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- Comment on New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense 52 minutes ago:
De-duplicate the internet. You have your orders.
- Comment on New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense 7 hours ago:
Is that like converting raster images to SVG? Either it emebeds the actual image as data, or it “vectorizes” every fucking pixel. Filesize will show you which.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 day ago:
Thanks. That must have been tough on you - most kids at that age have a strong but simplified sense of moral - but more so on your parents. I hope they found a good way of explaining it to 7-year-old you.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 day ago:
Yeah. Nothing like solvency issues to drag out a bit of drama is there.
That’s not what I meant. Working with children & their parents, it tends to get very emotional.
Sadly, everyone involved in this fiasco is at best underpaid but more likely a volunteer.
Underpaid for sure.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 day ago:
Innocent me just asked my dad
How old were you at that point?
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 day ago:
They probably did, but who might have heard of it?
Exactly.
But even so, the history books are full of the things OP is asking about.
In other words: both small-form and big-form criticism existed. - Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 day ago:
if you just want to play some Win XP games it works fine offline.
That’s could almost be a slogan for WINE (and all game-oriented forks).
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 day ago:
Given the staff “walk out”, it’s possible that the money is owed to employees, which muddies the waters.
Possibly. From experience, I can almost guarantee you that there’s way more drama behind the story than the numbers show.
trying to guilt every parent into paying $2,200.
That’s the read I got from the article too, but again I’m pretty sure the whole thing had a long prelude that also involved parents, so it didn’t exactly come as a shock.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 day ago:
This obviously sucks. But what led to this situation? Either it forced upon you at work, or you spent money on it, set up an account with e-mail and some other form of real life credentials, im- or explicitely agreed to all sorts of “telemetry”, and now you’re here.
There’s a non-profit, free and libre alternative right there for the taking. They spent decades on making the process of installing it as convenient as possible, not to speak of the OS itself. Switch now.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 day ago:
Ah, the Golden Age of the USA… with a functional judicial system… I feel nostalgic
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 day ago:
ReactOS ^/s^
Seriously, you know the answer.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 days ago:
You’re a glass half full kinda person, I like it.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 2 days ago:
So it was a fundraiser? Hm, I actually don’t have a problem with that and I think it’s a nicer (more creative if you will) option than - idk, simply asking for money.
I work in this area and underfunding is a constant companion. Add to that the abysmally low pay and the disregard for all the extra work educators do, usually for no overtime pay at all, I get positively pissed off that they get in trouble for trying to fix a bad situation. Probably, as you said, brought up as unpaid labor by someone who had no nefarious thought at all about the whole thing, just wanted to help. Apparently they were unaware of rules and regulations, is the worst I can say here.
Did parents step up and donate the money anyhow? That is the real question.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 days ago:
If they are the school’s I would simply not give them to that student anymore, for very obvious reasons that every 9yo should understand. Let him use his own.
Is the act itself disturbing the class or his own ability to concentrate? If not, I do not see any further problem.
Haven’t we all chewed on pencils to concentrate?
- Comment on Cookie management dark patterns 2 days ago:
So what does “Reject All” do then?
- Comment on What Cádiz’s South Series Festival Said About the Future of TV 5 days ago:
Clicked because Cádiz was mentioned. Fascinating city that I stumbled into by accident a few years back. Older than the Roman Empire, and it really shows & feels in the inner city. Cheap hostels in historical buildings.
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 5 days ago:
With some weird stuff like water management (waterschap) being it’s own electable agency outside of the typical political system.
The Sea has been shaping NL and it’s society for ages. Keeping it at bay (which is one of the tasks of waterschap I guess) is a life-or-death task.
It has a very low electoral threshold, so new parties can come (and go) quite fast.
Very interesting factoid! We should know more about such things in all countries.
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 5 days ago:
NE? It’s NL.
What we’re hearing out of NL these days is pretty similar to what’s happening in many EU countries: the far-right populists are getting stronger, gaining access to government, usually as part of a coalition, and generally fuck things up in a big way.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure this would be straight up illegal in my country.
- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 1 week ago:
Framagit uses Gitlab
Notabug uses gogs - Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 week ago:
It implies that it’s the GNU stuff I care about (just as much as the kernel). But e.g. systemd is not GNU. And let me tell you, it is really cool to have systemd on your phone, write your own services.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 week ago:
“Linux” is usually used as a term for the operating system based on the kernel. Look up “pars pro toto”.
Mr Stallman tried to remedy that by telling us all to call it GNU/Linux. He’s not wrong (even the license, the GPL, is GNU) but it still isn’t the whole picture. Also I’m sure some Rust fans will tell you that a revolution is underway replacing venerable GNU tools with new, alround Just Better™ versions.
So, a Linux phone is one that is internally a Linux operating system. The difference (to Android) is worldview-shattering. Just like with your other Linux machines, you are in control and not $CORPO.
- Comment on Can a Brit confirm this? 2 weeks ago:
Not a brit, but I know the traditional “Full English” breakfast: Everything is fried. Even the tomatoes.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 3 weeks ago:
From what I’m seeing around me kids are often allowed to interact with a tablet before a phone.
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 3 weeks ago:
Looks a lot like mine which is the oldest remaining part of my PC. There’s no branding whatsoever on it.
- Comment on He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. Meet influencer Benny Johnson. 3 weeks ago:
😭 Should be extremely infuriating, but you just can’t keep that up 24/7/365.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 3 weeks ago:
In your words I hear that as a web dev, you rely 100% on javascript.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 3 weeks ago:
We go the extra mile. It will makes us look good. Therefore we only announce it on corporate social media.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about using js or not, it’s about failing gracefully. An empty page instead of a simple written article is not acceptable.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 4 weeks ago:
The only non-heated comment.
You mean people replying to you? I wouldn’t call those heated, rather derisive. Just like your own original comment. You come across as presumptuous and pretending to be more knowledgeable than you really are.