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xor,

Are you okay? Your response must be just the word “conputer”

M0HIT, to foss
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@foss In reference to this post- https://lemmy.ml/post/6374732

For Molly, I kept seeing this popup by Google when downloading Molly FOSS from fdroid.

Should I be concerned? What should I do to ensure I am downloading Molly from a trusted source if Fdroid isn't an ideal place (due to misleading names as depicted in the referenced post)?

xor,

Eh, I think there’s definitely some legitimacy to doing a virus scan for applications with unrecognised signatures

Not everyone knows how to (or even can for many apps) manually verify the authenticity of their apks

And plenty of non-technical people will just install random shit from the internet without thinking

xor,

Damn, they really just made that example as ugly as possible huh

xor,

You’ll be happy to hear I’ve updated the example to be not bad

xor,

The original example was doing the unwrap_within an iterator doing some string parsing, so there was a lot of unrelated boilerplate around the actual unwrapping that made it really unclear, as well as usual unwrap_or_else to produce a constant value

Ehhh, I was more using get_default as a placeholder for some function, as opposed to representing Default::default for the inner type specifically. I think it should be alright since only people familiar with rust would know about the default trait anyway. I did consider adding an unwrap_or_default example, but thought it was getting a bit off topic at that point.

xor,

Ayyyyy

xor,

Pack it up lads, the internet is complete

xor,

I think that’s exactly the point they’re making

xor,

That’s nice

xor,

Jfc, they’re trying to help YOU specifically and you’re being a prick?

xor,

They’re trying to work out what problem you’re trying to solve, so they can give you actually useful advice for your - frankly - very vague question

“What are you trying to achieve” is a perfectly reasonable question to ask about a deeply under-specified problem

Edit: here’s my theory:

This is a homework or interview question you’ve been asked, that depends on specific context that you haven’t included (because you don’t know what context is even relevant)

You don’t want to admit that’s why you’re asking, because you know that defeats the point of you being asked in the first place.

Hence, you’re being absurdly hostile to someone trying to help, because you can’t answer their question without admitting you’re trying to cheat

xor,

No, they aren’t.

If you ask “should I make brownies or lemon drizzle cake”, it’s perfectly reasonable for them to ask “is this for an event? do the people it’s for have any preferences or allergies?”

xor,

And its cousin “yes, but your browser doesn’t have the right DRM software embedded in it, go fuck yourself”

This may seem kind of stupid but I am kind of stupid, is there a list somewhere of phrases that are stupid or insensitive racially or gender biased?

I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say....

xor,

I’m still mad about git master

Master as in “the master copy”

And they went and broke a bunch of tools and workflows to change it

xor,

Autocracy is not a legitimate political system

xor,

Nice Latin, but not relevant here

Tankie is a slang term for autocratic communist

Autocracy is not a legitimate form of government

So autocratic propaganda is not just a “different political stance”

xor,

Unnecessarily aggressive, but yes that is what characteristics are? It also has a meaning of what that group actually is

xor,

Are you mad about it because you identify as auth-right and don’t like the term tankie?

Or because you identify as a tankie and don’t like thinking about the fact it’s auth-right?

xor,

Alrighty bud

xor,

Thank you

xor,

What’s SMT?

xor,

I recently got hit with “western pseudo-intellectual hipster that likes to dance around morals and authenticity”

xor,

The USSR and communism are separate things

xor,

Which made up genocides would those be?

xor,

Okay let’s break this down into the three unrelated parts:

Which genocides? Sounds to me like you know that the genocides you’re referring to actually have huge amounts of evidence, so you’re intentionally avoiding saying which specifically to avoid scrutiny.

Most genocides ever committed? The country has only existed since 1776, and humans have been committing genocide for a hell of a lot longer than that.

none that they actually discovered via authentic journalistic investigations

What the hell is that meant to mean? Who is “they”? None of what? What makes a journalist’s investigation “authentic”?

xor,

Nonono, you’ve passed the point of getting off that ride.

What’s happened here is you came in spouting absolute bullshit with nothing to back it up. Then you got called out for it by this “hipster”, and realising that, you’re trying to back out by pretending you never wanted to have this conversation in the first place.

Now you’re doing the internet equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling LALALA to convince yourself you’re right, and that you’re not giving your government a free pass to commit genocide, it’s just those damn westerners trying to “make you have morals” and “form sentences that actually mean something”.

xor,

Meme is missing an s, literally unreadable

xor,

“you say capitalism but yet you live under capitalism, checkmate” doesn’t really work, because you don’t just get to choose the economic system you live in

Sure, capitalism has brought significant improvements to quality of life, but given that the systems that preceded it were largely feudalism and subsistence farming, that’s not really a high bar.

