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This account is being kept for the posterity, but it won’t see further activity past February.

If you want to contact me, I’m at /u/lvxferre@mander.xyz

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I feel like Greedy Pigboy and Reddit Inc. as a whole deserve to be punished, for all that “my precious data! No, it is not the users’, IT IS MINE! MY PRECIOUS!” fiasco. Enshittification will happen either way.

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It isn’t “Hangul” that is saving the language, but the fact that it’s getting an orthography. That orthography could be theoretically in any writing system - not just Latin or Arabic (both already exist for Cia-Cia, contrariwise to what the video claims), but even a native one or Cyrillic or even, dunno, the Cherokee syllabary.

Abidin looks informed on the matter; the same cannot be said about whoever produced this video. I’ll highlight a few issues.

[0:33] - pretty much all languages are “syllable-based”. They organise sounds into syllables. The video is likely trying to convey that it’s a CV (consonant, vowel, repeat) language, unlike, say, Russian or English (that cram quite a lot of consonants in a single syllable).

[0:36] The video is trying to use “transliterated” as a posh synonym for “spelled”; both are not the same thing. Transliteration is to convert text from a script from another; for example, “Quis credis esse, Bellum?” (Latin, using the Latin script) → “Кўис кредис ессе, Беллум?” (Latin, using the Cyrillic script instead) is transliteration.

And you can spell pretty much any language in any writing system. The association between grapheme and sounds (or phonemes) is arbitrary.

You might say “but the Latin alphabet doesn’t have a letter for /ɓ/!” - well, it doesn’t have a letter for /ʃ/ either. Italian handled it by spelling it ⟨sci⟩, English as ⟨sh⟩, Polish as ⟨sz⟩, Portuguese kind of repurposed ⟨x⟩. And the current Latin spelling for Cia-Cia - that you can check here - handled /ɓ/ just fine, using a similar approach as the Hangul one.

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Musk being an assumer (note how he’s vomiting certainty on future events) doesn’t surprise me a tiny bit.

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Websearch “transhumanism silicon valley”, and it starts making sense: Musk has faith that artificial general intelligence is coming, Soon®, and that it’ll replace grunt labour like programming.

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It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.

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Mine are “lol” and “lmao”. I get what they originally meant, and I get why most people use them nowadays. It’s just that they often signal “I have nothing to contribute, but still expect people to read my crap”.

As a second (third?) place, “WYSIWYG”. If you’re going to coin such verbose acronym, might as well sub it with an actual word, like, dunno, “transparent”.

EDIT - “lol” = “lots of laughs”, “lmao” = “laughing my arse off”, “WYSIWYG” = “what you see is what you get”.

EDIT2: as another poster correctly pointed out, “lol” also originally meant “laughing out loud”. Perhaps even more than “lots of laughs”.

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What else is it supposed to be?

  • fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
  • ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
  • fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
  • feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
  • feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.
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I don’t even recall pronouncing it in loud voice. In English I simply say “what you see is what you get”, and in Portuguese or Italian I rephrase it. (Although I remember at least one person calling it ['vizi 'vige] in Portuguese. And I was, like… “what?”)

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Isn’t lol short for “laughing out loud”?

Wiktionary lists both “laughing out loud” and “lots of laughs”. Nowadays though it’s neither; on a pragmatic level it doesn’t convey “I’m laughing” / “I laughed”, it conveys amusement and/or lack of seriousness, depending on the context.

  • [Alice] The Sun is a star.
  • [Bob] yeah sure the sun only appears at night lol (implying: “I’m amused at what Alice said, and I don’t take it seriously.”)
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PEBKAC

Every time that I see this acronym I’m tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember “ah, it isn’t Cyrillic”.

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Some of the assets look clearly similar to the ones in Stardew Valley, while some are completely different. It’s… interesting to see.

I love the idea of backyard chickens. My parents got some in my childhood; and it allows you to get farming mechanics in a non-farm game.

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Older but related news here. Relevant Wikipedia link, languages of Burkina Faso. From an outsider view this is simply dealing with the colonial past, IMO a good move - it’s somewhat clear that the population doesn’t retrieve sense of identity from French language, but from their local languages and ethnic groups.

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Persuasion itself goes from neutral to negative, depending on your moral standards. (They’re partially individual, partially cultural.) Because at the end of the day it boils down to “I want you to believe in this, because I benefit from your belief.”

And you definitively see some backslash against this aspect of advertisement; same deal with personal communication, a person being excessively rhetoric for their own benefit is immediately labelled distrustful.

Then over that propaganda adds further layers of nastiness, like:

  • Often, the one doing propaganda is supposed to defend your interests. Not their/its own.
  • You’ll usually need to omit and lie far more for propaganda than for other things. Because it’s usually a complex matter that involves society as a whole, not just your personal decision.
  • Since the political landscape changes, the discourse being propagated may flip 180°.
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The five missing ones are:

  1. Acknowledge the central point.
  2. Thou shalt not soapbox.
  3. Thou shalt not decontextualise what others say.
  4. Thou shalt not claim intentions to defend thine or someone else’s actions.
  5. Thou shalt not convey “I disagree” through feigned lack of understanding.

