malicka

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by malicka 2y ago
> Alas, I fear that this Starbucks fiasco is emblematic of a deeper malaise. There’s a shortage of seriousness everywhere in society now. […] So much is image-driven in our influencer culture nowadays, and so little is substance. Sometim
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by malicka 2y ago
Several people, including you, are proposing using env rather than sourcing; is that somehow preferable to something like this? (. .env; my-cmd)
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by malicka 2y ago
It’s the same as forgetting you put something in your .profile or .bashrc, no? In any case, both forgetting the env config and using the same shell for days in a row seem like two things that probably don’t coincide too often.
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by malicka 2y ago
By “still,” they meant that the article’s observation about younger men being more suicidal than older men doesn’t apply likewise to younger women & older women. So older women still are more suicidal than younger women.
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by malicka 2y ago
You blame the people that architected it: Racist & oportunistic politicians, bankers, and real estate agents. Who were predominately white, yes. Not sure why that makes you feel so defensive.
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by malicka 2y ago
This seems like a weirdly wishy-washy reason to go with, when we could pick out a more tangible one instead: For some types of software, being a bit painful to use is (counter-intuitively) the more profitable route. These user-hostile patte
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by malicka 2y ago
> Then millions fled America's inner cities in the 1960s due to skyrocketing crime and racial violence. Let’s make sure we keep the cause-and-effect straight here. White flight was what created the crime, not the other way around. I
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by malicka 2y ago
I disagree — enacting a policy people like and find useful is inherently good publicity. If your city mayors’ initiatives improve your local library, this will make people who visit the library like the mayor more. This doesn’t make improvi
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by malicka 2y ago
Of course root causes should be addressed (chiefly, I believe that tuition should be gratis for public universities), but in the meantime I think this is a perfectly fine policy. It achieves three goals: • Gets people talking about higher e
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by malicka 2y ago
This is a desktop environment, not a window-manager, so here it’s pretty expected. I’ve gotta say, though, virtually every window manager that does have a panel makes it toggleable. FVWM, Fluxbox, xmonad, i3, etc.
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by malicka 3y ago
SpaceFN seems nice idea, but wow does this article feel like SEO bait. There are three introductory paragraphs about the idea of the idea of SpaceFN, rather than just describing it. The style feels a bit condescending, too… Nice idea, thoug
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by malicka 3y ago
Interesting project! I’ve never gotten past brief tinkering with Forth, so this might be a good excuse to get a little farther. It’s named in Esperanto, too — “ilo” being “tool,” “koni” being “to know,” and so “Kon/il/o” meaning a
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by malicka 3y ago
I’d wager he has thought of it, based on his interesting AI-girlfriend short story: https://stallman.org/articles/made-for-you.html
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by malicka 3y ago
On paper, in that every person exhibits some symptoms of some disorders to some degree? Yea, anyone will tick some of those boxes. But are those symptoms long-lasting? Are they severe? Do they impede day-to-day life? Professional diagnosis
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by malicka 3y ago
> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways. I just can’t imagine how, honestly! It’s not exactly trivial to programmatically hinder certa
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by malicka 3y ago
I just don't see how they could manipulate, outside of their own servers?
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by malicka 3y ago
I honestly don't think the Lemmy developers have any control other than that over lemmy.ml. And with Lemmy’s user-base spreading out to use other servers, their influence is decreasing more and more each day.
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by malicka 3y ago
It depends on whether or not the author's politics bleed into the software or somehow influences the user-base; which could be disasterous. I think with Lemmy, though, there isn't much risk for that.
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by malicka 3y ago
It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own. At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t mag
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by malicka 3y ago
I think it matters significantly less with Lemmy than it does with Mastodon/Pleroma/etc. For one, it's pretty low-stakes: With Mastodon, you lose your followers, your posts, and your platform. It's hard to start from scr
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by malicka 3y ago
People switching from Android to iOS for privacy reasons seems myopic to me. Apple is, ultimately, a company. There is no such thing as them “making enough money.” If they can double-dip by both selling data and selling hardware, they will.
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by malicka 3y ago
You didn't save a click, that one case is a small part of the article. The focus is the history and current state of such laws.
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by malicka 3y ago
> Let’s try the opposite: “not left” is definitely something different from “right” - urrrgggh. “Do not go left” doesn’t mean to go right. “maldekstra” doesn't actually mean “not right” — mal in Esperanto more precisely means “oppos
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by malicka 4y ago
I know GNU Jami (a P2P chat program) uses Git as its data-store extensively— from what I could tell, checking out ~/.local/share/Jami/, all messages are stored in git commit messages, for instance.