Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
If social media companies exist to collect massive troves of personal info from users–and they do–then there is a valid national security concern over social media controlled by an adversary. This is distinct from the individual privacy concerns towards domestically-controlled social media.
Annual commemorative pastry observance
“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”
Super Mario Brothers 2
Stop, drop, and roll
Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night’s aria.
Ublock origin, Sponsor block, and NoScript
I’m not upgrading because I don’t trust Windows 11. Not that 10 has my confidence, of course, but 11 seems worse.
Windows 95 had to change the time zone selection map because of disputed borders.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823
The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.
WTF were they expecting to happen?
“Please” is short for “if it pleases you” or “if you please”. It’s used to turn a command into a request. It’s probably not used on Lemmy, etc. because we’re not requesting things of each other a lot.
I wouldn’t willingly live anyplace else.
It will vary by state, but generally:
When only one of the two parties is unwilling to continue the employer-employee relationship, it is obvious who is the moving party. If employment was still available to the claimant and the claimant refused to continue working, then the claimant is the moving party. If the employer will not allow the claimant to continue work, even though the claimant wants to, then the employer is the moving party.
It’s also an English expression.
Looks like compatibility hacks for various websites.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing