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leeloo

@leeloo@techhub.social

Software developer, keyboard player, kayaker, home cook. Casual gamer. Preferred games are no faster than Portal and less violent than chess. I need time to think.

C#, Swift, Javascript, C.

Windows for work, everything else at home. Keeping things separate.

Living in bicycle country. The one without blue in the flag.

I could add a bunch of flags here, but there’s no black, gray, white and purple emoji, and I don’t want pink, white and blue to feel lonely.

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jon, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Results on my about trackpad tap to click.

114 responded.

65% enable tap to click and love it!
29% disable tap to click.
6% had tap to click enabled and hate it!

So about two thirds prefer tap to click.

Personally I would argue that it should be off by default, but I belong to the last group. I was finding that I was having a lot of issues with my trackpad and most went away when I changed the setting. I still have an issue at times that clicking sometimes leads to right clicking.

I have been using trackpoints for years, so I guess I am rather used to an experience with clear button clicks.

leeloo,
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@kly @jon
On a touch screen you don't have a cursor to move, where you touch is where you click.

On a track pad, you touch to move the cursor and touch to click, and the difference can be tiny.

leeloo,
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@jon @kly
I'm sure the quality of the trackpad makes a difference (how good it is at figuring out what the user intended) as well as what people grew up with.

Personally, I find it works perfectly fine on my Macbook, but needed to turn it off on every PC I've ever used - but the one on my Mac is more like a hidden button under the trackpad. I can feel the difference between touching and clicking.

leeloo,
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@jon @kly
Like I said, it's a combination of quality and what you grew up with. The one on my Mac works fo me. Doesn't mean it has to work for you.

However, your description also makes me suspect we are talking about different generations. Mine only has two levels - move and click. There is no clicking harder.

msquebanh, (edited ) to random
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I don't have 'controversial' opinions - like weak right wingnuts like to say about me.
I have strong personal, disabled POC woman opinions. They developed via my own life experiences & witnessing injustices as 3rd party.
I don't consider it controversial to stand up/speak up for injustices. I find it controversial, when people don't do that. I find people who don't do that to be cowards in several areas of life too.

People who refuse to live true to their own core values are all cowards.

leeloo,
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@msquebanh
To them, your mere existence is controversial.

Last time around they built camps to remove such "controversial" people from existence (disabled, lgbtq, and for some reason, jews).

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

leeloo,
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@Elleaster @RickiTarr
You were willing to have the discussion AND you did not treat it as "how the founding fathers intended" manual.

Tevis, to transit
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If you in , you might be interested to know that Margo Bruner-Settles's anti-bike-lane billboard truck ran a red light in front of me today.

The same truck, now passed to the other side of the still red light.

leeloo,
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@Tevis @WhyNotZoidberg
That may be because many places in the US do it backwards. The parking lane should be between the road and the cycle lane. Not the other way around.

Road - parked cars - cycle lane - sidewalk.

gabrielesvelto, to steam
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Negative reviews on that begin with "this game is too expensive" drive me crazy. Seriously, I'll be the judge of that. If you feel like penalizing an independent game because you think it's too expensive you're an asshole.

leeloo,
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@gabrielesvelto
On the other hand, if I get three hours of gameplay for $3, a $50 game better have 50 hours of gameplay, otherwise it IS too expensive - or too short, depending on how you look at it.

textfiles, to random
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Windows: We have miraculously slammed AI into your operating system, against your will, because we are technical wizards and amazing and you will love our new guessing game software being always sitting there on the toolbar

Also Windows: oh, gee, your operating system is out of date and useless, pay up to upgrade to something that works better than this dogshit

leeloo,
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@textfiles
When was the last time you upgraded to a better Windows version?

The people I talk to would say Vista to Win7. It has been downhill ever since.

leeloo,
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@Paxxi @textfiles
Wsl and sandboxing aren't things regular users care - or even know about. And they sure aren't going to convince me to give Windows another try either.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 31: Students outside Columbia university passing food and water through the gates to the protesters. Collective punishment going on in the middle of New York City.

leeloo,
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@zdl @angiebaby @fkamiah17
Viewed from Europe, I would never call democrats centre-right.

The US has two major parties, the far right and the further right. When I was a child, adults compared them to our two right wing minority parties, and both US parties have been sliding further right since then.

rauschma, to random
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I’m ambivalent about ad blockers:
– I understand why people use them—most ads have become nasty and obtrusive.
– There really aren’t many good alternatives to ads for content creators: People aren’t willing to pay for content but don’t like ads either.

What are your thoughts?

leeloo,
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@rauschma
I think calling them ads is fraudulent advertising.

If I want my name on a train, I can pay the owner of the train to put my name on it. That's an ad.

Or I can go to the rail yard at night with a spray can. That's called grafitti.

The two options are the same, except in one case I pay the owner of the train.

In my opinion, the same thing applies to the digital world. Those who pay the owner of my computer/monitor (i.e. me) are ads. The ones that don't are grafitti.

Hence I use a grafitti-blocker, and anyone who manages to bypass it can pay me.

leeloo,
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@tbroyer @rauschma
It's not about who is meant to see the ad, it's about whose equipment you are using.

You know, the whole concept of ownership of private property.

