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thevoidzero

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  • Will the Fediverse create an even bigger gap between political views?

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  • Maybe having different platform make it better than unknown algorithms that make it seem like everyone agrees with you. Like now you know there's this whole thing for opposite view and you could check that sometimes. But of course that'll only work for people that like to think, main problem now is they don't.

  • What projects does the opensource world lack

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  • I'd like a local filesharing option. Where a single folder would be synced in my phone from home computer when I'm at home, and from work computer and phone when I'm at work. Without using cloud sync between them only when I'm physically traveling between them, that's good enough for most use cases of cloud sync that I want for work.

  • What projects does the opensource world lack

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  • Sometimes you get into skill issue, or time issues. I make some softwares that I need, but I don't have advertising skills to make people use it.

    And sometimes I want to make something, but I don't have the necessary skills.

    For example I'd like a local filesharing option. Where a single folder would be synced in my phone from home computer when I'm at home, and from work computer and phone when I'm at work. Without using cloud sync between them only when I'm physically traveling between them, that's good enough for most use cases of cloud sync that I want for work.

  • Elon Musk takes to X to beg retired air traffic controllers to return to work: ‘There is a shortage’

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  • If you wanna stay here then yeah. Imagine giving up everything you've built up in this country to escape, doing that so your children can have better life, and the airplane crashes. They're making us scared to live, scared to leave. Any action besides being in compliance.

  • Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader

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  • Yup, signing a deal would be bad for him and his country overall.

  • Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

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  • Extra note on this. NWS's agenda also includes educating people about weather and climate and other things. Our engineering class about rainfall and such basically is in chaos right now because the person from NWS teaching it is no longer working there. So this will have long impact for future generations. Specifically since our engineering department already is very tiny compared to other departments.

  • What IDE do you use and why ?

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  • I use emacs for almost everything. It took time to get used to. And some time to configure things. But now I'm just riding off my years old config files and packages I wrote as my use case haven't changed.

    I use python, rust, C, R, jupyter notebook, org mode, latex, markdown, PDFs, xml, org-roam, etc.

  • GOP congressman says ‘God has a plan’ for fired federal workers at hostile town hall

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  • If god is real and benevolent. If god is real and is letting current situation in the world, then I don't think we can make assumptions on they being any good for us.

  • Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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  • Thank you. This seems useful. Unfortunately I'm just finishing up my PhD, so I probably won't qualify. Might have to search postdoc positions for now

  • Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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  • Yeah, I have been hoping some countries would make lax immigration rules to capitalize on this situation. I know a lot of academics thinking of leaving, it's just a bit hard with a family compared to moving alone.

  • Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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  • Yeah, I've been thinking Norway and Netherlands/Finland as good option if we have to do Europe. I don't think the immigration policy is that open in those countries though. Do you have any knowledge about that?

  • Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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  • I'm worried about Canada as well because of the proximity. And there is a bit of brown hate going on there as well. It would have been nice options otherwise for ease of move/visa.

  • Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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  • So anyone has a good suggestion for countries that accept people with PhDs are are nice to different race of people (I have a mixed family). Lots of countries are starting to lean right so I'm a bit scared moving somewhere where I don't understand the native language since I saw how immigrants in US (and even people in their home country) like trump because they don't get the whole picture and only know news through multiple transfers and biases.

    Even if the current administration goes back to what it was I feel like the attack on science and overall direction of the people's thoughts aren't going to change overnight and it might be hard living as a scientist.

  • Linux on a Touchscreen PC: use KDE, not GNOME! (on the Tuxedo Infinity Flex 14)

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  • Yeah, I could only find one that works on kde plasma with Wayland, but it doesn't even have a tab key. Does anyone know how hard it is to make/modify one?

  • Bananas

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  • Looks like the same problem with bunny and carrots. Telebi lied to us again.

  • Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • The leading theory over this seems to be they're trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now "that doesn't exist", or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there's also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.

  • What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI'

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  • That's why I keep saying banning a word or making a world "not professional" doesn't do anything as long as people's though doesn't change. Like saying "don't say black, say african American" doesn't make them suddenly like them, they'll still be racist. Changing words will just make them use a new word to mean the same thing.

    Yeah there might be emotional things about certain words and not wanting people to use it can be understandable. It might be a step is a direction if it's to be less humiliating or be inclusive. But just saying "don't use this word, use this word instead" will make the new word mean the same thing with same derogatory meaning if people use the new word derogatorily. Now DEI has become that new word, and instead of claiming the word back, owning it, people might go "don't say DEI" and come up with a completely new acronym while trying to "heal" from the past administration.

  • have you ever met anyone who spoke english better than their other language, even if living in a non English speaking country?

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  • This is indeed common in countries that have been "westernized", in many cases people learn in English since very small age in school because people thought/think knowing English means better career prospects and prefer admitting people to schools that do all English. But in many cases they don't actually have native English speaking people to teach, so they just end up learning their own version of English, written English will be good, not spoken. And for their native language they'll know oral language but will be worse at written one. And people that studied in non-english schools will at least know their language better in written form, but depending on their career path (for example all higher level education in science is English) it might change.

    And in many cases they have a native language that's not taught at school at all, and considering the past literacy rate, most of their parents don't know how to write in their own language at all. So they'll have to learn the most common language of the country and English (2nd and 3rd language), either type of school they goto, they'll never understand written form of their native language.

  • Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

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  • I see the dev don't want recommendation algorithm. All good to avoid the recommendation bubble, but a category/tags might be nice instead of random everything.