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billgamesh ,

exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival

billgamesh ,

The "black book of communism" includes german soldiers who died during WW2, it includes people who might have had 4 kids but only had 2, it includes victims of the US in vietnam.

billgamesh ,

Yeah. You don't get to revise away anything uncomfortable. USSR and China were socialist experiments that succeeded in raising quality of life and transforming rural countries into industrial, scientific states. If people wanna talk about what went wrong, great. Pretending they "don't count" just puppets capitalist apologia and doesn't help

billgamesh ,

fascism isn't a third way. It's liberalism in crisis

billgamesh ,

I don't believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster either. It's nonsensical. Look at the packages people...

Praise unto the Flying Enriched Maccaroni Product Monster

billgamesh ,

do you manually weigh spaghetti?

billgamesh ,

We just got over a stomach bug. Everything had puke on it. We still haven't caught up with the laundry...

billgamesh ,

it's bloatware

billgamesh ,

Simple Keyboard on fdroid. Others have more features, but I can't switch. The swipe delete and swipe to move cursor are so smooth and I can't make any other keyboards work as well for me. I wanted florisboard to work, but it just felt clunky

billgamesh ,

the latter

billgamesh ,

Didn't notice that one. I'm using the first simple keyboard, from rkkr. Think the simple mobile one must be a later addition

billgamesh ,

Incognito/private are a bad name. You should pretty much use this to not save history, or to log into a site without using saves credentials and assume it's otherwise exactly the same as a normal browser session

billgamesh ,

Given the context of this thread, clearly not

billgamesh ,

Fair enough, but it should not be considered "incognito"

billgamesh ,

clatter click ... oh no....

billgamesh , (edited )

look hard enough

Any box of cords in any basement, attic, or thrift store

billgamesh ,

Probably, but most i've seen are AV. I still use an old SUN monitor, so VGA is alive and well here

billgamesh ,

aight

billgamesh ,

I've heard there was a secret cord that david pulled and it pleased the lhord

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

billgamesh ,

I think this is an extremely generous take. For anyone not in the loop, he gets called POS for famously weighing in on discussions of pedophelia by saying children 13+ aren't children so it's not pedophelia.

I think this goes beyond being bad at knowing when to correct semantics

billgamesh ,

I do too, but I think being that tone deaf after being called out says a lot, and I think it's pretty good reason to not make blanket endorsements for his statements/beliefs

billgamesh ,

Dropping ddevault's recent post about RMS here

billgamesh ,

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

billgamesh ,

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

billgamesh ,

But there is evidence that he defends it, and that he refused to back down after being called out. He is not a good person to look up to, and willfully makes harmful public statements, and willfully stabds by them. In other words, kinda a POS

billgamesh ,

it's so readable. Unironically can be super helpful

billgamesh ,

RMS became a meme once for eating his tonail at a conference

billgamesh ,

In all this printer talk... Shout out for dot matrix printers! As long as I send ascii, it prints exactly what I want it to, and graphics are a predictable format detailed in the printer manual

billgamesh ,

this essay by Huey P Newton is pretty good about anarchism being good theory, but typically counterproductive in caste societies like US

billgamesh ,

I end up using gimp because I always have it installed and raster is easier than relying on the PDF forms to be set up properly.

billgamesh ,

In the early days, it was laborwave and esoteric websites, the programmer humor seems relatively new to me

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