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Apple, or as I've taken to call it, Mother Superior.

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WARNING: I learnt to drive from Streets of Sim City.

We are not the same.

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With a name like Senator, you know it needs to be bomb proof...

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It will always be Twitter, because they can never give it to you.

Back to the roots the good old rules the life experiences ( lemmy.ml )

Alt text: a meme from Spongebob Squarepants episode S03E03 "Just One Bite," where Squidward takes a bite out of a krabby patty, except its been doctored to the LimeWire logo, a notable P2P application. It doesn't end well for him: In the last frame he is choking to death (with an overlay over him resembling a Windows Blue Screen...

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FUTURE feat FUTURE - FUTURE.mp3.exe

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Oh, wow. Protectionism bad?

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I know next to nothing, but it seems this guy's trying to play both fields so to speak, something old USSR patriots might not like. They are supposed to be "neutral", but have sold arms to Russia and also Ukraine.

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Okay, Lemmy. We need a proper dictionary definition for "sidcess", as apposed to success. Is there a difference, or is it just a synonym?

I define "sidcess" as somebody who finally made a music career out of chip tunes.

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This seems like the people's choice, and also infers that it has to be written with a uppercase initial letter.

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If Mozilla implementing "AI" (or machine learning) to localise language models and translations, then I'm all for it.

If Mozilla moves closer to SaaS, I'm jumping ship to another browser, preferably one that's not based on WebKit or Blink.

However, despite the loud cries of cynics, the jaded and haters alike (or the "realists"), I'm still optimistic about the future.

If this restructuring means Mozilla more quickly qualify for funding because they localise training models and open source it all, then I'd say Mozilla is a threat to the likes of Microsoft - and that's a good thing.

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Excuse me, wtf? You're not "discounting", but indirectly condemning the whole crew when obviously it was the navigator and captain responsible for the negligence? Not only that, but almost indirectly affirming that they all deserve to be there?

"Oh I'm sorry, but this is ancient Egypt and you must be buried with the pharaoh."

Prick. And no, don't come at me with "but those 6 people who died", because that justifies nothing.

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Yeah, you did. You basically indirectly justified it, a favoured tactic by republican think tanks.

"Corporate punishment is bad because the state shouldn't get to kill people."

"BUT WHAT ABOUT THE RAPIST'S AND PEDOPHILES AND ALL THE EVIL PEOPLE incidentally I'm pro-life"...

Same energy and tactic, bro.

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Fair enough, but that still does not justify them being stuck on a ship for several months, because 1) there is no "due process" (search online for it's proper definition and not the perversed US instituonalist definition), 2) it's punishment without verdict, and 3) it's inhumane. Actually, it's an edge case the US judicial system is not capable of handling, because the US judiciary is lead by morons.

Again, you don't get to justify this kind of treatment of people "because they did bad". What's next, a return to witch burning because the milk soured? The average deck hand, who had no power or influence over the matter, should have weeks of their pay disappear, because they are lightly implicated, meaning their families will go without food? Nuts to that.

Why do yanks continuously defend, deflect and try to gloss over their own governments incompetence and unethical behaviour? The US needs dire judicial reform.

andersr , to Memes

Me BTW I use arch

@memes

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NixOS users, over in the corner, with the goth clothes on, being as cynical as Rick, a rebel without a cause, saying "Dolstra did nothing wrong."

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He had the mythical methweed, weed grown out of meth.

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I heard someone say that Nicholas Cage was almost cast as Superman...

We were robbed.

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With each passing day that is less and less true. Ask any Hong Kong patriot. Even though China technically hasn't annexed them, the Hong Kong leadership leans closer towards Beijing every day. I wouldn't put it past Hong Kong intelligence "doing favours" for Beijing.

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Ah yes, Linsey Graham. A jellyfish in a trenchcoat pretending to be a spine.

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Again? Come on :(

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An economist, ey? Running low on shells? Need to nip, tuck a few budgets? Well...

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You'll have to install it onto your soul, once again revolutionising the video game industry - and the world at large.

