Ah well, it’s been the law here for 20 years.

I’m also reading about how our NZ/Australia socket was based on an American 125v socket design, later upgraded to allow 240v.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112

Does NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?

Both are open source. Brave takes Chromium and disables most tracking. TOR takes Firefox and disables all tracking.

The Chromium vs Gecko debate is not about data collection, but about control of web standards.

But if you can taste the coke, doesn’t that mean you don’t have enough alcohol in there?

Replicators?

Edit: Trek not Gate.

This says it’s the US pronunciation of Thames: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDzKYcKTO4

Do you pronounce names and brains that way, or do you pronounce Thames differently in Connecticut than the rest of the US?

Do you pronounce Thames like names and brains, or names and brains like Thames?

Personally if someone was described as “good”, I’d take it to mean they could do it at an expected level (not going to hold the team back). If someone was above average at the task then I’d expect a different adjective, e.g. great or excellent.

I’m assuming Lemmygrad and Hexbear are the others.

Yes my understanding is that you can use Mastodon to post to a community (by tagging it) or to respond to a post or comment. You can follow a Lemmy community as if it were a user.

However, to use a Lemmy account to interact with Mastodon, you are limited to replying to Mastodon users who have posted in a Lemmy community or commented on a Lemmy post.

My understanding of the current state is that with your Lemmy account, you can only interact with Lemmy-compatible activitypub services (Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, Sublinks). Other services may be able to interact with Lemmy (I believe Mastodon and Friendica can, and Misskey may be able to as well).

There is no reason that Lemmy couldn’t interact with other content, but it gets a little confusing when you are talking about following users and not communities, Lemmy doesn’t work that way. You can’t even follow another Lemmy user. So no one has implemented this in Lemmy yet.

Long store short, no you can’t access in that direction yet, but there’s no real reason why that couldn’t come in the future. You could check out Mbin, which I believe supports more services. You can interact with Lemmy from other services (such as from Mastodon), but it gets a bit weird sometimes as they are different kinds of services.

Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.

Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.

Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.

There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:

In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.

Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.

So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.

Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.

If you’re looking for answers, then any post in a community with a good spread of subscribers will get noticed. It doesn’t need to be currently active.

Heaps of people browse All. And Lemmy is small enough that most of the time posts will get seen, the content doesn’t get buried particularly fast.

I’m not sure what others see as the context of the meme, but in my experience it’s normally when you are fiddling with it, but you never expect it to be the problem because it seems so simple.

There are many reasons you might need to fiddle with is. The most obvious is when you move your server to a new computer, it might get a new IP address. But your browser might cache the old address. Your computer might cache it. Your DNS server might cache it (like the rest of the internet, there is not one big DNS server but many smaller ones - most non-technical people would be using one provided by their internet provider). It might not be working and you presume it’s a problem with the new server but actually it’s the DNS.

But also DNS as a system is also used for things that are not directly related to looking up a domain name. For example, when sending an email, there are many checks on the receiving side to ensure that the email is actually coming from somewhere that is allowed to send an email from that domain name. I can send an email to you from [email protected], but it would go straight to spam because it would fail those checks. DNS records are used to authorise servers that can send email on behalf of that domain. And just generally DNS is used for proving domain ownership (for example, it’s one method to get a certificate from Let’s Encrypt to allow secure connections to your website).

When you access something on the internet, you are accessing something on someone else’s computer.

Computers have (effectively) postal addresses. When you want to access content on another computer, you type in its address.

But computer addresses don’t look like “fedia.io” they look like “123.122.1.111”.

When you type “fedia.io” your computer needs to go and ask what the computer’s address is.

That’s DNS. The Domain Name System. The system for finding the computer address from a domain name.

The above is very simplified and doesn’t cover all scenarios, but I hope it’s enough to get the idea.

Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?