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Comment on Arch User Repository compromised, 1500+ packages affected in ~tech
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Comment on Has anyone else seen a LOT of dead birds on the side of the road this year? in ~enviro
secretfire Link ParentInsulting you by... Asserting that you're American? I didn't claim that baselessly, by the way, I glanced at your account and saw that you post a ton about America-centric things. If I had looked...Insulting you by... Asserting that you're American?
I didn't claim that baselessly, by the way, I glanced at your account and saw that you post a ton about America-centric things. If I had looked closely I would have realised that you've mentioned not currently living in [North America] and that my assertion was simply wrong (well, partially wrong I suppose), but I really wasn't trying to cyber-stalk you; I just glanced at the last couple of comments that you made before this post.
Plus I don't want to share too many personal details.
This is an admirable goal and something that I think we should all do on the internet. I want to point out for your own sake, however, that you aren't doing a great job at it outside of this post. I took a glance at your comment history and you've made several comments stating you live in [a country in Europe], and that you used to live in [North America]. I find it a bit strange that you're being so cautious about what you say here in this post when you post so many data points elsewhere. You could have just said "I was in [continent] recently and noticed this" and it would have given essentially zero identifiable info and made this post much easier to answer.
I'm intentionally keeping this comment vague by the way; I'm really big on internet privacy as a whole, and if you weren't aware of the digital footprint you've left in your account history and decide to do something about it, I'd be happy to make this comment even vaguer.
Not everything has to be local and I figured I'd get more responses if I asked generally.
The world is a big place, and I don't know why you'd assume that the issue you're seeing in your area is a worldwide problem. The responses in this thread have, rather predictably, been all over the place, with some people saying they've noticed it, others saying they've not noticed anything, and others bringing up entirely different issues. When you've cast this wide a statistical net you're never going to get any kind of useful answer, except that there probably isn't a single worldwide bird-killing phenomenon taking place.
I made my comment assuming that you were in Bhutan (a country notable for its isolation and lack of internet presence) as a joking way of indicating that your question was vague enough that a useful answer couldn't really exist without covering every environmental problem happening in every part of the world. The pollution of the Amo Chu is probably causing problems for birds in Bhutan and upper India, yeah, but that presumably isn't having an effect on what you're seeing. But you essentially asked a question involving the entire world, so it's a perfectly valid answer, I think. The dead birds in your area may be caused by rising temperatures, drought, El Nino, Monsoon Season, farmers spraying pesticides, disease, a revivalist Cultural Revolutionary organisation trying to bring back the Maoist policy of killing all the sparrows (citation needed), or a million other things.
Anyway, I'm really not trying to start internet beef over this or anything, I was just having fun with my comments. Apologies if I caused offense.
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Comment on Has anyone else seen a LOT of dead birds on the side of the road this year? in ~enviro
secretfire Link ParentOne of those people was trying to find a common connection between something they noticed in their local area and what you've seen. As they had literally nothing to go off except that you live...confidently incorrect location guesses
One of those people was trying to find a common connection between something they noticed in their local area and what you've seen. As they had literally nothing to go off except that you live somewhere which 1. Had birds at some point, and 2. Has at least one road to drive on, they couldn't do anything but guess.
The other was poking fun at you for making a post entirely about a location-specific issue and then failing to provide even the most basic information as to where you are located, not even the continent or clime, meaning there's no way anyone could possibly give you an explanation for the issues in your area. It gives the impression that you're American and you made the post assuming that the USA is the default country and that everyone else here is American too.
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Comment on Has anyone else seen a LOT of dead birds on the side of the road this year? in ~enviro
secretfire LinkThe rising temperatures have caused a sharp increase in glacial melt over the past few months, which has been putting a lot of strain on the ecosystem in general, particularly in rural areas....The rising temperatures have caused a sharp increase in glacial melt over the past few months, which has been putting a lot of strain on the ecosystem in general, particularly in rural areas. There are also ongoing issues with pollution from open waste dumping in the Amo Chu, and that's poisoning a ton of ecosystems as far down as Jaigaon. Numerous environmental activist groups have raised alarm bells over it, but as always the blame is getting bounced around a dozen different parties and nothing is being done. I imagine all of that and more is contributing to the problem, and unfortunately the solutions are all just the same ones activists have been yelling about for decades.
You didn't mention where in the world you are so I'm assuming you're in Bhutan.
