cool story, but is there any data that corroborates that? i’m genuinely asking

it is really concerning to see most commenters taking the claim that autistic people are more likely to commit crime at face value, not only doing so without any data to back it up, but also unaware (or willfully ignorant) that the data says otherwise: autistic people are more likely to be victims of violent crime than allistic people. this is a dangerous narrative fueled by preexisting hatred of neurodivergent people that only serves to further marginalize us.

this kind of narrative is unfortunately the expected anywhere else, but seeing it play out in a forum specifically about autism is particularly upsetting. if you’re neurotypical and you’re spreading this here, kindly go fuck yourself (also go look for actual data, not biased anecdotes by sensationalist media); if you’re autistic, though, please please please do not believe this shit, you are the vulnerable side of autism, not the people around you.

I do believe that some traits of Autism could lead to a higher chance to commit some crimes

i’m not sure about that, though. iirc neurodivergent people (including autists) are more likely to be victims of violent crime than neurotypicals

title makes it look like firefox is just removing yet another security feature as part of its enshittification process, but reading the article it looks like it makes sense

• not a lot of websites respect dnt
• it might serve as an identifier, i think

what about energy efficiency? that used to be a massive disadvantage of the amds

miss u sm

went looking for it. “stable rolling release” sounds really interesting, but i’m scared of installing it and being mistaken for a systemd hater

people laughed at me for choosing debian. they asked why i chose to have ancient runes running in my computer

who’s laughing now?

first thunderbird, now kde. looks like this will become standard practice for free software, which is a good thing. people take for granted the amount of work that goes into tools that help them daily, but i believe that it’s mostly because they think whoever is making the software is fine without their help. this is basically saying “hey! actually, your support would be very helpful to us!”, which is enough to make people want to help

if that’s enough to put you off, then leave

work on desktop linux, esp. outside of gnome, is voluntary, but it costs money. donations are necessary to keep the project living, but most people are unaware kde is not in a great place financially and would be willing to help if they knew. this is just a gentle reminder that donating could make you help an organization that makes software you love

but if you do not care about the financial health of a project that helps you daily and a gentle reminder that takes you away from your blissful unawareness bothers you this much, go away. kde devs don’t owe you anything and you won’t be missed

i tried many different algorithms at the time, but it didn’t really matter. my laptop would always, eventually, lag and get pretty hot and I would check the task manager and sure enough there were the btrfs compression proccesses hogging the cpu

I made ~/.emacs.d a git repo.

ooh, interesting. though i’m a bit squeamish about mixing tracked content and “build artifacts” (in this case, installed packages).

do you? you can set a different custom file from .emacs just fine and i’ve seen it done before. unless i’m missing something, i believe that’s not it

Use ~/.emacs.d/init.el for your configurations. If there is an ~/.emacs file on your system, make sure to delete it

why? does init.el have any advantage over .emacs?

personally, i like using .emacs bc then, if anything goes wrong, i can just nuke .emacs.d and let my .emacs set everything up from scratch

the less code the better because the more code the higher the maintenance burden

keeping code around isn’t free. it makes refactoring harder, it makes compilation times longer, it makes the kernel larger, it makes it harder to guarantee device compatibility. that’s all part of maintaining software, but it makes no sense to waste work maintaining shit noone is using, work that could’ve been used to implement new features and/or maintain existing code that’s actually in use

what the kernel is doing is the correct approach. unless they’re sure there’s someone using the thing: old, unmaintained code = bin

ntfs compression

btrfs compression was really cpu-heavy last time i tried it. ntfs compression just worked with little hassle

the less code the better

firefox is larger and more fast-paced

quit computers

you’re confusing importance with complexity

openssl is a vital part of the web, but it is a small tool

pale moon leverages the hundreds of thousands of person-hours put into firefox up until the fork. the work they put on their original code is negligible in comparison

there is literally no project led by unpaid volunteers that’s able to output the amount of work necessary to maintain a browser and keep it up to date with web standards, let alone add new features