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That can actually improve your health, if the donor has better gut bacteria than you. So I’d be all in favour of that!

Only for transactions on the main (L1) blockchain. Small transactions are usually done on a secondary (L2) blockchain so they’re fast and cheap, and then periodically synced back to the L1 chain in one big transaction.

Zen on the desktop, Firefox on mobile. Zen has quickly surpassed what I thought it would be capable of, and it keeps adding awesome UI bangers that I wish Firefox would have though of decades ago.

OK I absolutely hate this meme format but I’m gonna make an exception for this one, since I too am a victim of PPPoE even for gigabit fiber.

A cookie is a small piece of data a website can store on your computer, and it will be included with every request your browser makes to that website. While most visible cookie usage (I.e. the endless popups) is just to track you and violate your privacy, their are plenty of legitimate uses for cookies:

• store settings you make on a website, such as dark mode or (ironically) that you don’t want to be tracked
• store a session ID so the website can store more data on their end, such as the contents of a shopping cart. This is also often used for analytics, which is basically following the paths users take through a website to see if everything works as intended.
• store a successful login to a website. Most websites will require a cookie to allow you to log in. There are other ways to accomplish this but they’re ancient and annoying.

Basically you should keep declining cookie popups, except for functional cookies on a website where you actually want to do stuff (login, shop, etc) instead of just reading something.

DDG is good enough for me.

25 years ago the people that were online were sitting behind a PC, not swiping on their phone and hoping the autocorrect got it right. So every typing mistake was an actual typing mistake on a real keyboard by an actual person. The use of language online has definitely gone downhill when phones entered the picture.

Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.

If you mean that most people write even worse now than 25 years ago then yes 😄

I met my wife on IRC. She was attracted to the fact that I could spell. That was 25 years ago.

Confused me as well, but they don’t mean the thickness but probably the shorter end of the rectangle. As usual American metaphors for simple distances are confusing as fuck.

The point is signaling to other people that it’s not worth their time. I sort by new so I often see these slop posts as well, but other readers very quickly downvote it into oblivion so if a post is older than say 15 minutes I generally will know not to read it even if it sounds interesting at first glance. A mod will come by later to actually delete it if that’s warranted, but until then downvotes suffice.