Article says the ceasefire was originally planned for 4 days, so they made the hunger strike coincide with the end of the ceasefire. But then the ceasefire was extended. But they went ahead with hunger strike anyway? Ok…

Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?

The point wasn’t that ranged attacks or siege or cavalry weapons are more important than melee weapons, though depending on the battle or the century, that may well be true.

The point was that when it comes to melee, the weapons used by your infantry was never swords. Swords are prestige weapons, expensive and heavy, wielded by wealthy knights and nobility for ceremonial purposes, duels, or tournaments. The king cannot afford to equip a thousand infantry with swords (the way you see in movies like Braveheart or LotR), and even if he could, the infantrymen have neither the skill nor strength to wield them for an extended duration.

Swords weren’t the weapon of last resort. They just weren’t included in the loadout at all, of the soldiers engaging in melee combat. So what did they use? Spears. That’s probably why the OP says spears are king.

But take it with a grain of salt cause I don’t actually know anything about medieval warfare. It’s just a thing I heard.

Modern conceptions of medieval warfare drastically overestimate the amount of usage that swords saw in battle. At least that’s a thing I’ve heard.

For the record, I don’t think safari works this way. Every incognito window has its own session I believe

but the encryption keys are not stored on the 1password cloud systems

1password user data is encrypted, right? so even if a hack had allowed a bad actor access to user pw databases, it’s not like they would’ve just scored everyone’s passwords… right?

We call this pose “the strong arm”

It was a joke, but you appear not to have gotten it. Hence the wooosh sound.

Wooosh

It shows that Unix’s implementation of echo uses 10 lines of code, other *nixen use 60 to 100, and gnu uses 250. The implication being, I suppose, that GNU has such a high line of code count because it’s very verbose or padded

Also pls pay your cat tax. I need a photo of this allegedly “annoying” kitty

Seems like a cute habit. How annoying can it be? Maybe you should just comply. Kitty gets what kitty wants.

I want a lemmy that serves html documents containing content, instead of a javascript application that then (fails to) load content. i guess old.lemmy is that

Open link in new tab, please

Safari 15 from macos monterey from 2021. So not that old.

The default UI of lemmy doesn’t work for me at all. It doesn’t load. Like I get the header of a page, but no content, just a swirling loading throbber that never arrives. Like instead of actually serving me an html page, it’s a horrible javascript application that will pull the content later. But it never does, probably because my browser is too old or idk.

i haven’t been able to access lemmy.world from desktop for at least a week now.

but it works fine on my phone in the memmy app. and now old.lemmy.world works. thanks!

but also is there somewhere i should go to bugreport the default page?

I don’t want the fediverse to be fragmented and Balkanized. Federate with everyone unless it’s a kiddy porn ring.

Give threads a chance. You can revisit if it turns out problematic