flying_sheep
@flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
- Comment on ..? 18 hours ago:
Where is that? I’ve never once heard of read of “antisemitism” being used that way
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 day ago:
That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
No on both accounts. You’re wrong, both in your attempt to regulate my language and your assertion.
You can literally find (actual real non-AI) footage of people being close enough to the explosion that they should be terrified, but they’re elated instead.
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
When I was 14, I also wisecracked that, but then
- I learned that linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one: meaning correspond to usage, not what a word is “supposed” to mean
- I realized that words often have meanings that don’t correspond to their literal translation
So no, antisemitism doesn’t refer to any semitic tribes that aren’t Jewish.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 day ago:
The Californian law only affects California.
Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
make-up religion
You’re getting tautological here mate.
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
Conflating Israel and Jews is called antisemitism. If someone is just anti-Israel, they don’t become antisemitic from that (but it sure invites a lot of antisemites who smell a possible convert)
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
Nah, try listening to Iranians. They love that he got exploded.
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
Which is idiotic. I’m an anarchist for example.
- Comment on ..? 1 day ago:
I think if he died of cancer, the Iranian people wouldn’t celebrate as hard as they do right now.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 days ago:
And Germany.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 5 days ago:
It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 6 days ago:
Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 6 days ago:
And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.
Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.
That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
So red hat somehow “shot the competition” (Microsoft?) but also is willfully running Linux by deciding to adopt systemd in order to replace the steaming pile of horseshit that is sysvinit. A move that was extremely successful and led to a much more robust base for today’s Linux systems in retrospect.
Or was it lennard poettering (who has a second job as the antichrist) who “shot the competition” by jumping in bed with red hat and/or IBM leadership to make them not consider other init systems. (Also to ruin Linux or something despite, and I repeat myself here, the move to systemd being a great success in retrospect)
Is it perfect? No, TeX is the only software that is. Is it better that we just went with one init system for most distros to leave the dark ages of sysvinit as fast as possible? 100%.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
Here we go again with the conspiracy bullshit
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 weeks ago:
Analog, and what really matters for analog signal is if the wire carries load or not.
Like a phono cable from a record player or a analog signal cable from an old sound card matters, but it doesn’t matter how you send the amplified signal to the passive speakers.
- Comment on Pick wisely 3 weeks ago:
Probably just people trying to buy in early to the new meme meta
- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 weeks ago:
Numbing kind of, but it more feels like vibration or “buzzing”, it’s hard to describe
- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 weeks ago:
There’s also menthol and whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.
This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.
I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Same for my partner’s old gaming PC: she used Windows 10 until recently, and Bluetooth as well as the steam overlay didn’t work properly.
Now on Bazzite hey do.
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
Ooo what an amazing idea!
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 5 weeks ago:
EVERYTHING is GONE!
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 5 weeks ago:
I literally got banned from the “awfulsystems” Lemmy instance for suggesting that Firefox isn’t horrible. No exaggeration, there was nothing else to my comment than a polite suggestion that Firefox is pretty good actually.
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 5 weeks ago:
This shows how unhinged the whole recent hate on Firefox is. Turning off GenAI is literally one single setting AND Mozilla is doing things infinitely better than others (e.g. the translation feature is completely local, and having a chatbot in the sidebar is opt-in)
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
Not if you interpret it as “sufficient but not necessary”.
anyone I’m into is a woman, but there are also women in not into
Set theory yo