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- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
I am partial to pdksh, mainly because when I read it I hear a drummer going “ba-dum-tschh” like at the end of a joke, which is how I see most of my sed invokations.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
Only for a while, because I heard that it’s the year of Linux on the desktop this year, so… I guess the rest of the world will join us pretty soon.
- Comment on There are now more electric cars than gas cars on Norway's roads 2 months ago:
Norway is a rich country so the government can help people buy electric instead of gasoline cars. Of course, they got rich by selling oil, but yes.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 4 months ago:
It seems likely that the person who told OP meant it in the misused way, which makes the intent to intimidate clear.
- Comment on Threaded has hit the App Store! 4 months ago:
They get an urge to install Linux on an old ThinkPad while wearing colourful long socks?
- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 4 months ago:
It creates an effect where surrounding air is pulled with the stream due to the Bernoulli effect. It’s the same thing that pulls shower curtains in when you shower. If the fan is a bit inside the window, surrounding indoor air gets pulled into the stream, moving more air out in total.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
I don’t know, that’s a level deeper than I know about, but you could be right.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
In that case also add ð. If you say the words “think” and “this” out loud, they use different “th”-sounds. “These” would be “ðese”, and “think” would be “þink”.
- Comment on Mildred 4 months ago:
It could be a David Foster Wallace reference. “In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
- Comment on Growing up isn’t easy 4 months ago:
A good story about a bad day doesn’t have to be about complaining. It can be about learning from mistakes, a strange irony, the absurdity of coinciding factors, etc.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
If you want something faster than a snail, Spirallinux has you covered:
spirallinux.github.io - Comment on Language 6 months ago:
The second part of the Tractatus.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 6 months ago:
Honest question, the way the original question was phrased, do you think that the resulting discussions have been a net positive or negative for increasing empathy and understanding?
- Comment on There was such a simple solution all along 6 months ago:
This is paraphrasing a swedish politician called Annie Lööf. She has been made fun of and ridiculed for that phrase for a long time.
However, that’s not what she said. The context was simplifying rules and regulations for companies, and she was asked if fewer rules would make it easier for companies to do illegal things. Her answer was: “In Sweden it has since long been illegal to run a business with criminal intent”.
This “criminal intent” is the difficult part. If I buy and sell antiques that’s one thing, if I buy and sell stolen goods, that’s another. The difference is criminal intent. - Comment on Are we back online? 7 months ago:
Yes, and I’m not complaining about a service I use for free of course.
- Comment on Are we back online? 7 months ago:
It was a full day for me.
- Comment on How does SDF handle moderating spambots? 7 months ago:
The only way we’ve been able to reach the admin(s?) in the past has been to ssh into an sdf server and posting on the internal BBS. My bet would be that they are not using Discord or similar.
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 7 months ago:
It’s unusual to see the rounded r (ꝛ) after an a.
- Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 7 months ago:
I couldn’t connect either on my phone, but after updating my browser it works.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
It didn’t happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there’s nothing and not doing anything.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
There might be a significant number of users here waiting for everyone else to switch over to lemmy. If you start a niche community, it’s a little easier for someone else to be like “It’s kind of empty, but it exists on lemmy too.” What you need is a critical mass of people. It usually takes time and effort to reach that, and someone must be first.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
If ads are pushed into ed(1), then it truly is everything. But, as long as Theo is the leader of OpenBSD, we will always have a free operating system.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
I’m with you. I’ve started using firefox with no extensions, not even ad-blocker. Whenever I am annoyed by a website autoplaying sound in a popup or asking me to sign up for their newsletter or whatever, I look at the URL and think: this website is dead to me now.
- Comment on Katt 10 months ago:
Söt katt!
- Comment on Lemmy through SDF is basically read-only now. Read interesting stuff, but open an account elsewhere if you want to reply. 10 months ago:
What would be the right way? @SDF here on lemmy has been pinged afaik. I don’t use mastodon, and I don’t know where to e-mail.
In the future, maybe we should ask SDF for an official way to contact them outside lemmy. I’m guessing that the admin isn’t really a lemmy user, or they would have noticed the whole thing going on.
I realize that I can’t demand anything, we’re using a free service run by volunteers and donations. I like the community here on SDF, and am interested in finding out how we, together, can make it a great instance.
- Comment on Lemmy through SDF is basically read-only now. Read interesting stuff, but open an account elsewhere if you want to reply. 10 months ago:
Can your posts/comments be seen from outside SDF?
- Comment on Any Linux users here? 10 months ago:
I’ve tried pretty much all major distros over the last 15 years, and I always come back to debian.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
Similarly, the viking rune “alphabet” is called the Futhark, because the first letters are pronounced F, U, Þ, A, R, K.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
If people will be people, the interesting difference will be how the platform works. I guess this is the true test of the federated approach. What does it hinder or facilitate in practice and what are the actual effects?
- Comment on Is there a problem with the SDFEU instance? Haven't been able to access it for a while, especially using third party frontends. 1 year ago:
Same for me, I just switched to sdf.org instead.