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Comment on Interresting Reddit/Discord alternative : surikata.app in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentThere have always been websites out there with enormous security flaws, absolutely, and I don't mean to assert that AI coding is the root cause of security holes, or even an intrinsically flawed...There have always been websites out there with enormous security flaws, absolutely, and I don't mean to assert that AI coding is the root cause of security holes, or even an intrinsically flawed system. It's an extremely powerful and useful tool in the hands of people who know what they're doing. But I do think the introduction of AI coding and the subsequent lowering of the barrier of entry for software development has exacerbated the issue. AI has made it far easier for the average person with little to no programming chops to create a good-looking website from scratch, and with the bar for entry being that much lower I reckon it's had an impact on the overall quality of code, at least in the amateur scene.
Granted I have no hard data to back this up so perhaps I'm entirely wrong; I'm sure someone out there has run the numbers on the effect AI coding has had on the rate of vulnerabilities being discovered, but truthfully it's out of my area of expertise. I think of it less as a strict "websites pre-AI are mostly secure and websites made with AI are mostly trash" and more of a practical guideline I follow. When weighing up whether to get involved with a website or to start using an application, I look at the state of the project and the people in charge: If I see that they're amateurs making heavy use of AI code, it's an indicator to me that they might lack the expertise to make a stable and secure program. It's not a guarantee of course, nor is the lack of AI code a guarantee of quality, but it's a red flag.
Like you said, we really shouldn't implicitly trust any website with our data to begin with, open-source or not, AI-generated or otherwise. But it's all a compromise on the internet; fortunately we can be choosy with the programs we trust our data with, and good digital hygiene should be used no matter where you're signing up for.
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Comment on Interresting Reddit/Discord alternative : surikata.app in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentI'm a free software enthusiast on principle more than anything, but the modern state of AI-assisted programming has created a situation where avoiding proprietary software can be as much a...I'm a free software enthusiast on principle more than anything, but the modern state of AI-assisted programming has created a situation where avoiding proprietary software can be as much a necessary practical choice as an ideological one. Simply because with small websites like this one you have absolutely no idea what the backend looks like, and have no way of knowing about any potentially catastrophic security holes brought about by a vibe coder telling Claude "make this website extra secure here are my private keys please don't leak them". This is a problem with FOSS software too of course, but at least there you can look at the code and decide whether or not you want to use it, or even submit your own fixes.
There was an incident a while back with a small streaming app for self-hosted servers where it was discovered that you could just send it a single curl command and it would respond with the credentials for your entire media stack. It was vibe-coded so poorly that an unprivileged user could literally just ask it for all its passwords and it woud give you full access to the server. The developer was made aware of this issue (and many more equally horrifying ones) multiple times and actively removed discussion of it when it was brought up on their github/subreddit, and only when a user raised alarm bells on a half dozen big subreddits and it blew up did the issue get resolved. Well, the maintainer nuked the entire project off the internet; but still, resolved.
Imagine if that app had been proprietary. Worse still, think about how many proprietary programs there are out there that are made in essentially the same way as that vibe-coded media manager, with developers that are naive enough to think they're on top of things. Now, the issues with that app were enormous enough that they absolutely would have been found with or without the source code, but without the source code (and the frankly laughable state of the app that caused the public to react so strongly) it's unlikely that they would have all been discovered, yet alone fixed and disclosed in a timely manner.
I can respect a developer wanting to hold off on showing everyone their source code before they're satisfied with its quality, but I think with a privacy-focused social media website it's a strange choice. On a more philosophical point, I think part of the joy of free software is not having to bear the burden of all the design choices, all of the labour required to build a project, because other people can contribute to the project. For a social media site, a project entirely about collaboration with others, it really seems like a no-brainer to have it be free software. Of course, some amount of ownership of one's work needs to be given up when a project is open-sourced, and that can be a tough pill to swallow. A while back I had a big long conversation here about the blogging site Bear changing from FOSS to source-available, and while with hindsight I'd probably change the way I phrased a lot of stuff there (creesch had some very good points in opposition to mine), I can see some echoes of it in this situation.
It's all about trust at the end of the day, I suppose. Ultimately I don't trust any potentially vibe-coded project (which in today's world unfortunately means basically every project), and proprietary software is inherently untrustworthy, so a proprietary project that looks AI-generated raises alarm bells for me. I'd love to see this project open-sourced at some point, it does look pretty cool and I'm always on the lookout for alternative social media websites.
