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well, he was an ex-EA CEO … trying to aim for that “sense of pride and accomplishment” when using Unity?

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I don’t remember asking you a goddamn thing

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they do look like young gangly specimens of the Senegalia drawing on Wikipedia

they’re technically “neighbors” to acacia – senegalia, acacia, mimosa, and mesquite are all part of the Mimosoid clade

Are you able to read in your dreams?

I ask because it’s considered common knowledge that you can’t but I regularly have dreams where I continue books I’m reading irl (they usually devolve into naritive nonsense over time and then sometimes to blank pages, but the actual text is definitely deciferable), text messages, computer screens, and road signs, in both...

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you can read in dreams but there’s no “continuity” of what you’ve read – within the dreamscape, you think (or you tell yourself) you’re continuing to read a book you’ve read in real life

this lack of “continuity” is one of the main tricks of lucid dreaming – read something twice (ex. time on a digital watch (not an analog watch)) – if the content changes, you’re dreaming – the secret of lucid dreaming is if that change triggers enough frisson for you to “wake up” inside the dream without kicking you out of the dream completely

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Stop buying name brand

to add to this, don’t turn your nose up at the discount options – dollar stores, Grocery Outlet, Walmart – and along those same lines, keep an eye out for any ethnic markets near you (fruit, vegetables, meat)

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sounds like you’ve missed a couple of days of the newest Unity drama

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Unity has absolutely no qualms about laying off employees …

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shouldn’t that category be “SearXNG” instead of “SearX”? – SearX went into maintenance mode a year ago and then archived their code last week – searx.space isn’t even bothering to list SearX instances anymore

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you want to turn control of your personal bank account over to an unofficial and untrusted app?

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deGoogling your phone is separate from letting some unknown entity raid your bank account

(I mean … if some hacker empties out your bank account then you won’t be able to afford a smartphone so deGoogling it will no longer be an issue … )

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if you really want to get into the details, there’s the Linux Upskill Challenge ( !linuxupskillchallenge and linuxupskillchallenge.org ) – runs through the nitty-gritty of running a Linux server – aimed at remoting in to a command line but it looks like the majority of the lessons would work just fine from a terminal or console on your own computer

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  • Arch user sneering at Ubuntu user
  • Gentoo user sneering at Arch user
  • Linux from Scratch user sneering at Gentoo user
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Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

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remember that “2 weeks notice” is a kindness you’re giving them, it’s not a requirement and companies will never show you that kindness when they fire you

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  • abuse in the US workplace is (generally) not openly visible in ways you expect
  • and yet, sexual abuse is still extremely prevalent in all industries
  • US companies can impose a MASSIVE chilling effect just by having your healthcare tied to your employment
  • mental abuse can be subtle (a form of psychological warfare) with something as simple as “we’re like a family here” or “you wouldn’t want to let down the team, would you?”
  • the first episode of Zom 100 gave a really good example of how far the mental abuse can escalate – between overwork, lack of sleep, verbal abuse, bad diet, you no longer have time to step back and think, you become completely dependent on someone else telling you what to do, you no longer have the strength of will to even contemplate saying “No”

Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life?

I’m majoring in CS related-field, and I used to have tons of passion for it and underlying tech, and worked as full stack dev, but my mind was very different in a good way (better at logical/cognitive demanding tasks, creative, productive, etc). Things happened, and I just can’t stand living in society, experiencing all this...

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there’s also the intersections of CS and rural – there’s all sorts of little projects and things to fiddle with in the self-hosting communities across the Fediverse – rather than focusing on one big project, a lot of times it tends to be a more organic process of growing several small projects – a website run off solar power, cover your back 40 with wifi mesh, discover the smolnet

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there was an old urban legend / joke on machine translation

during the cold war, Americans were trying to use computers to translate Russian messages, they finally got a working program they thought was pretty good, fed it the message “Out of sight, out of mind.” and had it translated to Russian then back to English, the final result was “Invisible, insane.”

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confused scientist looking at questioner: “Why wouldn’t they work in UK? What did you do to your poor heat pump?!?”

This on buildings with plants

I have worked in building maintenance and repair. One thing that is extremely hazardous to a concrete building is too much water. I have seen many concrete planters that crack and result in water leaks for lower levels. Standing water in concrete structures is a huge no no. I do not have a lot of experience in engineering on...

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  • @MxRemy mentions self-healing concrete
    • there’s also fungal concrete
    • looking back through time, Roman concrete was also self-healing (as well as being longer lasting and cheaper to manufacture (as well as using slightly less energy))
  • as a personal opinion, skyscrapers really don’t have any place in a solarpunk future
    • following along the lines of Christopher Alexander’s “21. Four-Story Limit” from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
      • “There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy.”
      • “In any urban area, no matter how dense, keep the majority of buildings four stories high or less. It is possible that certain buildings should exceed this limit, but they should never be buildings for human habitation.”
    • we already have plenty of land space – if we re-cluster our suburbs into medium density, we can easily absorb the excess from de-clustering large cities
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Christopher Alexander picked the Four Story Limit for aesthetic and mental reasons – but historically, older buildings were generally limited to four stories because of climbing too many stairs – the six to eight story limit of most European city cores comes from the introduction of the first elevators that couldn’t really handle more than six stories

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parentheses

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[Adam Ruins Everything] Why “Buy One, Give One” Companies Don’t Help Anyone – Youtube / Piped

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three forces at work here (two of them on display with recent LMG)

  • pressure to constantly produce content leading to unrealistic time scales, crunch time
  • cult of personality, celebrity worship, narcissism – ignoring any concerns that don’t affect them directly
  • advertising, corporate sponsorship – not wanting to bite the hand that feeds you (IGN’s infamous rating system from 9.0 to 10.0)
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since hákarl isn’t served in cans …

Do you have a RSS list with feeds from programming blogs you are reading?

