bryndos
@bryndos@fedia.io
- Comment on beans 🫘 8 hours ago:
mmmm, primordial bean soup.
I'm still eating it though even if it is my (step) nXgrandmother.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 9 hours ago:
Wait 'til you find out about nouns.
The arbitrary fuckers can be character strings as well as numbers.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 9 hours ago:
haha yeah, i i was actually so pissed that i "walked into a tree" last night.
Still a wee bit merry. pebpat - Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 9 hours ago:
strawberry blonde
- Comment on Winner winner! 9 hours ago:
fawnography
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 9 hours ago:
Oh right , i forget; this is not "no disingenuous questions". Hard to tell sometimes.
You want a decent webpage AND attention / clicks?
Your problem is not the coding of the webpage. pebkac.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 9 hours ago:
Every TZ has a similar amount of tactical nuclear penguins.
The only way to win is not to play.=> the moon.
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 9 hours ago:
1.type your prompt or whatever you want to achieve into "no stupid questions"
2. wait
3. winI can't guarantee that the "intelligence" is either artificial or Welsh or whatever , but you might as well hope.
- Comment on PHP is the English of programming languages 15 hours ago:
dude ffs! fuk gramor!
- Comment on PHP is the English of programming languages 1 day ago:
I'm curious to know how you know that you suck at it?
There are so many different formal rules, informal rules, dialects, accents , slangs and cultures and subcultures and so on across the world both among native and non-native speakers that I don't believe anyone can communicate flawlessly or even effectively in all of them.
I think the only way to assess competency would be to estimate the rate of misunderstanding in communication. Probably weighted in proportion to importance for survival. I'd guess that this is likely to be the case for most languages as they spread outside of any close-knit culture.
I think being widely used on the Internet makes any language suck; face-to-face is one of the best ways for speakers to understand the effectiveness of communication- and to learn and adapt to what works for that audience. Without that feedback loop, communication and improvement is probably much harder.
Human language just isn't like computer languages as there is no underlying instruction set, no compiler, and no objective standard or measure of what does or doesn't work.
TLDR; I think everyone sucks at English, but lots of people 'get by' which is 'good enough'.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 1 day ago:
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 5 days ago:
I think their username is like anglosaxaphone or saxadick or somePing like dat. You'd know it because the posts are basically unreadable.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 6 days ago:
Fiona.
But where's that fella with all the thorns and eths in pheir comments.
- Comment on "ATOMFALL: I can’t believe England exists in real life." - Warlockracy 6 days ago:
nah, that isn't cumbria, I saw no one shagging any herdwick sheep.
- Comment on A sausage is meat in an intestinal casing so when you have anal sex with someone you turn them into a you sausage. 6 days ago:
I think you'd also have to stick you penis through a mincer first; please make sure you do that next time. You surely deserve the darwin award for this one.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
I enjoyed the original just fine on windows 2000.
I didn't even know there were fan patches. - Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
I used to be crazy, then I stopped rolling dice and now I am perfectly well adjusted. /s
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Can I just set my email autoreply to:
NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
i am 100% sober...and...that's honestly the scariest part for me.
There's your problem, I only drink stuff which declares its authenticity in terms of a % of 'proof'.
It doesn't help at all in any real sense, but it takes your mind off it. - Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
yeah at first glance i thought photoshop; but what human'd spend the time to photoshop that right most engine into the wrong place and make the wing wavy
told
Maybe this is AI being told to draw an image "in the style of a bad photoshop job". - Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 week ago:
dislaimer i know nothing about histort, so wghat follows may be total BS, do your own research if you really want to know.
A few things like April fools day and the elements of saturnalia that survive in Christmas (twelfth night) had sort of formalised versions of it. In terms of reversal of roles and servants being able to mock or impersonate their masters.
But also folk heroes like robin hood and similar stories, and folk songs and bardic poems , stuff like that would have been sometimes critical of kings or power structures.
The peasants revolt in england in c14 is a good example. That was fairly widespread dissent against a new tax, although unsuccessful they got palmed off with some bullshit and Wat Tyler was murdered during the peace negotiations, and the boy king Richard II turned out to be a total cunt anyway.
But Wat Tyler was definitely crticising the monarchy (well maybe the "regency" that was effectively in power at the time), not staying silent.The kings would have had far less control of the general populace before police forces came along (after large scale urbanisation). Look at something like the 'Highland Clearances' in Scotland to see evidence of people refusing to be shoved off the land into cities. The process of urbanisation in england was similarly tyrannical, it was just easier to orchestrate because there are far more twats in england to do the kings dirty work - and easier terrain probably helped too.
Some rebellions and civils wars though were not as home grown though. stuff like wars of roses and jacobite rebellions were all linked to international politics and religion to some degree. Especially with england and france it was pretty much non stop aggro for a several hundred years after 1066. I guess i'm saying there was also foreign state sponsored dissent possibly more than genuine rebellion. I'm not really sure where someone like joan of arc sits as a rebellion the politics in france were quite complicated at that time - but i think she was fairly pissed off and not silent about it - but was pretty closely aligned to one king vs another, so maybe not 'independent' as wat tyler , say.
Ireland had many rebellions and attempts to depose or fight back against the english crown over the centuries - but they never really got the support from france or spain or the pope that they'd have needed to succeed ( a bit like the scots too) - funnily enough it turned out to be the protestant germany that effectively weakend england enough to help Ireland achieve some freedom.
So i think there was dissent and unrest from time to time, but not until the american and french revolutions was there any peoples movement that I can think of that was really successful.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
I don't know too much abut religion, but I thought Jesus was supposed to have bashed up the temples due to them operating like banks.
I think that'd be evidence of crticising some the prevailing religious organisation. - Comment on Who needs GPT when you can just smash the keyboard 1 week ago:
Doesn't that give you mega-armour plus backpack full of ammo?
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 1 week ago:
I just message them links using simpleX messenger that they don't use.
- Comment on NVIDIA are investing $5 billion in Intel to develop new chips together 2 weeks ago:
Yes this would be my fist reaction, when an oligopolistic market has large transactions ( that weren't mandated by a competition regulator . . . "develop new chips 'together '" . . . - [cough] - cart [cough] el
- Comment on How can I store a used water filter canister? 2 weeks ago:
2 days a month!? shitbags. sorry dude, i have nothing useful to say but that sounds terrible. I assume trying to vote out whoever permitted such abusive disrespect to your home is unlikely to work.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 weeks ago:
For me I always wrote as i listened, still do often.
I rarely read the notes back.'Revision' was just writing a whole new set of notes either from memory or from sources.
Then, never reading that set of notes.Massive waste of paper and ink, but it's part of how i pay attention.
Most of my lecturers did provide printouts of all the slides, but I'd scribble all over them anyway.Typing doesn't do the same thing at all for me.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 2 weeks ago:
Nope. That's just how this fedia web client is generating it when I do a single carriage return (vs two in a row).
I guess any inconsistencies in interpreting the raw data as a message federates around can cause quirks like this.
- Comment on Chick? Cock? Both. Definitely both 2 weeks ago:
Obviously "clock".
It's a play on "time heals all wounds" - Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, it's where I put a simple line break <br>.
If I but a line space then It creates a new paragraph block <p></p>.I guess your viewer doesnt like <br> within its <P> blocks.
