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  1. Comment on United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly in ~tech

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    I mean, they're horribly slow, but important stuff like the Apache web server is still moving forward.

    I mean, they're horribly slow, but important stuff like the Apache web server is still moving forward.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly in ~tech

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    That's a genius idea actually, I wonder if they have any mechanisms for doing something like this.

    That's a genius idea actually, I wonder if they have any mechanisms for doing something like this.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Linkin' Park - From Zero (2024) in ~music

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    I would really consider trying to imagine yourself in her shoes. It's hard to leave a cult, no matter how much you want to, and with these guys it can be as dangerous as it gets. I agree that the...

    I would really consider trying to imagine yourself in her shoes. It's hard to leave a cult, no matter how much you want to, and with these guys it can be as dangerous as it gets.

    I agree that the situation is not ideal, I wish she said out loud "yes, I'm still a Scientologist" or "no, I am not", and I'm definitely not 100% comfortable with supporting her, but on the other hand, I think it's worthwhile to try and believe in her, even for a moment.

    Otherwise we'd have to shun every person that was indoctrinated into that cult by their parents, and that is heartbreaking - going through such a terrible childhood only to be judged as an adult for your parents' sins. Let her make her own sins first, and then we'll throw our stones.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Linkin' Park - From Zero (2024) in ~music

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    From the article you linked, I mostly gathered that her mom is a hardcore Scientologist and she was just indoctrinated into it as a kid. It doesn't really prove that she's engaging in it nowadays,...

    From the article you linked, I mostly gathered that her mom is a hardcore Scientologist and she was just indoctrinated into it as a kid.

    It doesn't really prove that she's engaging in it nowadays, which is why I don't wanna pass judgement right away.

    It would be helpful if she put out a statement saying yes or no clearly, but that might not be happening for a myriad of reasons (some stated in the article, maybe she fears retaliation).

    Maybe I'm just too hopeful, dunno.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Linkin' Park - From Zero (2024) in ~music

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    About how deeply affiliated she is with Scientology.

    About how deeply affiliated she is with Scientology.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on In praise of Arcane season 2 in ~tv

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    I still find it incredible that the game's lore is available in so many mediums except the game itself. They could have done PvE campaigns around lore events, maybe even a single-player mode that...

    I still find it incredible that the game's lore is available in so many mediums except the game itself. They could have done PvE campaigns around lore events, maybe even a single-player mode that you could repeatedly complete using different (relevant or not relevant) champions.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Linkin' Park - From Zero (2024) in ~music

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    I feel like there's too little information out there so I just decided to ignore it. If something new comes up I'll reconsider but for now I'll just keep supporting the band.

    I feel like there's too little information out there so I just decided to ignore it. If something new comes up I'll reconsider but for now I'll just keep supporting the band.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Linkin' Park - From Zero (2024) in ~music

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    I've always been fond of Linkin' Park, even if I never was an active fan that followed them online or checked out all their releases. Hearing about Chester's death was a sad moment, the world lost...

    I've always been fond of Linkin' Park, even if I never was an active fan that followed them online or checked out all their releases.

    Hearing about Chester's death was a sad moment, the world lost an amazing artist who is dearly missed, and I thought Linkin' Park would disband forever.

    Then the news about Emily (the new vocalist) came out. I was skeptical because she could never replace Chester, and I was a little worried that the band will always live in the shadows of their past.

    But I've been pleasantly surprised so far, she's clearly talented, and both Heavy is the Crown and The Emptiness Machine have that Linkin' Park vibe that I was scared would be lost. The old LP may not exist anymore, but its spirit is here 100%.

    From Zero hit streaming services yesterday, and I have to say it sounds awesome and I'm genuinely excited to see what they do next. I'll be replaying it for the next few days before I give my full opinion on it.

    What do you guys think?

    9 votes

  10. Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech

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    I'm on Fedora GNOME right now and I'm loving it, however I also have wake from sleep issues. The main one is that my laptop is closed and placed on a stand, and I use an external monitor instead....

    I'm on Fedora GNOME right now and I'm loving it, however I also have wake from sleep issues.

    The main one is that my laptop is closed and placed on a stand, and I use an external monitor instead. For some reason when waking up, it always picks the internal monitor to show the login screen, until I log on. Then after that locking and unlocking the screen will happen on the external monitor, until it goes to sleep again.

    Besides that, i feel like GNOME stays out of my way much more than Windows and lets me be as productive as I want to be.

    I don't like that Ctrl+Alt+T is not configured to bring up the terminal, AFAIK Ubuntu-based distros have it set by default. But honestly, pressing Super, typing "term" and pressing Enter has also been just as fast at bringing up the terminal so I didn't bother to manually configure the shortcut.

    I only do software development and web browsing on this machine and I don't play video games at the moment, so I haven't encountered as much weirdness.

  11. Comment on Why is Google Gemini saying we should die? in ~tech

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    I think there's some value in anthropomorphizing stuff when explaining to a non technical audience. Your explanation might be more technically accurate but ask most people and they won't really...

    I think there's some value in anthropomorphizing stuff when explaining to a non technical audience. Your explanation might be more technically accurate but ask most people and they won't really know what you are saying.

    15 votes

  12. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Well, that might just be my new ethos in life, I like it a lot.

    Well, that might just be my new ethos in life, I like it a lot.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been messing around with Flask for a work project, and I have to say, it's a neat little framework, you can spin up an API pretty quickly. I do miss the fullstack niceties that Dioxus has so...