I am looking for old-school (html only, mininalist design) programming blogs, that are mainly focused on math, algorithms or systems programming. I also don’t mind a few rants, movies or books reviews, but the content should be mainly technical. Preferred languages: C, C++, go, maybe Rust. Java or Kotlin are also cool as long...

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stumbled across Machine Logic this morning

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.”

—Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance”, Newsweek (1980-01-21)

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what else would you call a service where you post toots?

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still better than “benevolent billionaire saves us all with his special ‘green’ technology that he’s been developing in secret”

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Google Maps REALLY does not like Firefox or anyone trying to block Canvas or JavaScript tracking …

solarpunking the educational system (www.youtube.com)

Jumping from a previous post on education. Feel free to skip the first 7:30 minutes (which mostly defines solarpunk as a concept, I think we’re good on that in this space), but this seems like this Human Restoration Project is a good thing with the wonk behind it to make it functional. (extra linky just in case:...

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other way around – Ubuntu has pretty much abandoned Flatpak and is trying to get everyone to use Snap

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tangentially related – couple days ago there was a plague of CSAM spam hitting multiple instances – admins across the Lemmyverse have been busy purging image caches and blocking image posting for a day or two on various instances

What's up with all these immutable distributions? What are the benefits and disadvantages of them?

For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

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the whole concept of immutable is focused on stability and safety of your system – yes, it is still possible to break an immutable distro, but it’s a LOT harder and takes some actual effort – there’s also a few concepts wrapped up into the “immutable” phrasing:

  • immutable filesystem – the root filesystem is set as read only, updates are queued up and applied during an upgrade (some distros require a reboot, some don’t)
    • VanillaOS keeps two copies of the root system (ABroot), upgrades the inactive copy and then swaps them out
    • NixOS has everything defined in a master config file and keeps an archive of previous generations of the config file allowing you to boot into whichever generation you want
  • atomicity – updates are applied individually and checked, if the update breaks then it’s reverted to the previous working state (ie. you are never left with a borked system)
  • containerized apps – user space apps isolated or sandboxed in some way like Flatpaks or Docker containers or OCI so if they break, they don’t take anything else down with them
  • declarative systems – the whole system (and packages and configs) are defined (declared) in one master config file – back up that config file and if something happens to your system, you just need that one file to do a full rebuild (or make an identical copy of your system on another computer) – NixOS and GNU Guix are the two more well-known in this space
    • EDIT: minor side-effect of this is you can easily tell exactly what packages are installed on your system at any given time – no hunting through history or trying to remember what you installed last month when you were testing out video players
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just another one of the holy wars within Linux – for the average user, it’s not going to make any difference – most of the mainstream distros switched over a LONG time ago so if you want to avoid systemd, you have to do a little hunting (ex. Devuan, Void, Gentoo, etc.)

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picture comparing Republican bombers versus Democratic bombers

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“items that start out as we don’t need it back and then turn into a loan later on”

just had to get that last little snipe in there …

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didn’t qualify as a review much less a “poor review” – lose the provided graphics card, proceed to munge the cooler onto an unrelated card, complain when it doesn’t fit, blast it as a garbage product that no one should ever buy

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[xkcd] Dependency

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each one an incremental change, but “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

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are you referring to Suffolk pink?

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referring to how much time working? or how much time I spend doing my job? I have no problem working in the garden or on the house – but having to do a job so I don’t starve or go homeless makes me a little resentful …

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gendered words, plural agreement, conjugations, declensions were all forms of “parity checking” for spoken languages – ways to make sure you were accurately hearing what had been spoken

as writing systems advanced, languages started to drop some of these forms when the written word was considered to be an “accurate” representation – ex. you can see this happening in the transition from Old English → Middle English → Modern English

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  • up until the printing press, spelling was more a matter of convention (“we always wrote it this way”) since it was relegated to clergy and scholars
  • the advent of the printing press saw a lot of creativity with spelling – adjusting the spelling was an easy way to justify lines of text on a page (much easier than trying to make micro-adjustments of word- and letter-spacing)
  • it was the introduction of dictionaries that started to “stabilize” spelling – and that was only because people (especially Johnson and Webster) started to get sick and tired of the lack of standards
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gender in English

  • gendered pronouns
  • familial relations – woman, daughter, husband, uncle
  • using gendered pronouns for ships and nations
  • actor/actress, policeman/policewoman
  • other leftover forms – blond/blonde
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Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu

  • goes the route of using an external drive so you’re not limited by the internal storage of a Chromebook
  • defaults to Ubuntu just because its easy and common
    • if you go Xubuntu or Lubuntu, you shouldn’t have any major problems with performance
  • article more focused on using Chromebook as cheaper, more capable alternative to Raspberry Pi
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