As a final note (I've rambled on for too long), using LLMs for translations is one of the uses of the tech that I can sorta begrudgingly accept. My general opinion of LLMs is that I wish they weren't a thing and I stubbornly refuse to use them on principle, but I accept there are valid uses for them in various situations and I can get why people would use them sometimes. Even with programming I think they are absolutely a useful tool - I use the term "vibe code" to refer to a project made basically entirely with AI where the "developer" doesn't really know how it works to begin with. I would always prefer a "luddite" solution to a problem over an AI-generated one, but for something like translations I'm not going to be too mad that they didn't find a human to do their site text. I do wish that they had, it would have read a lot better that way, but still.
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Comment on Interresting Reddit/Discord alternative : surikata.app in ~tech
secretfire LinkThis project seems extremely vibe-coded. All the docs are written with that "it's not x, it's y" LLM style phrasing (seriously, nearly every single paragraph contains it, look at this page) and an...This project seems extremely vibe-coded. All the docs are written with that "it's not x, it's y" LLM style phrasing (seriously, nearly every single paragraph contains it, look at this page) and an ungodly amount of em-dashes. I like its emphasis on privacy and I think it's a fairly well-designed site overall, but honestly the fact that it's so obviously vibecoded (or at least created with heavy AI assistance) and isn't open-source or even source-available, is an instant no from me.
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
secretfire Link ParentMy one big gripe with Zojirushi rice cookers is that they exclusively sell teflon non-stick pots for them, with no options for stainless steel or even ceramic. There are third-party options but...My one big gripe with Zojirushi rice cookers is that they exclusively sell teflon non-stick pots for them, with no options for stainless steel or even ceramic. There are third-party options but they often aren't the exact same dimensions as the authentic pots and don't cook the rice as well as a result. Worse still, the teflon has a tendency to degrade over time, especially if you wash your rice in it (this seems to be a well-documented issue online). So you ideally want to wash your rice in one pot and then transfer it over to the rice cooker pot after, which is just silly.
That being said, I do really like my own Zojirushi cooker. I have a family-sized cooker imported from Japan (their Japanese lineup is of better quality than their western versions, even within the same models, but it's not a huge deal) and it serves us really well. It's by far my most used cooking appliance besides my wok and cast iron skillet.
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Comment on What are some of your recent "little" failures? in ~talk
secretfire LinkHad to travel internationally on really short notice. Booked a travel path that I've done before, from a big airport a few hours from my city, to a big airport a few hours from my destination. It...Had to travel internationally on really short notice. Booked a travel path that I've done before, from a big airport a few hours from my city, to a big airport a few hours from my destination. It cost a ton on account of booking a day before departure.
Booked the flight, trains, everything, only to realise after that there just happened to be a seasonal flight from my home city's airport to my desination city's airport, for half the price (less when taking into account travel to/fro the airports). I just didn't even bother checking because there are so few flights out of my city's airport and there have never been direct flights between these two places. Unfortunately it would have cost me even more to cancel and rebook everything, so I just ended up spending too much money to travel for a journey that was 6 more hours than it could have been.
And it gets worse: The flight was delayed, we landed 10 minutes before my bus was meant to depart, and I did the cardinal sin of (very politely and apologetically) pushing to the front of the plane to egress quickly and sprint. Except I forgot something on the fucking plane. Noticed immediately after going down the steps and had to do the walk of shame back on the plane. Turns out my bus got cancelled anyways so it wouldn't have mattered, but damn, absolutely embarassing display. If I were one of the other passengers I would have absolutely tutted in judgement.
All in all, not one of my best travel stories.
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Comment on EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global electric vehicle shift faces reset in ~transport
secretfire Link ParentWe're not going to make it to net zero and we never were going to, combustion engine ban or otherwise. Anyone who thinks there's still a chance of civilisation pulling itself out of this death...We're not going to make it to net zero and we never were going to, combustion engine ban or otherwise. Anyone who thinks there's still a chance of civilisation pulling itself out of this death spiral is deluding themselves.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
secretfire Link ParentIn my experiences the best low-appetite foods are 1. Salty foods (your monkey brain is wired to just love salt all the time) and 2. Broths. I guess also 3. Sugary foods but yknow carbs and health...In my experiences the best low-appetite foods are 1. Salty foods (your monkey brain is wired to just love salt all the time) and 2. Broths. I guess also 3. Sugary foods but yknow carbs and health and all that. I'm not on any meds though, and you know what works for you.
