pmk

@pmk@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If the money is freely given as a donation, then I’m with you. If lack of money is what is stopping someone from making things that others are willing to pay to see more of, then sure. But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don’t want that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have one unix surrealism than a thousand influencers with lots of followers. These days, I want to be among people who interact as equals, who share ideas, who cooperate in a genuine way. If we try a shortcut to more users through money, what is the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Penultimate? Which one is the ultimate then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The follow up question then is, how do we deal with that as a species? If we assume that humans have tribalistic tendencies, I don’t want to say inherent, but, deeply rooted? Can education and external pressure make it go away? Can we direct it into something else? It seems like sports teams with their fans is an outlet at least preferable to war, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She would be proud⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work with old people and can tell you it’s not just when they’re young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 1 Reddit Refugee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your favourite linux distro?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want something faster than a snail, Spirallinux has you covered:
  spirallinux.github.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Language⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The second part of the Tractatus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and I’m not complaining about a service I use for free of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we back online?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a full day for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does SDF handle moderating spambots?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t connect either on my phone, but after updating my browser it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Söt katt!