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bakuninboys, to random
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Setting up my own mail server took like a week. However, my escape from Google is one step closer.

bakuninboys,
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@Jakra it's definitely hard mode. I'm going to try for a year and see how I go. But yeah I can see why people just go proton mail.

bakuninboys, to random
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It's important to realise that the imperial system (time aside) doesn't actually exist. From the Wikipedia for Foot:

"Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters."

fkamiah17, to random
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Does anyone else get the feeling that, rather than listen to their own or their constituents' humanity and stop the genocide, the Powers That Be ™️ have decided to drop the last vestiges of pretence that the west is any kind of a democracy and go full fascist?

bakuninboys,
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@fkamiah17 I don't know how to put this but they do this repeatedly over decades, but mostly people don't notice, or do notice but don't think democracy works anyway.

bakuninboys,
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@fkamiah17 yeah true they've been gradually not even making a show of it any more. Like saying the quiet part out loud way more often. But often I think it's because I'm paying more attention now.

bakuninboys,
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@fkamiah17 My view: The punters are the real monsters, we're just too polite to call them out for it. Even at the base layer, people voted for Scomo. They vote for Dutton. Every scumbag in politics has a whole engine of people voting, creating consent, people who want to hurt others and are just shitty human beings.

You meet them on Reddit. Go to r/australian and tell me the politicians aren't a reflection of the worst parts of our society. Democracy means their vote is equal to ours. How do you fix that?

timixretroplays, to random
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Have you missed an alarm on your iPhone lately? It's not you, it's an actual bug in the software that means the alarm just doesn't work sometimes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apple-confirms-bug-that-is-keeping-some-iphone-alarms-from-sounding/

The reddit thread I saw was full of people saying they'd missed work, interviews, all kinds of stuff. You'd absolutely assume you were at fault, and not the thousand dollar smart device failing to do something a $10 bedside clock can do, right? What a mess.

bakuninboys,
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@jpm @timixretroplays Fuck you no it's just shit programmers.

bakuninboys,
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@timixretroplays @jpm There are lines for politeness. If someone is a Nazi you don't have to start the conversation in a measured, polite way. Likewise, if someone tries to just shrug and say even trivial software is impossible to write, that's not acceptable in my book. Software errors can and have killed people. Take the job seriously. "All software has bugs" is low, it's heartless, it's peak techbro, and I'm sick of hearing it.

And in the industry, it really just comes off as lazy. "No I won't write tests, the software is too trivial for that"; "No I'm not an engineer, I'm a programmer" or whatever they need to get the damn thing merged. Then their little "oopsie daisy" inevitably comes with some sage nodding and an "all software has bugs". Fucking no. Tell it to a judge. Why the industry abides this kind of rubbish is beyond me.

bakuninboys,
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@jpm @timixretroplays Urgh. Glad to know the Twitter spirit is still alive. Good riddance.

bakuninboys, to random
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When I grow up I'm going to marry Ursula Le Guin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7RDyo7os

bakuninboys, to random
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Something which kind of scares me is the idea of "white" as a "race" (yes I know race isn't real but just go with me here): People talk about Chinese and Asian, and SE Asian as a sort of land-based demarcation. South Asian, African, etc. These are all land-based demarcations.

So, someone could identify as a "European", or "Russian" or maybe "Argentine", "Brazilian", etc? but people choose to identify as "white".

One theory that's gone around is that whiteness has kind of changed, and parts of Europe or Russia or South America have been in or out depending on the context or time frame. The only real signifier of "whiteness" is therefore as coloniser.

This is kind of hard to disagree with, especially when you look at the utility of the term, like you can say "white american" and this means "You're American but you're part of the coloniser... class?"

So it seems like more a class signifier than a racial one, except that it's intrinsic -- you can lose your money and no longer be part of the ruling class but you can't lose whiteness. You can kind of see this from people who have "old money" but might not be super rich any more. They have to spend a lot of time explaining the history of their family to validate themselves.

You can sort of see this with the Ukrainians, who basically said out loud that they are white skinned (unlike Palestinians, say) and therefore should receive treatment meant for europeans.

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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I already explained the main differences between most packaging formats, but now, it’s time to look at them in a more critical manner:
Performance benchmarks, missing features, advantages and drawbacks, for #Snaps, #Flatpak, #AppImage and regular good old packages:

#Linux #OpenSource

https://youtu.be/ikBPnYwnUMU

bakuninboys,
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@thelinuxEXP Something you didn't mention is offline installs. Basically it's very easy to create a USB / DVD / BD for all Debian packages based on a distro version, and you can apt install, which will ask you to insert the right media. I think RPM etc have the same feature.

Flatpak et al, I believe, are online only. You can technically put together a flatpak side-load thingie but I have no idea how plausible that is in reality.

bakuninboys, to random
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Great talk by @pluralistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4. It's an interesting observation that regulation of capital has gotten so bad, and it's also bad to business partners and end users.

So many conversations these days basically come down to "I cannot trust Company X to give me Product Y because it will nickel and dime me in some way". This happened with Unity as well. The discriminator seems to be that the company is publically traded. People trust Steam because they trust Gabe and they trust that he is the end all of monetisation. This is actually a problem for ye olde Capitalism as a whole.

grumpygamer, to random
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Interesting talk about Git and games. The speaker misses the biggest issue with use Git in games and that is file locking. Two artist working on the same file is not mergable. The art in RtMI had to be source controlled in SVN, which I hated. Space wasn't an issue. I ran my own Git sever. File locking was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UwIrQjLS8E

bakuninboys,
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@grumpygamer Often, the issue of file locking is secretly the issue that the scope of the file is too big. Even when merging "works", imagine your entire codebase is a single file, it would be a nightmare. Are there examples where having multiple files is actually not feasible, or is it simply that art tools are stubborn and do not provide them?

cathywilcox, to random
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Mind the gap.

My @smh cartoon.

bakuninboys,
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@cathywilcox Or the more vile: "Why is it so much more expensive for you folk?"; "If you worked hard there wouldn't be a gap."; "Colonisers did you a favour"

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My cartooning colleague @davpope and I have written a statement to the Walkleys calling for action. The link to the Climate Council’s Fossil Fuel Free Sponsorship Pledge is here: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/sign-fossil-fuel-free-pledge/

bakuninboys,
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Both @cathywilcox and @davpope are consistently just champs. Congratulations and well done to standing upto these organisations. That more and more authors and journalists are stopping these corporations from standing alongside them with impunity is really powerful and inspiring.

ErikJonker, to climate Dutch
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For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."It's gobsmacking."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

bakuninboys,
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@ErikJonker Apropos https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/climate-optimism-is-dangerous-and-irrational The reason why it's 5 sigma and not something more reasonable.

neilhimself, to random
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I'm here. It's me. Magic!

The (green-ticked) Neil Gaiman

bakuninboys,
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@neilhimself Hi Neil, love your work. Loved Sandman comic / show. Cast members of Goodness Gracious Me showing up has also been a wonderful surprise. Hoping for a second season. Take care.

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