lvxferre

lvxferre, 4 months ago

“c/palworld” will only work for people who are in lemmy.world. It’s better to link the community as !palworld, now everyone accesses it.

I’m apparently the second subscriber. I’ve been curious about this game; people describe it as “Pokémon with guns”, but what interests me is “Pokémon minus The Pokémon Company and GameFreak”. If they release a Linux version and are able to deliver a good singleplayer experience (I bloody hate multiplayer) I’m sold.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

What I find interesting the most about the decipherment of Linear B is how it was the decipherment equivalent of building a huge temple, stone by stone.

Ventris and others didn’t have the same luxury as the ones deciphering the Rosetta Stone, who were “gifted” a big text in Egyptian (in two writing systems!) alongside a rather convenient translation to Ancient Greek. No, they were dealing with almost nothing, just a bunch of small pics alongside the text. The link represents this really well with the restroom signs.

Ventris, who had no more Greek than he had left school with and who disclaimed any philological expertise, nonetheless knew that the differences in the first syllable were the result of a disappearing consonant: the words had originally been *korwos and *korwa.

Relevant tidbit: Ancient Greek lacks /w/. And if a cognate in another Indo-European has /w/ or /v/, you’ll usually see nothing or /h/ in Greek (debuccalisation). Latin vs. Greek examples:

• ⟨vinvm⟩ /wi:nũ/ “wine” vs. ⟨οἶνος⟩ /ôi̯.nos/ “wine”
• ⟨visor⟩ /wi:sor/ “seer, viewer” vs. ⟨ἵστωρ⟩ /hísto:r/ “witness”
• ⟨vox⟩ /wo:ks/ “voice” vs. ⟨ὄψ⟩ /óps/ “voice” (poetic)

With that in mind, Ventris’ take was extremely sensible. Somewhere down the road Greek dropped its /w/'s, but it’s perfectly possible that it didn’t affect Linear B.

What Ventris did not know was that Greek had once had the letter q (kw), but in time it had become either t or p (compare the word for “four” in Latin and Greek: quattuor vs tettara; of for “five”: quinque vs pente). So qe was in fact the correct earlier form.

I don’t blame him. The [kʷ]→[p] sound change sounds fairly obvious when you look at the articulations, but unless you have a decent grasp of phonetics it sounds completely unintuitive. And Greek in special made an unholy mess of Proto-Indo-European labiovelars, they can surface in any of the three main points of articulation. (Actually helpful here, because it makes the mistake easier to spot later on.)

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What an amazing text. Thanks OP for sharing this!

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Apparently I use the standard. Perhaps related to the fact that I use a big pair of chopsticks to flip deep-frying stuff, so I need a good grip.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

That’s sensible - wood varnish sometimes contains polyurethane, that decomposes into all sorts of aromatics and cyanides. The ones that I use are plain, no varnish.

I often use them with stuff like croquettes and popcorn fried chicken. For bigger stuff like Berlin balls and coxinhas I find that it’s simpler to use a fork and a mesh skimmer, it gives me more leverage.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Okay… I don’t even like Ubuntu, I’m still pissed at snaps, but I’m going to call it bullshit. OP is being at the very least disingenuous, if not worse (witch hunting).

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription system with the following features:

• Extended security maintenance - 10 years of backported features, because enterprise hates dist-upgrade. By then human users upgraded their systems at least once, probably way more.
• Live-patching kernel updates - because enterprise hates restart downtime. If it’s your personal machine you simply reboot after installing a new kernel, no biggie.
• “Compliance and hardening” - basically a way to ensure that a machine follows a bunch of security protocols irrelevant for human users, and exchanging usability for less surface area in a way that human users wouldn’t want.

Are you noticing the pattern here? It’s junk that enterprise cares about, but you don’t. Canonical is milking corporations.

To make the comparison with airbag vests even worse, Pro is free for personal use, up to 5 machines. So it’s more like Canonical is saying “since we know that stupid bizniz bureaucracy prevents them from regularly replacing airbag vests, we’re willing to repair them for a price. For free if you’re a random nobody, by the way.”

And no, it does not contradict the Ubuntu principle, as your title implies.

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And since I can’t be arsed to rebuke this shite being cross-posted to !latestagecapitalism, I’ll do it here. (I apologise to the others for posting politics here.)

The airbag vest part alone would be a good example of late capitalism; the business is clearly seeking to add surplus value to the goods. And since that surplus value cannot come from paying less for the labour of the workers, it comes from the buyers/“subscribers” - transforming the goods into a service, and commodifying personal security.

Ubuntu Pro is not this, as I’ve shown above. But even if it worked somehow like you’re implying that it does, through both threads (i.e. you don’t have ubuntu pro = you don’t get security updates), it would still not be an example of late stage capitalism: security updates are a service by nature, requiring additional labour to be produced, specially when you’re backporting a patch to ancient software.

lvxferre, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

how will I be able to comment “Ubuntu bad” in every thread and feel like a genius for not using “normie” distros?

1. Ubuntu Dash including Amazon ads not too long ago; it was not pretty, security-wise.
2. The whole fiasco behind Unity and Mir, and Canonical’s propensity to reinvent the wheel at home.
3. Snap. Anything [wait… wait… wait…] Snap.

That said this is usually fixed by upgrading it into Mint, and Mint is pretty much a “normie” distro, so you don’t need to go out of your way to install Gentoo or say “I use Arch BTW”.

