![](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b65ccdf3-d28f-4920-9ac0-9b40210c6b63.png)
![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2QNz7bkA1V.png)
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
I know it’s broken, but I kind of like seeing the ridiculous ways villages can generate. Villagers in Minecraft are notoriously stupid, so it almost makes sense in a way that they wouldn’t be the best at creating practical towns.
The bird.makeup instance is a one-way Twitter mirror, but it’s not always very reliable since Twitter keeps making it harder to use Twitter
It’s weird how this game keeps getting major foundational engine updates when they’ve said they’re not going to keep using the custom engine and the story updates are complete.
Almost feels like they’re overcompensating for how badly they dropped the ball with the initial release.
I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.
The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
I think you’re overthinking this, and extrapolating limited data way too far.
For one, of course historically rich countries are going to be hosting more technology. Tech is expensive, and less developed countries are called that because they’re less developed, which includes electricity grids, internet, economic power, and so on.
Another issue is that just because a Mastodon server is hosted in a particular country, doesn’t mean only people in or from that country can make an account there. Sure, there are some servers that want to keep their communities specific to their local area, but the vast majority have no restrictions. Anyone from anywhere can sign up.
If you’re trying to figure out how to make it so historically poor countries have the most servers instead, you’re going to have to figure out how to fund and manage infrastructure expansion.
It feels like you’re coming at this with the assumption of “every country has the resources to spin up hundreds of social media servers, but they’re just not interested”, which is kind of a weird conclusion to come to after recognizing the historical impact of colonialism and the privilege differences it’s led to.
It looks like Jerboa is forcing HTTPS. It’s using the Markwon library for parsing markdown, and a custom ForceHttpsPlugin
is installed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/blob/19be714fe08eaff6d2f616aa3da1b82df81a1d84/app/src/main/java/com/jerboa/ui/components/common/MarkdownHelper.kt#L93.
I mean technically it’s possible to have different sites on http:// and https://, since the conventional ports are different (80 and 443), but it’d be a pretty weird thing to do.
Edit: I just visited the links and the http:// one does indeed go to an xkcd-style site, while https:// has some dogecoin tracker with a broken SSL certificate.
Edit again: the SSL certificate is for dogecoinaverage.com, so I have a feeling this person just misconfigured their nginx or Apache instance.
Yet another edit: the maintainer’s Mastodon is linked on the xkcd site, which links to their GitHub, which includes the source for the Dogecoin average site: https://github.com/Two9A/dogecoin-average. Definitely just a weird misconfiguration.
The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
I gotta be honest, I’m not sure I’d be willing to trust something I set up myself with general-purpose software to handle something as important as a smoke alarm alert.
That’s the sort of thing that gets hardware dedicated to the task and doesn’t rely on me configuring everything correctly and Linux not crashing because some other unrelated process had issues.
Double tapping and holding on the second tap for granular zoom with one finger is a standard feature on Android.
The person you’re replying to is just suggesting an alternative for one-finger zoom. Pinching with two fingers still works.
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.
“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”
Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?
That instance just has a custom homepage written in React. The actual social UI is normal Mastodon with some color tweaks.
It is possible to use different frontends for Mastodon, though. Web apps like Elk can either run on a dedicated server to log into any Mastodon instance, or can be hosted by instance admins as alternative frontends.
Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.