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zaphod@feddit.deto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is WhatsApp so ubiquitous everywhere BUT North America?5·1 year agoMaybe this is true for some regions, but in general the reason was money. SMS costs money, Whatsapp intially had a low one time or annual fee that was way below what you used to pay for a few SMS, but you got better service than MMS for that fee. And now it’s free and sustained by network effects.
zaphod@feddit.deto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Aaargh....my eyes......my eyes......35·1 year agoThisCommentsMakeItSoThatYouHateMeForWritingLikeThisSeriouslyICanNotStopPleaseSendHelp
zaphod@feddit.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Table of various levels of piracyEnglish7·1 year agoWhat’s the significance of the colors? Greenish = “stealing”, orange = “okay”, yellow = “grey area”? Seems awfully negative, maybe invert the whole thing.
And if you’re tired from playing basketball all day maybe read a book bound in human skin to relax.
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they're already talking about '5.5G'English7·1 year agoTechnically speaking the first LTE specification didn’t meet 4G requirements either, so for a short while you could get two different fake 4Gs.
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they're already talking about '5.5G'English1·1 year ago6G market entry is planned for around 2030 with first specifications being finished around 2027-28, there have always been around 10 years between generations.
zaphod@feddit.deto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie or show you didn't know was THAT good until you watched it?7·1 year agoThey made a season without him. For the last three books they could just recast everyone, they’re set 30 years after what was covered by the show.
I think you got that wrong, you got +Inf, -Inf and two NaNs, but they’re both just NaN. As you wrote signed NaN makes no sense, though technically speaking they still have a sign bit.
zaphod@feddit.deto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?451·1 year agoThe entire internet has drastically declined for me.
zaphod@feddit.deto World News@lemmy.world•Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollutionEnglish1·1 year agoIf I’m not mistaken there are metal eating/corroding microbres that can live in vacuum.
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court saysEnglish23·1 year agoThe ECHR is not an EU court, it’s a Council of Europe court, different organisation.
Edit: To make things more confusing, the EU is in negotiations about joining the Council of Europe.
zaphod@feddit.deto World News@lemmy.world•EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR)European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans?English2·1 year agoYes, the ECHR is part of the Council of Europe (no affiliation with the EU or their two confusingly named councils), and for example Russia was a member until 2022.
zaphod@feddit.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•ISP Suggests That Record Labels Can Sue Torrent Client Developers * TorrentFreakEnglish3·1 year agoIt is not permitted to circumvent effective technological measures
Germany has a similar law and unless it was changed it is legal to circumvent ineffective technological measures which means if you can circumvent it it is ineffective, making the entire law kind of pointless, because how would you circumvent something that can’t be circumvented.
Never had any problems. Did you used to log into an account, maybe that makes a difference?
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”English3·1 year agoStreaming services aren’t much better, they regularly didn’t have what I wanted to watch and I’m not subscribing to more than one. Now I’m subscribing to none and watch what I want instead of what Netflix has available.
zaphod@feddit.deto Games@lemmy.world•Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?English222·1 year agoAbsolutely agree on Red Dead Redemption 2. Another point considering it’s an open world game it plays extremely linearly and sometimes in missions it tells you that you can’t leave a certain area for no reason.
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•I wish there were more articles about tech not tech bizEnglish4·2 years agoBut HN is also mostly tech biz.
zaphod@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humansEnglish16·2 years agoGreat, so I guess the future of terrorism will be fueled by people learning programming and figuring out how to make emps so they can send the murder robots back to where they came from.
Eh, they could’ve done that without AI for like two decades now. I suppose the drones would crashland in a rather destructive way due to the EMP, which might also fry some of the electronics rendering the drone useless without access to replacement components.
To be fair, using phones while driving was banned in most countries back when phones still had physical buttons.