The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
Gotta be honest with you: I’m partially at fault of this, too.
It’s simply too easy to hop into !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and criticise the decisions others take. I do this all the time, but I almost never take into account their burdens.
I think his criticism against the general user behaviour here (in the Threadiverse) is spot on. Yes, it is currently really bad, and I understand why he’s burned out. Or why the lemm.ee admins got burned out too.
At those times I feel like the Fediverse needs quieter corners, barely federated to the rest, developing different cultures. Kind of like Beehaw does.
Ooooo, look at mr. “I’m sane” over here!
I am sane. I SWEAR I AM SANE! /me grabs the kitchen knife CAN’T YOU SEE IT? I’M SANER THAN EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!!
[I couldn’t help but play along with the joke, sorry.]
Relevant detail: this potential removal of the driver does NOT affect normal CD-R / DVD-R functionality. It’ll only prevent you from using them as if they were rewritable media.
Interconnect those baby steps, by having the governments
That IMO would increase the odds of success. And once the first steps are done, further steps will be easier.
If the technical boundary collapsed, put a human-made boundary in its place. You have the right to have some peace of mind and quiet; make yourself unavailable for at least a good chunk of the day, and make sure your folks know you’re unavailable. And why.
That’s how I remain sane.
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name “thagomizer” in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.
I love everything about this.
Not peki for sure; it’s mostly a cerrado fruit. It does grow in nearby biomes but OP’s plant is simply too far from that (Southeast Ecuador).
I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it’s a great distro. I don’t recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?
From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.
*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
Pretty much - they’re lying it would introduce huge production costs, because most people who’d repeat this argument wouldn’t know they’re being lied to.
So genocide white-washing, pro-authoritarianism degenerates who routinely support regimes […] are worse than neoliberals?
Neoliberalism does both, to a bigger degree, and more. And it has the power to enforce them.
So, yes, neoliberals are a bigger problem than a bunch of brainrot muppets babbling “smh literally 1984 mayocide when CRIRICAL SUPPORRT TO COMRADE CHRUMP lol lmao haha”. Elephant shit vs. cat shit - both are shit, but different levels of shit.
that are in no way leftist // Other than online roleplay, how are they even leftist?
I’m not playing this “let’s masturbate over definitions” game for the sake of your dumb red herring. If someone is a communist or an anarchist, I’m calling them leftist. (Except ancaps for obvious reasons.)
Relevant to note that, if I had my own instance, I’d probably defederate Hexbear; their tendency to raid threads as a group is disruptive. I’m mostly relying relaying what I’ve seen db0 saying, about his reasons to not defederate them from his instance.
You need learn a bit more about the world (outside of the internet).
Why don’t you follow the advice you’re vomiting? Do it.
Then even you will probably learn that “A is bad and B is bad” is NOT the same as “A is as bad as B”.
Now shoo. Not wasting my time further with you. *yawn*
Not surprised with the lobbying group.
Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he’s being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn’t say “it’s false”, or “it’s a lie”, but rather “a German lawyer thinks this is false” and “this sounds like a lie”; gotta respect that.
Some additional comments:
The first paragraph of the lobbying group’s statement might sound like an introduction, but it’s already a straw man - it’s clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.
as the protections we put in place
Excuse me?
Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like “a user/customer is not a rational human being, it’s irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it’ll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!”
these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It’s simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.
1M+ sign European Citizen’s Initiative “Stop Destroying Videogames”: Help us protect gamers’ consumer rights!
I think it would be sensible if the word “gamer” was replaced with “citizen” here. Because it’s what politicians care about.
I was almost mentioning that.
By Darwin, Huxley and Haldane: why are our playgrounds the same organs as the garbage ducts? Why???
I live in in the southern region of brazil. The problem of homelessness here is by no means solved but at least some State and City governments are genuinely trying, through government companies (Cohab, roughly “habitation company”).
Basically: if you have no house, and your monthly income is low enough, here you can subscribe to Cohab so it eventually “sells” you a house. You do pay for it but it’s a rather low amount*. No sane mid class would ever consider those houses - but if you’re homeless, it’s still leagues above living in an irregular shitshack near the river, made of cardboard, metal sheets and random planks.
Additionally, water and electricity are really cheap if you’re poor enough, and your household consumption is below a certain threshold.
The federation also has a similar project (Minha Casa, Minha Vida my house, my life), but… frankly I can’t trust the federation to not divert tax money into someone’s pockets.
* I think R$150~300/month ≃ €25~50/month is typical. For reference, minimum wage in my State is R$1.984,16 ≃ €300 per month.
Now, here’s the catch: the local governments are doing this shit with a tiny fraction of the income the city, state and federal governments in USA have. Why the hell are they not doing something similar? Because of all that ideological meritocracy babble?
They made Atou absolutely adorable! Seeing her embarrassed at the start, then pouting after the charity…
Also, great job highlighting the contrast between how Atou sees Takuto vs. how the dark elves see him. Not just in look (he looks like a shadow, that was already in the manga and novel), but also in “mood”, he’s supposed to be an Eldritch abomination from their PoV and the anime did a great job at it.
The opening was also cool IMO.
…perhaps I’m a bit too excited because it’s one of those series I anticipated quite a bit, but so far it’s a decent start IMO.
[Warning: I’m mostly rambling.]
As usual you need to be careful with metaphors: they break once pulled hard enough.
The metaphor implies the security layers are independent, and always addictive. Often they aren’t - they interact with each other, and often the presence of one layer makes the other worse. It’s like double bagging condoms - they rub against each other, so they make you less protected than if you wore a single condom.
The “holes” are often dynamic, and they might change place over time. Sometimes the vulnerability crossed a hole of the first slice, hit the second slice and stayed there, until the second slice’s hole aligns with it. Then the vulnerability crosses into the third slice, so goes on. If you’re dealing with human beings, that’s basically any system.
“NEEDS MORE LAYERS!” is not always the solution. Sometimes you’re better off - in cost and security - if you replaced a few layers with a better one. Try mozzarella instead of Emmenthaler.
This is yet another case where people don’t notice the root of the problem, because one of the branches is so fucking large it takes the whole scene.
Spot the common element between the text and the following:
It’s always about actively disempowering users. Even if technology was expected to do the opposite.
Why this matters: because even if the image + text generators went away, or got heavily regulated, or whatever, the problem still persists. And it’ll still pop up elsewhere.
Solve this disgusting “Stop treating those THINGS as if they were human beings! They’re users, not humans! Those things exist to be herded!” mindset and you’ll solve the problem.
Julie and their son are démodé - Juma shows us the future! Glory! Fashion! Grass in the butt!
EDIT: what am I saying, mon Dieu? I didn’t realise Julie was going for a retro look!
Such acclaimed design deserves to be celebrated for more than just a fade!