Oftentimes, for words especially of Latin origin, German will adopt the English term, perhaps slightly fitting it to the language. This type of term (in my experience) has tended to become the favored variant, such as Compiler for the English compiler. However, there is typically a more German-like variant of the English (or, ultimately Latin), as evidenced by Kompilierer, or a straight translation of the term into something more easily understandable, whereby compiler becomes Übersetzer.

The internet age, international communication needs, and the prevalence of the latest documentation being available first (or only) in English is likely to blame for this trend. Books especially use either a German-like Latin derivation or (preferably) a native term.

This is cursory illustration of the situation on the more technical side of things. No one would think to use a term like user interface over the well-established Benutzeroberfläche, or memory over Arbeitsspeicher.

Ultimately, both English and German, as West Germanic languages, operate similarly enough that the friction due to terminology is minimal.

Luke Smith’s videos are generally a good catalyst for examining one’s own thoughts on a given subject matter, disagree as I might.

It would be interesting to get numbers on how much of any given series children watch(ed) and their ages, as I but rarely caught episodes of any of the cartoons mentioned. I am far more familiar with books that do the same, like The Magic Tree House (children’s series) and the numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. I wouldn’t be so quick to ascribe to the episodic format of any given media the blame for instilling a false sense of permanence andor futility in anyone. I would be much quicker to look at how recent and rapid technological advancements have altered our perceptions of our lives.

Continuous cartoon consumption, as it is now more an on-demand experience than ever, may be symptomatic of something more fundamental, say, how quickly the rewards of hard work oughta be reapt.

This is sadly a less informative re-write of the Linux Mint blog post by Clem, which includes pictures of its previewed features.

I would fully agree that other internet protocols are much better suited to information not meant to be broadcast publicly.

Civility is great, and should be highly encouraged. That’s largely why I like Lemmy. Each instance can guide its community in line with its values, whatever those may be, block offenders, and generally forge the space it wishes.

However, I think Besse’s comments on setting the correct expectations in the public sphere are worth considering.

For a different internet example: all the messages I send in any chatroom on an IRC server will inevitably be logged by someone, especially in popular rooms. Any assumption to the contrary would be naïve, and demanding that people not keep a log any of my publicly broadcast messages would be laughed at by the operators. It’s a public space, and sending anything to that space necessarily means I forgo my ability to control who sees, aggregates, archives, or shares that information. My choice to put the information into that space is the opt-in mechanism, just how books or interviews do the same offline in print.

It’s not so much the protocol as it is how making things public fundamentally works.

I think Besse makes a great point here:

I think blurring the lines between public and private spaces is the opposite of informing consent. Cultivating unrealistic expectations of “privacy” and control in what are ultimately public spaces is actually bad.

I tried to single out the world wide web, as opposed to the internet at large, because the two are not synonymous. It’s rather absurd to publicly serve webpages to any querying IP address and maintain that the receiving computer is not to save said pages to disk.

All this to say: I find it difficult to argue that web publications should or could be exempt from aggregation and archival (or scraping, to put it another way). I understand that the ease with which bots do this can be disconcerting, however.

If we stay with the cafe bulletin board, getting a detailed overview of all the postings on the board is akin to scraping the whole thing. If we extend our analogy instead to a somewhat more significant example, library catalogs do the same with books, magazines, and movies.

This is the cost of publishing, be that in print or online. It must be expected that some person has a copy of every- and anything one has ever written or posted publicly, and perhaps even catalogued it. A way around this might be to move away from the web to another part of the internet, like Matrix, as alma suggested.

I assume the non-consensual collection of various (meta-)data is what you refer to when talking about intrusion and money making. Lemmy, like many projects, seeks to offer an alternative to corporate, data-gobbling social media sites, but doesn’t eliminate the ability to search through its webpages.

And here’s the point at which we go off the rails (towards the end of the thread; the earlier section is quite well expressed):

Most people in tech do not want to hear this, because it invalidates the vast majority of their business models, AI/ML training data, business intel operations, and so forth. Anything that’s based on gathering data that is ‘public’ suddenly becomes suspect, if the above is applied.

And yes, that includes internet darlings like the Internet Archive, which also operates on a non-consensual, opt-out model.

