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  • Oh, that's interesting!

    I hadn't known that eqch language version has such a high level of autonomy.

    Though, when reading that text, it also looks like there are Wikipedia-wide standards that the ruling on Russian-language Wikipedia is clearly breaking. (I noticed this when I was trying to edit an article about an electric locomotive built in Ukraine and used nowhere else than Ukraine. When I corrected phrasing "built on Ukraine" to "built in Ukraine", a error message popped up telling that " on Ukraine" has been decided as the only allowed form. And the grammatical rule is that of independent countries you always say "in". After the Orange Revolution in 2008 the Russia made an exception to this rule, because it wanted to prepare Russians for the invasion that then took place six years later, in 2014. But that exception was never accepted by Ukrainians, who continued using system that had been official since 1991. And it's quite crazy than in an article about Ukraine, written mainly for Ukrainians, in a language used by 40% of Ukrainians as their everyday language, you are forced to use grammatical forms that can only be used about a region but never about an independent county!)

  • Ruel

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  • We really do take neutrality seriously

    Well, semi-seriously. In the Russian-language wikipedia it is forbidden to talk of Ukraine as an independent country. I don't consider that terribly neutral. (They did have a vote about this, and because the Russian-language Wikipedia has more users from the Russia than from other countries, the Russian "opinion" about this won the vote. But it's absolutely not neutral anyway and with such a rule in place, it's ridiculous to claim that Wikipedia is really neutral. It is neutral-ish, though, yes.)

  • Ruel

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  • Yeah, based on what the Wikipedia said and what you say in your comment, this quote by @anunusualrelic@lemmy.world summarizes it extremely efficiently:

    The cartoonist for Dilbert was kind of fun, then he started to be kind of weird, then he became really odd, then he turned into a total weirdo, then he died. The end.

  • Moscow residents turn to pagers, printed maps as Russia enforces internet 'whitelist'

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  • I also figured out later that offline maps you can download on your phone beforehand and use even without Internet don't help a shit if you haven't happened to download them before the Internet we t down.

    "The Internet is down, therefore I will download offline maps" isn't the breakthrough idea I first assumed.

  • Moscow residents turn to pagers, printed maps as Russia enforces internet 'whitelist'

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  • WWWWHY printed maps? They have their Russian-made Maps.me, which has offline-maps. And its equally Russian-made (but without the influence of the Kremlin ally corporation "Mail.ru") fork, Organic maps.

    And if they don't like the Russian influence, they can use CoMaps.When you have offline maps in your phone, what's the problem with that?

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    How to request to take over community on lemmy.world ?

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  • The way that always works is to send a message to an admin.

    In the case of .world, there are many alternatives that probably work better, though. Matrix and email are probably their preferred channels for this.

    You can see those alternatives around halfway along the sidebar on the right, if you go to lemmy.world with a browser. And the admins list is at the very bottom of said sidebar.

  • What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?

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  • I get my laptops from a city bureau.

    They sell old laptops of Helsinki public servants. The hard drives are very thoroughly emptied and Ubuntu is installed. It's a kind of a workshop for unemployed people, with the purpose of keeping them used to the concept of work. They get a tiny bit of extra money atop their unemployment benefit by working there.

    This has all kinds of weird side effects, like how the actual buying process runs. Once you've decided what you want to buy, they print something akin to a receipt to you, and you need to walk some 100 metres or so to a wood workshop where they have a worker with a permission to handle money. You give them the receipt and money, and they give you back a other receipt to prove you have paid. And then you take that back to the shack made of corrugated metal that works as the computer shop, give the receipt to the guy there and carry your laptop home.

    At one point they were selling old laptops of the.fire brigade. They were built so that you could very well use them as a hammer 🐳

    Anyway, the shop is on the backyard of the Kyläsaari recycling centre in Helsinki. It closes at 15, so.it's a little bit difficult to visit if you've got an eight to four job.

  • What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?

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  • Thinkpad X280.

    And if you tell where the hell my key for the cellar is, I can go downstairs and check what model the Thinkpad I bought in 2017 for 30 €. It's now in my pile of broken laptops from which I should extract useful files some day :P

  • What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?

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  • Something you can buy for 20 €.Okay, I paid 60 € for mine and it's good enough to play Skyrim and Stellaris :)

    But the same shop sometimes sells laptops for 30 €. They come preinstalled with Ubuntu Linux and are absolutely fine for browsing the web.

  • Starlink cut off halts Russian frontline assaults

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  • I'm wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.

    But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:

    • Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
    • Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there's a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Both need to always be printed, with kJ first as that's the official standard. But since in practical terms more people talk about kcal, they've required including that one as well. Here's a photo:

    (Also, all foodstuff must have the ingredients and nutritional values in the local language, so I wonder how this package of instant noodles made its way into my pantry!)

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • It's somewhat a wild assumption that the only electronic appliance a household uses is a hair dryer.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Because total energy used is not what matters. What matters for most people is how much they have to pay. And they have to pay according to how many hours they were powering their devices with how many kilowatts.

    People are – sadly – very uninterested in thinking about energy being indeed energy.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • I have no clue of kcal, because I always read the numbers in kilojoules. And EU is not a part of Australia :) (And we need to mention the kJ because EU legislation is in effect in Finland where I live)

  • Seattle doesn't fuck with I.C.E. (Seattle, WA - 1/31/26)

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  • Happy to see it's not just one Minneapolis that is standing up against nazism.

  • Memes are serious business

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  • If you say that genociding Uyghurs is not okay, the lemmy.ml admins consider that to trigger the rule about colonialist mindset. Similarly, if you talk bad about the Russian colonization of peoples such as Mari and Buryats or Tatars, that is seen by them as an example of you having a colonialist mindset. And those messages of yours then get removed by the mods.

  • Russia has no more than 3-4 Oreshnik missiles — intelligence

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  • They include components that haven't been produced since 1990's. They will have to re-think large parts of the missile if they want to produce more than just a handful of new ones. There aren't endless amounts of 30-year-old devices laying around to use.

  • Cudillero, Spain

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  • Hey, thanks! Gotta visit that place sometime!

  • Comment thread on /r/Europe suggesting ditching Reddit, Lemmy and PieFed suggested

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  • It is also more difficult connecting that data to your person.

  • UK rock band ‘broke’ after touring arenas for two months

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  • Ah, and they didn't expect the non-UK income and the UK income to count towards the same threshold?

    At least in Finland the 0% tax bracket ends at something like 1300 € per month, and I doubt they were getting that little per person for touring internationally.

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    EU's new "Open source strategy" needs feedback and input

    camp.smolnet.org /@frida/115853812651790021
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Tuuktuuk @piefed.europe.pub

    EU's new "Open source strategy" needs feedback and input

    camp.smolnet.org /@frida/115853812651790021
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Meemit

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