Gosh darn it, Newell. It's too much winning. So much good faith. Leave some for the rest of us! Look at Elon! He's dying over there!

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It's a weird time to live in, but not confusing. It's obvious to see that what you really want as a vendor is control over the operating system stack itself, and relying on Microsoft has become challenging.

In essence what NVIDIA is doing is bringing it's entire GPU driver stack open source side, so that entire industries say go on buying tons more hardware.

Us Linux enthusiasts get to reap the benefit, what with entire open source movements bringing libraries to Linux side first that can turn GPU hardware into whatever tool you'd like. Projects like PyTorch and ffmpeg run as first class citizens on Linux.

Windows still relies on either shared DotNet stack (which will make a monkey out of you - cough cough) or the nearly ancient MSYS2 build environment. Microsoft of course prefers you run all that software inside their Linux container system known as WSL - and there's a reason for that.

The Linux graphics stack is looking more "feature complete" by the month, bringing up the question of where you actually get the best hardware support. This is a good question to have.

Now, if only the open source desktop movements could clean house, figure out funding and get their stacks in order, we might finally, for the umpteenth time, maybe see the year of the Linux desktop.

I grow old with anticipation, but seeing what NVIDIA did in the before time versus what they do in the now puts a smirk on this haggered face.

Onwards to the future.

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You seem to conflate "trust" with "optimism".

Let me just make it clear, having kernel land drivers and user space drivers open source and working together is a good thing.

Sure, you'll have to agree to a licence when installing CUDA, which will probably never be open source, but as long as the GPU hardware can be used out of the box with open source drivers means that we've come a long way.

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Orban.

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The markets of exploitation built by liberals includes slavery as well as wage slavery, which speaks volumes about how good they are at upholding their own principles. Liberalists just outsourced everything in the 1950s, screwed entire labour markets and relied on communist China to do so.

All to save a buck and bring "growth".

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Why are people so confused? Microsoft wanted monopoly by acquiring a bunch of companies, to consolidate their intellectual property and shaft it's employees, the people who created the software in the first place.

Classic Microsoft.

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Why not? Because they've done this before and it's getting ridiculous. The process goes thusly.

  1. Isreal announces a ceasefire plan they are sure Palestinians will reject
  2. Palestinian officials accepts the ceasefire
  3. Isreal goes "Well screw it then, now I don't want to do it" and continues their genocidal ways.

And so on, and so forth.

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It's an ancient political tactic of "I was just defending myself". What was it the Nazis said about Jews? Oh right, they were just "defending themselves".

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I've been waiting for this. Been using Kate on Windows and Linux, which is great, but running Zed is just so lightweight. It's like a truly open source Sublime Text.

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I don't trust it... y'know, unless it's a bear, at least then I know women in the area are safe.

Thanks, bears.

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We need to start c/MNN (or the "Meme News Network")... complete with intros, outros and lower third templates.

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*I'm on the ground floor, Brenda, and Netenyahu just took both the seats of the Palestinian delegates and ran off with them."

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"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!"

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Because they were taught that what's going on in Gaza is a bad thing throughout their lives, only for parents and politicians to say "it's complicated" when footage reveals the simple, brutal, horrible reality.

Cognitive dissonance is a bitch. Shout out to people who remember when they first got disillusioned.

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"But I have unplugged it... yes, several times... I'll try again... oh, it works now... now to my real problem, Windows now asks me for a 64 character code..."

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I think we have to step back once in a while to get a wider perspective.

Both GNOME and Plasma are not just simply desktops. Oh no. They are entire stacks, complete with SDKs, for the user and desktop applications to use. They are orchestrated collections of libraries, services and apps, that together combine to make huge projects.

All of this requires contributions, all of this requires developer time. And in this economy? Open source is taking a kick to the pants.

You also got feature creep and tech debt galore, as well as needing to replace various bits and pieces when things become outdated, deprecated and unmaintainable.

