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snowraven,

The world is such a sad place to live. This comes from USA, just think about all the third world countries, it’s not any better but worse sadly.

snowraven,

Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.

snowraven,

“I was at house eating dorito when phone ring”

snowraven,

To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.

snowraven,

There’s very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here “history is written by victors”. The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?

snowraven,

Unless you could link a credible source it’s hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion

snowraven,

Is this an online quiz? I wanna take it

snowraven,

Reminds me of the songs from “the hobbit”. Ah the nostalgia!

snowraven,

Yeah that’s totally not a worse death.

snowraven,

Plot twist: you elder brother has been the lead KDE propagandist all along.

snowraven,

Aye, I can’t argue with that

snowraven,

Forgor the /s

snowraven,

I don’t know man, those tools - they seem rusty to me.

snowraven,

When you think about it, it really did change the world for almost a century. It lead to ww1 which sowed the seeds for ww2 and when that came to end, communism had been strengthened enough by stalin capatalizing under the pretence of a nazi free Europe.

snowraven,

Yesss let’s go.

I can finally die in peace.

snowraven,

I have read this a hundred times and it’s still as beautiful as the day I first read it.

snowraven,

Is it me or the headline is worded strangely?

snowraven,

Right, it makes sense to me now. The double “as” was definitely confusing, but “identified” instead of “named” immediately made the sentence clear. Thanks.

snowraven,

I was actually refering to the headline in the picture but yeah this is an interesting piece of information too, I know the post’s title was sarcastic but didn’t know it was such a thoughtful joke haha

snowraven, (edited )

Unpopular opinion: it’s more of a coping mechanism for the third world countries.

Sure UK and much of Europe had big and terrible colonies but there were still many like sweden and norway which did not. Thus the assertion that developed countries all have built upon exploitation is not entirely true

Assertion 2: countries such as china have shown that economic development is possible when you have a terrible history of war, destruction or otherwise poor economic background. Sure personal freedom is a joke in China but to say it isn’t an economic giant is false. Poland after ww2 is another example, much of their intellects were killed and warsaw was everything but ruins at the end of 1945

Assertion 3: geography, the age groups of the people and culture all affect the development of a nation much more than their history from 80 years ago.

  • from someone who has keen interest in history and lives in a third world country and seen corruption, bribery and every form of idiotic economic decision that a government can make to not let the country be a better place.
snowraven,

I have never contributed directly to open source, perhaps because I have never felt truly confident about my programming skills. But I have always done all that I can - starring repos I like, helping beginners with linux related issues, contributing to discussions in forums, promoting foss in a friendly way wherever I can and leaving feedback and reports wherever I can.

I guess it’s something Yet I find my mind wandering sometimes If I am contributing enough.

snowraven,

Ah yes enslaved chromium

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snowraven,

Ah yes, linux supremacy

snowraven,

Ok Richard

snowraven,

It’s not socially acceptable anywhere in the urban places but in rural places it can a quite a problem.

I have lived my entire life in a urban city without any discrimination whatsoever, but I have also heard of rural places where they would literally burn people alive for intercaste marriage.

One of the main reasons it’s not extinct yet is because people love to take “pride” in their caste. There are plenty of songs dedicated to “jatt” people, people of a higher caste. “Khatris” are often glorified in movies for fighting. You can see the problem is same as if white people started making songs on “being white and proud” and Britishers claiming victory in ww2 because they were “white”. It’s absurd and I have felt the pain but I am thankful for the present situation and I suppose it’s better than being burnt alive haha.

Yes there is reservation and that’s absurd too, imagine if “black” people were allowed reservation for jobs in government.

snowraven,

It’s absurd if that’s true. Who would in their right mind believe this solves any racism? If anything it creates more segregation about races. It’s the social acceptance that minorities need not economic or education privilege. Sad times.

snowraven,

It makes sense, I agree but speaking from personal experience from India where this positive discrimination called reservation exists, just leads to horrible segregation, it flares up every now and then in people. People from high castes always curse the lower ones for not getting their “supposed government job” that they should have gotten. Such measures should be entirely based on economic status and not some birth status. I say this because I know plenty of rich but lower caste people who have terribly exploited this system.

