Norgur

The_Picard_Maneuver, 3 months ago

https://c.tenor.com/m-t6PExPiasAAAAC/tenor.gif

paddirn, 3 months ago

In a sense, Hamas had to have known that what they were going to do was going to have a HUGE military response from Israel. Govts are like the Mafia, they can’t just let any disrespect go unpunished. Hamas planned on indiscriminately killing civilians and taking hostages. I’m not sure any government in the world wouldn’t have had a predictable military response of some kind.

Hamas seems to have misjudged the extant to which Israel was willing to go (all-out war and extermination of Hamas), but they still knew at some level that Israel was going to come in shooting and killing civilians. Israel shoots at kids for throwing rocks, of course Hamas knew civilians were getting killed from their actions. Add in that Netanyahu has his own unrelated troubles in Israel and he needed a disaster like this to distract the public. Plus, Israel would take any excuse it could to further erode Gaza, so they basically handed Israel a gift-wrapped war.

Does that absolve Israel’s military from indiscriminately killing civilians? Absolutely not, they have their own issues with systemic racism towards Arabs that’s built up over decades and a military that’s apparently given up on professionalism and following the rule of law. I think their calculus is total extermination of Hamas and further encroachment into Palestinian lands, to them that’s more than worth whatever civilian casualties and international condemnation they get for a few months of conflict.

ApostleO, 4 months ago

‘we should have separated the people into their own regions’

We should launch all the white supremacists to Mars and see how well they fare building their own civilization.

clay_pidgin, 5 months ago

All you need is a gamer chair and some Fuji IX.

inv.vern.cc/watch?v=kgI3Y7gxMO4

otter, 5 months ago

This is such a great list, saving and installing a few!

Adding on (and likely seconding a few):

• 2048: game
• Aegis: for 2Fa stuff
• AntennaPod: second this one
• AnkiDroid: Flashcards, the Anki project is huge and extends way past android. Worth exploring if you want/need to memorize things
• Droid-ify: Fdroid client I use, but I keep the main app installed too
• Eat Poop You Cat: game to be played in a group
• Feeder: for RSS
• FFShare: for compressing photos/videos before sharing
• FlorisBoard: The keybaord I liked, although I don’t use it full time
• GPTAssist: Frontend for chatGPT
• Material Files: File manager
• Native Alpha: Have websites run like apps, while isolating each site
• OpenFoodFacts: A bit buggy, but it’s similar to OSM but for food
• RetroStack: Another game
• SDMaid SE: Same dev from the popular playstore one, is rebuilding a better one from scratch, AND it’s now FOSS
• SkyMap:
• Survival manual
• Termux
• Translate You
• UntrackMe: To redirect Tiktok/Twitter/Pinterest/etc. links to the frontends
• URLCheck: Highly recommend getting this one to clean trackers from links
• Unitto: Calculator of choice. I explored a bunch before settling on this one

For OSM specifically, I second the ones mentioned. Here are some other OSM related things: lemmy.ca/post/6586265

Norgur, 6 months ago

You make that sound like a solution to what was said. It's not. Many ppl need 100% of their software, not "some"

BananaTrifleViolin, 6 months ago

This feels misleading? They're claiming Linux has been hard coded to 8 cores but from what they describe in the article it is specifically the scaling of the scheduler?

If I understood correctly the more cores you have, the more you could scale up the time each individual task gets on a CPU core without experiencing latency for the end user?

I can see that would have a benefit in terms of user perception Vs efficient use of processing time but it doesn't mean all the cores aren't being used? It just means the kernel is still switching between tasks at say 5ms when it could be doing it at 20ms if you have lots of cores and the user wouldn't notice. I can imagine that would be more efficient but it's definitely not the same as being capped to 8 cores; all the cores and CPUs are being scheduled just not in a way that might be the most optimal for some users.

Is that right? I feel like the title massively overplays the issue if so. It should be fixed but it doesn't affect how many cores are used or even how fasr they work, merely how big the chunks of time each task get to run and how you can "hide" that from desktop users so the experience feels slick?

