PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 4 days ago:
I just have known many people, and I’m something of an autist myself at times.
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 4 days ago:
It wasn’t the show. It was that anon was kind to him and wanted to hang out with him, be chill and connect with him with sincere good intention, and that made such a profound impact that he didn’t want to let it go and wanted to go deeper into whatever was going on in that world.
Everyone just wants love.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 days ago:
Compare this:
Tell me why Armistice Day was more important than Veteran’s Day is.
I aim to engage thoughtfully with this topic while noting that the relative importance of these observances can vary based on personal and cultural perspectives.
Armistice Day, established to commemorate the end of World War I on November 11, 1918, held unique significance as it marked humanity’s hope that WWI would truly be “the war to end all wars.” The original spirit was focused specifically on peace and the prevention of future wars. When the armistice was signed, there was a profound sense of collective relief and determination to ensure such devastating conflict would never happen again…
To this:
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
I find the second one more entertaining, more pleasant to read. If you want to call it that. I know translation is different from coming up with new text. But look again at the lyrics and the language in the second one.
I’m not trying to tell you that you’re wrong for wanting to read things that aren’t in English, or that there isn’t a place for machine translation so the information can get conveyed. I’m just saying that passing anything of value through this filter, and then presenting it as something for people consumption, is a bad idea compared with the other way.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 days ago:
It’s not enough to be able to put the words in the right order.
You have to know why they need to be said. Otherwise, it’s a big waste. Just throw the book in the bin and go spend some time outside instead.
- I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”www.citationneeded.news ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 weeks ago:
They’re not allowed to be collaborating with people who work for certain Russian companies. It’s not a question of security, it’s a question of US law requiring US entities to punish through non-cooperation certain companies that are assisting in the war effort or whatever.
It might or might not be fair, but it isn’t up to the kernel developers, it’s a legal requirement for them.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Hey guys we’re going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep
You can’t work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT
- A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainerslore.kernel.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 27 comments
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- Comment on Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looking for some clarification on what im guna call the Lemmy workflow from a new post to the front page. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve done something like this, with RSS feeds. Read !meta@rss.ponder.cat to see the existing communities, and how to add a feed to an existing community.
The concern about spam is real. A lot of these exist, for example one for Hacker News and a whole instance for Reddit, and a lot of people including myself don’t like those. I agree with you that it’s a good idea but it’s necessary to be careful that it remains a useful seed of content and not an overwhelming spew.
- The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.every.to ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 27 comments
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 1 month ago:
I am fetching the RSS feeds for particular channels, for which I need the channel ID.
Google gives out not only the RSS feed, but also the channel ID, if you click the menu under “share”, as someone else pointed out to me a couple days ago. You are very confused about things. This thing about it being against the TOS is pure fantasy.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 1 month ago:
Ed Zitron diagnosed the causes and timing of the rot:
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- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 1 month ago:
Perfect sense. I don’t think that’s any kind of official expose by Target, only one person talking about their experience. But you’re right that it’s not conclusive one way or another.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 1 month ago:
It depends on the state, but they often can be combined to add up to a felony.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 1 month ago:
reddit.com/…/how_does_target_keep_track_of_people…
Someone who claims to be Target LP goes into some interesting detail about their loss prevention, and doesn’t bring this up, in a context where it seems likely that they would have, if it were accurate.
- Comment on 13 years ago, indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a weird as hell video about searching your teenager's room for drugs and guns. 1 month ago:
It really comes across how upset he was about fourth amendment protections, when he was a cop.
- Comment on OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, just sold you out 1 month ago:
I think that over the next few years Sam Altman is going to learn the same lessons that events have been trying to teach Elon Musk since circa 2021.
- You didn’t build that. The people that work for you did.
- Being a big hero is contingent on you and your behavior, and can change.
- Those people who are giving you all this money aren’t your comrades. When your usefulness is at its end, they won’t give you a second thought.
- Comment on WATCH: Migrants tell undercover reporter they are registered to vote and prefer Kamala 1 month ago:
Anyone remember the shenanigans in Maricopa County in 2020?
I remember that when it all went to court, everyone who’d been incredibly bombastic about the shenanigans all of a sudden had nothing to say to back it up other than, “trust me, bro.”
en.wikipedia.org/…/Post-election_lawsuits_related…
There are lots of details including primary source citations in the article.
- Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 1 month ago:
That sounds perfect. Installing the system
-develpackage and-lfreetypeis the right way to do it. Glad you got it working! - Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 1 month ago:
Remove the locally compiled install and install
freetype-devel, and see if that works. - Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 1 month ago:
That is what GNU Stow does, with a lot of package-management-like helper commands which make it all organized and convenient.
- Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 1 month ago:
i don’t. i install the dev package of my distro
I think you cracked the code. I was really curious what distribution this person was using that didn’t have freetype, but missing installing the -dev package makes perfect sense and I definitely remember doing that and tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn’t compile some thing that needed dev headers.
OP, install libfreetype-dev or its equivalent on your system. 90% chance that fixes it.
- Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 1 month ago:
I definitely wouldn’t recommend changing every include.
Can you configure freetype to go straight into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include instead, with no freetype/? That would be how I would attack it. Most libraries are going to have a way to configure them to go where you want them to go. GNU Stow can be very useful here to keep things organized.
What distro are you using that doesn’t have freetype available? That seems strange.