I remember liking the idea of Odysee, but that turned rather quickly

Having been raised in a Catholic country and a fairly conservative parish, I truly don't understand the Christian votes for Trump

SVGs are just fancy text files after all

Haskell programmers when you tell them the main function isn't pure

Wayland is the way of the future!

Not an American, but I really don't get these stories. It has to be legal to enter somebody's driveway, right? How else are you supposed to ring someone's doorbell?

Something tells me you don't know what nihilism is

Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal

It's about how ocean temperature changes how global winds blow. It's complicated on local level, but global temperatures tend to be higher during el Niño and lower during la Niña.

It's disturbing how common this mindset already is.

Social Security Numbers are such a weird thing. Over here we've got an official rijksregisternummer that you get assigned at birth by the state and can be used to identify you. For some reason the USA decided that something like this is against their Freedoms ©®™, but when an agency gave people numbers for something completely different, that was never build to identify everyone in the country, everyone decided this is great to identify everyone in the country, so now everyone uses this system for something it was never built for.

These large companies really need to learn that AI isn't a good tool for black and white decisions.

Right now I'm working on a system with drones and image recognition for farmers to prioritise where to use pesticides, in order to decrease the use of pesticides in the EU. For these things AI systems work really well, since it's just prioritising regions.

It's a bad idea to use it to make discrete decisions.

I want them to disappear.

So you want Google to have a true monopoly over the browser market?

These are valid complaints tho.

Downloaded the show because of this meme, was kind of a let down. Please pay back my Pirate Bay prescription.

Would it be possible to argue that this is copyright infringement? They're basically screencapping copyrighted content at a shitty framerate and distributing it over the internet.

While I wouldn't comment something like that myself, as I think it's not productive, it's quite strange as a Linux user to see these posts like "The makers of the OS I use on the computer I paid money for and now own are trying to screw me over in a new way today. How can I fix it?"

I put Haskell as last language on my CV, despite it being the language I'm most comfortable with and genuinely like, just because I don't want to be "that" guy

EDIT: I'll never put TI-84+ calculator ASM on my CV, but damn, I'm proud I knew it in secondary school

Dealing with American colleagues feels really weird sometimes. They're either very happy or really not amused.

Is it just me, or is it really difficult to know the order to read the panels of a comic in when they change so much in size? Feels very chaotic to me

Just make the station look like a giant gun

We did it!

Or so his supporters can say that he didn't lose due only to his own incompetence.

I knew I recognised the lettering

But you've installed Linux on it, right?

Labour is expensive

Not American, but I try to buy most of my daily stuff from independent places instead of supermarkets. The social contacts at my local butcher, bakery, vegetable shop, fish shop, ... is also much more enjoyable than stressing in the Colruyt or whatever. And the produce is way better.

Once they get to know you, they often give freebies too, like offcuts to make bouillon. And you get free cooking tips as well!

People's body temperature used to be higher a century ago, but I think it was less then 1°C.

EDIT: Apparently since the early 1800s, men's body temperature changed about 0.59°C and women's about 0.32°C.

Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way

Every systemd-based distro should look like that indeed

I'm looking forward to new Technical Difficulties stuff!

Wayland. I'm quite happy not to have to delve into xorg.conf for my keyboard layout.

Why isn't there any competition in the printer space except for Brother? Are printers really that hard to make?

I switched to sway from i3 about 5 years ago. It's easier to configure (no /etc/X11 nonsense) and it fixed my screen tearing issue. I'm not much of a gamer, so can't comment on that. Supertuxkart and browser games work fine.

Hey, but I managed to write software to calibrate µCT-scanners! That is clearly way more inspiring than all this fictional stuff. Right! Right. Right?

And over here the state-funded media is getting less money every year because our right-wing parties don't like it.

but I’m impressed with how nice IDM and metal plays on them

Industrial Doom Metal?

Ire-inducing Depeche Mode?

Irish Derpy Music?

Instructional Defense Material?

Can confirm, I'm ginger.

Kind of concerned that fire is one of them

NoScript makes it fairly easy to pick and choose what scripts to run, although it'd probably not be granular enough for YouTube's adblockblock.