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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:05:00 JST divVerent
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- cool_boy_mew
@coolboymew Well... where I come from, computers are not part of the school curriculum up to year 12 at all. And then you may go to university.

And given I have worked in the uni's IT department - we definitely had students with zero computer experience there, not even gaming.

What third world country was that, you ask?

Germany...

(But you do need reading or writing skills there... so there's at least that)

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:46:18 JST divVerent
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- iced depresso
@icedquinn Unlimited Detail with pointclouds is back?

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 20:30:08 JST divVerent
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@Jain @hypha Well in a way that _is_ block evasion but we gotta expect it happening, as public is public.

Just like it is block evasion if a politician blocks me on Twitter and I then see some of their tweets on TV or in the news. But gotta live with that, as public means public.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:58:56 JST divVerent
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- narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
@hj Ah, depends on ampage then. Hm... if it does not get hot there, soldering might be an option, but a wire nut-ish connection may not be all that bad given what you write. IIRC screw clamps are most common at high amps - at least that is what my car uses.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:52:17 JST divVerent
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- narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
@hj Twisting wires together and hiding the poor work with a plastic cap is standard US best practice BTW.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:50:07 JST divVerent
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- narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
@hj Wago?

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:00:13 JST divVerent
@newt @mjdxp @icedquinn @wolf480pl @nytpu These Linux issues are definitely fixable, which is precisely what happens on Android.

The two ways to fix it are either namespaces (see also: flatpak, snap), or a separate system user ID for every app/user combination.

The usual desktop Linux experience is a desktop OS where each application acts on behalf of the user. Only because of this you can even go and rm, mv, etc. around in your home dir.

But it does not have to be that way, as the above examples show.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 05:56:48 JST divVerent
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@icedquinn @nytpu @mjdxp @newt @wolf480pl Chrome does it for a while on X11 already, using title bar space as tab bar. I hate it (and turned it off).

Adding extra icons for e.g. sound muting is nice though, but that should IMHO be drawn by the compositor and be requested declaratively by the application (or even not requested at all, but the app should request sound access and that should auto add the icon).

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 05:18:48 JST divVerent
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@icedquinn @mjdxp @newt @nytpu @wolf480pl It _can_, but it _doesn't_. Basically, on X11 it was outsourced by default (but X servers with builtin window managers exist).

And that is why it is currently in practice harder to have custom window management on Wayland. Wayland was MEANT to bring forth GNOME world domination, alternate compositors were seen as a bad thing to happen (see also: client side decorations, which could only work well in a single-DE environment).

But indeed - someone definitely could make a "W server" that outsources window management and decoration to a subprocess with a clearly defined protocol. No such protocol has been defined yet though, so there we are. wlroots, being a library and not a protocol, comes closest.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 04:09:43 JST divVerent
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@icedquinn @newt @mjdxp @nytpu @wolf480pl They cannot agree on simple things and bikeshed on everything forever.

Which is why screen locking is still unsolved on Wayland, with multiple competing half implementations for specific DEs and decades old bugs with discussions.

For the time being, using Linux means instead of relying on Wayland works - see physlock.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 02:17:02 JST divVerent
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- kaia
@kaia So you also oppose asking for exchanging these products for money at the register? Or is that somehow different?

This is actually a pretty strong argument for self checkout.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 00:04:07 JST divVerent
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@icedquinn @enigmatico @theorytoe To have a power monopoly of the state, the state needs to be trustworthy. Trust must be earned. And they are not even trying.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:54:04 JST divVerent
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@icedquinn @enigmatico @theorytoe Sorry, the UN are your argument against gun control? That seems weak. The Useless Nations. The highest power they have is sending strongly worded letters, and even that they can't do because whoever they want to address it to has veto right.

The UN are just plain useless. Ignoring them is the only logical action.

(Oh, and no need to pay them any money)

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:23:41 JST divVerent
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- 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:
- T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:
@theorytoe @enigmatico Well, _in the limit_ gun control does stop armed crime. If one could eradicate all guns from the world, and also all knowledge about how to build them - then there's no more gun violence.

But the more interesting question is, would there be _more_ or _less_ total violence then? More or less murders?

Cain needed just a rock to kill Abel. David however shot Goliath - probably because as a felon Goliath couldn't own a slingshot ;)

However, the practical problem is that one can't just do that. Any measure of gun control favors criminals first, as they're the ones least impacted by any bans. They're on the run already, after all...

So in this imperfect world, the main question where people differ is, should civilians own guns, or should we have so high police presence that crime is actually stopped before anyone dies? IMHO both are valid extremes, and most countries pick an option somewhere in the middle. No option is really perfect.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:23:39 JST divVerent
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- T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:
@theorytoe @enigmatico Yeah. This is also why most people would NOT want to eradicate all guns, but at least want the police and military to have them.

The problem is - once we accept that, those guns are gonna get stolen or sold on the black market for sure - from the cops, from the manufacturer, in transit, etc.

So we just gave criminals guns by arming the police. Even if we assumed all cops had good intentions.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 23:23:37 JST divVerent
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- 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:
- T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:
@theorytoe @enigmatico Yeah, that's another problem. Distrust in government in general and police in particular also raises both gun ownership AND crime (even crime against "civilians", not just anti-government crime).

And the US have been particularly bad at this, with being so extremely divided that every American considers half their own country nazi satan worshippers. This too should never have happened, but people should instead have learned to cooperate. This sadly won't end well.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 07:15:20 JST divVerent
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- hexaheximal
@hexaheximal Well, I do believe I am real, but as you know:

_Don't let appearances fool you._

:)

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:00:08 JST divVerent
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- on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
@lain IRC does not have an admin randomly banning people from the entire protocol because they once got accused of something they didn't do and then refuses to accept any proof of the opposite.

In IRC, this same power abuse is done by channel ops, and seldomly also by server ops. Thus, less centralized and one can actually go elsewhere.

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 08:11:40 JST divVerent
@olmitch @Moon @adiz I had a slot machine as a child in my room and played a lot with it. Put money in, pushed the buttons, enjoyed the blinkenlights, and when out, I opened it up and got my money out of it for more slot machine playing.

After like a year I got bored of it and never felt any urge to gamble in my life. Maybe also because I observed first hand that you always will run out of money when playing one...

Now I can't tell if the same method can be applied to other things...

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divVerent (divverent@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 07:50:09 JST divVerent
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- Sexy Moon
@Moon Why do people play computer games involving killing then? Which sick mind made it so Mario murders Goombas, Koopas and Yoshis all the time?

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