Jayjader
@Jayjader@jlai.lu
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
To be fair, weren’t Valve the first company to do that? People were really annoyed at having to install steam just to play some Half-Life.
Of course, that was only 1 launcher, no launcher-in-launcher shenanigans back then.
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
Aside from echoing @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone and Doctorow’s statements about unionizing, I am aware of a few others who are trying things that I’d describe as complimentary to unions.
- DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorowyoutu.be ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Please suggest some Gundam-like shows to watch 3 months ago:
The second season of Iron Blooded Orphans is a good follow-up to the first, and certainly contains the themes you’re looking for.
- Comment on "Fry" is an ambiguous word in English 3 months ago:
You’re right, thanks for the correction
- Comment on "Fry" is an ambiguous word in English 3 months ago:
The English royal court became french speaking after the normands invaded, around 200 or 300 years ago. Nobles and royalty can afford lavish meals and dishes.
They can also regularly afford meat, whilst it was the peasants who tended to the animals. Thus pork (from porc) vs pig, beef (from boeuf) vs cow, poultry (from poulet) vs chicken.
It doesn’t explainall of the gaps, but it’s an important part of the explanation.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 7 months ago:
As long as i can prompt-engineer my way into twice the salary for half the hours, that might still be worth it!
- Comment on Real! 8 months ago:
Some slight pushback from a French person: we aren’t purists, our old reactionary institutions are purist (notably the Académie Française which, fun fact, is officially “in charge” of the french language while having zero linguists in its ranks).
Hang out with a group of young adults in France and you’ll hear a ton of English and a decent sprinkling of Arabic amongst the French.
Also, it’s not just French, Spanish has “ordenador”. It makes some linguistic sense; computers do compute but they also sort and arrange numbers.