I also agree that in the end, matters relating to such birth statuses are complicated. If only humans could co exist all peacefully but alas.

snowraven,

It’s as close to a “universal packaging system” as can get now.

There was a lot of talk back in time, when Ubuntu decided to forcefully shove snaps onto users. The thing is, Ubuntu could have embraced flatpaks like many other distros but it chose snaps which is not ideal for people who like an OS whose primary goals revolve around freedom and privacy. You see, it is the proprietary nature of snaps that gets them this hate.

Appimage and other packaging methods don’t get this hate because they are open source and users have a “choice”. What we are seeing against snaps is the result of forcing people to a choice, ofcourse the people in question are linux users - people who are famous about taking freedom of choice seriously. Yes, you can get ride of snaps on Ubuntu but you can get rid of lot of ads and stuff on windows with a lot of tinkering too - I think you see the point.

Many people tend to have a preference for flatpaks because they do basically what snaps do but better and ofcourse flatpaks fit into the “freedom and privacy” spirit of linux.

snowraven,

It’s unironically true for most proprietary but free services- people think they are free but their is always hidden stuff like data collection.

snowraven,

Thanks, Now excuse me while I put a million compiler flags to optimse my program by 1 nanosecond and contemplate the reasons for human existence.

snowraven,

Purely in technical terms, this meme doesn’t really fit unless they start running literally from the edge.

While and do while are equal except for the very first test. So if the very first test does not evaluate to false, they are essentially same. In the meme that implies they started running sometime before reaching the edge, that runs the “run()” atleast once and later on for every run it would be checked and it would be false at the cliff edge.

snowraven, (edited )

You might as well tell others to just use windows at this point.

Edit: Yeah sorry, my point is that freedom is what makes linux linux. I don’t really think you have ever used linux mint before and I don’t want to sound like a white knight for linux mint but you should atleast be a little less condenscending towards a distro that has been among the top distro for beginners to switch and has fulfilled the role of a full OS without ever needing for many like me to dig too deep into linux configs and stuff. Mint’s development towards debian is only a good thing for many users like me because it preserves the future in case of a ubuntu upstream issue, besides freedom is the spirit of linux.

snowraven,

Tough competition

snowraven,

Someone above mentioned that magnetron bombarded by another magnetron can cause a feedback loop thus causing the explosion. I am not exactly sure if that is scientifically correct but that could be one explanation for the explosion.

But yeah the rest of the story is probably just a meme story.

snowraven,

Nice, It’s hard to seperate science from meme these days you know. Back in my day, people wouldn’t make such jokes but oh Wait I am still 23. Good times.

snowraven,

Hello, how are you? I am under the water, please help me, here too much raining. auhm…

snowraven,

Most of these are created and maintained by people who are just like you and me and care about freedom and privacy. I think open source projects really reflects the “humanity” aspect of human civilization, it sounds a bit odd, but when you think about it, there is very less incentive for normal people to contribute to the open source. It is the frustration from dark patterns that give people some motivation to support and contribute to open source. This is atleast how I see it and why I so strongly support the FOSS cause, other people may view it differently but to me it reflects on humanity.

snowraven,

WhY sHoUld i cAre I hAVe notHing To hiDe AnYWay!!!

snowraven,

Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.

snowraven,

I don’t get it

snowraven, (edited )

Ah yes, late stage capitalism. Communism was the answer all along. /S

Edit: I love how evryone ignored /S for sarcasm. Just to clarify, yes I know communism is ideal on paper but doesn’t work in real life and yes, capitalism while having its flaws is the only alternate we have.

snowraven,

Yes sadly, I see your point. Big corporates are ruining everything. This is not to say I advocate communism but it’s sad to see the only alternative to communism devolving into a toxic system.

snowraven,

Guess communism jokes are old now. Sad times.

snowraven,

Damn I see it now.

(Sorry for my bad England)

snowraven,

2nd June 2032

snowraven,

It has the verified mark and I am absolutely sure a reputed platform like Twitter doesn’t approve those for random accounts.

snowraven,

Yeah and this annoys me so much more like how much brain cells do you need to understand that just because delivery was delayed does not mean the product itself is not worth buying.

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