troyunrau

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Someone expand this with more franchises…

Farscape: “Hi god, it’s me, John. If you’re out there, give me a sign!” Scorpius: “You’re out of your mind John.”

Dr. Who: (David Tennant) “It’s taken me all these years to realize that the laws of time are mine and they will obey me!” (Second frame) pouty face

troyunrau, 7 months ago

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Pro-tip: sort All by New Comments. Yes, if you refresh, you get repeat content, but you also find the unusual stuff and the repeated stuff is where the conversations are happening.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Gotta overwhelm with numbers. A swarm of sparrows charmed by Radagast should do it.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Uncle, how do I delete someone else’s meme?

troyunrau, 8 months ago

The seals… bolted.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

What a reactive load of…

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

troyunrau, 8 months ago

She is pretty much the best character on the show by virtue of being the best cast actor. Wow what a good choice. I give a close second to Amos.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Are they empty?

troyunrau, 8 months ago

There is a mostly abandoned town called Snowflake, Manitoba, Canada. They bulldozed the school even.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Word will be your biggest problem.

On rare occasion, you might get some sort of advanced PDF feature that will trip you up (embedded 3D objects or some weird encryption or something), but 99% will work as expected.

Linux is literally the home turf for major video player development. VLC works like a charm for literally everything.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

ITT: people sitting in their comfortable first world environment commenting using electronics which were certainly mined somewhere, convinced they’re oppressed and not the root cause.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

I’m pretty sure I saw this episode of Community…

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Best meme. Shut down the internet.

troyunrau, 8 months ago

I keep trying to add content to other communities, but I get drowned out by memes about beans and stroganoff… ;)

troyunrau, 8 months ago

You

troyunrau, 8 months ago

Some of this is correct, and some of it is myth. Source: I was there ;)

Qt way back in version 1 was merely “free for non-commercial use” and shipped with the source code. KDE was founded on that version. This was in like 1996, before KDE even had a stable release. Gnome was founded immediately in response, choosing GTK (the Gimp Toolkit) which wasn’t really ready for use as a full fledged desktop toolkit, but existed and the license was friendly. KDE and Trolltech formed a few agreements – the first was the creation of the QPL, an attempt to create an open-source compatible license for Qt, and the second was the creation of the KDE Free Qt Foundation (it said, effectively, if Qt were to become closed, the most recent version prior to that would be released under the BSD license).

However, the damage was done. Stallman and others would never forgive KDE for choosing a not-free-enough toolkit, and the Gnome devs were associated with redhat. That meant Redhat and Debian, the two biggest distros, defaulted to Gnome. Ubuntu just adopted Debian, ergo Gnome.

Qt would shortly thereafter be released under GPL, GPL3, and LGPL. There’s still a commercial license option, and that pisses a lot of people off for some reason. But it was never a risk to KDE or the community – not since before KDE 1.0.