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flying_sheep, (edited )
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You probably missed the part where the article talks about university level math, and that strong juxtaposition is common there.

I also think that many conventions are bad, but once they exist, their badness doesn’t make them stop being used and relied on by a lot of people.

I don’t have any skin in the game as I never ran into ambiguity. My university professors simply always used fractions, therefore completely getting rid of any possible ambiguity.

flying_sheep,
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How are people upvoting you for refusing to read the article?

flying_sheep,
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That’s not true

  1. We have no evidence about either and both are non-falsifiable
  2. Living in a simulation is one idea. Each individual religion is a whole bunch of assumptions rolled into one system.

Therefore “we live in a simulation” is just as likely as “there’s some higher power”, while “the Matrix is a documentary, everything will happen exactly like in the movie” is as likely as “the Christian god is real, just as described in the bible”.

flying_sheep, (edited )
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I don’t think there’s a significant number of people who believe in a specific simulation scenario the way so many people believe in a specific religion.

Sure, some dumb tech bros believe “i think we live in like, a simulation, dude”, which would correspond to “there must be some higher power out there for sure”. Both beliefs are irrational, but more likely than “the Matrix is real, just like in the movies” or “this specific codex got it all right and we should live our lives after the thousands of unclear moral teachings that can be extrapolated from it by untrustworthy human preachers”

flying_sheep, (edited )
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Did you reply to the wrong comment? Nothing I said is incompatible with what you said.

I’m just saying that the original meme makes no sense.

flying_sheep,
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Duh. But you do understand what purpose the metaphor serves?

flying_sheep,
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… has gotten some help and is now a pretty well-adjusted human being, who still tells right wing trolls to go suck it, and still tells paid professionals that they should have known better when they should have known better, but in language that isn’t abusive.

So I don’t know why you bring him up.

flying_sheep,
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I don’t understand why anyone ever expects a different outcome. They fork something that has quite some investment into the original version. How do they expect to keep up?

flying_sheep,
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If you bring the two parts of your comment together and dial back the assumptions of bad faith, you’ll get a consistent picture:

Wayland is a blank slate replacement for how to do window management on Linux. At some point it’ll become the standard for software that’s new or maintained. Unmaintained software that doesn’t talk to the internet and is therefore safe to run even with security holes will continue to be supported via XWayland. The giant scope and API surface is part of the reason why it’s deprecated. Maintainers are expected to target the new way to do things going forward, because there are people able and willing to maintain that support (many of those people former X11 maintainers who are looking forward to stop having to deal with that legacy behemoth)

That’s the state of things I wanted to express. Not my opinion, no agenda, just how I understand the situation.

flying_sheep,
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Also read the article (as in the original blog post) about that repo.

flying_sheep,
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Read the article, specifically the part mentioning where X11 is going and distributions that aren’t fedora.

flying_sheep,
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And that’ll shake out in the time it takes for X11 to go away. I get what you’re saying, although I don’t share your opinion about portals from a user perspective: I’m just happy that Firefox finally uses the Plasma file picker.

flying_sheep,
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I think having separate standard APIs for screenshots, screen capture, and video capture that aren’t married to one implementation makes sense.

I partially agree about the focus on containers/sandboxes. Yes, it makes sense to criticize that something designed for a different use case results in different trade-offs. But on the other hand, are the use cases really that different? We’re talking about standalone desktop apps, they need some common building blocks no matter if they’re containerized or not, right?

Otherwise I don’t know enough about the standards to comment there, you’re probably right!

flying_sheep,
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Within the last 10 years and the next 5 years, software using old hacks instead of GUI toolkits are expected to switch, yes.

People can choose to continue to use X11 until KDE Plasma 6 hits Debian stable.

I don’t see a problem. Nobody forces Wayland onto anyone yet, except for bleeding edge distributions like Fedora. And unless you’ve been severely misled, you should know what you signed up for when you installed Fedora.

flying_sheep, (edited )
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I think you’re like 5 years behind on this. It’s true, just read up on it. Linus took time off after criticism for his language got too much. And he improved by a lot. You’ll find no more name calling directed at contributors after a certain date.

flying_sheep,
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You think?

I think people feel liberated to say they’re gay these days, so there are much more people claiming to be gay than in previous decades. On the other hand, there’s still a lot of homophobes and also quite some biphobes around, so there’s probably a lot of bi people that present as hetero or even gay.

I’d assume that most people are at least a little bi, and that they’ll try that out in high school even if they later decide they won’t pursue it.

flying_sheep,
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You misunderstood:

  • I didn’t imply that he is homophobic or biphobic
  • I think it’s possible that this is a more accurate sampling, as I think that bi people are underrepresented in common statistics.
flying_sheep,
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Are they fully gay, or did they embrace the acceptance of a biphobic culture by leaning into their gay side?

I’m not devaluing their choices, I’m just saying that people sometimes shut doors out of choice, not because there’s no world in which they’d take them.

flying_sheep,
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Owned by Facebook, which is a giant US company.

Of fucking course it has backdoors.

flying_sheep,
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How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.

flying_sheep,
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That’s exactly what I’m saying. Using pre-made characters looks cheap. Good enough for a 13-year-old’s geocities website, not good for something pretty.

flying_sheep,
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That’s true, but it also wasn’t fair to be a Wayland detractor then.

Nvidia needed to do stuff to make that combination viable, and their delay in doing so wasn’t anyone’s fault but Nvidia’s

flying_sheep,
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That doesn’t answer the question. Sure, in isolation, Android app ecosystem isn’t ideal. But it’s so so much better at allowing competition than the apple one.

flying_sheep,
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Well then do it! There’s probably VM images around with a working installation

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