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by Matl 4y ago
> . It's Iranians on the streets in Tehran without headscarves, Iranians being shot and killed, Iranians marching and organizing demonstrations. I don't know why people always assume only one thing can ever be true in a given s
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> But one has to pick his battles and better (for us) getting our oil from them than from Russia. Hmm...could you clarify? The human rights situation in the Gulf is much, much worse in the Gulf. Would this be because they're easier
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I think that's a fair point, but I'd also say that the neocons have been fixated on Iran for a long time. So it's a self-feeding cycle.
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> What I read in your comment is that the ppl of Iran have no agency My stance is the exact opposite, it's that they do have agency but that the constant articles in the West celebrating a chance for some sort of regime change act
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Because I presume the commenter talking about how this shows them being on their last legs is Western, but mainly because I've seen countless articles about how all this is basically a great opportunity for regime change. If you believ
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Honest question; What motivation should a government like Iran's have to listen, if any concession it does give is seen in the West as a great opportunity to show that it is weak, on its last legs etc. to try and overthrow it? I am not
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> The CIA did an analysis I had my doubts, but not after the CIA said it's true.
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Wayland is not equivalent to X Server technically, X usually refers to the Xorg implementation whereas Wayland is a protocol with multiple implementations, i.e. by KDE, GNOME, Sway etc. My experience with Wayland has been very solid within
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Interesting comment regarding the window manager, I had to use a Mac at work recently and apparently one has to use 3rd party tools to be able to snap windows. Coming from KDE Plasma I found this astonishing.
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Is any serious money going into optimizing Linux battery life on laptops? Not that I know of. Since there's no money in Linux laptops as compared to Windows laptops, why is this surprising? I find it much more damming that Apple smokes
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I find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.
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It's all very academic and I don't have a strong opinion on it either way but I would say C has a relatively simple syntax (no classes, no inheritance, few keywords, few symbols in its syntax etc.) but its semantics (i.e. how to
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Yes, if Go is a 'successor' then obviously it has to offer something over C, like a standard library. However it is still very much a low abstraction, get out of my way language 'in the spirit of C'. It's obviously
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I had this conversation before and I think I know what they mean; they don't mean it in a low-level, technical sense. It's meant more in the sense that Go is very much of a similar philosophy in terms of abstractions not getting i
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Yes, abet Mastodon has some non-standard extensions. But basically yes.
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Is there a way to use this as 'just a firewall'? Not touching my DNS config or preventing VPNs from setting their own etc.?
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> Did you make the arguments in good faith and in a manner inviting productive discourse, or did you mock and name-call? I specifically joined Mastodon to escape that and to try and see what the other side is really about. There are two
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That sounds like you're playing the exact caricature of what they think 'the left' is so it's valuable to have you around as a sort of prototypical 'see, you don't want to be like him'. In other words, you
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I host my own Mastodon instance and my policy is to generally not block people. I've been blocked by more 'free speech' instances than I can count after responding to their arguments with a left-wing perspective. Yet they com
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ActivityPub is very narrowly targeted at Twitter/Facebook/Diaspora type of social app. It doesn't strike me as particularly well suited for real-time or indeed any kind of secure communication. Not to say it cannot be twisted
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As I said in my previous reply, I don't disagree I could have framed my response better, however I am not just throwing Peterson here for fun, I am reacting to "You have no time to waste on western civilization's foundational
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> Namedropping Peterson when he has 0 relevance to the conversation at hand He absolutely has relevance considering he's the most recent prominent public figure pushing the Bible as "the foundational stories" without which
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> People hear "the bible is foundational" and I think they're hearing "the magical stories in the bible are literally true. God sat on a cloud and poofed western civilization into existence!" That's not what
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Not everyone eats everything Jordan Peterson says. The values you say are 'Christian values' are expressed, (in many cases more eloquently), in classical Greek texts. Values like democracy itself are indeed much more prominent the
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Sorry, I meant early as in much is still not implemented, no GUI support etc. not as in the project is new.
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https://github.com/darlinghq/darling but it's very early.
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My argument is that a service like Steam is itself a form of DRM, be it not as draconian.
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> I am happy that Stadia is gone Yes, everything that I don't personally like shouldn't exist because there's no way it could work for someone if it doesn't work for me, right? I am not a fan of cloud gaming, but Stad
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> Is Mozilla really trying to juxtapose themselves here against another browser that removes support for power user customization like they don't do it? That's wild. Is there no one left at Moz that remembers them throwing away
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The problem is, to many people around the world it is hard to describe the U.S. as democratic. As I see it, in the U.S. the corporations have completely subverted the government whereas in China the corporations are afraid of the government

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