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It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.

Also, @CarlLandry357@lemmy.world, another factor in learning the CLI is that it gives you power in automating your desktop workflow. Using Bash with a bunch of Unix tools is the most basic automation script you can have, and Linux is very nimble about it (invoking processes is considerably more costly in Windows, so apps tend to do everything in a single process with threads). For example, a file manager like Double Commander can have custom actions for files defined in the options, and you specify those as a terminal command to invoke. A more advanced example is a launcher like Alfred (for MacOS) that can run scripts on custom keywords. I’ve had it doing stuff like connecting/disconnecting bluetooth headphones without mucking about with the mouse and tray menus, or handing the headphones over to the phone. Haven’t found anything like that for Linux yet. Generally, a programmer that knows multiple languages and paradigms is better than one that sticks to a single one, because they’ve encountered different ways of doing things. Particularly, for desktop automation, learning Lua is a boon, because it’s small and fast as hell and finishes scripts before Python can start up. I’m in perpetual mourning for absence of anything like Hammerspoon for Linux, which allows scripting in Lua and has lots of APIs to interface with the OS. Of course, one milestone in a programmer’s career is learning Lisp instead of the usual stuff.

Plug the pic into reverse image search, it’s returning a bunch of results for me. Although it’s mostly greeting cards, and cropped compared to the OP image. E.g. ‘Boat on Lake at Night’.

I’m sure they’ve had discussions on which of them loves the D more, and it felt more believable coming from Mr. Black.

I don’t like him because he’s cheesy as fuck and people’s obsession with him feels like celebrity worship from the nineties, when everything was saccharine to the gills. The only role of his I like is the music video for Blotted Science’s ‘Cretaceous Chasm’.

Black said he loves the D Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Not only does each of Tingle’s books have cover art, but he’s gone out of his way to replace a ‘lesbian skeleton’ image that might’ve been made by AI, with another stock skeleton image.

For a programmer, learning the Unix CLI is quite recommended, because it gives you tools that you otherwise would have to find for each particular use-case. Once you get the hang of it, you see that Unix lets you combine a bunch of utils to do many unforseen tasks, while in Windows you’re expected to get a specific app to do any particular task. PowerShell allows you to do some of that, but it’s woefully behind the times compared to Unix tools that were around for ages, and is simultaneously too complicated for its own good. Plus afaik it’s tied to the OS version, which sucks.

One thing to note is that QMP3Gain seems to be a GUI for mp3gain, a terminal util. There are also aacgain and such for different formats, though some of them support multiple formats.

Presumably the server should do the volume adjustment in this case.

It’s like the people complaining that in MacOS the user needs to install third-party tools (open-source ones!) to tune the GUI, and then advising each other how they use this and that tool to disable MS’ bullshit in Windows.

Here: reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/

I tried FF translation a couple times, and it woefully poor compared to Google’s. What am I doing wrong?

Reminder that Krebs is an asshole who responds to criticism by doxxing the accounts of other security researchers.

An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor. Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of that.

Afaik the bonus promised is 50k, which is a bit more significant. Leads to people joking that they’d like to join, get the bonus and then just not do the job.

In hiphop a beatmaker is typically separate from the rapper. And outside hiphop, music writers and lyricists are often different people, plus covers exist (including those changing the lyrics). So him using others’ music is the least problematic thing about him. ‘Gangsta Paradise’ is considered a classic, but its entire music track and the vocal melody of the chorus are lifted from Stewie Wonder’s ‘Pastime Paradise’.

Ironically, when Russia was joining the World Trade Organization in early 2010s, one requirement was for them to block pirate sites, namely torrent-sharing ones. Which they did, and the sites are blocked to this day.

Not sure how this says anything about Russian copyright laws or Russian government.

Yeah, so ignorant, we even know how to cook. Unlike the enlightened USians who just have someone else cook for them every day and have yet another guy bring it.

I’m not familiar with the culture of those folks, but to my understanding nomadic culture is not really fit for modern urban living. So one can still have local dances and such, but generally life is gonna be the same as in European parts of Russia (or perhaps like in China, in the case of Mongolia). That’s why, for example, Kazakh apartments are pretty much indistinguishable from Russian ones, since both countries were urbanized together during the twentieth century. But different from Europe proper, which built towns since the Middle Ages. As for bread, since they only got it somewhat recently, I’d expect they just borrowed Russian varieties. Plus the region seems to have influence from Central Asian and Chinese cuisine.

Central Asia is defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Mongolia is in East Asia. Anyway, I don’t know much about Mongolia and can’t say anything about its food, except that they were historically also nomadic, so I wouldn’t expect much agricultural cuisine. Wikipedia seems to agree, saying “Mongolian cuisine predominantly consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats”. Same appears to be true for Tuvans, Buryats, and Altai people, if you’re hinting at those. If you have some particular traditional bread in mind, please share.