It’s the Western Acquisition, claiming ownership without permission.

It’s so ingrained in white, Western internet culture that there are now whole generations who consider anything that can be read by the crawler they wrote in a weekend to be fair game, regardless or what the user’s original intent was.

Republishing, reformatting, archiving, aggregating, all without the user being fully aware, because if they were, they would object.

It’s dishonest as fuck, and no different from colonial attitudes towards natural resources.

“It’s there, so we can take it.”

We then have some reasonable responses from others in the thread:

Rich Felker @dalias@hachyderm.io

Re: Internet Archive, I think many of us don’t believe/accept that businesses, organizations, genuine public figure politicians, etc. have a right to control how their publications of public relevance are archived & shared. The problem is that IA isn’t able to mechanically distinguish between those cases and teenagers’ personal diary-like blogs (chosen as example at opposite end of spectrum).

Arne Babenhauserheide @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social

*snip*

This is the difference between the internet archive and an ML model: the archive does not claim ownership.

Finally, a thought of mine own:

Sindarina seems to fundamentally miss the central idea of the world wide web, that is, publically sharing information. This does not mean the work may be used for any purpose whatsoever, as the content of many websites is either copyrighted or CC-BY-SA. But publishing anything on the www or in print, opens it by necessity to aggregation and archival. I routinely save webpages to disk.

To run with the cafe analogy that has been brought up, one cannot post a note to the cafe’s bulletin board and at the same time expect that no one else may take a photo of it, then perhaps share it with some acquaintances.

This is a far cry from the data harvesting done by Google, Microsoft, Apple & co., or the dubiously collected data used to train “automated plagiarism engine[s],” as Arthur Besse put it not too long ago.

@10_0@lemmy.ml is also cool; I quite enjoy the c/10_0 community posts that pop up from time to time with lovely photos.

@krolden@lemmy.ml is pretty cool.

Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. It’s the beautifullest English I’ve ever read.

I never realized there were more issues of Ubunchu!

The best name suggestion I’ve heard yet.

There is a c/gnu community already, but unlike c/linux, it is not a catch-all for any vaguely technology-related post.

I stand corrected on the utility of app exclusive features. I never considered it, but I suppose I rather like how I don’t get notifications through lemmur. Though I understand how that’s a hassle for others who want them.

What is the point of adding exclusive features to the mobile application? What sort of features should these be? Purely cosmetic?

It was previously shown but is not any longer. The rationale given for the change was along the lines of: “to prevent targeted attacks on mods for mod decisions.”

Oats in cold milk is an excellent meal with hot coffee. To boost the oatey flavor or for a vegan option, use oat milk.

It’s possible to top this with any number of things, like ground cinnamon, caraway seeds, ground ginger, molasses, honey, fresh berries, walnuts, almonds, etc. If you have the time or desire, you can even heat the oats with the milk of choice.

How easily and quickly do you want?

I hate autocorrect with a passion and never use it, reason being that it tries to correct variant spellings, names, and other unique words I use. I know adding mine own words to the keyboard’s dictionary would alleviate that issue, but I find that / predictive text eerie. I’m not so busy that I cannot proofread what I type, and I use any words I mis-spell as a learning opportunity, because it helps me remember it for future use.

I have been unsuccessful in getting any of my friends to try XMPP. Nobody wants to leave Discord :(

I really like how Dino looks though! Even though I don’t use it (yet), I have it installed on both Linux Mint and OpenBSD.

As a former computer illiterate, I certainly was stressed throughout the process of making a bootable USB drive and installing Linux Mint for the first time. Selecting whether to include multi-media codecs or not also tripped me up a bit, as I didn’t know what that meant at the time. There are good points raised here, and some deserved praise for the streamlined installers.

As pointed out, it seems easy and straightforward after one has done it a few times. Now, the only thing that gives me grief is configuring GRUB to recognize GhostBSD, and that’s mostly because I have yet to RTFM.

I’m inclined to agree about the typo, but then again, Tiny Core Linux only needs 16MB and comes with a FLTK/FLWM desktop. It’s not exactly feature rich, but still a functional desktop.

Edit: the LXDE website seems to suggest at least 256MB as well.