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by stereolambda 3y ago
I would imagine that people willing to go to Mars permanently would be among the more scientifically minded and they wouldn't be stopped by concerns about what happens with dead matter left after them. The very last one could be cremat
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I'm also somewhat surprised how people flatly refuse to handle being asked to apply rules as written, which the game does. (Otherwise I would assume they just haven't read the introduction closely.) To my mind, the park just needs
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I think a better overview is under the "Towards a folk computer" link on the main page (perhaps the submission link should be changed?). Essentially (if I understand correctly) they want to let you control computer by moving thing
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by stereolambda 3y ago
> lives on as a dried out lich in a chair Wow, I thought you are being metaphorical, but turns out it's literally true. Anyway - I'm not a believer in utilitarianism, but don't think attacking works of the founder of the m
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Honestly, not much? Unless the economy is heavily unstable and there is also some rebellion among the moneyed classes, most king throughout the centuries had little trouble maintaining a regime. No need to think about masses really.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
It's very possible but we are meaning different things by the same words. My background isn't English in language, I try not to be formed by Anglosphere in my thinking (as far as it's even possible nowadays) and find the &quo
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Note the scare quotes. I used an imperfect word to suggest a crude mode of communication where we don't care about communicating clearly or on subject, or human aspirations beyond biology and prestige, or emphasizing respect to yoursel
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I am against institutional language standards that exist in some languages, because using the language freely how you want is a part of basic freedom. That being said, speaking with some level of control lets us exchange thoughts in a more
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by stereolambda 3y ago
It would be interesting if they tried to further emulate the famous behavior of luxury brands like Rolex, which may not deign to sell you anything if you just ask. Just recreate that aura for the mass consumer.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Large FOSS projects are social movements, because they have to attract contributors somehow, and they reflect the wider culture. I read modern GNOME as a symptom of longue duree (historiographical term, meaning something that exists for a l
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I don't dislike your sentiment and don't see Rocky Linux as dirtbags, but I think it is important for GPL that you have to[1] provide source only if you provide binaries (IANAL, lawyers correct me). So you should be able to have a
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I checked and you can find a good number of communities by going to one of the larger Lemmy sites, clicking on the Communities tab and selecting All. If you want one directory from many instances (I assume this is what you meant by central
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by stereolambda 3y ago
If the goal is to talk about your interests with strangers (and not pull in your whole family and political and journalistic class), some minimal federation friction could be beneficial actually, as a soft filter. Maybe it's worth it t
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Good response to some points by the sibling. I was going to respond that part of the reason is just that the cost of software is mentally anchored very low for people. Right now Windows 11 Pro license is shown to me as $199, which is enough
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Just for another perspective, there is a limited space of games story- and gameplaywise that can get major funding. If you want something outside this, you have to go indie. You can be also satisfied with the AAA games. Just as there are gr
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Just a pointer for people to read up on Federalist and Democratic-Republican ideological differences at the time, even though they are often downplayed, and we also live in an age of thrashing on Jefferson being de rigeur. The US history pl
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by stereolambda 3y ago
If so, it sounds interestingly similar to 1980s-90s IBM and its approach towards personal computers.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I agree with the first paragraph. As to the rest, the finance people could dump the stock on someone assuming there will be a period of (un)reasonable optimism not far from the IPO. This is par for the course with overhyped stocks AFAIK. Th
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Thanks for clarification. I'm not really complaining, just found it amusing. Still using the awards looks a little like tacitly supporting the system, and I even wondered if they help the submissions in the algorithm (if so, gilding wo
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Just for posterity, I glimpsed at their homepage and it seems that someone is gilding posts and comments explaining the protest. This as far as I understand entails paying Reddit. Fascinating. May be trolling.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I'm not sure how to read your message exactly. If you mean the teenage warez leecher type who doesn't care about wider ramifications for the ecosystem, then sure, not high value. I would hesitate to put the protesters in this cate
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by stereolambda 3y ago
At this point I'm seeing an accelerationist angle where having only walled gardens, disfunctional search engines (both in-app and Google) and broken apps and APIs everywhere might force people to think about those things a little.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Disclaimer: personally I think Burke is one of the more overrated thinkers and the meanderings of his prose, ultimately not making much of a strong argument (I mean his main book here), just made it easier for people to read things into it.
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by stereolambda 3y ago
This is a little atomistic view, but essentially in the correct direction. I would also add we need to nurture anti-centralization and anti-corporate sentiments that are still springing up in younger people especially, in their own way. If
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I for one find it sympathetic that they are trying to appeal to schoolchildren (who are supposed to use it) instead of adult tastes. I wonder how much is it based on market motivation? If you want a set of serious looking tomes as a visual
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by stereolambda 3y ago
I do not think this is much of a metaphor, even. The whole paralegal system built around so-called intellectual property is conceptually analogous to the feudal system of banalités, private tolls, guild privileges and monopolies etc. abolis
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by stereolambda 3y ago
It's an interesting notion that you can't disagree or find faults in your friends, especially if we adapt the Anglophone definition of a friend as a loose sorta sustained contact. Would people rush to criticizing in this manner if
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by stereolambda 3y ago
> Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or ineffic
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by stereolambda 3y ago
While likely you're right, AI weirdness seems to have become a specific aesthetic enjoyed by some people. Some creators and prompt masseurs clearly don't know about some limitations being part of the style, or ignore them for the
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by stereolambda 3y ago
Well, wait till we try to square what Americans commonly mean by 'liberalism' and 'conservatism' with continental political theory and classic theorists connected to these words. In these cases America is, interestingly,

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