Love the creativity here. This is the kind of stuff I hope to see more of on lemmy

Just read The Dispossessed last month. It’s a good one for sure 👍

My c++ is pretty rusty, but I hopped through the changelogs. I think this is the source for it here https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/components/antitracking/URLQueryStringStripper.cpp

Yup, exactly this for me too. Been done a thousand times before by companies like them. Plus the fact that the fediverse is not run by any company is just really nice - we don’t need them.

I was a fan of the version with the tricolor, but I think this interpretation actually makes me okay with the one they adopted

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This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

What a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, I’m still getting alerts from my local fire department through twitter. Doesn’t exactly make me feel safe.

Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.

Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.