers while still holding censorship and manipulation power?

When was the last time you felt that you were well represented by a politician - be it at local or national level? What was the occasion? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There is this one guy that represented me well for the last 6 years. While he was running the party things were good. From then on things went a bit downhill. He is still there and doing a good job though.

Do you use your blinker in a car? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Confession: I use indicator lights so much that I sometimes use them in very tight turns

US Social Security Administration Shifting All Public Communications to X in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I am still trying to understand how this is a relevant technology post to the world

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Beginner's calf pain (feddit.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8901058

Hi! I transitioned to barefoot shoes and I can get by without issues in my daily walks. I am not ready to run on barefoot shoes yet, so I got the thinnest Altras I could find and off I went.

Probably I overdid it on the first runs, but I got some pain on the outer part of my calf. Not the full calf, just the outer part. I believe this is the part that powers the toes. That pain may be normal, but I wonder if my forefoot striking technique is wrong. Is this supposed to happen?

TL;DR: Beginner's pain in outer calf. Is it supposed to happen or is my forefoot striking technique wrong?

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Delete Disney+ Account (help.disneyplus.com)
 

I want to delete my Disney plus account but their app and website force some ad for their latest subscription deal. My account settings are not accessible anywhere. When I am logged in and refresh the page, I can briefly see my avatar in the top right corner before the ad comes up. According to Disney's instructions, I need to use that to access my account configuration and delete it.

Is this a denial of my right to erasure granted by the GDPR? Should I report this to some authority? If yes, who is that authority?

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Beginner's calf pain (feddit.org)
 

Hi! I transitioned to barefoot shoes and I can get by without issues in my daily walks. I am not ready to run on barefoot shoes yet, so I got the thinnest Altras I could find and off I went.

Probably I overdid it on the first runs, but I got some pain on the outer part of my calf. Not the full calf, just the outer part. I believe this is the part that powers the toes. That pain may be normal, but I wonder if my forefoot striking technique is wrong. Is this supposed to happen?

TL;DR: Beginner's pain in outer calf. Is it supposed to happen or is my forefoot striking technique wrong?

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Alternatives to Google Wallet (feddit.org)
 

Hi! What alternatives are there to Google Wallet? I am only looking for a secure app that allows me to pay with my phone instead of a card, I do not really care about the rest of functionality

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lemmy.pt only shows old posts (lemmy.pt)
 

Hi!

I am trying to access [email protected]. For some reason, I can only read old posts. I also tried to comment on one of the older posts and it did not get through to the instance.

Is there anything wrong with the Portuguese instance? Or is it feddit.org? Or maybe is it me? Help please, I am new to lemmy and the Fediverse!

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