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mkwadee, to politics
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A Broken ? How to Promote | en |

It looks like most countries are terrible at lifting their poorest out of .

https://www.oecd.org/social/broken-elevator-how-to-promote-social-mobility-9789264301085-en.htm

argv_minus_one,
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@mkwadee Most countries don't want to.

scy, to linux
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Hot take: Modern tools should not have a one- or two-letter command name. Your tool is not that cool that it’ll be as ubiquitous as ls or cd, and it’ll just create conflicts down the line. Let me create the aliases myself if I really need to save the keystrokes.

Looking at you, ag, rg, nb, but even gs too.

argv_minus_one,
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@scy gs is modern? I had that installed on my Linux desktop when I was a kid!

stopthatgirl7, to reddit
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This is how social media sites die. Not with big protests, but people and communities quietly moving away.

One of ’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to / r/malefashionadvice is private in protest of Reddit, but it is building up a community on Discord and has carried over its guides to Substack.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794110/reddit-male-fashion-advice-protest-discord-substack

argv_minus_one,
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@stopthatgirl7 They chose their new home poorly. Discord is also suffering from enshittification.

digichelle, to retrocomputing
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted some goodness. Time to fix that!

This is my 2020 13” MacBook Pro running System 7.1, thanks to Mini vMac. The environment is running at 640x400—the native resolution of the old 100-series PowerBooks. Much to my surprise and delight, this is a 16:10 aspect ratio, and it appears perfectly proportioned on this display.

And this isn’t a toy. I set up a PDF printer, and the PDFs can be passed to the host machine for viewing and printing!

argv_minus_one,
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@mjgardner IMHO the TrueType Chicago isn't faithful to the original, and that's why it looks bad. Examples:

  • The ‘S’ has pointy ends in the original, but square-capped ends in TrueType.
  • The bottom-right corner of the ‘W’ is a straight line at a 45° angle in the original, but is a curve in TrueType.
  • The lowercase ‘d’ has an extra curve at the bottom center that's not there in the original.

I wonder if anyone has tried to make a vector Chicago closer to the original.

TexasObserver, to incarcerated
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social avatar

, faced with a shortage in guards, the Department of Corrections has a program to recruit high school students. https://www.texasobserver.org/corrections-students-recruiting-prisons-palestine/

argv_minus_one,
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@TexasObserver Going to give the old Stanford prison experiment a do-over, I see.

GNUxeava, to random
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be me
click anything
wait 10-30 seconds for change to appear

We were using HDDs just fine only a decade ago. What the fuck happened that this thing has become borderline useless?

argv_minus_one,
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@fell @GNUxeava Whatever the problem is, it isn't throughput. In my observation, both Windows and Linux seem to get around 3MB/sec typical throughput on HDD. Linux, somehow, seems to do a better job of scheduling HDD access.

However, I notice that dpkg is extremely slow on a btrfs RAID1 setup using HDDs. Upgrading to a new distro version takes literally all day. Doing the same on SSDs takes less than an hour. IIRC it's because fsync is really slow in this setup. I wonder if io_uring would help…

kernellogger, (edited ) to linux
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6.5-rc1 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj8sPDVoWgaceAs1AiwZrHV8mtC3vQNGbeV6-RypJi6aw@mail.gmail.com/

[…]  
I have this slight suspicion that this may be one of those releases that may drag out […] simply due to lot of Europe going on vacation for the month of August. But who knows... We'll see how things develop.

Linus```

FWIW, the #iwlwifi crash on boot some people experience will hopefully soon be fixed by this patch: [https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217622#c9](https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217622#c9)
argv_minus_one,
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@kernellogger Iwlfiwi? Fireless widelity? 😁

beehaw, to random
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Hi Beeple! I (Lionir) have shut down the server until further notice. There seems to be a big vulnerability in Lemmy at the moment that is propagating at an alarming rate. I'd rather be safe than sorry. Hope this doesn't last too long.

argv_minus_one,
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@beehaw Jeez. You guys and girls just can't catch a break. Well, thanks for all you do!

MissingThePt, to random
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Jesus, take the gun away from him already.

argv_minus_one,
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@MissingThePt Killing spree! Rampage! Unstoppable! Godlike!

governa, to linux
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6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling 🖱️ ⌨️

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-PS2-Improvements

argv_minus_one,
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@governa Wow. I'm surprised that bug wasn't noticed sooner.

petergleick, to random
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What the hell is happening in the Antarctic?

argv_minus_one,
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@Npars01 An atmosphere like that of Venus is not even remotely possible. All of that carbon used to be on the surface, and even then, Earth was nothing like Venus. If it was, life in general would have gone extinct, and we wouldn't be around to discuss the matter.

That said, it is definitely possible for Earth to become quite inhospitable to human life.

adamsdesk, (edited ) to fediverse
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Well this is quite annoying. I just realized that tags on Mastodon are case sensitive. I've been intentionally doing pascal case style tags for accessibility and assumed the tag would be treated as the same no matter the case. However, as an example #ThrowbackThursday and #throwbackthursday are treated as two different tags.

