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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Well buddy it’s a bit more than that. Personally, I’m not holding it against the guy maybe he’s changed so I’m not gonna freak every time I see him but pretending that’s it is wild.

    The man in anger called some guy the n-word. No joke to it. Straight up, I’m angry so I’ll call this guy a racial slur. This, along with the constant (and it was constant) skirting with racism and Hitler which were framed as jokes made it clear that it wasn’t just a bunch of jokes. Wearing a military uniform that was as close to the Nazis as possible, constant talk of a final solution, jokes about ‘them’, German speaches, zieg heils, dog whistles, and alot more were commonplace in his videos at the time.

    You don’t just randomly shout the n word in anger for the first time on live stream.

    The guy was obviously going down the pipeline and people still don’t like him because of that. Not one joke but a constant stream of them along with a very telling instance


  • Huh, odd you can’t edit that file. You may be able to change it in the ‘menu editor’ (KMenuEdit) application however which is my goto. In the future I’d add any application specific environment variables in there instead of editing it the way you’ve done. This is likely causing issue. I could be wrong though.

    As for where is it stored, it’s usually stored in that .desktop file. It won’t be in your bashrc, or anything like it, as what you’ve done isn’t changing your system as a whole. All it does is tell plasma when you want to launch this application, first run that bit of code you’ve given in the same bash context (or whatever your default shell is. The shell that runs when you use the sh command normally). This is good because I doubt you want all GDK apps to use x11 and this environment variable should only exist for the app you want it to.

    Edit: wait, what .desktop filedid you edit? Are all GTK apps now x11? Have you tried the right click method you did before? To what effect?


  • Yoo that’s wild man doing gods (Richard Stallman) work here man.

    Great initiative nonetheless. Compared to 8 this much more secure and for programming it’s a great choice too. Bringing more life out of some old PCs, saving a school money, and forcing some kids to get creative in order to play Roblox.

    As for is it ready fr this application, programming, it has been for a while. For general, especially web based, applications it absolutely is. Of course, there are quite few things were it’s just not but for the most part Linux is a great choice.





  • That vote increases funding to the area for progressive outreach and causes. You won’t change the entire province with a wole new order but you are part of showing that Alberta isn’t a lost cause to the left.

    Seriously, this shows left wing lobbiests, charities, politicians, etc. That they can do something in the province. In the end all it may mean is easier access to insulin pumps or less cuts to medical services but that definitly matters.

    It’s easy to look at the big picture and grow hostile but your vote does matter.


  • Yeah that’s exactly what I thought would happen. Come in here thinking “of course, people will find a way to blame the NDP here instead of the liberals” instantly proved right.

    NDP incumbent beaten by people moving to liberals? Those NDP voters, who still had more than the liberals, should’ve voted libral. Green voters move to the Librals against the incombant? Nah, those dastardly NDP caused this. Cons win by a landslide? Somehow, you guessed it, NDPs fault








  • Oh hey, been a bit but I’m glad you came back to this. I honestly really liked the book. Very rushed ending though I’d argue. I like a lot of what they did with the mercenaries and with nightblood along with the general lore. Everything with lightsong and blushweaver was great too but at times the book dwadled around and when it came to it, answers seemed to just be tossed together and regirgatated (can’t spell that shit). Lightning always kept me entertained though.

    I know that’s a lot of complaining but other than the end the book was very good. It is his style to have everythingfall together at the end it seems but the other four books I’ve read by him seem much more-like a bunch of pieces falling into place and a few things blowing up spectacularly than this one which felt like “and then it turned out some people are bad and the others are good. Here’s why it all happened and some lore too. They also fight. But wait? Happily ever after too.”

    I don’t regret reading it at all though. All three stories were great in their own right and the world is certainly my favourite. The system is so interesting along with the culture. I hope he revisits it.

    God, sorry for the novella, but you did make the mistake of asking me about a book. You fool.

    Took a break but now I’m 400 pages into way of kings BTW. Liking it a lot so far.


  • I’d argue this is more like “I want to build a competitor to spotify so let’s decide between using mariaDB or writing an SQL compliant database from scratch”

    In your example, a database is the end goal and you can either start with a premade or make your own.

    Here, a social media platform is the end goal. Activitypub is a very important part of it but it’s not the entire piece.

    If we replace the parts of your analogy with the original your example would parse out to “I want to make a competitor to lemmies ActivityPub integration, so let’s start with fedify” which is not the same as the article states.

    Now, should you re-impliment a protocol yourself or use a generic library is the real question. Both have their benefits. With option A you have full code ownership and can wrap your solution around your end goal without the issue of dealing with the original to get needed changes accepted. You don’t have to worry about code not written by or understood by you. With option B, you get a more robust and almost certainly more accurate implementation. Along with, for free, better integration with any service using the same library. Very useful for a federated service when talking about cross platform.

    Both have many more positives and negatives of course and each person should decide on their own how to proceed.

    My opinion? I think it’s usually best to own anything which could feasibly be understood by a single dev. Even if each dev doesn’t. Anything larger shouldn’t be internal in my strong opinion unless very good, specific reasons apply that makes an external solution impossible or increadibly difficult. Most negatives of an external library also apply at that point with enough time.



  • We can’t do anything about the boat sinking gun, or try and take it away from the boat sinker, because that would be against good decorum. Don’t worry though, we’ve thrown that guy who called the boat sinker a fuckhead off the boat. We have to take the high road and follow the rules or who knows what the boat sinker will do next. We’ll calmly convince them to lower the amount of holes they put in the boat while cmpromising by understanding that some of those holes were needed.

    Vote for us, and we’ll only put a few holes in the boat