Notices by Juɦo̞ Mæn̪t̪yˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞ (iju@mastodon.social)

@gamingonlinux

That's not enough even for one weekend.

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@fabi1cazenave

The point of Dune is to be a dystopia, though. As the story unfolds, every well-meaning character ends up sacrificing not only themselves, but all they hold dear, for the Greater Good.

Rowling's story is special in that it justified horrible with worse. In that way it's a kin to Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream, which is a pulp-scifi story as written by Adolf Hitler.

cc: @dalias @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot

@fesshole

Very "knowledge is power: France is Bacon" -moment.

@nixCraft

Stuff like this makes me think that bolsheviks knew what was what.

This even though I'm not into violent coups, vanguardianism, destruction of tacit knowledge, OR the absolute kafkasque bureaucracy their polity evolved into.

EDIT: Also makes me think of visiting the Latvian Museum of Occupation, where there was some generic statue (mayhaps a happy kid), with a plate saying that the occupiers liked to seed public places with mass-produced art. Didn't fit the narrative (for me).

@mayorbeetles

Agree completely.

I would like to add how in addition of something being harmful, there's also *identifying* something as harmful to us/community/society/etc. AND being in a position to do something about it.

Is Rowling more harmful than petrol cars (for society, community/environment)? Certainly not, but it's easier to opt out from Rowling, and not buying books is legal unlike blowing oil pipes.

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@gamingonlinux

A bit concerning for the company how much of the reasons were related to Fortnight. It can't be healthy to put almost all of your money on one pony.

Secondarily, lowering wages and raising cost of living is leading to well-known results. It's just, that, well...

@geekysteven

You jest, but that's an actual job [occupational therapist].

@Gargron @madalex

Sorry that I have to ask, but where's the chart?

The short version of the problem is that we're not all built the same. Eg. it's not how tall you are, it's length of your spine.

For example, when I was thinner and used M-shirts (and lower waist was in fashion for jeans), my belly button used to come out if the shirt was less than around 80 cm tall. It's even worse now, as people are less keen seeing my belly, and sizes bigger than M are for those thicker, but not taller.

@llamasoft_ox

Truly Star Trek is set in the future.

@hellomiakoda

You're in a very good company, as you probably know by now.

That said, "Cow Tools" could also be seen as an example of anti-humour: it's funny because it's not.

@davidho

Reminds when I downloaded my booking information as a pdf, knowing I wouldn't have Internet at the destination.

Adobe refused to show it to me without Internet.

I know use MuPDF. Free and doesn't need Internet connection.

@babble_endanger @FediThing

IMHO, the right answer is to take the money, but invest it all on index funds. Thus the donation can be used to keep the project running indefinitely in its current scope.

@evamik @kaia

To me the term came out of nowhere half a year ago.

Wasn't too attractive, as for some reason I associate arab desserts with unbearable sweetness. And chocolate is pretty darn sweet to begin with.

@libreleah

TBF, movement was somewhat more difficult before WW1 if you didn't have a travel budget (and economic independence) comparable to Phileas Fogg.

And of course states also have more responsibilities these days.

Compare with the development of the Schengen area. It wasn't just about freedom of travel, it was also balance between right to social security, how freedom of work affected local labour unions, and the right to vote.

@kaia

Can only imagine how horrible Luxemburg is: I'm living area that I would assume is less than the Finnish median, and I still want to tear my hair out now and again.

(This should be a bigger public interest. Instead, even "tuned" motorcycles waking up the whole street during night-time is seen as acceptable.)

@Gargron @falseknees

How? I mean, I'm happy for you, but I wonder how my pre-order will reach me only in October, when you're already holding it in your hand.

@janneke @oceanhaiyang @itsfoss

(@oceangaiyang meant they went for Linux in 2024, and were impressed you went so far before.)

@klausfiend @molly0xfff

Generally speaking there's no need to even "identify and target" even outright hc-néo-nazis in context of wikipedia.

It would be helpful to know which accounts are neonazis to recognize bias, but that doesn't translate to knowing where they live.

The only reason to want to know this is to do something that isn't blessed by society, if not outright seen as illegal.

They're trying to go full 1984, by limiting access to distasteful information.

@deivudesu @pluralistic

Generally speaking the copyright laws are an example of laws that were never thought to apply to people who wouldn't have lawyers specialised on the subject on retainer. That we know have to consider them daily not only due to memes, "piracy", derivative works etc. shows how badly this situation has been handled.

Particularly as the ur-example just being an artist getting their due for authorising the music played for ambience at a restaurant!

@deivudesu @pluralistic

It's probably public domain in USA due to their weird copyright laws that differate between year of creation, was the copyright assinged to company or to a natural person at start etc. I wonder what the situation is in EU: Herge died in 1983, it wasn't work-for-hire, and EU has the copyright set as life+70 years.

(I understand Mickey Mouse is different for being assinged to Disney Corp, and due to it being created in USA from where the copyright period carries to EU.)