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  • There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Magazine_Card_Game

    I only played it in German, where the names are different, but according to that article, the card is called "What Me Worry? You Worry!" in English: if you are getting something bad done to you, you can play that and instead do the same thing to the person who did that to you.

  • Ah, I see. Yes, that makes it more interesting, I agree.

  • Wien | Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 @lemmy.world

    Fahrräder in Bus und „Bim“ weiter verboten

    wien.orf.at /stories/3365180/
  • There are plenty of carnivore species that are also prey. House cats and some other small cat species are one example. Polar bears mainly eat seals, which are also carnivores.

  • Yes, this is true (although the name change happened years before the major version was no longer 10) and doesn't contradict anything I wrote. But the first version of Mac OS X was an entirely new OS technologically unrelated to Mac OS 9; not the case for later version jumps.

  • True, that usually costs money though, while Tor is free.

  • In general no, at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS the name change happened several years before the architecture change. But I don't know what the distinction is on that graph; it's possible it just depends on how the OS is called in the user agent string?

  • Most popular programming languages have English-language keywords and that can't be changed, so we certainly have to learn those.

    How we learn to name symbols (variable/function names), that obviously depends on the programming course. But most real-world code has most symbols written in English with the possible exception of business-specific terminology that the business doesn't use in English. The same is true of comments.

  • Technology @lemmy.zip

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • California @piefed.social

    Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free
  • California @lemmy.world

    Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free
  • The OS was renamed at some point; the first versions of the Unix/NEXTstep-based OS made by Apple were named Mac OS X, then at some point they switched to "OS X" (which hardly anyone ever actually said), then at some point to "macOS". So it's somewhat silly that they are separate lines and I don't know what the difference is on that graph.

  • Decline into censorship @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free
  • USA | United states of America @lemmy.ca

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • Privacy @lemmy.world

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • except that laws about social media usually target any online service regardless of technology

  • I don’t see Tor solving the problem of I.D. verification on social media, for example.

    It does by disguising the location you're accessing the website from, which may or may not have such laws.

  • KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now) @lemmy.sdf.org

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • Privacy @sopuli.xyz

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • Decline into censorship @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
  • How will they know which members of my family are teens if we never submit to age verification? /s

    yup, the article mentions this problem, starting with the absolutely true statement:

    The bill says it doesn’t require age verification. But like many recent “kids online safety” bills, it imposes obligations that depend on a company knowing whether a user is under 18.

    Technically, I think Google could probably scan my Gmail inbox and be fairly confident I'm not a minor anymore (because I have been getting emails minors typically wouldn't for many years). But that wouldn't help for any chatbots other than Gemini.

  • KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now) @lemmy.sdf.org

    The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family
  • There just aren't any good guys in this story.

    Meta and its platforms suck and the world would be a better place without them. People who are claiming online platforms should be held liable for being "addictive" suck, too. Should I be able to successfully sue my Lemmy instance admin too because I like to spend time here too much?

    I'm reminded of my parents limiting my forum time because they thought I (then a preteen) was "addicted" to forums in the mid-2000s. I still don't think they were right about that, and I don't sympathize with people now claiming the equivalent thing about Instagram et al. either.

  • Governments are only now starting to introduce stronger regulations

    yes, and are thereby killing any opportunity for us, the people, to solve the problem ourselves by operating platforms independent from big tech >:( Meta will be able to comply with any regulations governments will ever think of, their business depends on it; fediverse instances meanwhile...

  • I was wondering how much closer it can get than it is now... then I noticed the date.

  • Wien | Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 @lemmy.world

    Niedrigwasser: Problem für Kraftwerk Freudenau

    wien.orf.at /stories/3364909/
  • Compared to the many flags that are just three stripes either horizontally or vertically, Japan's flag is certainly somewhat unique and recognizable.

  • Tunick’s lawyers claim the agents “never read him his Miranda rights,”

    irrelevant unless his statements are going to be used against him

    I don't really see why this is an enormous civil liberties story. Destruction of evidence can, I think, legitimately be a crime even in a free and democratic society. It's not like they're trying to make the feature itself illegal... the main civil liberties complaint to have here is that searches of phones on borders are a thing at all.

    Compared to https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/you-can-be-prosecuted-clearing-your-browser-history/ (from 2015 - 11 years ago, under the Obama administration!) where the person apparently didn't even know the government might be considering the deleted stuff "evidence", I find this story harmless.

  • Joke's on them, I use an ad blocker, so those 1741 partners can do all the calculations they want about which ads to show me... I won't see those ads anyway. :P