Stamets, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Edit: Can y’all please stop downvoting this person for being confused? Rule number one. Be kind. They’re not being a dick here or being cruel or anything. Give them the benefit of the doubt please.

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JK Rowling is the author of Harry Potter and was primarily known for this. Loved, even, for this. An enormous fanbase. Not to say that there weren’t issues with her portrayal of POC characters or doses of antisemitic behavior (The Goblin Bank literally has a MASSIVE Star of David in the middle of their lobby) but people still loved her nonetheless.

Yet overtime she started adding random stupid things to canon. People asking about bathrooms and her randomly tweeting in response that wizards used to just shit themselves and then magic it all away. This happened more and more with all manner of subjects that started to really point out she was a piece of shit. When people started talking about her portrayal of various different characters, she sort of went off the deep end. She started getting really entrenched in her position and bitter towards everyone. One of these positions was that trans homies are not homies. The typical “mental illness/grooming/rapists” reasoning. Her position within the fandom fell into utter freefall and fractured an enormous amount of said fandom. This then bled into popular culture as a whole because she’s such a popular and influential public figure. She just kept digging and digging and digging and now she’s primarily known online as “That bigoted bitch who wrote the wizard books”. The entire Harry Potter franchise has become slightly toxic to the touch. Hogwarts Legacy was released to immense backlash and almost none of it was the fact that the game was a raging, repetitive and extremely badly written pile of hot garbage that had no character development or story consequences. Even the actor who played Hermione (not sure about others) came out and said that they would have nothing to do with a Harry Potter continuation or reboot if JK Rowling was involved in any way whatsoever which is what led JK and WB to team up to remake the Harry Potter series. There has been a TV show that was announced with JK herself being heavily involved.

While still a massive franchise and a massive fandom, Harry Potter has aggressively slouched in those ratings and has been inextricably linked to the personal opinions of the author formerly known as JK Rowling. Honestly I just refer to her as “that transphobic bitch who wrote about the wizards” most of the time now.

Edit: Fix’d.

newthrowaway20, 7 months ago

Dude wasted 4 days being angry and thinks he won.

makingStuffForFun, 7 months ago

Don’t want to. This is good as it is. There’s already a fair crack of wowsers here, and that’s already too many. The discussion here was pretty amazing a while back, but it’s already dumbing down as this place grows.

Norgur, 7 months ago

Is that "basically repated" from the court ruling?

There is a difference between "being responsible" and "being one of the main figures"

I mean... it isn't far-fetched to assume that a leading figure in that scene at large will be a leading figure when it comes to individual crimes and he is probably right, yet, if the Portugese court system works even remotely like the systems I know, then the fact that Machado wasn't convicted - whatever his responsibility - means that he - at least for the judicial system (in dubio pro reo and all) - cannot have been in a main role and calling him that can be defamatory, at least as far as evidence goes.

What really angers me more than the judge (who probably went "Fuck, we all know he's right but there is no proof, so I have to fine the guy, for fuck's sake!") is the Nazi asshat who happily partook (in whatever role) in the murder of an inncoent man because they refused to use the gray matter evolution had given them and instead relied on their teeny tiny lizard brains who told then that different is bad and then got butthurt and fucking sued someone for calling him out on a tiny detail.

God, this makes me fucking angry... I... I need to go outside and yell at clouds for a bit... be right back!

snooggums, 7 months ago

Where did the poster say that?

Norgur, 7 months ago

Wow. Really nice. Thing is, English is not my native language and I therefore am
A) influenced by my native language when it comes to the more nuanced meanings of words
B) speak without the set of ideas in mind you seem to have attributed me with because I literally do not belong into your political system
C) made a translation error with the term "rainbow press" for tabloids because
D) English is not my native language
E) have not made any political statement or anything to be opposed that strongly

But yeah, calling a foreigner "uneducated" for being not on the same page as you regarding the evolution of words in your language is a really educated move, good Sir. I, the lowly foreign peasant bow before your superior education, good Sir. I am so sorry, good Sir...

FlyingSquid, 8 months ago

What kind of answer is that?!

cwagner, 8 months ago

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