EDIT: in other words there’s enough shit to throw at Ubuntu, we (people in general) don’t need to make it up like OP is doing.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

That’s what I did, too - it isn’t like there is no choice within Ubuntu. We could still use it to manufacture some outrage towards Ubuntu, and feel like a genius for using another distro; it would be silly but not completely irrational… unlike using Ubuntu Pro for that, the later is just witch hunting.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

The process itself is known as semantic change, or semantic drift - you have a bunch of meanings that are associated with a morpheme, word or expression, and they changed over time. You can read further about it here.

In special, your examples seem to be, for me:

• ⟨disk⟩ - semantic widening from “storage device with a specific shape” to “any storage device regardless of shape”
• ⟨film⟩ - metonymy from “pellicle used to store visual data” to the visual data itself
• ⟨file⟩ and ⟨folder⟩ - metaphor, from physical paper sheets and the containers used to organise them to chunks of data and the virtual containers where it is organised.
• ⟨desktop⟩ - that was a big chain of semantic changes. From “place over the desk” to “object placed over the desk” (i.e. desktop computer) to “a feature of the software commonly used in those objects”.

I’m really unsure on ⟨rice⟩.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Thanks. I had to look at the full chain to know the changes that happened, it seems to be fairly complex:

1. ⟨rice burner⟩ noun as “Japanese car”. Derogatory metaphor.
2. → ⟨rice⟩ noun as “Japanese car”. Lexical change (clipping).
3. → ⟨rice⟩ noun as “features associated with a Japanese car”. Semantic change (metonymy - the part by the whole).
4. → ⟨rice⟩ verb as “to add to a car features associated with a Japanese car”. Derivation (verbification)
5. → ⟨rice⟩ verb as “to add to a car features seen as fancy or unnecessary”. Semantic change (metonymy - referring to the parts by subjective attributes seen on them)
6. → ⟨rice⟩ verb as “to add features seen as fancy or unnecessary”. Semantic change (widening - removing the restriction regarding cars)

I’m not too sure on the chain, but it should be something like this.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Silly palaeontologists. Discovering Felinae fossils is damn easy: you put a fossilised cardboard box on the floor, and the fossils will gather inside it!

I’m joking. Serious now, Wikipedia has some interesting bits of info, including the origin of the name (mageri- is from Magerit, a historical name for Madrid; and peignei is a homage to Stéphane Peigné, a palaeontologist friend of the authors) and a nice cladogram.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

They’re smart enough to be arseholes and get away with it.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Eventually the IPO will ruin Reddit, as vulture capital will make sure to extract every single bit of value from the platform as profit. I just wish that Reddit’s downfall happened before that - otherwise spez and other shareholders are still leaving with pockets full of money.

Also, it would be a shame if a blackout happened near the end of February… or if subreddits went again into “Oliverposting” mode… or if people happened to promote a few Kbin / Lemmy instances…

lvxferre, 4 months ago

I like comedy, specially mixed into other genres. That said, I think that I get what you’re saying: comedy being added as an afterthought, as relief to something that would be otherwise serious. For example, an otherwise competent character acting idiotically OOC just to deliver a pun; I don’t like this either, if you’re going to add comedy then integrate it properly into the rest of the work.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Out of character. For example, if a character is shown as kind through the whole series, and then you see them kicking a dog, that dog-kicking is OOC.

It’s often used for poorly made comedy: pick someone smart and make them act really dumb.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Pois minha mãe não soltou essa uma vez?

Tava ela e eu, bebendo licor de butiá. Daí ela tentou puxar uma cadeira, percebeu que a cadeira resistia mais do que devia, puxou mais forte. Viu que a Siegfrieda (minha gata) dormia na cadeira. Daí minha mãe “ah, desculpa Zizi, achei que a cadeira estava engatada”… e depois passa meia hora rindo feito louca porque a cadeira estava engatada, só que de outro jeito do que o que ela esperava.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

A véia é hilária quando quer. E 90% das piadas que ela conta seriam perfeitas nesta comunidade. Tipo, a das duas bucetas conversando:

• buceta 1, sussurrando: diz uma coisa, você ainda é virgem?
• buceta 2: MA CLAAAARO QUE NÃO!

lvxferre, 4 months ago

I believe the meme to postdate the name of the distro.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Perhaps the blatant prejudice of the idea that you should “erase” your accent becomes more obvious, if phrased like this: “Indian English is broken and bad, it must be fixed into the pronunciation that you’d expect from central USA”.

The same applies to other languages. I for one would be completely pissed if, for example, someone did this with my Portuguese, given my heavy regional pronunciation (that I’m proud of). I’m not a paulistano nor an alfacinha, so why is software making me sound like one?

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Both things (genuine difficulty and laziness) happen quite a bit, but often there’s a third factor: ingrained prejudice that perhaps not even the hearer is aware of, reducing the hearer’s willingness to interpret what the speaker says.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Also does programming languages count?

Only for the sleep deprivation and caffeine addiction.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Ghost morphemes haunt linguists.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

I hope that content migration (what you called “true” migration) becomes a thing in the future.

That said, the burden of checking your old account once in a blue moon is by no means that big. And if someone replied to you months after you posted something, odds are that the person can wait a bit before you reply them. You can also link your old account in your new one’s profile and vice versa, for more pressing matters.

So while I get your point (and it is a fair point - the migration isn’t completely costless), it’s still an option that you wouldn’t see in Reddit.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

And now I am become slug: I’m goopy, slow, and melting. (Someone poured salt on me.)

I’m in South America, facing the exact opposite - this summer has been extremely harsh, often going past 30°C in a rather wet city. To make things worse, a certain four-legged arsehole doesn’t get that humans don’t want to cuddle when it’s too hot, so she keeps jumping on my lap:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/b7c057be-b8ab-43dd-ada4-a6402c1c004e.jpeg
(She’s an arsehole. Cute, but an arsehole.)