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Comment on Any obscure songs you'd like to share? in ~music
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Barney Link ParentThe exemplary label is very (ab)usable, but thankfully it doesn't stick so giving it out like candy under a post like this isn't that damaging. It definitely loses its intended meaning for the...The exemplary label is very (ab)usable, but thankfully it doesn't stick so giving it out like candy under a post like this isn't that damaging. It definitely loses its intended meaning for the entire post though.
Maybe there should be a way to remove an exemplary label if enough people find it "unexemplary"?
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Barney Link ParentYes!!! Just minutes ago, I put a frozen pizza in my air fryer and I am going to eat it soon. It's 12:21 am here. Nobody can stop me. I am unstoppable.Yes!!!
Just minutes ago, I put a frozen pizza in my air fryer and I am going to eat it soon. It's 12:21 am here. Nobody can stop me.
I am unstoppable.
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Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux in ~games
Barney Link ParentThis is just the way most large and multinational companies operate. I do not claim to know how GoG works or big it is, but the one I work for would certainly allow this to happen. Not willingly,...This is just the way most large and multinational companies operate. I do not claim to know how GoG works or big it is, but the one I work for would certainly allow this to happen. Not willingly, but the chain of command is very long.
Here's a rough breakdown of how it happens:
- Global marketing team comes up with an email in language A and gets it approved. (likely oblivious to what the symbols mean)
- Email is then sent to the individual teams in each country for translation.
- When translating, someone in the german team notices it and reports it to their superior.
- The person in charge of the german team reports it to the global team.
- (ideally) the global team reviews the report by the german teams and notifies everyone else.
Now even between departments in the same building, communication takes a very long time, and depending on how meeting-heavy the company is, virtually everything needs a meeting.
At the company I work at, a design mistake, for example a typo, noticed by a local team will often take weeks to propagate and come back with the fixed version.
The reason they sent out the email in the other languages is simply this. A delay in internal communication that didn't make it before the email was sent out. The german team could correct their version because they noticed it. Maybe you think this is implausible, but that's only because you haven't worked in such environments. I have, and it really does take a bloody long time.
And as an aparte, I will be frank here. I had no idea whatsoever what the symbols could mean, and I'm sure 99.9% of "average" people didn't either. It's not like they sent a 'heil hitler' in their email. Why is it so difficult to believe that the initial email chose the emojis because to the unknowing person's eyes, they look like cool runes, and that's it? Why do so many people immediately assume that there must be some hidden agenda everywhere, and that they're frothing at the mouth to send out nazi symbolism, instead of looking at it objectively for what it is? We are all humans. Not everybody is as aware of every symbol that could mean something vile.
The apology made their stance very clear as well. The persecutory behaviour is not warranted. There are loads of nazis out and about in broad daylight, there is no reason to jump on shadows.
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Barney Link ParentI have! And that was the catalyst of my intense dislike for western spoons. I yearn for the ladle. Now that you mention it though, I realised nothing stops me from simply buying ramen spoons and...I have! And that was the catalyst of my intense dislike for western spoons. I yearn for the ladle.
Now that you mention it though, I realised nothing stops me from simply buying ramen spoons and using them at home.^
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Barney Link ParentThis is fully unrelatead to the discussion, but I actually hate every single spoon. Give me a small ladle instead (sob). Spoons are so bad to eat with. Why are they 1/100th of a millimeter deep?...- Exemplary
This is fully unrelatead to the discussion, but I actually hate every single spoon. Give me a small ladle instead (sob).
Spoons are so bad to eat with. Why are they 1/100th of a millimeter deep? Please just let me scoop up a reasonable amount of liquid without spilling half of it, because my hand isn't as steady as surgeons.
/noise
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Barney Link ParentI don't really want to engage with this conversation, and admittedly, didn't read most of it, just showed up on my feed and thought I'd respond to your question. They are. This isn't reddit.I don't really want to engage with this conversation, and admittedly, didn't read most of it, just showed up on my feed and thought I'd respond to your question.
Is this really the purpose of tags? I always though they were just there to categorise the topic and filter
They are. This isn't reddit.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Barney Link ParentReminds me a bit of hobbit software :DReminds me a bit of hobbit software :D
Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.
Oh, the Electron empire is going to war with the Reacts? Sounds ghastly, sorry to hear that. Me and the lads are off to the pub to run some cronjobs, wanna come along?
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Comment on MapTap: Daily challenges to test your geographical knowledge in ~games
Barney Link ParentThat's good to know because I played it and wrote it off as "ridiculously easy with anyone who knows a bit about countries that aren't obscure". Will give it a go for a week, thanks for the heads...That's good to know because I played it and wrote it off as "ridiculously easy with anyone who knows a bit about countries that aren't obscure".