    I've been messing around with Flask for a work project, and I have to say, it's a neat little framework, you can spin up an API pretty quickly.

    I do miss the fullstack niceties that Dioxus has so it'll remain my go-to if I need to make a full-featured web app, but if I only need a back-end for like a service or something, I'll be heavily considering Flask.

    Although I'm starting to visualize a Flask backend and a Dioxus frontend working together, so I dunno. It'll be weird to tell people I have a Python backend and a Rust frontend, but everything I make is weird so I embrace it.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on US Election Distractions Thread in ~talk

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    God, skimming this comment was a nightmare. The brain really does round that þ into a p.

    God, skimming this comment was a nightmare. The brain really does round that þ into a p.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Timasomo 2024: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo

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    Well, guess it's time to set it free. :) A Guide to Fire Kings Fire Kings are a Yu-Gi-Oh! archetype and deck that I deeply enjoy playing. I was a bit frustrated with the existing resources about...
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    Well, guess it's time to set it free. :)

    A Guide to Fire Kings

    Fire Kings are a Yu-Gi-Oh! archetype and deck that I deeply enjoy playing.

    I was a bit frustrated with the existing resources about the deck - the YGO subreddits constantly recommend wrong things, and most actual knowledge is buried in the Fire King Discord server, where it's not handily accessible, nor able to be indexed by stuff like Google. We also had a combo spreadsheet made in Google Sheets, but it focuses on a variant of the deck I'm not playing and it's a bit outdated.

    The goal was to take all that information and put it in one place. It ended up being a book that you could theoretically read start-to-finish, however I'd expect most people to either look for a specific card, or bookmark the combo pages for future reference, or just look for the information they need at a specific moment.

    It's also not close to being finished - I covered the essentials, like the main deck and extra deck cards, covered the combo section and talked a bit about playing through your opponent's interruptions, but I feel like there's much more left to do. It's a great guide to start someone off and teach them how to play the deck, but it's not yet the comprehensive resource that I want it to be.

    As such, I'm only releasing it here as part of the showcase and will continue to develop it through November. Then the plan is to get some peer feedback from some members of the Fire King Discord server before fully releasing it and announcing it in all the communities I participate in.

    I know this is a really niche project, but if any YGO players are around here, I'd really appreciate you taking a look and telling me how you feel about it. :)

    12 votes

  16. Comment on Once Linux’s biggest enemy: Darl McBride dies and nobody notices in ~tech

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    To be fair, the SCO vs Linux ordeal is about 20 years old at this point - so nowadays the percentage of people that would actually care is very little. A large majority of the community wasn't...

    To be fair, the SCO vs Linux ordeal is about 20 years old at this point - so nowadays the percentage of people that would actually care is very little. A large majority of the community wasn't around at the time, and whoever was around back then, either is retired or stopped holding any sort of grudge towards McBride.

    And I don't see why anyone from the Linux world would bother to say anything - it would be disrespectful to say anything bad about him at this point, and I don't think anyone wants to praise him, so saying nothing seems to be for the best.

    That said, my condolences to his family and loved ones.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Timasomo 2024: Final Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    Welp, I forgot to leave an update for the past two threads. Work on the guide slowed down in the second half on the month, but it didn't stop. I have a few Extra Deck cards to cover and comment...

    Welp, I forgot to leave an update for the past two threads.

    Work on the guide slowed down in the second half on the month, but it didn't stop.

    I have a few Extra Deck cards to cover and comment on, and then I'll do one final pass through all the pages to see if anything incorrect stands out, or if anything crucial is missing. Hopefully that's all done before the Showcase Thread.

    Either way, the plan is for this guide to be never "finished" - Yu-Gi-Oh! is a constantly evolving game, so the best strategies are always in flux. Konami can always release new Fire King cards if they feel like it, or completely unrelated cards that massively help the deck out. So I hope I can keep it updated for as long as I'm involved with the game, and if I ever quit, I hope I can hand it over to someone in the community/Discord server. It'll be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, so anyone can take it and extend/modify it as needed if something happens.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status in ~comp

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    I get what you're saying and you're not wrong - but two bad things can coexist at once.

    I get what you're saying and you're not wrong - but two bad things can coexist at once.

    36 votes

  19. Comment on Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status in ~comp

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    God this sucks. I get sanctions are needed and they must be applied equally across the board, and that the kernel would be a prime target for exploits and backdoors from state actors, but these...

    God this sucks. I get sanctions are needed and they must be applied equally across the board, and that the kernel would be a prime target for exploits and backdoors from state actors, but these guys likely never meant any harm and they just got cut off from maintainership because of the Russian government's actions.

    I would be heartbroken if this happened to me honestly, and there's not much to do except accept it. Sad.

    21 votes

  20. Comment on Moldova narrowly votes to secure path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interference in ~society

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    As a Romanian, I'm both scared and excited for our Moldovan siblings - I've seen some really nasty stuff from the pro-Russian side and I fear it might escalate into violence if the presidential...

    As a Romanian, I'm both scared and excited for our Moldovan siblings - I've seen some really nasty stuff from the pro-Russian side and I fear it might escalate into violence if the presidential elections don't go their way.

    However I remain hopeful Maia Sandu will win the election and fulfill the promise she made to her people. It will also bring Moldova even closer to Romania, and maybe in 10-20 years we might consider unification again, to repair the last few scars we have left from the Soviet era.

    16 votes