zelphirkalt

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by zelphirkalt 6d ago
And there we get to the word both or all, where interestingly Mandarin has an (over)insistence on using it, even in places, where it seems unnecessary.
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by zelphirkalt 6d ago
In this specific case the "ein" emphasizes/expresses that he "is one of us" to the Berliners. Not a gaffe at all, in my opinion.
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by zelphirkalt 6d ago
And actually, it is not so common to write the actual personal pronouns in Spanish, as they become more or less clear seeing the verb ending, due to conjugation of the verb. So one would probably say "Es médico.", when in context.
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by zelphirkalt 8d ago
The US is probably among the countries, where the lobbying against such a law or policy would be very severe, because multiple of their tech giants are built on the foundation of abusing people and considering fines to be cost of business.
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by zelphirkalt 8d ago
A university which doesn't care to protect its students, deserves to get its whatever-license/accredited status checked/audited.
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by zelphirkalt 9d ago
The way such things can actually happen is, when the executing side is of the opinion, that the targeted side are lesser beings.
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by zelphirkalt 10d ago
In GNU Guile `reduce` is described as a special case of `fold`, where the first element is suitable to be used as initial value, while `fold` is more general and lets you specify another initial value. I think that makes a lot of sense.
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by zelphirkalt 10d ago
That's the delusional part. They think, that their service is so great, that obviously you don't have any choice but to use it anyway.
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by zelphirkalt 11d ago
I don't think it is true, that no one wants to pay a penny for services they use. I know at least one counter example, because I pay for search (Kagi), LLM usage (Kagi assistant), VPN, and support various good causes and content creato
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by zelphirkalt 11d ago
I agree. That matches my experience so far. Just so many things one might need for a forum have already been covered by Django. The ORM is easy to use, mostly and select_related and prefetch_related help with avoiding unnecessary queries, w
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by zelphirkalt 11d ago
Indeed. Thought not in all cases I can decide what OS to use. An employer might prescribe which one to use. And any distro will be better than being forced to use Windows.
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by zelphirkalt 11d ago
Firefox installed as a snap feels sluggish to me. When I install a Ubuntu system, the first thing I do is to uninstall any snap and install the apt versions of things, possibly adding official PPAs or using Guix to install software.
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by zelphirkalt 12d ago
I am planning to host my forum invite-only, so no randoms or bots will be able to post stuff. Additionally, if it picks up activity, I hope some of my friends would also help with moderation.
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by zelphirkalt 12d ago
I am working on a Django-based JS-free forum[1] that I can self-host. Still need to work on some essential things, but the basic forum functionality is already there. [1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/xiaolong-
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by zelphirkalt 13d ago
There may be gaps every now and then in block lists of ad blocking solutions, but besides that, you are using the wrong ad blocker. abp is not to be trusted to reliably block all ads it could. It has a different mission than uBlock Origin.
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by zelphirkalt 14d ago
Yep, this. I was delighted they implemented this simple yet powerful idea. I don't even remember when I have needed to go to a second page of search results in Kagi and spammy clone sites which copy stack exchange verbatim are banned i
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by zelphirkalt 14d ago
In this case they assume correctly that it is enshitification. A search engine, that doesn't understand what hypertext and the web are supposed to be is shit. There are no good reasons to not have proper links. Whoever creates such web
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by zelphirkalt 15d ago
You could be blocking specific third-parties. I know I do. Site owner could load from other party, that you happen to have whitelisted for example. Or site owner could use first party scripts for that, feeling smug showing their anti-ad-blo
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by zelphirkalt 16d ago
Do you think a regular user knows how to block a specific website or never click a link leading to it again? And what about the ads people, adding such a thing if you don't load their ads? I think this point of view is making it a bit
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by zelphirkalt 16d ago
Which is also, or at least has also been a culture thing, because of the "Oh no, we can't possibly do the computation of all that on our backend! Yikes! Let that run on every single client instead! Let users spend their own comput
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by zelphirkalt 16d ago
I think any framework that aims to support desktop and mobile frome the same code per view/screen is doomed to either make one of those two awkward to use, or alternatively become itself very complex to use. The most advanced in this a
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by zelphirkalt 16d ago
The last time Windows UI felt native was maybe Windows XP. Maaayyybe 7, if we are generous. It also has to do with sluggish or no feedback by UI widgets, due to the trend of flat everywhere.
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
How do you arrive at 300ms?
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
If you were so kind to point out, where I used media queries to hardcode viewport width ... "bro".
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
I think we actually don't disagree there, but we have a different understanding of the term "server-side". Anything related to security must happen on the server since safety measures in scripts running client-side can be def
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
I have not run into cross-browser differences in a long time. That is differences, that actually mattered and for which I would have had to build any workaround. I have built several websites recently, using vanilla HTML and CSS and solved
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
Nowadays though, that old way is working very well, because of all the things that were added to HTML and CSS, making things, which used to be annoying or difficult mostly easy.
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by zelphirkalt 17d ago
Then again one should aim to not even need media queries and make things responsive intrinsically, breakpoint-free, continuously. A design where things jump at hard coded viewport widths is not actually a great design. So at least that part
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by zelphirkalt 18d ago
Consistently collecting pennies also won't do. Both is needed. It needs to hurt the business in violation, and it needs to be consistent.
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by zelphirkalt 18d ago
Another tool, that I used in the past (though not for business, because the license is ridiculously expensive) is yed graph editor. Out of all the tools I have ever used for making diagrams, it remains the one that is the most precise, good

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