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dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.
1·2 months agoYeah, as a 看得懂汉字的 native English speaker, seeing 族 used to describe both ethnicity and things as mundane as e.g. 开车族 always hits in a weird way. Reading 弱势族群 there would have struck me as the speaker looking down on them. I wouldn’t have got the “for good reason”, not because it’s not literally there, but rather because I probably would have instinctively interpreted the writer as not being sympathetic - something like “all those damn poor people” as if he were to continue on in an ignorant rant about his taxes going to undeserving people on welfare or something. 弱势群体 definitely doesn’t have that connotation.
Anywho, thanks for sharing.
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.
2·2 months agoWhat was the original Chinese?
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?
9·2 months agoI hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I’m definitely never going back.
Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.
Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.
Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
Technology@beehaw.org•'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media]
4·2 months agoOne can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too.
Looks like that’s apparently exactly what it’s doing: https://github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader/blob/main/popup.js
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Google should have called it JIF, not WebP
1·5 months ago… which further strengthens the underlying point that acronyms don’t need to be pronounced like the words they represent.
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Google should have called it JIF, not WebP
4·5 months agoSure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as “jay-feg”.
“They’re headed for land! We’ll never catch them now…” “Incorrect. Look! A canal…”
dosboy0xff@infosec.pubto
retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Looking for a BMP picture that was common on Windows 3.1(1) (woman wearing hat)
6·6 months agoI’m looking at your description and the link included and wondering if you’re not actually thinking of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna


Normal grocery shopping. We’ve got candles and flashlights if the power goes out, and I’ve got a fully charged camping battery that I can use to power the oil furnace so we at least have heat. If the power goes out, we’ve also got a camping grill that I can cook on, and if worse comes to worse a box of MREs in the basement that I bought last year as a humorous “this is what Dad had to eat back when he was in the military”.