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  • CoderKat@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlJapan is on its own wavelength.
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    1 year ago

    Huh, I’ve never noticed how much bloat was in ISO 8601. I think when most people refer to it, we’re specifically referring to the date (optionally with time) format that is shared with RFC 3339, namely 2023-11-22T20:00:18-05:00 (etc). And perhaps some fuzziness for what separates date and time.


  • CoderKat@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlEvery time
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    1 year ago

    I like the idea of having a regulated, living, backwards compatible standard. Which seems to be what USB-C is now, for phones. The EU has soon to be active regulation that will make it a requirement for many things. Yet, it’s not a single, set in stone standard, but one that’s constantly being expanded (eg, version 3.2 and PD).

    Of course, the regulation has to also be living. Eg, at some point, maybe there’ll be a strong enough reason to allow another standard (by no means do I think USB-C will always make sense). And the regulation has to very carefully choose the standard.

    That way we get the benefits of standardization (from actually everyone using the same format), but we aren’t unreasonably crippling ourselves to do it.




  • CoderKat@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlWhy? Are we not doing enough?
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    1 year ago

    Lol, yesterday it felt like there was at least half a dozen posts about Firefox, mostly claiming that YouTube was slowing them down. Which seemed really bad at first, till I dug into it and saw it was probably an unintended bug with ad handling.

    And why were there so many posts? Who wants to see the same post more than once?


  • CoderKat@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlNWBTCW
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    1 year ago

    While I think the rich are one of the most influential sources of it, I’m not convinced they’re the only or even the majority. Like, of the rich stopped using bigotry to divide people, would people stop being bigoted? I don’t think so at all. I think there’s something wrong with humanity that makes it easy for bigotry to evolve even in the absence of power and perhaps worse, for people to want to be bigoted.












  • But it doesn’t really matter what you do. What matters is if it makes the company money, usually meaning what a sizable number of other people do. Even if you spend less, if 5 other people spend more, that’s why companies would want to do it.

    I don’t think this is the only reason though. I think it’s also to keep the store feeling like a new store. They want shoppers to feel like they’re getting new experiences every now and then. They don’t want to be stale. It’s like how many people rearrange their furniture every few years. Change gives feelings of novelty. Sure, you could buy a new couch, but just changing which walk the couch is against is a cheaper alternative.


  • Yeah, like, what the fuck? Why on earth would anyone do that? Do they not own a phone?

    Browser history is the most minor part. You should assume that your work sees everything you do to at least some degree. They may have full access to everything on your computer and private browsing won’t do anything against that. It’s also common that work computers would use a work owned VPN, so they’ll at least know what sites you’re visiting. HTTPS prevents knowing exactly what you’re doing, but a VPN provider will know what IPs you’re connecting too and thus will have a high level of what you’re doing.