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  • I’m saying spray-mop the floor once a week and you’ll take most of the dust out of that room before it settles on harder-to-clean surfaces, which reduces how often you need to clean shelves, plants etc…

    Most dust in a typical household is from shed skin cells, from either humans or pets. And I do imagine that most shed skin cells just fall onto the floor at first and can be collected there.





  • That’s kind of why I never feel great about buying video games. The price is pretty much entirely arbitrary.
    Like yeah, they did an investment, it is fair that they recuperate that. But the actual price they need to ask of each customer entirely depends on how many customers there are.

    And so, they will always start out asking more than what they expect to need to ask of each customer, which just feels like I’m paying too much.
    But even when they do put it on sale, there’s likely going to be sales in the future where they sell it for even less. It’s not like they need to empty out a warehouse or such, where they put up uniquely low prices. So, even when I could get a game on a sale, I’ll feel like I could also just wait longer…




  • Ephera@lemmy.mltocats@lemmy.worldClose
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    12 days ago

    Is it maybe a burying instinct, like they have with their poop? The carpet might seem more like grass or lose ground, where it is possible to bury it. You don’t really want the puke rotting away on the stone ground of your lion’s den, do ya?



  • I happen to be a software developer, so I hope you’re in for an info dump:

    Webpages are generally designed as documents. You type a URL into your browser, it downloads a webpage document and displays it. This simple concept also allows for hyperlinks and browsing history, which just put another URL into your browser, so that it downloads and displays a different document.

    But it does not work for everything. For example, this meme was brought to you by the web version of Microsoft Teams™, where if you were to switch between pages by downloading entirely separate documents, then you’d get kicked out of calls every time you do so.

    This is why the entirety of MS Teams is using a singular document. It’s a so-called Single-Page Application, SPA (*insert scary music here*).
    When you click on a navigation element, it doesn’t put a new URL into your browser for it to download. Instead, some JavaScript monstrosity starts churning, downloads whatever information it needs and then modifies the displayed document, so that it looks as if you had navigated away.

    To make it extra confusing, it also does typically change the displayed URL, it just doesn’t instruct the browser to download+display the respective document. It does this, because it tries to emulate a normal, document-based webpage, with browser history and where you can link to subpages.

    Well, and this is then why opening in a new tab is often broken. Because there is no link there. It has to emulate the behaviour of a link via JavaScript just as well. If the developers do a bad job at that and never try out shortcuts like middle-click or Ctrl+click, then they may never get implemented.


    Having said all that, there’s also a chance that the devs decided to intentionally hinder opening in a new tab.
    Because MS Teams and other SPAs are JavaScript monstrosities, downloading+displaying the document anew like when opening in a new tab takes an obscene amount of time.
    And having two tabs of it open means that you get two notification sounds for each notification, and users might accidentally join multiple calls.

    But yeah, that I can’t have a call in fullscreen on one monitor and respond to chat messages on another monitor, without jumping through hoops like in the post, that’s just bad either way.


  • Well, in this case I’m merely talking about the webpage not giving access to the right-click menu, as well as to shortcuts like middle-mouse-click and Ctrl+click, which would normally allow you to open parts of it in a new tab.

    If a webpage were to actually check for cookies, to try to detect whether you’ve got two tabs of it open, then yeah, Container Tabs would be a solution for that, since it isolates the cookies.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlWhat's up with FUTO?
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    20 days ago

    From a communication viewpoint, that is fair, but to my knowledge (from being a professional software developer), effectively any license that is not ‘open-source’ or ‘free’ is by definition proprietary.

    Because those two terms describe licensing standards (the only established ones that I know of). Whereas I believe, “proprietary license” uses this meaning of proprietary:

    Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

    So, they wrote that license themselves is the point. What it says in there is secondary in meaning.

    This is so highly relevant because in legal disputes, there is certain license compatibilities which are known to be possible.
    You can take a library licensed under the MIT license and use it in a project that uses the Apache-2.0 license and you’re perfectly fine. This is the foundation of why the open-source ecosystem exists at all.

    But you cannot take the source code from FUTO and use it in a differently licensed project, because no legal precedents exist to support this. (I believe, the FUTO license also actively prohibits this in some way, but that’s beside the point.)
    This has massive implications. Like, yeah, you can look at the code, but it is useless. If FUTO closes shop or enshittifies, you cannot fork their projects.
    And because you cannot legally re-use their source code in other projects, likely no one looks at it in depth either.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.devFree iphone
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    21 days ago

    Here they started doing such phishing tests a while ago and our IT department had significantly worse stats than other departments, in terms of how often we would click on the link in the phishing mail.

    And yeah, the conclusion was that we were just being asshats that decided to poke around in the obvious phishing mails for the fun of it. Rather than getting extra security training, management told us to just stop dicking around, so that our stats look better.