Bonus: the original version of the 8th was

  1. Thou shalt not claim with certainty things that you do not know for certain.

The current 8th (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour) is a forgery. Some assumer got called out over and over because of the older 8th, since he really liked to make shit up, so he restricted it into near uselessness. Source: I’m Lucifer, I know it. :^)

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Your version of the 8th would literally undo all religion

It would undo the myths, I think. Morality and religious practices might survive depending on how much they rely on said myths.

and a bit of science

It would perhaps demote a lot of theories back to hypotheses, but that’s actually good IMO. A good scientist should embrace the doubt and treat it as a respectable enemy, not hide from it like a catfish in the mud.

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Specifically on the third point (witch hunts): I love seeing parallel development of similar but slightly different analogies. The author is clearly using the expression “witches” to convey “any group of undesirable people”, like I learned; however, the meaning that he’s associating with “witch hunter” is wider than the one that I learned.

In his [implicit] definition, any time that you seek witches you’re witch hunting. In mine it’s only when you hunt a non-witch as if they were a witch.

But once you go past those small semantic differences, the conclusion is obvious: you need to allow people to correctly point out actual witches, but you need to crack down on false accusations of witchcraft.

That’s a damn great remind for people to look at what the words are conveying, not picking specific words like you were braindead and assuming the rest of the discourse out of them.

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Translation:

  • when you’re walking alone
  • don’t you ever feel
  • like being observed?
  • [God saying] you bloody paranoid
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This is a potential problem here in Lemmy too, but smaller than it is in Reddit.

Why smaller: in Reddit, if a brand (for example… ACME) takes over a subreddit (like r/acme), you could theoretically create an unofficial sub (like r/acmeunfiltered) to compete with it. However, there are two issues.

1. From a discovery standpoint, you’re at a clear disadvantage. Most users willing to discuss ACME will beeline towards r/acme, and they’ll only check if competing subs (r/acmeunfiltered, r/true_acme, r/unnoficialacme etc.) if they got an issue with the first sub. Network effect will make sure that your sub stays as small as possible, and it’ll be full of angry people screaming at ACME.

2. ACME could claim r/true_acme, r/acmeunabridged, r/unnofficialacme, etc. and redirect all of them to r/acme. And while in theory the Reddit admins could tell ACME “don’t do this”, in the best hypothesis they’ll say “lol lmao small subs who cares? haha”. In the worst they might have some “agreement” with ACME, to prevent Reddit from “damaging the ACME brand” (i.e. banning you for criticising ACME, while claiming that you’re being banned for “multiple, repeated violations of the content policy”.)

Put federation into the picture. ACME could certainly claim acme@lemmy.ml, make it official, and kick you off for criticising ACME there. But there’s also acme@lemm.ee, acme@beehaw.org, acme@hexbear.net, so goes on. And you could always spin up a new comm in a new instance like acme@ac.mesuc.ks.

And even if we say “ACME claims all of those!”, admins of an instance are far, far more invested into the communities inside that instance than the Reddit admins will ever be. They’ll simply tell ACME “no, you can’t squat on this comm to silence criticism. Fuck off!”. And if ACME wants to wet the hands of all those independent groups of admins, well… good bloody luck.

Why it’s still a problem: because the above assumes that instances are mostly equivalent, and that seizing control over acme@hexbear.net would be as valuable as seizing acme@lemmy.ml. They aren’t - most activity in Lemmy nowadays is around lemmy.world.

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https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/6d14e18b-180e-44cf-ae0c-b90ccf28c54e.jpeg

Given that I stole this from a programming community, it shouldn’t be too far off from true.

(Caveat lector: I’m not in the IT industry but I’m often messing with bash scripts and decompiled python code.)

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I meant “decrypted”, not “decompiled”. (When I wrote the above I was sleep-deprived.)

I mostly pick visual novels apart, to know how to reach one or another specific route. From that I’m somewhat used to read Python code - or at least Ren’Py code.

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If I were to discipline my cats by picking them up, one of them would be exactly like in this pic. The other would be tearing my arms apart with the claws of her back legs.

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Even here in South America, depending on the region, they’re invasive.

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Let’s go simpler: what if your instance was allowed to copy the fed/defed lists from other instances, and use them (alongside simple Boolean logic plus if/then statements) to automatically decide who you’re going to federate/defederate with? That would enable caracoles and fedifams for admins who so desire, but also enable other organically grown relations.

For example. Let’s say that you just joined the federation. And there are three instances that you somewhat trust:

  • Alice - it defederates only really problematic instances.
  • Bob and Charlie - both are a bit prone to defederate other instances on a whim, but when both defed the same instance it’s usually problematic.

Then you could set up your defederation rules like this:

  • if Alice defed it, then defed it too.
  • else, if (Bob defed it) and (Charlie defed it), then defed it too.
  • else, federate with it.

Of course, that would require distinguishing between manual and automatic fed/defed. You’d be able to use the manual fed/defed from other instances to create your automatic rules, to avoid deadlocks like “Alice is blocking it because Bob is blocking it, and Bob is blocking it because Alice is doing it”.

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Do tell me more of how Old People are not the target of discrimination¹, yout’².

You’re 1) distorting what I said, and 2) being an assumer.

Discrimination can happen against any group. However, it’s considerably worse when it’s geared towards marginalised groups, as they have less ways to deal with it. That makes your analogy with a racial group (black people) a lot flawed.

Note, I do not think that insults against old people are “cool”. However they’re considerably less worse than insults towards black people.

The links that you’ve posted - that you clearly didn’t even bother to read yourself - are evidence of discrimination in a very specific environment (workplace). They are not evidence of marginalisation.

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Finally, some actual argumentation. Enough to convince me, at least - specially the first paragraph.

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