Will give it a go for a week, thanks for the heads up! The idea seems super cool.
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
Barney Link ParentI have nothing to add, you phrased it better than I could ever have. I fully agree with absolutely everything you wrote. Thank you for elaborating. These days I find myself writing mostly Odin,...I have nothing to add, you phrased it better than I could ever have. I fully agree with absolutely everything you wrote.
Thank you for elaborating.These days I find myself writing mostly Odin, despite finding gingerBill difficult at times. C3 keeps just a tiny bit too much of C to be my go-to language, but it's certainly the second.
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
Barney LinkI know very little about the creator of Bun, so I will not comment on anything regarding that, but this stood out to me: What sort of "bigger plans"? They keep pretending that Zig is like the...I know very little about the creator of Bun, so I will not comment on anything regarding that, but this stood out to me:
His singular focus on productivity and his startup's exit strategy was increasingly at odds with my longer term vision for the Zig project. I remember he kept nagging me to drop all my other priorities and work on a Language Server Protocol implementation and VSCode integration, while I had bigger plans.
What sort of "bigger plans"? They keep pretending that Zig is like the invention of the wheel. A complete joke, when the language is wholly unergonomic and effectively unusable for everyone who isn't actively working on developing it. Zig has been in development for a decade, and Kelly still acts like it's some pilot project in its early stages.
Posts like this are actually infuriating to read due to how holier-than-thou it comes across. I've been a big Zig critic for years and think the language is massively misguided and sells false promises.
Regardless of that, more than anything the surrounding people and general culture make it so repulsive to me. This entire post is insulting and unprofessional, even if it might be partly warranted.
Aparte: For anyone looking for actually usable languages in the same niche, I recommend checking out Odin and C3 instead.
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Comment on Humble Choice - July 2026 in ~games
Barney Link ParentNothing about gamescope is specific or limited to SteamOS though, you can run it on any distro you want. I'm running it on Void Linux (and ran it on Fedora and Debian in the past) perfectly fine....Nothing about gamescope is specific or limited to SteamOS though, you can run it on any distro you want. I'm running it on Void Linux (and ran it on Fedora and Debian in the past) perfectly fine.
One minor gripe I have about SteamOS is that it is based on Arch and ships with the AUR enabled. Which is, as we saw last month, a potential source of threat that the average user who follows youtube tutorials might not know about.
But yes, it's amazing! Gaming on linux has come a super long way!
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Comment on Humble Choice - July 2026 in ~games
Barney (edited )LinkAnother month, another massive W for proton. Honestly, at this point in time, I am genuinely shocked when a game (that's not bogged down by anticheat) doesn't run on linux. How good! I got this...Another month, another massive W for proton. Honestly, at this point in time, I am genuinely shocked when a game (that's not bogged down by anticheat) doesn't run on linux. How good!
I got this month's bundle as well, since Sea of Stars and Tunic have been on my wishlist for a while, so I figured why not! For this longer, winter nights. Dicefolk looked cool too.
This leaves me with the following games:
Neon White- Police Simulator
Drop Duchy- Sledders
Our Adventurer Guild
Games remaining from June's bundle:
Construction Simulator- Overlooting
If you'd like any (even multiple!) of these games, please reply to this comment and I'll DM you the redeem link. Please note that some of these games may be region locked.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Barney LinkI took a short break from working on my anime tracker and decided to tackle one of the issues that's been bugging me lately: my application windows not being centred automatically. So wrote a...I took a short break from working on my anime tracker and decided to tackle one of the issues that's been bugging me lately: my application windows not being centred automatically.
So wrote a little applet for the Niri compositor that reads the event stream and centres all visible columns whenever something changes. Turns out this was much easier to do than I initially anticipated, and the result made my experience much better.
https://codeberg.org/Sylphrena/Niri-auto-centre-columns
Aparte: This also serves as a reminder than if something is bothering you, before putting it off, at least evaluate the effort it would take to fix. Chances are, it's less than you think!
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Comment on Why carbon capture can't solve climate change in ~enviro
Barney Link ParentThis is incorrect. There is no other solution. Everything else is a measure to slow the advance of climate change. Nothing, apart from carbon capture, can reverse it. If we transitioned to 100%...many other solutions do, but they require us to transition away from fossil fuels.
This is incorrect. There is no other solution. Everything else is a measure to slow the advance of climate change. Nothing, apart from carbon capture, can reverse it. If we transitioned to 100% fusion energy, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would not change.
