"average person received 3 covid vaccines" factoid actually just statistical error. Vaccines Georg, who lives in germany & got 217 shots, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

@solariett This is true they're evil!! German is just my first direct exposure to one. The polish government hates recognizing minority languages but at least they don't criminalize using them

jest powód czemu słowo "istotne" oznacza "ważne"
wspieraj swoje lokalne istoty :heart_trans:​

If the fediverse was truly like the old internet we'd have CW titles that start like
re: re: Re: Fwd: FWD: Re: fwd: re:

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Edit: NO WAY
I just encountered a thread where Sharkey appended "Re:" and glitch-soc turned it into "re: Re:"

Jet Lag: The Game went from straight up stealing OpenStreetMap data, to still breaking the license by only crediting them in the description, back to stealing

Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

Do people who are paid in exposure get brighter over time

It makes me deeply depressed to see how much is done to eradicate any diversity of the german language and replace it all with the most boring dialect. If you're going to try to destroy all local culture at least choose swiss german

the concept of "standard" german sucks. Bring back deep dialects. Full offense but I actually think it's pretty good if I don't understand what half the country is talking about

urgh i hate it when -oma instances disable the ability to see posts from a direct link

when you click [view on remote instance] and all you see is "conversation" and the post itself never appears, stop doing that -oma admins its annoying

For some foolish reason I thought that the line to use the bathroom in the morning might be shorter at my new house. Silly me :blobcatupsidedown:​

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

@MiaWinter Cyrillic soft sign

@jeder Didn't they literally just add it and market it as a big selling point for Windows 11

Okay, I found this on Reddit and I had to share it.

A guy shows up in r/bbs, a subreddit dedicated to classic and new computer bulletin board systems. I'm a big fan. Anyway, this guy shows up and says: Hey, does anyone remember the BBS game my dad wrote? It was called Buccaneer, and it was a pirate game you played on BBSes. Dad died six and a half years ago and I just wonder if anyone heard of his game?

Turns out... people have heard of Buccaneer.

One person has it running on their board. Another person was able to share the ZIP file for others to put it on their boards. Oh no! It was software you had to buy if you wanted the full version of it. But Dad is gone, and the kiddo has no idea how to open up the software to everyone.

No problem, someone posted a quick C programme that will generate keys for you. The kid might be crying because now even more people can play his dad’s game.

There’s some kinda lesson here in abandonware, but also in humanity. This kid may or may not own the copyrights to his dad’s stuff. Who knows? But one thing he certainly doesn’t have is the ability to make it work.

But because of a few folks on the Internet, running some old software, and someone who took a few minutes to write a keygen? Well, his dad is still out there somewhere, and he’s playing pirates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/1b626zo/curious_if_anyone_remember_my_fathers_door_game/

the quickest way to get an answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer, this is called poe’s law

@confusomu I like writing on paper because I get to make up different scripts

@confusomu Grandparent on facebook type post

scientific possum

The correct response to criticism

@gotrans I occasionally attempt to write about language, hopefully I'll publish something on my website one day
I appreciate my notifications being destroyed :neocat_floof_explode:​