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Pub Trivia

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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
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ChrisDL
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Am i missing something? Isn't number 4 answerable?
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meertn
2 hours ago
Answerable but trivial is the joke I guess
JavaJim
2 hours ago
Edit: apparently I can't count. Sorry. Original response:maybe? I would say it depends on whether there is decent definition of what makes a lake - a lake. Because if it is just an inland body of water then every raindrop would form a new lake (that might eventually join together into something larger)
Dorkrum
2 hours ago
Now that you mention it I realise I misread the question. I thought it said more shark attacks *than* and the joke was that because "or" is used instead of "and", the answer was Jaws despite it being listed in the question.
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Who was the first person to beat a world record?
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What is the longest video game?
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Not All Web APIs Are Good APIs

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Eric Lee on Threads:

I was wondering why I haven’t seen websites utilizing Vibration API when I see more and more apps using it including Arc Search and AirChat. Safari doesn’t even support it so there it goes 🫠

This exemplifies the broken thinking among many web developers and PWA advocates regarding Safari and WebKit. Just because an API exists and some browsers support it does not mean all browsers should support it. I never ever want a website to be able to vibrate my device. Ever. Nor do I want websites to be able to prompt me with an alert asking for permission to vibrate my device. Not supporting the Vibration API is a feature, not an omission.

If you want web apps to have the same full range of capabilities as native apps, iOS is not the platform for you. PWA advocates treat it as axiomatic that web apps should be peers to native apps, but that’s not true for everyone. I think of native apps as software I carefully consider before installing, even from the App Store. I think of websites and web apps as software I will visit/run without consideration, because they’re so comparatively restricted.

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agreed
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Taking care

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Taking care

This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.

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ChrisDL
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Absolutely devastating.
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US Survey Foot

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Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!
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ChrisDL
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deebee
74 days ago
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Hey where’d the alt text bot go?
America City, America
Screwtape
79 days ago
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For international viewers, 0.014 miles is about 23 metres.
jepler
78 days ago
this american had to convert it into feet before grasping the distance involved, fwiw
Groxx
78 days ago
Bah! It's just a bit over 0.015 miles, or around 50 feet plus half of that again to get 75 feet, plus some change because it's 0.016 not 0.015, plus a bit because a thousandth of a mile is closer to 53 feet, so it's closer to like 80 feet. Easy math. No need for your silly metrics system.
agwego
74 days ago
Statute mile or Nautical mile?
mcarson
70 days ago
How many footlong hotdogs is that?
Groxx
69 days ago
Somewhere between a fortnight and a furlong of footlong frankfurters
jepler
68 days ago
15.13 smoots

Improbable & Terrifying

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Vancouver Island, Canada
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Veilid

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Take Back Control

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first, networked application framework.

Veilid (pronounced Vay-Lid, from 'Valid and Veiled Identification')

Veilid allows anyone to build a distributed, private app. Veilid gives users the privacy to opt out of data collection and online tracking. Veilid is being built with user experience, privacy, and safety as our top priorities. It is open source and available to everyone to use and build upon.

Veilid goes above and beyond existing privacy technologies and has the potential to completely change the way people use the Internet. Veilid has no profit motive, which puts us in a unique position to promote ideals without the compromise of capitalism.

We built Veilid because when the Internet was young and new, we viewed it as an endless and open realm of possibility.

Instead, the Internet we know now has been heavily commercialized, with users and their data being the most sought-after commodity. The only ways to opt-out of becoming the product for billionaires to exploit are either too technical for the average user, or to simply not go online.

We don't believe that is fair; we still haven't given up our dream for the entire Internet to be free and accessible without trading privacy to use it.

We believe that everyone should be able to forge relationships, learn, create, and build online — without being monetized.

With Veilid, the user is in control, in a way that is approachable and friendly, regardless of technical ability. We want to give the world the Internet we should have had all along.

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