This is why the article is wrong. Carbon capture is a necessary part of every single complete solution
to climate change. It's certainly not the only measure, but it is unavoidable.My problem with the article is that it paints carbon capture as this outlandish hoax, when it isn't. It may very well be true that companies try to hide behind carbon capture to justify their emissions, but that does not invalidate carbon capture as a whole.
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Comment on Why carbon capture can't solve climate change in ~enviro
Barney Link ParentHow do you define "will not work"? It will not solve climate change immediately by itself, since that ramp up in carbon capture is unfeasible. Other measures are needed. But in essence, removing...How do you define "will not work"?
It will not solve climate change immediately by itself, since that ramp up in carbon capture is unfeasible. Other measures are needed.
But in essence, removing CO2 from the atmosphere and putting it somewhere else definitely does work in a sense that it has a positive effect. That effect may be borderline negligible as of right now, but it is still positive, so it does work.
It doesn't solve climate change, but dismissing it as "can't work, won't work" is ridiculous.
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Comment on Why carbon capture can't solve climate change in ~enviro
Barney LinkIt's a pretty silly write-up. Yes, it's true that carbon capture is not easy, since we're emitting such a formidable amount of CO2, but what's the alternative? Even if we went down to net 0...It's a pretty silly write-up.
Yes, it's true that carbon capture is not easy, since we're emitting such a formidable amount of CO2, but what's the alternative? Even if we went down to net 0 emissions tomorrow (which is completely impossible without carbon capture since certain processes inherently emit CO2, like the production of steel), we'd only stop the advance of climate change, not reverse it.
We need negative emissions to get out of this mess. The headline "Carbon capture cannot solve climate change" is like saying "a fan and a sun shade won't cool you down to 25C, so you might as well just stand in the sun". It's a ridiculous take. What's the point of the article? What's the alternative? How do you get CO2 out of the atmosphere?
Carbon capture does work, and it is an absolutely necessary step in halting, and hopefully eventually reversing, climate change. It's currently financially unviable, since it is always an added cost for the polluters. Of course it's not going to be economically profitable when they can just emit an infinite amount of CO2 for free. I know there are an increasing number of regulations in place in some countries, but it's still very very lenient and only limits the amount of CO2 they can emit and places nearly no pressure on capturing any of it.
As long as we keep emitting any amount of CO2, climate change is only going to get worse. Maybe not with the same velocity as it did these past 20 years, but it will get worse.
That article is a sad joke.
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Comment on Epic Games announces Lore open-source version control system in ~tech
Barney Link ParentI don't have much to add because one really needs to try it to see how brilliant it is. JJ was the biggest quality of life improvement I have ever made to my coding flow. It is actually incredible.I don't have much to add because one really needs to try it to see how brilliant it is.
JJ was the biggest quality of life improvement I have ever made to my coding flow.
It is actually incredible.
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Comment on Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause. in ~health
Barney Link ParentIndeed, which will naturally happen no matter what since people have to live somewhere. Mortgage usually requires a 20% down payment, which most people do not have, so they're forced to rent their...Indeed, which will naturally happen no matter what since people have to live somewhere. Mortgage usually requires a 20% down payment, which most people do not have, so they're forced to rent their entire lives. Additionally, and this is the most concerning part, houses and flats these past 2 decades have been rapidly appreciating assets.
To give an actual example, the flat I've been renting for the past 10 years cost 550k when it was built 10 years ago. It is around 800k at the moment, meaning its value increased by 250k simply because it's older. No renovations, no additional features or anything, it's simply older. Which means, if I were saving up to buy this flat, if I'd saved up less than 250k over the past 10 years (2083 / month), I would be farther from buying it today than 10 years ago. And I'm not even living in one of the big cities.
Which is mental.
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Comment on Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause. in ~health
Barney Link ParentA minor correction regarding this point. Homeownership rates will not increase unless legislation is passed to facilitate it. I am in Switzerland, and a formidable percentage of homes are owned by...with homeownership rates only increasing as the Boomers die off.
A minor correction regarding this point. Homeownership rates will not increase unless legislation is passed to facilitate it.
I am in Switzerland, and a formidable percentage of homes are owned by insurance companies and private pensions. The property of an old homeowner dying will more often than not end up in the hands of the aforementioned parties, not working or even middle class citizens.
The average person has already been, and unless things change, like will remain priced out of ever owning a home.
Love this post!
One of my all time favourite lo-fi songs is Blossom by Thaehan, timestamped at 9:31.
It's nothing fancy, certainly not that unique either, but there's just something super captivating about the melody, to me at least :P