I mean…yeah, but…

• Are you trying to just have static information? Like, prewritten webpages, no database with information that’s used to generate webpages on-the-fly?

• Are you making a blog? That’s something that a number of people do for personal websites, and there’s specialized software to do that.

• Is this basically going to be maintained by one person? In that case, what they already know may be a factor.

• Roughly how many webpages do you expect to create for the website?

I mean, if I were going to make a website with a single static page, I’d just write the thing by hand in HTML in emacs. I know (old, and not at a professional level) HTML and I know emacs. That’s a good choice for me, but would be wildly unreasonable for, say, my mother, who doesn’t know either.

If I were trying to create a blog, I’d probably use existing blogging software of some sort (and I don’t know if I’d self-host that blog).

If I were setting up a dynamic website — database, software that generates webpages from that database — that other people might maintain in the future, I’d probably look to use some kind of popular framework using a widely-used language. At that point, whoever is making the website is probably going to need to know some degree of programming.

There’s software that’s designed to make it easier to update the theme across an entire website spanning tens of thousands of pages. That’s useful if you have a website having tens of thousands of pages, but might very well be a waste of time if you just want to put up a handful.

I’m just illustrating that what you’d use varies wildly based on the size of the website, what the people who will be maintaining it already know, and whether you want dynamically-generated content.

I believe that @cattywampas@lemmy.world is growing plants, the old-school solar route.

I’m sure that somewhere, some has made one that is stored in some sort of restricted form. I’ve definitely purchased ones that are not. I don’t think that a blanket statement could be made either way. If you’re looking at a particular soundtrack, I’m sure that whoever is selling it will provide information about the format.

EDIT: Well, okay, you might not be notified if it uses some sort of digital watermark. I don’t know if that’s what you’re thinking of; it wouldn’t prevent one from being played, as is asked in your question, but it might permit an infringing copy to be traced back to an original purchase. There are definitely commercial audio vendors — I don’t know of specific examples involving game soundtrack audio — that do make use of digital watermarking and others that do not.

You need to have a non-intersecting loop around Earth to be in orbit. Anything you throw that doesn’t apply some kind of additional thrust won’t be in orbit, as its path will necessarily intersect Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight

A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the vehicle reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched. Hence, it will not complete one orbital revolution, will not become an artificial satellite nor will it reach escape velocity.

Shocked, not electrocuted. Electrocuted is being fatally shocked.

Your microwave probably uses a grounded plug. If this is the US, it’ll look like this:

That third, rounded pin is the ground pin.

When devices have grounded plugs, the case is normally connected to the ground pin.

If you’ve built up a charge, touching something grounded will discharge it.

You might get it in a dry environment, where it’s easier to build up a charge, like if it’s an air-conditioned house or cold and dry.

As to avoiding it…

If it bugs you, it sounds like there are shoes that people wear for jobs where having static electricity buildup is problematic, that have soles made out of more-conductive material than the typical insulating stuff we use, that keeps charge from accruing by letting it slowly discharge into the surface that they’re standing on. Might try them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_discharge_materials

ESD shoes with carbonized rubber (weakly conductive) bottom

https://www.amazon.com/esd-shoes/s?k=esd+shoes

Or just going barefoot around the house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vqzdyLzlY4

Huh.

You could probably just piggyback off some random DNS server out there that permits public queries. I doubt that most domains are logging everything.

$ egrep "^[a-z]+$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf|sed "s/$/.com/"|xargs -n1 host -t ns|grep "name server"|cut -d" " -f 4|awk '!seen[$0]++'|xargs -n1 host www.slashdot.org|awk '/^$/ {f=0} /has address/ {f=1} /^Name:/ {if (f) {print}}'
Name: ns2.afternic.com.
Name: ns1.bluehost.com.
Name: ns2.bluehost.com.
Name: ns-570.awsdns-07.net.
Name: ns1.sedoparking.com.
Name: ns02.cashparking.com.
Name: ns01.cashparking.com.
Name: ns1.namefind.com.
Name: ns2.namefind.com.

etc.

That’ll look up the DNS server for a bunch of domains and, omitting duplicates, list all of the ones that can resolve “www.slashdot.org”, which I imagine likely means that they’ll also probably be willing to resolve other domains.

EDIT: Modified the above command line to randomize the order of domains it tries so that if multiple people use this, everyone doesn’t just grab the same DNS server.

Go to answer a text and when you return to the lemmy tab your whole reply is gone.

What app are you using to compose responses?

If it doesn’t have enough memory, Android will kill an app…but my understanding — I haven’t written Android software — is that apps are supposed to be able to save state before this happens.

I’d think that if the app isn’t saving state, that’d probably be an app bug.

If you want to use that particular client, you might be able to work around it by composing your response in a Markdown editor (that does save state before being killed) and then just pasting it into the reply.

