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  • Not for me, e.g. "remember, remember the fifth of November" is how we remember the date of Guy Fawkes Night in the UK. "Fourth of July", "14th of February", "First of April", etc.

    I guess you mean in the States, but perhaps they say it that way because they write their dates M-D-Y.

  • Also there's that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there's a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.

    E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to "The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)":

  • This reminds me of an episode of Taskmaster where a contestant plans to gain extra time by hitting the alarm in the lift (elevator) but instead of slamming to a halt there's just a little voice message and the lift carries on as usual.

  • This is a great use of AI and it's caught some small errors like the wrong its (which is one I find distracting when reading). The editing is light enough that it's still your voice, just with extra punctuation and fewer typos.

  • You're right, and it's infuriating that the AI scrapers are just so lazy/incompetent that they do things like try to scrape every dynamic page of a git repo instead of just cloning it. Similarly, they could just connect over ActivityPub and it wouldn't have much more overhead than another private instance.

    There's Anubis which uses JavaScript to force browsers to do some work before they can access, but given how unpopular Cloudflare is around here, I imagine there'd be a lot of complaints if it was deployed on every instance.

  • On Friday I spent over an hour trying to fix my Firefox tabs - I could no longer drag them to reorder or to a new window, and ctrl-shift-T didn't restore tabs, but I could still do it via menus. I thought it might be something to do with the new tab-island stuff and tried FF safe mode, restarting computer, confirming about:config options, etc.

    Turns out my headphones were resting on my Esc key.

  • I had to look up the pronunciation: seel-a-canth /s ɪ́j l ə k a n θ/

  • Calling something a "second storey" just sounds weird, although at least because they spelt it "story" we know they mean in the US sense.

  • Good to know. My old one was a Redmi Note 8 Pro and I miss the excellent camera (optical zoom!)

  • I think one of the ways they save money is using cheap wiring, so it gets hotter than it should. Also, no waterproofing - which is why I no longer have my Xiaomi.

  • My previous phone was a Xiaomi and I never managed to unlock it. It would fail to unlock and then there would be a random amount of time before you could try it again. After weeks of that I didn't want to have to set everything up again and just worked at removing all the telemetry and spying.

  • What makes you think they're complaining about the new legislation?

    The post contains a criticism, then says "however" followed by a positive. You've completely misunderstood it, from what I can tell.

  • Mentioning Trump in the headline feels a bit clickbaity.

  • They're great for users, which is why Google and Apple are letting them die from lack of development so apps can make them money.

  • It says it's wireless, but I'm not sure what it's using - I'm guessing something custom enough that the dongle is necessary.

  • I'm not understanding why that's an appropriate name, but maybe I need to learn more about butterflies.

  • Tbh, I don't think you really understand how the non-rhotic accent works. In this case, the /r/ would be fully pronounced, as it would be at the start of a word. Say bread, elongate the r and skip the ed part and you have what it sounds like.

    If you're very used to hearing the bunched r, the British version still might sound softer, but even in the USA (where most people use bunched r) it's still common to hear an r made with the tip of the tongue behind the teeth (upper or lower).

    I'm ignoring the other r sounds, but you do find a lot of them across the various regional English accents.