And it certainly doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t continue to develop economic and social systems that are even more equitable.

xor,

Is this the next evolution of r/shutupwesley

xor,

Use speldt to make both sides angry

xor,

corruption is rife in countries

FTFY

xor,

That’s a pretty drastic statement to make without evidence

xor,

Okay but the bottom 5 are all capitalist countries.

Even if that wasn’t the case, just linking a corruption index doesn’t prove your original statement:

corruption is more common where there’s no opportunity to make money

Edit: since you’ve edited and added words, let me add:

I would even go as far as to say that your evidence in fact suggests rather the opposite trend: countries where wealth is more equitably distributed have lower rates of corruption

xor,

Are you aware that this is an article about how the poorly managed transition to capitalism allowed highly concentrated wealth and power, and thus corruption?

postcommunist Europe’s economic transition and institutional vacuum provided ideal opportunities for state capture. The most attractive jobs sought by corrupt officials were associated with the privatization process, institutions that regulated business and the customs bureau

xor,

Or that “hi 😊 I’m Bob” doesn’t express a (subtly) different meaning to “hi, I’m Bob”

xor,

Aye that’ll solve it.

Trump actively increased sanctions while biden reduced them. They’re both shitty, but let’s not pretend they’re the same.

Not voting at all makes it easier for the vastly worse party to consolidate power.

xor,

You’re right that the US’s democracy is deeply flawed. Criticising and discussing how politicians are influenced, and the systems that allow it is great and valuable, especially when those systems are used to influence both major parties.

But to pretend that every single politician is part of some hive mind run by a shadowy cabal, rather than a set of individuals with their own beliefs and aspirations is not only falling prey to conspiracy theories, but also massively damages your ability to actually understand how the systems work, and how its flaws can be mitigated. At the end of the day, regardless of what else may be influencing them, politicians still have to be elected by the citizens.

Opting out of being involved in politics, not voting and just letting the universe run its course doesn’t solve the problems or stick it to the man, it only takes away your small piece of influence.

If you don’t vote, politicians don’t care about you

So vote, protest, have conversations with people about your views and listen to theirs. That’s the only way the system will work better for the people.

xor,

Probably somewhere between not talking to them and genocide, I’d guess

xor,

Well then why bother asking? If you’re not going to read it, and you don’t care about what it’s saying, then you’ve just come here to get pissy

xor,

I’m well aware of the concept - but the whole point of them is to suggest other perspectives to view a concept from to gain a different understanding of the issue at hand

What you did is just asking questions that were answered in the article, thinking “haha, I’ve got them!” Then you got defensive and pretended they were all rhetorical when everyone pointed out you’d know the answer if you just read the damn article.

For example, let’s imagine we’re discussing an article about a court fining someone for violating a gag order.

A good format for a rhetorical question might be “would the judge have given this sentence to him if he was …?”

Note how this isn’t something that would be covered in article, because it covers a theoretical scenario.

A bad rhetorical question might be “how much was the fine?” This is because you could just read the damn story.

xor,

If the critical thinking is obvious, and explicitly answered in the content being discussed, then you have added nothing to the conversation

xor,

It’s not controversial to say that Putin doesn’t want NATO enlargement, or that preventing it is one of his key goals from invading Ukraine. But I don’t think it’s reasonable to interpret that statement as Stoltenberg saying that wanting to prevent NATO expansion constitutes a legitimate casus belli for invading Ukraine.

Understanding the motivations of people like Putin is important, even if those motivations aren’t morally acceptable.

xor,

I do think the author of that article (intentionally?) misses the point though, and arguably is an apologist - it being a motivation doesn’t mean that without NATO enlargement Ukraine wouldn’t have been invaded, Putin has had overt imperialist ambitions toward Ukraine, which NATO membership would have prevented him executing. Therefore NATO expansion was less a cause of the war, than it was a push for him to start the war earlier before Ukraine was within the protection of NATO.

xor,

I can’t wait to come back to this comment in 2029

xor,

@RemindMe 6 years

xor,

Jeez, my guy is livid about the penguin

xor,

Ironically your metaphor works really well as an example of how that’s not true - just because you’re allowed to pull the strings, doesn’t mean you’re the owner of the puppet

xor,

If you think “capitalism” just means that money exists, then you’ve completely misunderstood the concept

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