cadekat

@cadekat@pawb.social
4 Post – 103 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

I'm an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn't a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.

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At this rate, my entire comment history is just going to be mini freakouts about fucking cunts censoring "fucking cunt" on the internet. We're allowed to be dicks here. Talking about dicks is fine.

Don't bend over backwards to make this space advertiser friendly. Be weird!

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Why do people censor fuck or other profanity on the internet? I don't get it, and until now, I've been too afraid to ask.

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Flipping a bit in software doesn't cost Tesla anything, the hardware is already installed.

It would be totally different if Tesla didn't install the hardware by default, and you had to pay to have it put in.

That's absolutely true. What's hard and what's easy in programming is so completely foreign to non-programmers.

Wait, you can guess my password in under a week but you can't figure out how to pack a knapsack?

Finally, it's Gentoo's time to shine!

Yes we should allow them, because the problem isn't that this tool is available. The problem is that cars and other devices aren't more secure.

If you broke into a bank vault with a screwdriver, you don't ban screwdrivers; you get mad at the bank.

Fuck, now I have to say fuck ten time to balance out the five censored fucks in this fucking post. Fuck this fucking noise, you're allowed to say fuck on the fucking internet for fuck's sake. Fuck.

I can't force anyone to uncensor a post, but I can be annoying in the comments if they don't.

Will smith what? Armor? Jewelry? I'm dying of curiosity here.

There's a three month period after giving notice of resignation in France? Is that just a blanket thing, or part of your contract? Does it work both ways (like if you're terminated without cause)?

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Canadian checking in.

Biggest oddity to me is that the default for restaurants is one bill, and waiters get annoyed if you ask them to split it by person.

Like why would I want to either:

  • do math correctly splitting the bill while trying to leave; or
  • be worried I ordered something more expensive than the average and unfairly make others cover it?

It's complete insanity to me.

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Screw Judy, the fox is where it's at. His name isn't Nick Mild after all

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The only remedy is attending mass more often.

A VPN does this, but for your internet connection:

two phone receivers, with the speaker of one against the microphone of the other

Mailing lists are pretty awesome. They're like a decentralized forum. There are even good web UIs!

That said, submitting and reviewing patches over email suuucks.

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If you ever need a slightly less black but still very black paint: https://culturehustle.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml

Advanced advanced Linux user: "Ctrl+S shit what's the unsuspend button"

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Why would the gift card be for the hospital? Could have been a prepaid credit card just as easily.

Perhaps I have some internalized homophobia, but aside from sex and gender identity, what else is it?

edit: it's love

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Go for it then! Gentoo is a blast (if you enjoy this sort of thing) and is surprisingly stable once you get it set up.

One tip, before I forget, is to save your firmware from MacOS before wiping the drive. Unfortunately I don't remember where it's located, and no longer have access to try and find it 😅

We just got the Canadian Future Party, and even though I'm pretty left leaning (both financially and socially), it gives me some faith for conservatives here.

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Pine and BeagleBoard have some decent options, but they'll always be more expensive than rpi because of the economy of scale.

I'm not so sure. Gravity only travels at the speed of light so mass outside of the observable universe hasn't been able to affect us yet.

https://youtu.be/8dIdYkwWg_g

Taken a little out of context, but still funny.

That's not true. You still only receive a license to play the game, you do not own it. Directly from GOG's website:

We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

Practically this means you cannot resell your GOG installer in the way you could resell a physical book.

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Arguably Ghostbusters (1984) is prior art for throwing a capsule and capturing 🤣

Edit: they even had a video game with the ghost trap.

Bah, real power users only need a magnet and a pin.

Smiling Friends

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Some interesting background on why some birds build terrible nests: https://youtu.be/Xwx3xndcnPY

Ey, congratulations!

I couldn't help but read that to the tune of t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said

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Don't mix tor plus VPN.

If you're using tor browser without tor for some reason, carry on.

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Because the person creating the image didn't take the time to optimize the image. It's probably just a PNG or a JPEG, which is way overkill for representing a NES frame.

Other commenters have mentioned that the NES has 56 colors and uses tiles to draw the frame. If you took the same approach (maybe embedding a GIF tile in an SVG), you could cut down the size of the modern image significantly.

You'll need to be a bit more specific about the iMac. What year is it?

If it's pre-2017, I'd expect some difficulty with the WiFi. If it's newer, you might have luck with https://wiki.t2linux.org/distributions/gentoo/installation/ . I haven't followed that guide, so YMMV.

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If you haven't already, take a peek at Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's fanfiction, but absolutely worth a read.

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Father could also be very supportive of a son who transitioned.

Set a code of conduct and ban people who misbehave. Might lose some top players, but it'd be better for everyone else.

Moving back to a city!

Canadian government's news link tax is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada

Let's place blame where blame is due.

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