oktoberpaard

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[–] oktoberpaard 8 points 5 months ago

The Dutch brought Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) to New Amsterdam, current day NYC, which has developed into Santa Claus as we know it know. Santa Claus is a phonetic derivation of Sinterklaas.

Apparently he was depicted as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe and a green outfit in Washington Irving’s History of New York book, so maybe that’s where you got that idea from.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

[–] oktoberpaard 8 points 5 months ago

The way I read it, they’re not asked to follow an open standard, but to provide a specification for their own standard. That means that they could dictate the pace of development and others could decide for themselves wether or not to implement it for their devices. It’s similar to WhatsApp being forced to provide third parties with API access.

Also, they currently don’t support alternative protocols with cross-platform support and they’re not going to, unless forced.

[–] oktoberpaard 10 points 5 months ago

I can’t reproduce this in the web app at https://vger.app/. All settings icons have a colored circle around them.

[–] oktoberpaard 4 points 5 months ago

To be fair: it’s not new to Apple Maps, it’s new to Apple Maps on the the web.

[–] oktoberpaard 3 points 5 months ago

SURF provides its members digital services, such as network connectivity, software licenses, compute facilities (among which a supercomputer), advice, etc. The members are Dutch education and research institutions, including all Dutch public universities.

[–] oktoberpaard 3 points 5 months ago

I’ve been using it for the past 4 years and it has been rock solid for me. I use the oisd list with some of the overlapping security lists disabled and it just works. I never get complaints from family members either. It’s enabled on my home network, iOS/MacOS/Linux devices and in Tailscale.

[–] oktoberpaard 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, are you arguing for or against DST? DST solely exists because of the position of the sun at different times of the year. The downside is that everyone has to adjust their internal clock twice a year. If we just choose one timezone and be done with it, we can let the sun do its thing and follow our regular schedule throughout the whole year. If that’s what you’re saying, I agree. Then still, I’d pick the option that benefits most people in terms of daylight hours.

[–] oktoberpaard 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The reality is that most people work according to a fixed schedule, and the companies that they work for are not going to change that anytime soon. Opening hours of shops, banks, offices, etc don’t adjust to accommodate daylight savings, no matter how much you think those numbers are arbitrary.

Add to that that many people set their alarm such that they will be in time for work, and they still want to sleep 7-8 hours the next night, so in effect their job dictates their waking hours and the arbitrary numbers that we give to hours dictate the amount of daylight that they get.

[–] oktoberpaard 5 points 6 months ago

Tengo cuenta en Twitter, pero no la uso. La única razón por la que no la he cerrado es por si la necesito para ver algún comentario. Tengo cuenta en Bluesky también, pero esa no uso tampoco. En Threads no tengo cuenta.

Mi plataforma favorita es Lemmy y anteriormente fue Reddit. Me gustan más este estilo de hilos y las comunidades. Hay una opción experimental en Bluesky para habilitar una vista de hilos, así que quizá lo usaré más a menudo en el futuro, pero hasta ahora ni siquiera sé a quién seguir.

[–] oktoberpaard 2 points 6 months ago
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[–] oktoberpaard 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A 100-word email generated by an AI chatbot using GPT-4 requires 0.14 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, equal to powering 14 LED light bulbs for 1 hour.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/

[–] oktoberpaard 2 points 6 months ago

Es algo muy curioso y me lo he preguntado muchas veces. Hay muchísimos hispanohablantes, pero donde están? Sobretodo los de España. Yo no soy español así que no sé dónde se puede encontrar españoles en internet. Sé que hay algunos foros que son exclusivamente en español, como foro coches y menéame, pero esos me gustan tanto. Todos están allí? Incluso en reddit hay menos de lo que esperaba.

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