My go-to low-effort food is just rice with random stuff in it. I nearly always have rice handy, either cold rice in the fridge that I can heat up, or warm rice sitting in my rice cooker on the warming setting (it's the best thing I own honestly). In regards to "random stuff", normally that's a shake of furikake (storebought normally but I sometimes make my own), a spoonful of soy sauce, maybe something a bit spicy like lao gan ma or sambal (la-yu and/or togarashi for the Japanese vibe). If I want it to be slightly more substantial of a meal I can fry an egg or two and mash it into the rice, or some jar kimchi.
Of course, me having a rice cooker makes rice an incredibly easy anytime food, since it takes 3 minutes to wash the rice and then I can do something else for an hour does the hard part for me. I am a rice cooker evangelist (you can get one for $25 and so far I have never met a single person who has got one and regretted it), but I accept that it can be a pain without one.
Other things I do sometimes:
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Greek yoghurt with peanut butter, granola, berries (this is mostly a breakfast thing for me, but "breakfast food" is a social construct designed to keep you complacent, wake up sheeple!!!!!)
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Miscellaneous soups - Miso soup takes 5 minutes with store-bought stock, and can be easily made into a meal by adding pantry ingredients. Dried udon/ramen/soba noodles, dried seaweed (wakame/hijiki), tofu (silken tofu lasts for months in a pantry). You can also buy various soup broth concentrates in stores and they generally last a while: Cook some noodles, stick them in broth, maybe a handful of frozen veg, that's food!
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Porridge (oats) - It's an easy thing to make and can be quite nutritious, if not particularly exciting.
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Banana - banana. eat it by itself, or with something else
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Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentIt's incredibly easy to buy a hard drive for cold storage and just copy all your stuff onto it in one go. It's one thing to set up regular backups with redundancy and network accessibility, but if...Put your data in a NAS? Good luck, self hosting is a full time job
It's incredibly easy to buy a hard drive for cold storage and just copy all your stuff onto it in one go. It's one thing to set up regular backups with redundancy and network accessibility, but if you just need to make sure your photos from 2019 aren't going to be lost forever due to corporate fuckery, simply copying them onto a drive and putting it in a drawer somewhere is enough for most people. In the linked article they're specifically talking about 6TB of family photos, which is a frankly trivial thing to back up if you have 6TB of HDD storage available (and if they can afford AUD$30,000 work of Apple devices, they can afford to drop a few hundred on drive space).
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentIt's a nice design, though in my opinion too reminiscent of the old Nokia Lumia phones, which bring back bad memories for me. Wow have we come far from then. Still, slap a case on it and what does...It's a nice design, though in my opinion too reminiscent of the old Nokia Lumia phones, which bring back bad memories for me. Wow have we come far from then. Still, slap a case on it and what does it matter?
I do wish we could have more colour in our tech again, rather than the same old black/white/blue-black/muted gold/muted blue/super-limited-edition muted green, that every phone company goes for nowadays to make sure that everybody is equally ambivalent to it. Like, most people don't particularly dislike a pure black phone, but nobody dislikes it in the same way they might dislike, say, bright orange, so it's good enough. Same thing with cars, for that matter. We stopped having coloured cars at some point. We need a techno-hippie revivalist movement, I say!
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
secretfire (edited )Link ParentI find the whole state of the world in general to be unimaginably depressing, and am generally incredibly depressed as a result, so knowing how that feels I can't say I'm thrilled to have...I find the whole state of the world in general to be unimaginably depressing, and am generally incredibly depressed as a result, so knowing how that feels I can't say I'm thrilled to have successfully pulled someone down to my level, haha. I think this opinion, certainly among the socially conscious technologically-minded denizens of Tildes, is a fairly ubiquitous one. It's no coincidence that my largest contribution to this site, along with being one of the highest voted posts in Tildes history, was me ranting about basically this exact issue.
It's very possible that my predictions will simply be wrong. Maybe governments around the world will actually draw a line somewhere. Maybe free market economics will decide that competition in the market is actually good, or that open-source projects are a net benefit to the world. Maybe the people have far more power than I'm assuming, and as voting demographics shift we'll be able to make real change for the better. Maybe certain techno-oligarchs controlling vast swathes of the world's wealth and news will... Well, I'll not finish that thought. But maybe it'll just work out, and human compassion will net a rare win.
