cygnus
@cygnus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 week ago:
Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Thanks for taking the time to explain - that does make a lot of sense, if you coisider being trans or gay a learned/chosen behaviour. That hadn’t crossed my mind, which is why the premise seemed impossible to me. The difference, of course, between being gay and being a gambler is that nobody is born a gambler, therefore the comparison doesn’t really hold up. That’s why I used the creationism example: Carbon-14 is what it is. LGBT people are who they are. They didn’t choose to be that way any more that C-14 chose its decay rate. I suppose that doesn’t matter all that much in practice - if more people thought like you rather than being homo- or transphobic, the world would undoubtedly be a better place than it is.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
I also believe gay marriage goes against God’s plan
I support same sex marriage (my church doesn’t) because I believe in freedom of choice
I applaud you for supporting same-sex marriage, but - apologies if this sounds like I’m picking on you, I’m really not - this is like a young-earth creationist who agrees that radiocarbon dating is accurate. I don’t understand how these mutually-exclusive thoughts can happily coexist in your mind. I wish we could discuss this over a drink because I’m very intrigued by whatever epictemic process led you there
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
he supported the bill to ban gay marriage and that’s terrible,
but I’ve also heard that he left his politics at the door and treated everyone with respect, including the LGBT people at Mozilla
How on earth can you reconcile these two statements? “I respect you so much I’ll pass a law to make you illegal”?
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Not really. Mandarin for example has different characters for “he” and “she”, but they are homophones so you can’t tell who’s who in spoken language. Hungarian doesn’t have gendered pronouns and Finnish doesn’t either (actually, now that I think of it, that may be where you borrowed yours - isn’t it “hen” too?)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Thanks for the context - I still intensely dislike the “political” reaction, but people can learn and change. I also don’t like that Canadian arch-jackass Tobi Lutke is a major supporter of the project; he’s a bit like Brendan Eich. I’ll reserve judgment until the browser launches. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
Interesting, thanks for the correction! I thought it was a medieval form that stuck around.
Masculine being the default was the case for English (and French) too, but not anymore, and certainly not by implying anything other than the masculine is “political”.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
I’m hoping it’s a cultural misunderstanding due to his Swedish background.
Jag pratar inte Svenska but I know enough that it has gendered pronouns just like English. Actually, it’s better than English in that it preserved the neuter singular pronoun (which used to be “thou” in English)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
You don’t consider it rather exclusionary to imply that only men use computers?
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
There was a pull request to change “he” to “they” somewhere in the code and the dev refused, saying people should leave “their politics” out of it. I wouldn’t say it’s transphobic specifically - it may also be misogynistic. Either way, it doesn’t look good.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the Volvo S90 and VW Passat, definitely SUVs. Even Google’s screenshots show 40% garbage.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
These 2023 stats have Chromebook sales at only ~25M units globally, so this is probably the second scenarion, people decommissioning Windows computers and using the phone and/or tablet instead. canalys.com/…/global-tablet-market-share-Q2-2023
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 weeks ago:
That’s almost worse. I don’t want to install 5000 NPM packages to generate 2 basic-ass pages.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 3 weeks ago:
This has always been Uber’s goal, it’s why they’ve shovelled literally billions into self-driving research.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 4 weeks ago:
All’s fair in love and war.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
This is a good thing, because it’s unlikely ChatGPT would suggest he molest his child as he did to his sister.
- Comment on GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux 4 weeks ago:
Chepas, moi… Pourquoi pas G’b’ntu tant qu’à faire?
- Comment on Intel Confidential CPU? 4 weeks ago:
Neat. What does your OS tell you it is?
- Comment on GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux 4 weeks ago:
True, but then it should have been GendUbuntu… Although people may think that’s a guy named jean d’Ubuntu.
- Comment on GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux 4 weeks ago:
“GendBuntu” is an atrocious name, and it doesn’t sound good in French either (perhaps even worse). I don’t know why they insisted on referencing Ubuntu in the name. GendarmOS would have been fine, or GendarmeSE to be more correct.
- Comment on Harris Yulin Gave 'Deep Space Nine' One of Its Greatest Performances 5 weeks ago:
That was such a good episode - I think the first episode during my first rewatch since it first aired when I realized this show had more of an edge that I remembered.
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 5 weeks ago:
It would be easier to just let us all know you didn’t read the article.
At the time [product launch in 2022] he was bullish about the Zone’s chances: “After six years in development, we’re excited to deliver pure air and pure audio, anywhere.”
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 5 weeks ago:
Ironically their timing was almost spot-on for COVID… I could see these being somewhat useful for air travel, for example.
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 1 month ago:
Never heard of Zed, trying it out now… I"m not sure I’ve ever seen such a responsive GUI app. Crazy.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 1 month ago:
It’s actually true. 54% of Americans are “partially illiterate”:
In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3 or above. Anything below Level 3 is considered “partially illiterate”
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I’m guessing you use Firefox? It’s much better at evading that tracking.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 month ago:
Linux is a better alternative to windows than, e.g., LineageOS is to android?
It’s true. Camera apps for example are much, much worse than the OEM version.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 month ago:
FWIW I use Fastmail and it works great.
- Comment on Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables 1 month ago:
At least Luckey went with the name of the good guy’s sword rather than the bad guy’s surveillance device, like Peter Thiel.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 1 month ago:
No, I pretty much only look at the number of contributors (more is better)