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  • You can’t. You can, however tell if a particular URL is believed to be dangerous by any of several organizations that track such things.

    Your browser probably has something built in; Firefox and Chrome do, for example. If you attempt to visit a known-bad URL, the browser will warn you and make you click through the warning before you do. Some other comments in this thread suggest third-party services that will also do this, and may even attempt to check the content found at the URL for known malware.





  • Quite. Unfortunately, most devices that use modern batteries have the battery sealed inside with an onboard charging system, such that when the battery wears out, the device becomes e-waste. There are many standard, or semistandard sizes of cylindrical lithium-ion cells, and devices could be designed for field-replaceable versions, but the only product category where it’s common is high-performance flashlights.

    Even in common consumer form factors, there have been improvements. Here’s a test of one of the best alkaline AAs. Note how the capacity drops as the load increases - by a factor of about six at 3 Amps. Contrast the Eneloop NiMH rechargeable, which has less capacity under light load, but barely loses any at 3 Amps and can handle 10 Amps while retaining most of its capacity.

    The best Li-ions in a form factor similar to AA, called 14500 have even better performance with over 5 Watt-hours of energy, but devices have to be designed for them since the voltage is much higher; putting one in most devices designed for AA will result in damage, if not fire.


  • We know reddit used bots at the beginning to generate activity to make the site look popular.

    That’s not quite it. The founders made a few of throwaway accounts and posted a bunch of links that exemplified what they wanted people to post. It was fake activity, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t automated. It was maybe 50 posts and I don’t think it was a bad thing to do.





  • Zak@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you believe in free will?
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    Yes. I could talk about quantum indeterminacy as a scientific argument for it, but fundamentally, I believe in it because I want to[1]. I don’t like the idea of being a deterministic machine with a fate I can’t influence with active choices. It’s not provable either way with the current state of science, so I choose to believe my preferred option is the correct one.

    [1] Of course such a statement presumes free will. I think I want to, anyway.




  • It is not impolite to say something like “I’m married, and even if I wasn’t, you’re underage. We are not dating, and we are not going to date.”

    She’s being very inappropriate in this situation. That isn’t really meant to be a harsh judgment of her because she’s a kid and kids shouldn’t be expected to how to behave yet, especially when they’re very new to experiencing feelings of sexual or romantic attraction. Shutting her down firmly (but without any cruelty) will help her learn.


  • In this context, I imagine it means you’re not going to freak out when you see something that isn’t Windows or Mac OS. Can you move things around with the file manager? Find the wifi settings? Get files off the external hard drive you just plugged in? That’s probably sufficient.

    Of course there are dozens of possible file managers and wifi widgets. They could be using any of many distributions with a near infinite combination of software. I’m proficient at Linux by nearly any definition, but I haven’t checked out recent versions of desktop environments other than the one I use regularly. As long as you can figure out basic computer stuff on something that looks a little different from what you’re used to, you should be fine.