Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

Most countries consider this “private copying” which is legal. Not a lawyer, you should check your country’s laws.

Unethical? Copying is not theft.

I wrote (not only, but some) more intelligent things on the Internet when I was a teenager.

Yes, semiautomatic are what you should use most of the time really.

In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.

In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.

the automatic setting might give you 1/30 of a second when photographing fast moving animals or 1/500 with aperture 2.8 when photographing landscapes, neither of which will give you good photos :/

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO aren’t very hard to understand and applying them correctly will give you a lot better photos.

You could try creating an account on kbin/mbin instead of lemmy, my understanding is that that gives you the “threadiverse” and the microblogging fediverse on one platform, though I have not tried it yet.

On Lemmy you can only follow communities, not individuals.

I always find it funny when I read a lemmy thread that’s being posted in by microbloggers who just start all replies with @ followed by usernames of people they’re replying to.

They’re a lot younger than me too… but I was on the Internet, including in some mostly-adult communities, at 16 too (not so much at 13). Many of my formative experiences took place there and so I see absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing.

no, I’m very certain I’ve never seen one, this article certainly doesn’t have one

I don’t have a “main social media app”. I use Lemmy and Mastodon on mobile; Reddit and Facebook only on desktop.

You’re living under a rock, aren’t you? I keep reading about it nearly everywhere, way more than I would like to.

It’s a microblogging platform, i.e. replacement for Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

you can sort !casualconversation@lemm.ee by “new comments”

Last decade it was “destroyed”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/21/these-are-a-few-more-of-my-least-favorite-things/ point 2

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin. I suspect you already know about it.

Some months ago I read about something called “Ghost” which either already has or is planning to add ActivityPub integration.

I’m here, I don’t answer to anywhere near all questions I see though.

I don’t think so. This is just shitty website design on the part of the website developers. They aren’t links, they are elements with click handlers on them, so the browser doesn’t know what to open.

On some websites it works if you click one part of such an element, eg. the text.

The article is from September, why is it it being posted now?

That is a very common joke on that wiki.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Pages_using_the_"citation_needed"_template

If there were a universal answer to this, there wouldn’t be any others.

I myself currently use Debian (testing), have for some years now, but I have used other distros in the past too.