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There’s a “block user” feature in Lemmy. It’s useful in situations like these. Some people never learn the limits of vulgarity.

Pretty sure they’re either a troll or wildly ignorant. Either way, it’s probably safe to just ignore them.

Audio, like a lot of physical systems, involve logarithmic scales, which is where floating-point shines. Problem is, all the other physical systems, which are not logarithmic, only get to eat the scraps left over by IEEE 754. Floating point is a scam!

Well, yea, that’s the problem. I shouldn’t have to “learn” a UI, things should be apparent and obvious.

Counterpoint: vim is very well liked for it’s UI, but there’s a very steep learning curve.

To your point, though, the learning process ideally ought to be seamless and linear; each new thing you can do with the application should be mostly obvious given what you already know about the UI, not force you to learn everything from scratch or do work to learn it (unless you’re into that kind of thing). I don’t think Discord is the worst offender of this rule, but they could make it better.

You’re right: it’s probably not practical to paint a building with the stuff. Nighthawkinlight briefly comments on this. I believe the idea is to use it on passive radiator panels to sink heat from a pumped coolant fluid. That way you can strategically place panels (e.g. on the roof) and control them, just like solar heating panels.

Care to elaborate?

Ahh, okay, so nothing new under the sun: Hipsters hate normies and September never ended.

Although I’m under the impression that Mint and Pop have taken a bite out of the “beginner desktop” market, Ubuntu is most of what I observe in the office when everybody else is booting Windows.

I can understand selecting for novelty; I’m usually in that camp. But novelty shouldn’t come at the expense of an argument to IT departments that they should support at least one Linux distro.

For those of us still naive … Why does Lemmy say “Ubuntu bad” now?

The only one arguing against documented historical facts and ongoing reality in this thread is you. The PRC isn’t some magical place where people don’t do awful shit to each other. They’re just really good at covering it up.

It’s hard realizing that it’s a messy world full of people who do bad things to each other for stupid reasons. Just remember:

Roses are red.

The sky is blue.

Single-party authoritarian ethnostates leverage the absence of a free press to hide mass atrocities against ethnic minorities.

Acceptance is the first step to letting go of copium.

Literally visible to the naked eye from space.

Yes. They are.

Welcome to the wide world of OSINT 🙃

So what’s the score? I haven’t been keeping track. Is the home team winning?

Not defending. Admitting that evil things have been done to 780 people while at Gitmo. It’s a problem, and we’re working to fix it.

But imagine being unable to admit there are millions of detainees in Xinjiang.

That’s the difference between Western Democracy and an an authoritarian ethnostate. There’s no way to fix something you won’t admit exists.

That history article you linked goes as far as the 1950s.

Who’s debunked it? The CCP? Are they still sticking to the “reeducation centers” line? Have you been “reeducated”?

There are some perverse arguments that let Gitmo exist. It’s a heated debate around whether the US Constitution extends to non-citizens. As usual, Wikipedia has a fantastic summary.

… which is a debate that can occur in a diverse nation with a free press. Do you feel threatened because you’re arguing against Western Democracy on the Internet, a product of that same Western “regime”?

Didn’t think so.

Right. Okay, I’ll do your homework for you…

You’re claiming that a handful of people pointed out some things Western governments were doing that were illegal according to said governments’ legal governing documents, but because of the way they did it, those governments (and citizens) are pissed off at them.

I’m saying the systematic oppression of the free press, human rights, and the decades-long genocide of Tibetans and Uyghurs are perfectly legal according to the PRC.

These aren’t even comparable. Keep trying.

And your argument is cherry-picked. Which is worse?

Ahh, yes, because they pissed off the Deep State, which is ultimately controlled by Hillary Clinton. Sorry, forgot about that one.

/s … if it wasn’t obvious

Why is that weird? Western governments are generally bound by constitutional agreements to not utilize that information against their citizens. That’s not to say they don’t do shady stuff with that information, but getting “disappeared” is more the butt of a Hillary Clinton joke than it is an actual reality for Western citizens … unless you’ve really REALLY pissed off Hillary Clinton.

Neat article. It’s a bummer pumped hydro doesn’t get the love I think it deserves. Hopefully it gets a bit more soon.

But now I have a new pet peeve: when an author defines initialisms that are never used more than once outside of their definition.

Fair enough, political definitions are rarely well-defined.

I guess people often use it to mean the more internet-savvy, meme-posting, trolling right wing.

Yeah, that’s how I understood it… Not really something Eich seems to do much.

I’m not sure why anybod would think it’s not connected.

Just because Eich has awful views doesn’t give license to also be awful by throwing around random other accusations or connecting him with trolling skinheads. Remember, even the Nuremberg Trials had defense attorneys, so let’s stick to the high road of justice, not the shitty cesspool that the far right wants to drag us into.

Please, go back and carefully read what I wrote. I’ve said nothing about whether I find Eich’s donation morally acceptable or not, let alone anything beyond that. You seem quick to condemn on nothing more than circumstance. The far-left is just as illiberal, regressive, and unjust as the far-right.

Beware of groupthink. It makes for smooth brains.