I'm not sure how to deal with this.

NOTICE: Typo was the issue. Typo has been fixed.

#fediverse #fedi #mastodon

argv_minus_one,
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@adamsdesk I'm not sure if I'm just missing the joke, but there's a typo in one of those hashtags.

MediaActivist, to firefox

Just a reminder from someone who cares a lot about online privacy and security: Mozilla ousted that bigot Brendan Eich, and he now runs Brave. Do what you have to do to tighten up your web browser, Firefox or otherwise. But don't support a bigot. Don't use Brave browser.

argv_minus_one,
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@MediaActivist He also committed the unforgivable sin of inventing JavaScript. 😋

beehaw, to random
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Okay... things did not go as planned. It looks like we can't start without pictrs so the migration is currently blocking us from running Beehaw.

The first estimate of time it would take to migrate told us it would take 28hours and the second told us it would about 3 hours.

I am sorry.

argv_minus_one,
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@beehaw Out of curiosity, is this a database migration that's taking a long time, or something else?

You don't have to answer if you don't have the time or energy. I'm only curious. 🙂

rbreich, to random
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Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion

Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

argv_minus_one,
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@stillnotahero If you want that, you have to convince everyone to . It wasn't Democrats who decided to take away student debt relief.

bitprophet, to rust
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" / is a modern programming language”, exhibit A.

argv_minus_one,
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@bitprophet I think they're planning on renaming that before it becomes non-experimental, presumably to “throw”. But who knows, maybe this name will stick?

danyork, to Futurology
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This is a good thread that resonates with some of my own thinking around and the …

(I think we should actually welcome them! Carefully and warily … but still welcoming!)

From: @atomicpoet
https://atomicpoet.org/objects/ed0a6a5d-f860-4c22-9eda-5f3ed8dfbdf7

argv_minus_one,
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@danyork That web page doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.

johnl, (edited ) to Futurology
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All this talk of Facebook/Meta joining the fediverse seems very similar to the paradox of tolerance. I think it's mostly agreed that you can be intolerant to protect yourself from intolerance.

So the only questions are: What damage can they do and to what extent can they be trusted not to inflict it.

argv_minus_one,
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@johnl and not at all, respectively.

geerlingguy, to RedHat
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Red Hat's response: https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

So... it was all about the "freeloaders". Can people stop telling me that this whole thing wasn't about freeloaders now?

argv_minus_one,
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@geerlingguy , , , and now . Rapid is happening in numerous companies, many of them largely unrelated, all at once. Something's got the whole tech industry's higher-ups scared, desperate to make a lot of money quickly, regardless of the long-term consequences. I dread to think what that might be…

jaybaeta, to linux
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I got a "hard drive not installed" error and feared the worst; watched a PC Monkey video on it, and the first advice was to unplug the USB devices and reboot. Huh? Tried it anyway and --

:AngeryCat: :AngeryCat: :AngeryCat:

-- it rebooted just fine. I had changed the boot order to fix something else and the computer was looking for the hard drive in my power adapter. Contrary to the popular myth, not all users are computer wizards. Some are computer dummies, like me.

argv_minus_one,
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@jaybaeta Your power adapter labels itself a USB mass storage device??

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argv_minus_one,
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@andrew How the heck does auditing poor people yield a positive return at all? Most of them are paid wages with withholdings. They never even get a chance to cheat on their taxes.

paulrickards, to vintagemac
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Aren’t these Susan Kare designed bitmap dish towels just lovely?

https://www.areaware.com/collections/susan-kare/products/bitmap-textiles

argv_minus_one,
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@paulrickards That's so Susan.

csolisr, to kbin

A quick technical comparison between the two leading tools in the :

: requires several external dependencies not available in the default repositories, including one that isn't even in a distro package, just the tarball with the binaries

: an architecture so complex, that @yunohost decided to just decompress the image to package it LOL

argv_minus_one,
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@csolisr If you think Lemmy's complex, take a look at the installation instructions for Mastodon. 😬

J12t, to Futurology
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And here you have it what I’ve been saying all along:

“ is hoping for at least 10s of millions of users within the first few months” for their Twitter competitor

The and will be a small minority show within months.

Assuming they can do it, but getting 1% of Instagram users if they promote it from within Instagram? Sounds very doable.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771599/command-line-musk-versus-zuckerberg

argv_minus_one,
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@J12t The Fediverse is already a small minority show, so that wouldn't change much. My worry, though, is that they'll destroy what little community we do have.

Adorable_Sergal, to rust
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Been in awe and fear of . Can you imagine creating the game engines for and at such a young age? Smashing out a fast inverse square root algo for like it was nothing? Coming up with Hatsune's Reverse for , one of the most anticipated game sequels of all time?

And then she goes all like, “I think I'm going to create a memory-safe compiler,” like this is just making a sandwich to her. I would've thought she would at least take a break, but no.

argv_minus_one,
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@Adorable_Sergal I'm not sure if I missed a meme at some point, but Quake and Rust were written by different people.

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