Spoilering this portion because it got real depressing on an existential level and this is a post about a cool phone project achieving a crowdfunding goal, it wasn't supposed to go down like this
But... I don't know. Things are just bleak right now in the world, and tech is such a massive part of that world now, and it'll only ever get more important from here on out. Even if we don't interact with it directly it still underpins essentially everything we do in any aspect of life. It's inescapable, and it's scary how much of that inescapable tech is controlled fully by a few dozen oligarchs who are publically calling for the collapse of democracy and the implementation of huge authoritarian measures. When I think about the future, how all of this will mix with the future crises we'll soon deal with from the climate apocalypse, food insecurity, ecological collapse, and lord knows what else... I just can't see things getting better.
All that being said, as someone who spends a huge portion of their life on the internet in various ways, I know that my conception of its importance in the world is most definitely skewed. There's a large contingent of people in the developed world who get by just fine while barely engaging with technology, to say nothing of the people in developing countries (who make up the majority of the world population) for whom it plays practically zero role in their everyday lives. Maybe they have the right idea. I think we've all thought at some point or another that we'd be happier if we have no smartphones, no computers, no technology fancier than a toaster. If my elderly dad can make do on a decade-old shitbrick that can just about make a phone call and load a Whatsapp message, there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to, you know? Of all the fancy gadgets I own the three things that make me happiest are my rice cooker, my portable gas stove, and my little clay teapot for green tea.
I hope you're able to maintain that cautious optimism, as much as I hope to regain it one day. Absolutely I want to support alternatives to, well, all big tech, even while I write this on my $2500 brick of trillion-dollar-company-powered metal and silicon (Linux at least). Honestly I've half convinced myself to pay for this damn smartphone I just said isn't worth it just to rage against the machine a little.
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Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech
secretfire LinkI hope it goes well for them, but I'm always pessimistic with these projects. The big problem all small-company FOSS-oriented smartphones face is that they can't source high-performance chips and...- Exemplary
I hope it goes well for them, but I'm always pessimistic with these projects.
The big problem all small-company FOSS-oriented smartphones face is that they can't source high-performance chips and components from leading component companies like Qualcomm, Samsung, etc. So they're stuck on second-rate CPUs that are generations behind mainstream phones in performance, while costing far more than they're worth (because phone manufacturing is an expensive process where economy of scale matters). There are zero practical reasons to buy one of these phones over something like a Google Pixel 6 (which is half the price for better performance) except for reasons of principle, i.e. not wanting to support big tech.
I hope something can come along and shake up the smartphone market, but I'm not hopeful. Hardware manufacturing is becoming an ever more expensive industry, and it's only getting more and more of an oligopoly by the year. The only reason things like desktop Linux and SailfishOS are able to run on modern consumer hardware is because the 4 or 5 companies that make basically all the computer hardware in the world haven't yet decided to kill them by means of onboard DRM or something. TPM chips on motherboards already make it so Linux PCs can't run certain applications, and streaming services will only supply reduced-quality video to PCs that don't run Windows or MacOS. I think eventually we'll see a company like Intel deciding to make their consumer-grade CPUs (i.e. not their server hardware, where Linux is basically unkillable) only run properly when they're using approved hardware and OS (Windows), otherwise throttling for "security reasons". It'd probably get hit with a dozen antitrust lawsuits, but would they even care at this point? They'd pay out a $10m
cost of businessfine and get away with it.Smartphones are already way down that pipeline; even with the most polished, privacy-oriented, free mobile OS in the world, half of everything wouldn't work because banks, social media sites, national digital IDs (gee wonder what's spurring the worldwide push for those right now), would all choose not to support it. Even today you have to work to make this sort of phone work in your daily life, it is a constant inconvenience. Sooner or later I think the increasingly-authoritarian governments of the Western world will decide to push just enough "protect the children" laws that it becomes impossible to use them. The fact is that big tech companies hold all the cards, and basically every government in the world is salivating at the thought of giving them even more if it means they get to do a bit more mass surveillance.
Anyways, this quickly turned from me saying "making good phones is hard" to "big tech and authoritarianism are destroying everything and there's no hope", which ultimately is not very relevant to the post I'm responding to, so sorry about that.
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Comment on You’re probably using the wrong dictionary in ~books
secretfire LinkI really liked this article, and I'm definitely going to think about dictionaries differently in the future (not a sentence I expected to write this morning). In my non-expert opinion, I think the...I really liked this article, and I'm definitely going to think about dictionaries differently in the future (not a sentence I expected to write this morning).