Whenever I see a comment on social media that I think is wrong, I feel the need to correct it.

https://xkcd.com/386/

I assume that the oracle here would handle picking that, if that’s optimal.

QUIC works hand-in-hand with HTTP/3’s multiplexed connections, allowing multiple streams of data to reach all the endpoints independently, and hence independent of packet losses involving other streams. In contrast, HTTP/2, which is carried over TCP, can suffer head-of-line-blocking delays if multiple streams are multiplexed on a TCP connection and any of the TCP packets on that connection are delayed or lost.

SCTP was going to do that too. It hasn’t seen much uptake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol

Features of SCTP include:

• Delivery of chunks within independent streams eliminates unnecessary head-of-line blocking, as opposed to TCP byte-stream delivery.

I think that that’d depend on the local business. I recall having a commercial establishment reject some dollar coins I had because the clerk didn’t recognize them and clearly had no idea that a dollar coin existed.

checks the sidebar

I mean, the community rules do explicitly permit NSFW comics (it does say that they should be flagged NSFW, which this isn’t).

• Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.

I just…I kinda have a hard time looking at that and saying that someone would get in trouble over viewing it at work, and in any event, I don’t think that “sexed up” is inappropriate, given the rules that the mods have written; they’re clearly fine with lewd material.

From what I’ve seen, the series constantly has fan service, but I must say that I really don’t hold with trying to drive the guy off for posting them.

That being said, like I said, if there are enough people who enjoy them and enough people who are upset about them, maybe doing a new community would make sense.

Are people complaining about the actual submitted content in the comics or just about the author’s personal views? I mean, if it’s the content in the comics, I…guess I could understand having a !sexycomics@lemmy.world or something if some people consider the above to have too much skin — I don’t think I’d call it NSFW. It doesn’t bother me, personally.

What is the question-answer pair that would be most-advantageous to me?

I wish that Lemmy’s Markdown variant didn’t convert “(c)” to “©” (“©” if it doesn’t show up on PieFed or some other piece of software).

I not-infrequently want to make lists where I am using “(a)”, “(b)” and “(c)”. It’s also frequently used in US laws, which I will sometimes copy-paste. I never, ever see people needing to use the copyright symbol. If someone wants to write “copyright”, they can write it out or go to the trouble of using Unicode on their client.

I do like the fact that Lemmy’s Markdown dropped Reddit’s auto-renumbering of numbered lists, which I think was a huge mistake for Reddit to do. Neat idea, but in practice, people would copy-paste items out of numbered lists elsewhere and want to retain the actual item and then Reddit would go renumber it.

EDIT: I checked. Apparently it doesn’t show up on PieFed, which makes me like it even less, since that means that Lemmy and PieFed (and maybe Mbin) users don’t get the same view of “(c)”.

In astronomy, you first enjoy three or four years of confusing classes, impossible problem sets, and sneers from the faculty. Having endured that, you’re rewarded with an eight-hour written exam, with questions like: “How do you age-date meteorites using the elements Samarium and Neodymium?” If you survive, you win the great honor and pleasure of an oral exam by a panel of learned professors.

I remember it vividly. Across a table, five profs. I’m frightened, trying to look casual as sweat drips down my face. But I’m keeping afloat; I’ve managed to babble superficially, giving the illusion that I know something. Just a few more questions, I think, and they’ll set me free. Then the examiner over at the end of the table—the guy with the twisted little smile—starts sharpening his pencil with a penknife.

“I’ve got just one question, Cliff,” he says, carving his way through the Eberhard-Faber. “Why is the sky blue?”

My mind is absolutely, profoundly blank. I have no idea. I look out the window at the sky with the primitive, uncomprehending wonder of a Neanderthal contemplating fire. I force myself to say something—anything. “Scattered light,” I reply. “Uh, yeah, scattered sunlight.”

“Could you be more specific?”

Well, words came from somewhere, out of some deep instinct of self-preservation. I babbled about the spectrum of sunlight, the upper atmosphere, and how light interacts with molecules of air.

“Could you be more specific?”

I’m describing how air molecules have dipole moments, the wave-particle duality of light, scribbling equations on the blackboard, and…

“Could you be more specific?”

An hour later, I’m sweating hard. His simple question—a five-year-old’s question—has drawn together oscillator theory, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, even quantum mechanics. Even in my miserable writhing, I admired the guy.

— The Cuckoo’s Egg

You appear to already be there, but for anyone else: !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works

Relevant: !dnd@lemmy.world

I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies

Well, most of what I’ve seen expects memory prices to be coming down in 2028. So if it’s got two years of use in it, you’re probably good.

If you’re desperate for a laptop sooner and cheaper, you can get used laptops on eBay (well, maybe somewhere else if you’re not in the US; dunno what the used PC market is like globally).