Skyhighatrist @ Skyhighatrist @lemmy.ca

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What's even worse than "Alot" is "Allot" when they mean "a lot".

Yeah, there are tons of these.

Till is actually a word that predates until.

Many assume that till is an abbreviated form of until. Actually, it is a distinctive word that existed in English at least a century before until, both as a preposition meaning “to” and a conjunction meaning “until.” It has seen continuous use in English since the 12th century and is a perfectly legitimate synonym of until.

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Or how about all the words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations.

• Invalid - The data is invalid.
• Invalid - The old man is an invalid.
• Content - I'm content with my lot in life.
• Content - The website's content is full of ads.

etc.

The only issue I have with freetube is that I sometimes like to click on the recommended videos on YouTube's front page. If I switch to freetube entirely, I'll lose that. But if uBlock doesn't continue to work I will make the switch and the YouTubers I wouldn't normally see just won't get my views any longer.

Probably just lucky. They didn't roll it out to all Firefox users at once. I got it several days after other Firefox users started reporting getting the popup. I followed the instructions to update my quick fix list in uBlock and it's gone again. However, the first time I did it it came back after a day, so it may just be a never ending game of whack a mole.

I'm currently using KDE Plasma with i3. I like it fine. I love i3, and KDE works to tie everything together and add consistency for theming. Previously I was using i3 on XFCE, that was easier to set up. Plasma tends to require special configuration to make it play nice with i3, but once you're over that hump it makes for a pretty decent combination.

It's not actually a mistake. It's a word that has been in use for 200+ years with its first recorded use in 1795. It's controversial, but it appears in dictionaries and is a synonym for regardless. Love it or hate it language changes with time and when enough people use a word it becomes a part of the language.

I hate it too, but irregardless has officially been a word in dictionaries for years now.

Yeah, I just commented to another user about the same things. Seems they're doing some A/B testing or something like it. No worries, I understand uBlock has an update available that addresses it already.

There’s no test group

They are almost certainly talking about a test group on YouTube, not uBlock Origin. Sites do that sometimes, it's called A/B Testing. Where different users will get different versions of the site to test something or other before changes are rolled out for all users.

Seems to still be working for me. At least I haven't encountered any notices yet.

I don't actually use it myself as a calendar. I use org-mode for notes, todos and from time to time timing things I'm working on. But it has way more features than that right out of the box. But sadly, I can't really offer much in the way of advice for sync or anything like that.

Emacs Org-Mode is pretty powerful, but can be a bit of challenge to learn at first.

For anyone interested, that's called a palimpsest.

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

That's not true these days. You can try it yourself right in your browser's dev console.

These results are from Firefox's console.

    
0 == null == undefined
> false
0 == null
> false
0 == undefined
> false
null == undefined
> true
null === undefined
> false

  

And even in the one case where == says they are the same, you can fix that by making sure you are using === so that it doesn't do type coercion for the comparison.

The phrase is well known and widely used in the UK, and I doubt anyone here would consider it an American phrase.

Yes, and it's used in many other places in the world that isn't America either. That doesn't change the fact that it is widely used in America. You may not have intended for your comment to come off as argumentative. But it did. You're the one that joined the conversation by explaining that it's not an American saying. It is a common saying in American English which is all the parent comment asserted.

“Raiining cats and dogs” is not of American origin.

Nobody said it was of American origin. You're putting words in the parent commenter's mouth and then choosing to argue against them. That's why people take issue with your comment. If you want to contribute to the conversation without coming off as argumentative then frame your point as adding to the conversation not as an argument against something that wasn't said.

Both are also common in Canada. Edit, actually every one of the parent's idioms are common in Canada to varying degrees.

In Canadian "fucking the dog" means slacking off, especially at work. This is not the same as "Screw the pooch" which means to fuck something up big time.