master5o1

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[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

I think the alternative: copyright should be looser. It usually only benefits corporations and lawyers.

Though it would be naive to consider AI companies and ally in a goal to reduce copyright terms.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 months ago

When does a colloquial term become a non-colloquial? Usage by government/official contexts?

In August 2022, Minister of Immigration Michael Wood referred to 85,000 holders of recently approved New Zealand 2021 resident visas as "new Kiwis".

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

New Zealand -> Kiwi.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 9 points 8 months ago

Human languages: the words are made up and the rules don't matter.

Especially true for English.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 months ago

If it wasn't for StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress, is have thought a rename to Impress would be a good name.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 5 points 10 months ago

At least we don't use the Roman method of varied hour lengths depending in the time of day and times of year.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

It also works both ways: invest in passenger rail, services can improve, and so more people will use trains.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not on desktop so can't inspect to see the img src.

But it's possible for a url in img src to have a different response (ie, html) when it's a direct navigation (ie new tab).

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Presumably to disable that hot linking from other websites/apps. Especially if they use scrapers.

But yeah, bad ux.

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

But to where would they expel the Jews if they did not have some level of support for Zionism and allow Israel to exist?

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