The two most populous countries are moving in the right direction, which is good news. I really wish you guys wouldn’t insist on bringing your country into every single conversation - we know what’s happening, you don’t need to constantly remind us.

What’s the point then?

I only wrote code for !advent_of_code@programming.dev which is so different to my usual tasks that it feels like a break.

It would be the best merch anyone ever offered.

I just looked and found this, is it you or a freeloader? https://www.redbubble.com/shop/unix_surrealism

I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.

For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.

Edit: patents not parents 🤦

“We are a technology licensing company”

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Are words in a poem lyrics?

Sounds like perhaps unified codes would be the answer to that problem!

Interesting stuff, thanks for writing it up.

I did know that US codes weren’t standardised, partially because the video covers it - perhaps I should have phrased it as “a police code” to be more technically correct. Edit: or bothered to check the video so could have written “Philadelphia police code” - but then I would have missed out on your reply.

If you read the article, you learn that the authorities never properly searched any of these freighters - that’s probably a more sensible place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZpTO7IFtA is worth the 15 minutes, but the TL;DW is that the kids are just using it as an in-joke marker (i.e. the phrase is a shibboleth), but its origin is in lyrics* by the rapper Skrilla referring to police codes for a dead body.

* are rapped words lyrics?

Our local wizard who casts these spells is @mykl@lemmy.world

  // this is bollocks, delete it

That’s almost certainly from a Brit.

  // this looks like I'm being a fancy arsehole, but this is all because  
  // the window shows up white for some reason when first opened, and this  
  // disguises it.

Could be either.

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The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.

Did you read the article or just the headline?

And then the other guy reverted that… eatingpopcorn.gif

To be clear, the command is made with modern C++, not the icons (which come from nerd fonts or the dev’s equivalent).

Yeah, I hate those little dots and I inevitably jump through the hoops until I’ve clicked enough things to make them go away.

Going into more detail would be helpful: Do you get an error? Do some settings restore or change? How old is your backup (i.e. from what version of Voyager)? Android or iPhone (before and after)? Are you selecting a file from your device, or trying to use from cloud storage (Google Drive, Nextcloud, etc)?

Then the UK’s equally dumb: it was 10:04 pm BST (GMT+1) cos daylight savings is a thing in most of Europe too. At least it’s synchronised across Europe^[1] so you just need to remember that most^[2] of North America changes a few weeks earlier.

Also, the UK says GMT/BST which is nice and clear - calling both EST and EDT “Eastern Time” makes even more of a mess!

And yes, I’ve just rediscovered you can use footnotes, why do you ask?

[MIT] does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else.

Sounds like it wouldn’t matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.