SirTapTap, to random
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100% tax on people who drive pickup trucks with the bed empty

leeloo,
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@SirTapTap
How about driving with the truck bed empty one way?

And would you prefer people have two cars if they only need the truck two days per week?

I can see your point, but I don't think it's thought through.

leeloo,
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@maggotbrain
Does that mean there will be an XFCE Matrix client? Looking at Wikipedia, it appears that current clients are either KDE/QT or big and slow web based clients.

yakkoj, to random
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Wait... Mastodon has a board of directors? And it has Twitter and blockchain people on it?

I realize I'm just regurgitating Home a bit, but it's very concerning if money and utter grift have a chance of taking Mastodon out

Part of it also is that this is the best of "social media" I'm experiencing and I'm pleading (possibly in vain!) that it doesn't get enshittified.

leeloo,
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@yakkoj
Wait until you discover the Linux Foundation.

The Mastodon server code is open source, there are multiple forks and/or separate implementations, instances are run by many different people and there are even multiple apps, many of which are open source.

The Linux kernel has a lot less "redundancy".

libreoffice, to foss
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Handy Calc tip! Press Ctrl+; to insert the current date, or Shift+Ctrl+; for the current time. Want a date and time that's always updating? Use the =NOW() function. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060102.html

leeloo,
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@mars1024 @libreoffice
If I'm reading it correctly, the keypresses insert a static date / time, the function is dynamic.

So you should ba able to subtract them and show "this document is x days old".

gnuplusmatt, to audiophile
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Correct me if I am somehow wrong, but buying modern music on vinyl is pointless, right?

The music is digitally mastered, their is no benefit, no rich analogue sound.

leeloo,
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@gnuplusmatt
CD audio is better quality than vinyl, so that's not a reason.

However, vinyl has some limitations that improve sound quality. Mastering often involves a device called a compressor (which has nothing to do with mp3 compression), and modern music tends to crank this device up way too high. This is known as the Loudness Wars. Doing this makes listening to the music fatigueing.

Digital formats handle this compressed music perfectly, but on vinyl it reduces the amount of playing time, so more records are needed to hold the same music (costs money) and when turned up really high it can make the needle jump out of the groove.

As a result, mastering for vinyl is different than for digital. Vinyl sounds better because it can't handle the mistreatment done to digital music.

Music mastered like vinyl but delivered digitally would get you the best of both worlds
(Better reproduction from being digital and better mastering for vinyl), but you'll only find that in classical music.

matdevdug, to Bulgaria
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I’m surprised the #EU isn’t going to allow the #meta pay or let us show you personalized ads thing. It seems like a perfectly fair compromise to me. You can either pay Meta through ad revenue or directly and preserve your privacy.

This seems like the EU saying its citizens are entitled to use Meta’s services regardless of their financial value which seems sort of bonkers. Facebook isn’t a public utility.

leeloo,
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@matdevdug
They are not saying we are entitled to use Facebook, they are saying we are entitled to privacy.

Facebook can charge if they want, just not for privacy.

leeloo,
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@matdevdug
Facebook was offering the service for free, but you have to pay for privacy. That is not allowed.

And that's like it should be. You can't charge for not breaking the law.

ovid, to linux
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BitMover's closed-source product, BitKeeper, was used for source control for the #Linux kernel. Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover, was upset because someone tried to figure out how the BitKeeper worked and he pulled the BitKeeper licenses from Linux developers.

Needing distributed source control, Linus Torvalds created #git in a couple of months.

BitMover is gone and BitKeeper is now open-source, gathering dust, in a git repository.

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper

leeloo,
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@ovid
Not even figure out how it worked, he figured out the protocol used to talk to the server, to enable him to write an open source client. And he did so by telnetting to the bitkeeper port and typing "help".

That someone was Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame.

Bitkeeper could have gotten a free open source client. Instead they got a free open source competitor (git) and couldn't compete with that.

Strandjunker, to random
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Love Hillary, hate Hillary, whatever. But during the 2016 debates, she called Trump Putin’s puppet and said he “encouraged espionage against our country”. She spoke the truth, in public, straight to his orange face.

Lots of people owe Hillary Clinton — and America — an apology.

leeloo,
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@asbestos @Strandjunker @JonChevreau
Except for some minor details like how much effort she needed to put in to win the 2016 election...

protonprivacy, to random
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TL;DR There is no safe way to use TikTok, and our strong recommendation is to delete the app from all your devices.

Learn more here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-tiktok-safe/

leeloo,
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@protonprivacy
Wait, since when is Proton supporting the NSA propaganda to get people to move from Tiktok to Youtube and Facebook where it's much easier for them to monitor everything we talk about?

jerzone, to random
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Should we be concerned that ovens are now coming with “Air Sous Vide”?

leeloo,
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@jerzone
Technically, sous vide means vacuum packed, it doesn't say anything about the vacuum bag being in water, so it's not really wong I guess.

leeloo,
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@jerzone
I'm sure you are supposed to use oven safe bags.

  • and they probably require a much higher temperature to vacuum seal, so you'd need to buy a special vacuum machine too...
darth, to linux
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Which car does your imagination associate with ? A European buyer's perspective would be a plus. Also, add and visions for even more points. Boost please.

leeloo,
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@darth
I was thinkin of the episode where they try to kill a Hilux. In the ocean, on fire, on top of a building being demolished.

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