not what the article says, the article specifically says:

The age-verification process will be implemented globally,

Did she get a new voice actor in the original at some point?

Because for us who watch the German dub, this happened in or around 2007, between “We’re on the Road to D’ohwhere” and “My Fair Laddy”. That was the time I seriously became aware of which episodes were (then) new, because Marge’s voice was different only in the new ones. :D

This is consistent with my idea (which I’ve long had) that there was yet another quality drop around the time they switched to HD. The episodes from the 2000s are mostly still perfectly watchable IMHO, the ones from the 2010s much less so and I don’t think I’ve ever watched a Simpsons episode from the 2020s, so can’t say anything about that.

Why would you expect routing software to route somewhere that no path is mapped?

As for public transport routing, I explained this here https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/50719308/22594280 a while ago.

No such thing as “smartphone addiction” anyway. Not liking boredom is a fairly normal human instinct and the fact that we can now at almost all times use smartphones to get rid of boredom is a good thing. Quick reminder that “Internet addiction” started out as a satirical concept. Addiction is normally about substance use, maybe gambling; calling all hobbies or habits “addictions” completely devalues the concept.

Digital technology can be used for so many different things in so many different ways that it’s completely stupid to demonize it in general. I acknowledge that watching a steady stream of short videos (on TikTok or similar) for hours isn’t a very productive way to spend one’s time, but there are so many other things that can be done on screens!

And I’m a (late) millennial and spend most of my time at home neither on my phone nor TV, but my laptop computer (connected to two external monitors).

I got my first own computer when I was 10 and ever since then, using the computer has been my “default” activity when I’m at home. Smartphones came after that and didn’t change that, I still prefer big screens with a keyboard and mouse if I have them, mainly use my smartphone when I’m not at home.

I mean the oldest one of these is YouTube, which was literally named after an element of TV technology. The name implies that it’s a TV program made by “you”, the user. So this isn’t new knowledge at all.

Thanks!

I have read about these ideas about money being created through loans before, but also read contradictory ideas.

Since you seem to know a lot about the subject, would you happen to know of materials where I can learn more about the topic?

I mean Szczecin and Bydgoszcz are fairly well known place names, and chuj is a well known word for other reasons, so those are the easiest apart from DWORD which I think I’ve seen in the Windows registry.

I would have picked the same except for HGDIOBJ, the OBJ screams “object” and it wouldn’t be very pronounceable in Polish orthography, not even by the standards of Polish. Have not looked any up though.

I was already posting on web forums (also wikis) before Facebook or Twitter became popular, when the Internet was not yet very established and posting things on it oneself was something only few people thought of doing.

I was outright excited when I saw “social media” becoming more mainstream. I thought at the time, at least more people are using the Internet, even if it’s “just” Facebook or Twitter (which I didn’t and still don’t see much value in), at least it’s the Internet, that’s a good thing because the Internet is a great and exciting thing for society and a wonderful source of entertainment!

Now we live in a world where the general public mostly only knows how to operate social media apps, otherwise has no tech proficiency at all, doesn’t even know what else is out there on the Internet, and doesn’t know or care how the social media apps they’re using are designed to manipulate them. And politicians are busy working to make it harder for good idealistic people to solve those problems. :(

Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…

From some things maybe. Plenty of recent “online safety” style laws around the world have no exceptions based on platform size.

This is precisely the point of literally all the recent new laws regulating online platforms, including this.

To kill smaller ones that can’t comply with those laws, so that only large ones remain (if at all) and it is easier to censor and surveil the users there.

I just hope that at some point, people will figure out how wrong politicians of the 2020s were to do all of this, and a new free and open Internet will rise from the ashes as long as any remain.

As long as Google is doing a better job maintaining AOSP than a nonprofit would, what’s the point?

If they ever stop doing so, then this might be an option.

Mainly that I can clearly distinguish Il1 and 0O. I like DejaVu Sans Mono because it does that; if I’m limited to fonts preinstalled on Windows, Lucida Console works too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_acceptance

I still remember, in the late 2000s and early 2010s, finding that somewhat weird too. I was already regularly using the Internet (including forums) well before hashtags were invented and when I started to see hashtags in all kinds of contexts, I on the one hand found it great that the Internet was apparently arriving in more people’s lives, and on the other hand somewhat disappointing that they weren’t using forums or wikis or anything like that that I was already highly familiar with, but this weird new thing called Twitter… oh well…

https://xkcd.com/887/

Wdym “suddenly”? Checking my user profile on hexbear it appears that my posts to lemmy.zip communities have been federating there for a long time. Your instance doesn’t seem to defederate them, don’t know if it ever did; mine certainly doesn’t and I don’t remember a time when it ever did.

So how is it the best times if the last generation had it better.

The sentence was “one of the best”, not “the best”, so it’s not a contradiction at all.