Youtube hearted comments of Laurence Fraser (@laurencefraser).

  1. usually, to my understanding, there will be records of what was used prior to/at the point of contact, indicating different terms used, and then later records where the terms used have changed. At least when it comes to the Romans.
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  2. So, using 'last' rather than 'latest' in a context where 'last' could also be understood as 'final', but clearly wasn't meant that way if one took half a second to think about it, caused just enough ambiguity as to create a mess when journalists didn't bother thinking about it (Or possibly they or their editors thought lieing(-but-technically-not) about it would make for better headlines). Yeah, that tracks. (Pretty sure most people I interact with prefer using 'latest' or 'most recent' in most contexts precisely to avoid having to subsequently clarify which meaning of 'last' they intended). I keep running into things with USB type C connectors with USB 2.0 interfaces. USB type A is colour coded*, USB type B is not only colour coded but, in some cases, a different shape. Mini and Micro USB (and their rather awful B types) each, so far as I ever encountered, only ever got used for a specific interface type, so no meaningful confusion there. USB type C, on the other hand, has absolutely no such indication. It can be USB 1, 2, any of the subtypes of 3, be on a wire that only has the Power cables ('good for charging' on the packaging of a USB cable often means 'contains no wires connecting the data pins' in some places) for type 3 or even type 1, be on some weird custom nonsense that for whatever stupid reason is wired up in such a way that it actually cares which way up you put the plug (not needing to is part of the point of USB type C connectors, but it happens anyway)... and there is absolutely nothing about the connectors that indicate ANY of that. *Except at this point that's about as confusing as the naming conventions. White: USB 1... except when it's actually a 3 connector, (identifiable by the extra pins if you're paying attention, identical if you're not expecting to need to check), in which case it's a dedicated firmware update socket... probably. Black: USB 2 Blue: USB 3, except... Red: Supposedly this was going to be USB 4. I have litterally never seen one. I'm not sure I've ever seen a picture of one. I don't know if USB 4 even Exists given that they keep making and renaming the different subtypes of USB 3. Orange: I have no idea. I've seen claims that this indicates that the socket is powered even if the device is nominally off, which is great... except... I have never encountered a blue USB type A connector this was not true of on a device where having it be true would be in any way desirable. And so far as both I and my computer can tell, it behaves identically to the blue sockets on the same motherboard. The idea that Google reads google docs comes from a few issues that have come up in the past that strongly indicate they have the ability to with minimal effort combined with their track record in other contexts. Now, they almost certainly Don't, for a whole host of practical reasons if nothing else, but given they caused a bit of an issue a while back where they had some sort of fault which caused a warning/error message to (incorrectly) trip regarding the contents of documents (not malware or the like, but the actual content of the text/images within them. To my recollection anyway, certianly that's what people were talking about at the time) which could never Correctly trip if they Weren't looking at the actual contents of your files, well, you can understand people being concerned. Ultimately that one comes down to the fact that Google has stacked up evidence agaisnt it's own trustworthiness and/or benevilence. The main reason for the persistance of the idea that you can't use Linux without using the terminal/must use the terminal for just about everything in Linux seems to be a matter of documentation and tech support: If you, as a random independent user, ever encounter a problem and go looking for help regarding how to fix it, the instructions given for how to solve it will almost universally be in the form of a string of (usually Unexplained, mind you) terminal commands, not directions for navigating the GUI (among other issues). Because the people who know what they're doing are largely the sort of people who have been around long enough that that was how they learned to do it, and then just kept doing it that way.
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  3. Egypt (and most of north Africa, for that matter) has, for most if not all of its history, had much interaction with the middle east and Mediterranean civilizations. On the other hand, aside from the occasional border skirmish with its neighbour to the imediate south, and probably some trade there, it had very little interaction with the rest of Africa. (Well, I have vague recollections of a comparatively brief period of someone from the south taking over for a bit. But the operative word is vague). Going by their infrastructure, they had more contact with India than they did with most of Africa. Sure, they're on the African Continent, but to call them an African civilization is so misleading as to be functionally false.
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