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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a classic "To Serve Man" type of situation to me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (26 children)

You can sign up for Proton mail without providing email or phone number, as far as I recall.

M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location in c/[email protected]
What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality? in c/[email protected]
*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sticking to Mastodon because I don't want to give into yet another corporate platform to eventually end up with the same results as Twitter and Reddit. Most people are on Twitter/Reddit/Bluesky? Who cares? Enough people are on Mastodon and Lemmy.

Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Apparently, the navy is still using Windows XP on (some?) ships: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/2/5/navy-looks-to-industry-to-digitize-ships

Then there's this old classic when a navy "smart" ship was adrift for 2 hours after a Windows NT crash: https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/

What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hmmm, not sure why you're getting the downvotes, but your idea is not far-fetched. There have been multiple studies showing things like viruses living longer and traveling farther in cold dry air than in warm humid air, and also about the cold having immediate negative effects on certain aspects of immunity. The studies I've seen have usually been about the flu virus instead of cold virus, but some of it would transfer over, like the ones about immunity.

What's weird is that for years (decades?) doctors / public health / scientists etc swore up and down that it was a myth that cold temperatures had anything to do with cold infections. It doesn't surprise me now, after seeing the uphill battle it was to get the scientific community to finally, grudgingly accept that COVID is transmitted by floating around the air, sometimes over long distances. Many so-called "scientists" still don't seem to accept this, despite having aerosol engineers break it down for them.

ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No problem!

ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

home.arpa

Yes, I've been using this too. Here's the RFC for .home.arpa (in place of .home): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html

What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It still does? They have a version for people with internet access, and a version for people without, with a heavy dose of offline applications and information. You can also download more offline resources after you install it.

https://www.endlessos.org/os-direct-download

Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hadn't heard of it before. Thanks.

Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No problem, I understand.

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Unable to post to lemmy.world communities (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

I don't know if it's just me, but I've been unable to comment on any lemmy.world communities for several days now. I have even verified that lemmy.world was up and running, but it didn't help. I presume that there's some federation problem, likely on their end. My solution for now will have to be to unsubscribe from all lemmy.world communities and look for alternatives elsewhere, unless anyone has any better ideas.

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