Zagorath

Zagorath, 2 days ago

Why can’t they just make a normal lord of the rings movie?

Because they already did? They did three. And they were so brilliant and are so beloved today that to attempt to remake them any time soon would be the height of folly.

A Hunt of Gollum movie isn’t exactly the #1 choice for a story set in Tolkien’s Legendarium that I would choose to be adapted. But of the stories that they have the rights to tell, it’s a fairly interesting premise. It’s not really likely to be a Gollum movie anyway. Aragorn is likely to be the protagonist.

Zagorath, 2 days ago

The quality of this thread is really reaching a nader.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Gonna be honest, if that had been shared in a different community and with a domain name I didn’t recognise, I would 100% have bought it.

Zagorath, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Wait, is this just projects stored in your online Adobe cloud account, or are they even stealing your content if you’re just using their desktop software? Because one of these is way, way worse than the other, even if neither is exactly good…

Zagorath, 5 days ago

They could require the app to connect once every 30 days or similar in order to keep functioning.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Why begrudgingly, may I ask?

Zagorath, 5 days ago

If you’re using it professionally, you need your Photoshop to be properly licensed.

If you’re not using it professionally, there’s no need for proper licenses. And thus you can…acquire Photoshop in a way that doesn’t involve it calling back to Adobe’s systems.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

Are you thinking of “content-aware fill”? Generative fill is, as far as I’m aware, much, much newer and uses newer generative AI. Content-aware fill is basically clever automatic clone stamping.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Top 7 “All” of all time on Lemmy, as seen by my instance:

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/f8106a17-7122-471d-9342-a463ff339c53.png

None younger than 10 months old, on a platform largely only about 12 months old in total. So once again, not really representative of the lifetime of the site, or what the site is like today.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

No posts about open source. Nothing queer. No tankies or even leftist. I wouldn’t say that the best representation of today’s Lemmy.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

On my instance, top “All” of the month is this post, which is leftist tech/science, but also a roundabout reference to Reddit. #2 is this post, entirely just leftist politics. #3 is congratulating a left-leaning politician.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

I know some Mastodon users were really unhappy at the existence of this back when it was first announced. But as far as I’m concerned it’s entirely a good thing. Even less centralisation, and it’s not like any content shared on Mastodon could be taken to be private at all anyway.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

“Off‽ Off‽” Highly memeable reaction there.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

Or an enbie, or even just a cis man who likes long hair and the colour pink. You know that would set off the bigots.

Zagorath, 7 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

A slightly more recognisable way of writing it would be “d’ya eat yet?” But “d’ya eat” becomes elided even further down to “dyeat”, which can be reanalysed as “jeet”. I’m not really sure what the phonotactics are behind “yet” becoming “chet”, but in this sentence…yeah, it just kinda does.

edit: wait no I worked out why “chet”. It’s the /t/ at the end of “jeet”. /tj/ becoming /tʃ/ is .

edit 2: to be more precise, dy (/dj/) becoming j (/dʒ/) is also yod coalescence. So it’s all about yod coalescence + allision.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

My dad’s line is “while you’re up”. No further detail. Depending on time of day, this may be a request for beer or for tea.

And whether or not you actually are up at the time is immaterial.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

We already have our own nutso right-wing sovcitz. This isn’t much more extreme than Mabo was, prior to that case being decided.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

And then they—the ones who claim to be so socially enlightened—say that the idea of cultural genocide is fake and doesn’t exist and that erasing a culture by forcibly assimilating it is Good Actually.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

A problem, for sure, and the evidence tells us it’s a bad idea.

But the evidence also seems fuzzy enough that it seems very unlikely that this is the primary problem with cycling in this country.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

Hey as long as you’re advocating for better infrastructure so people whose commutes are within a distance that’s cyclable can do so, it doesn’t bother me (and I doubt many other advocates would be bothered) if you drive. The thing that bothers me is that we frequently see people with long commutes explain that as though it’s a reason nobody can ride, and therefore we shouldn’t bother putting in the infrastructure.

The obvious counter is the fact that if everyone with a 10 km or less commute got out of their car and onto a bike, there would be so much less traffic. You’d probably halve the peak hour commute time for those 40 km commutes as a result.

As a small side note though, the distance is a problem, the “dropping kids off to school” is not. With good infrastructure, kids can be ridden in a bike trailer, in the front of a bakfiets, or on a kiddy seat. Older children can ride their own bikes alongside a parent. And teenagers can ride by themselves the whole journey. Bikes are amazing for independence of growing kids, rather than needing to be ferried everywhere by parents. But only if we build the infrastructure for them.

Of course there’s also a big overlap between cycling advocates and urbanism. And that overlap obligates me to ask: is your commute 42 km because you love living way out rurally even though you work in the city, or is it because housing prices are so obscene that that’s the only place you could afford to live with your family? Because a key point for urbanists is that it should be possible for anyone to be able to live close to where they work, in large part thanks to reducing the cost of housing by drastically increasing supply of medium and higher density housing. And that medium and higher density housing should come in a variety of configurations, instead of being almost exclusively 1 and 2 bedroom places with a small number of 3 bedroom, and 4 bedroom is basically non-existent, as is currently the case.

And as an urbanist, I’d say that even if you do just want to live 42 km out, it should be possible to take a train in. It’s probably too low-density for public transport alone to be viable, but a 5 k–or–less cycle to a train station served every 15 minutes or more is absolutely possible, if there were political will.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

No you’re absolutely right. On an individual level, it always makes sense to wear a helmet. I’ll always see someone without a helmet, whatever the context, and think they’re a fucking idiot.

Yes, even in the Netherlands.

But individual decisions are not the same as public health policy. And from a public health perspective, mandatory helmets are a net negative.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

No, this is absolutely true. In general, women tend to be more risk averse than men. So in an environment where you have to ride on the road with cars—i.e., anywhere in Australia—women are going to be much less likely to feel safe riding a bike.

Separate from that, there are also issues that matter more to women than to men, relating to things like “eyes on the street” and path lighting at night. Men are more likely than women to feel safe riding on a dark park through a park at night.

Zagorath, 7 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

French is at least mostly consistent, but its pronunciation is pretty wild to someone familiar with literally any other language written using a Latin script.

Mangé, manger, mangez, mangeai, mangeais, mangeaient. The first 3 are the same as each other, the last 3 also form an identical set with each other. All 6 are very similar. Then you’ve got mangerai, mangerais, mangeraient, mangerez… Or mange, manges, mangent.

why tf does “ione” have as many syllables as “secretary”?

idk, why does mangeaient have a grand total of 50% of its letters being entirely silent and contributing nothing to its pronunciation (or rather, all collectively contributing as much as ´ does).

Et maintenant, je dois manger le dîner. J’ai faim…

Zagorath, 5 days ago

perhaps I’m missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities

There are Australians producing content on all the usual communities. Unless you’re interested specifically in content about Australia or aimed towards other Australians in particular, you’re probably not missing out on anything.

If that is what you want, check the communities hosted on aussie.zone.