In my non-expert opinion, I think the difference between dictionaries like the article author is discussing, and modern, "sterile" dictionaries, is a difference of philosophy. For a dictionary like the 1913 Webster's to be useful, you sorta have to be a fluent (if not native) English speaker. You have to essentially know the definitions of all of those words already, because the definitions for each complex word require you to know a number of other complex words. Modern dictionaries aim to be as simple as possible to ensure that anyone with passable knowledge of the English language can figure out basically any word. And some detail is definitely lost there, since language is never as clear cut as single-sentence definitions, the nuances of any individual word in any language are fractal.
I have two dictionaries in my home: The OED, and some random pocket dictionary made for grade school students that I've just sorta ended up with (think it was in a box of books I bought at a flea market). The grade school dictionary definitions are, well, not very helpful for a grown adult. But I wouldn't expect it to be as detailed as the OED because, well, it's for kids. I think the article of this author is wishing for something like an "author's dictionary", a dictionary made specifically for helping people with prose, rather than everyday understanding of a word. And I think that something like that would be really cool, as someone who likes to read and write a lot, but it's undoubtedly a niche thing. Most people using the dictionary these days are just checking to make sure they're not completely wrong in their understanding of a word, and a simple definition is fine for that.
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Comment on A rare “Polar Express” winter pattern is forecast over the United States and Canada, following a Polar Vortex split in ~enviro
secretfire LinkOh cool, the regularly scheduled super rare once-in-a-generation weather event, haven't seen one of those in a few weeks.Oh cool, the regularly scheduled super rare once-in-a-generation weather event, haven't seen one of those in a few weeks.
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
secretfire Link ParentMy reading of the above comment was that they think people boycotting (debatably) non-political events for political reasons is childish, and that it's better for people to participate and use the...My reading of the above comment was that they think people boycotting (debatably) non-political events for political reasons is childish, and that it's better for people to participate and use the platform to make a statement. In which case I absolutely think the 1936 Olympics is worth mentioning.
People discuss "Godwin's Law" like it's a bad thing to compare anything to the Nazis just because, and I get its purpose in that 90% of the time if you're comparing something to the Nazis you're probably picking a far too extreme example, and in the process are trivialising the actual atrocities the Nazis committed. But in this case where it's a matter of a country committing (at the very least) a mass ethnic cleanse of a region, if not a full-scale genocide... I do think it is an apt comparison, certainly as it pertains to reactions from other countries who are strongly against the actions of the offending country. The specificities of the exact human rights violations in the two situations here aren't identical of course, but at the end of the day it's all just people treating humans like things.
I think anyone who considers events like Eurovision and the Olympics to be non-political to be incredibly naive at best, but it's a shockingly common thing; a lot of people don't give a shit about what horrible human rights violations a country is doing as long as they can watch a bunch of millionaires kick a ball around every now and then. But I think that's a different discussion.
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
secretfire (edited )Link ParentWhat's your opinion on countries and athletes boycotting the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin? Was that a useless, childish political stunt too? Should they all have just sucked it up and went and...What's your opinion on countries and athletes boycotting the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin? Was that a useless, childish political stunt too? Should they all have just sucked it up and went and performed in Nazi Germany because, y'know, it's not like their boycott killed Hitler or anything so it was basically pointless, right?
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Comment on Next ‘Rush Hour’ sequel from Brett Ratner is being distributed by Paramount in ~movies
secretfire Link ParentIt's not really a "Jackie Chan movie" per say, but The Foreigner is actually a really solid film, and Jackie plays his part really well. It's more a traditional modern action film rather than a...It's not really a "Jackie Chan movie" per say, but The Foreigner is actually a really solid film, and Jackie plays his part really well. It's more a traditional modern action film rather than a martial arts-focused one but it's worth a watch I think. Even still, that film's eight years old now, and he was already fairly slow at that point. He's 71 now, I can't see him doing another Rush Hour.
I strongly disagree. I have precisely one AUR package installed and it's this one for adding a weather widget on my desktop. I do nearly all of my work on my computer (mostly creative work and audio programming) and I can do it all through regular Arch packages. If I desperately needed something that wasn't in the official repos I could easily get a flatpak. This is the case for virtually every distro out there. It's not like the official Arch repos are far more limited than other package managers and users are forced to go to the AUR where they otherwise wouldn't be on other distros; the AUR is a bonus option for package installation on top of Arch.