Let's put it plainly though: there's a reason GNOME is reorganising, and why it's all about the money, dum-dum-didi-dum-dum. I think that it would be great if GNOME managed to restructure to facilitate more developer time, because the lofty goals they have set means having to put some elbow grease in it. The same goes for KDE.

Yes, it's the funding issue again. It's all about prioritization. With the economy being what it is, money doesn't stretch that far anymore either.

With all this in mind, I think we should all show some appreciation for the good work of the folks who make GNOME and Plasma. We are given two great options, with each their approaches, that show us what true competition looks like, and they are really giving it their all - despite what some people may be saying.

We should do better to remind ourselves this

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Also known as operation "stop hitting yourself".

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I think both the KGB and the CIA competed for who could do political subversion the best.

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Seeing that user Flatpaks are installed in the home folder, I see this as an interesting strategy. EXT4 still beats BTRFS in certain read/write benchmarks. My only problem being that you lose provisioning.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this here, but BTRFS subvolume provisioning is probably the best reason to use BTRFS - and BCacheFS - not just CoW or snapshotting.

The old way, of having a set beginning and end of a partition, is like caveman technology to me now. Subvolumes are here to stay and I am happy about that.

If I need to do a little distrohop now, even though I wouldn't (rpm-ostree rebase go brrrr), all I'd do is delete an recreate the "@" subvolume (or the root subvolume) without touching another partition or subvolume. All storage space is shared between subvolumes, basically, removing that boundary distinction between them, so I get to keep the files, permissions and meta data in my "@home" and my "@var" subvolumes, even though I get rid of the old "@" to replace it with a new one.

Therefore the idea of having storage that is reliant upon partitioning, ordering sectors one after another, having to defragment and keep strict separations between them is absolutely archaic to me. I'll gladly take a slight performance hit just for the convenience of avoiding all that.

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Show this to someone who believes in the honour system and self regulation... see how they react.

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Don't blame the Americans. They don't see that we have our own slow crawl in a race to the bottom. The EU has recognised it and pays lip service, but that organ-grinder gotta spin, spin, spin...

...but yeah, regulation wise Europeans get a ton more representation. In the US representation means which talking mouthpiece is going to serve the instituons today, and then they go do a lil insider trading - as a treat.

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I love GNOME, but Gnome Software is hot garbage. If KDE gets their gtk/adwaita tweaks in place, I might recommend Discover instead.

Also, arguably, by the most argumentative people, AppStream is also hot garbage, which is what was supposed to solve your problem regarding "too many package managers".

I personally would wish AppStream didn't suck and that it was also aware of NPM and crate packages. They've sort of been forgotten or relegated "developer tools"... even though you can pull full applications and system libraries.

How many "it's 2025 already" problems do we have to encounter this year?

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Good. No offence to him, as he is the architect behind nix, but nixos suffers from major governance issues, largely thanks to indecision, infighting and actively distilling conflict within the community.

At the end of the day, that whole "benevolent dictator" schtick is just not sustainable.

Also, it's 2024 already. Finish the implementation of flakes. Either that, or strip it out. One or the other. Get off the pot or piss.

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This is what people misunderstand. The question is what effect will it have regarding to how certain governments, organizations and companies deal with ICC law. It's not a question of getting Netenyahu arrested, but adding more precedent on file to continue pushing divestment.

If the verdict is passed, it's up to anyone who can use it to weaken the Isreali government and strengthen the Palestinian government, by adding it to the pile of legitimate reasons to cut funding.

So yeah, it's up to government and people in general - as per usual.

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But the elusive hobo homeowner manages to hide in plain sight.

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I’m just hoping this paves the way to code with Southern dialect


<span style="color:#323232;">iffun is == true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">iffun ain't == false
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Super Smash Bros character finna have a wild ultimate

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I’m on my 3rd play through. It’s still janky and buggy in some regards, but my god the theme, the characterisation, the stories, the plot. It’s how you put together an open world game, where immersion relies on the art of story telling.

Someone tell Todd Howard. Maybe the next Bethesda game won’t be so incredibly bland.

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