Not only Russian language and foods have plenty of borrowings from Central Asia due to centuries of trade, but immigrants from the region settle in all the major Russian cities and bring their cuisine with them, both as street food and as restaurants specializing in cuisine of those countries. Dishes with tandyr bread are made in street shops. Multiple varieties of lavash and other bakery from Central Asia can be found in any supermarket in Russia. But you also mention ‘north Central Asia’ specifically, which as far as I can tell is Kazakhstan. Well, Kazakhs were nomad herders for centuries and ate mainly meat and milk, only starting with cereals around eighteenth century, and particularly late nineteenth century when they began settling down more. Pray tell, what original bread was ‘culturally genocided’ in these circumstances.

People note that even McDonald’s in Hawaii is way better than that in the continental US.

And then, even Englishmen look down on Scots who think oats porridge is human food.

You insulting Central-Asian bread can only mean that you lack any taste in regard to bread, or that you actually haven’t eaten Central-Asian breads, and perhaps only tasted a stale lavash shipped to you over two weeks.

It’s been so fun seeing USians freak out at the remote prospect that they might have to live like people in other countries do. USians on Reddit spent the entire 2023 complaining about prices of Doordash delivery, and then they’re also irked that games cost 60$ now. But cooking at home for a couple days instead of ordering pizza again? Not an option. “Ooh we have to work all day, we don’t have time for cooking.” Well guess how people eat in other countries? They cook at home after work. Boo fucking hoo.

English and a,language that’s highly inflective and flexible. So I can’t decide if it’s worse than C++, but that still seems unlikely.

It would be me, except I swear a lot under my breath when I encounter problems with software or things.

Hitler personally disliked Fraktur and gave a speech against it in 1934. It continued to be used as ‘the true German script’ until 1941, when the party made a 180 and banned it under the pretext that it wasn’t Fraktur, but Schwabacher, a similar blackletter script, which they called ‘Jewish letters’. Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were forbidden as well. As a result, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world Inspired by the analogous subreddit.

Check out ‘Recca’ aka ‘Summer Carnival '92’. Outstanding game for its time, with a bitching techno soundtrack.

Adams also wrote the game ‘Bureaucracy’, similarly rather difficult. And later ‘Starship Titanic’, which is a 3d adventure with textual conversations.

I don’t think I would even be able to drink that. As soon as it touches my tongue, my throat would clamp shut.

supermarket I was at once that had some “repeller” Sounds curiously close to them ‘teenager repellents’ that emit high-pitched noise that older ears can’t hear.

You can get custom fitted earplugs for specific decibel ranges now, which is what my construction buddy got. I have a pair myself for raves and concerts Not just that, but giants of acoustics, like Sennheiser and AKG — don’t remember exactly who — make earplugs for musicians or concert-goers. With which one gets good sound, just quieter.

I was wondering why this ‘five years’ thing popped up now, because I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of it long ago.

So they are ‘cosplaying’ as goth hotties? I don’t think much cosplaying is involved there.

The shitposting communities are full of random memes about corn, no need for hints. Basically, arbitrary meme is arbitrary.

Snapinsta is another Instagram frontend, but afaik it doesn’t have direct links to a post that could be shared (everyone will have to paste the original link by hand).

Is that Cory Doctorow?

Ain’t happening, since belief in God is reiterated time and again as the main requirement for anyone to get any heaven time. Even Jesus was going “if you don’t believe my father and me, then get fucked”.

doesn’t mean He’d just disregard you It’s said many times both in the Old and the New testaments that whoever doesn’t believe, is totally fucked for eternity. Read your own main book.

Even Electron apps aren’t necessarily ram hoarders: Stretchly, which is a break reminder and thus needs to always run in the background, takes something like 20 or 40 MB of memory.

you could even argue that V8 is bloated as well Not really, no. It’s very compact compared to Python, Java or most anything comparable. A compiled program would be smaller, of course, and Lua is minuscule next to anything — but otherwise V8 is small and fast. Iirc Node.js takes something like 30 MB out of the box, including its modules and libraries.

TIL the book is pretty recent-ish. I thought I read it ages ago.

Because $0.10 + $1 = $1.00 I have bad news…

Thanks. I know there are thousands of languages, but Jamaican is the only ‘patois’ I’ve encountered in wide discussion, so amn’t used to differentiating. It seems also to be an umbrella term, whereas Jamaican Patois is actually a creole language.

‘The Harder They Come’, a popular Jamaican film, was referred to as “the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles” due to thick Patois used in it. So there’s indeed pervasive confusion, but in the end Patois often just can’t be understood by English-speakers. Fun fact: Patois developed starting in the seventeenth century, and mixes languages of West and Central Africa, used by the slaves, with British and Irish English and Scots, used by the slaveholders. Where Scots is itself a sister language of English, descended from Early Middle English.