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  • Then those indigenous people need to figure out their morals. Chances are, they are embedded in a context where this is a lot easier, because they don't have factory farming. They are part of the food network and take only as much as nature can recover.

    You want me to be the arbiter of all morals? Well, there's my take. Indigenous people hunting are not the problem. Other parts of the hivemind might have a different view on that, though, and I'm not gonna apologize for their take.

  • It should be said, though, that this really is just a general rule. Some frameworks and programming languages are definitely less efficient than others without providing more versatility.

  • Yeah, the complaint isn't so much that we should be talking about rape all the time, but rather that we should stop shaming consensual sex.

  • Well, I hope you are happy with the answers you already got, because my answer is that I personally don't care to keep these items, so I don't have much of an opinion on it. 😎

    That's kind of the point I was trying to make up there, that I don't have to be the arbiter of all morals, just my own morals...

    But if you want to keep such trinkets and you feel like you've informed yourself enough to know that no harm is done to these animals, and that makes you decide that it is moral, I will gladly accept your decision.If I learn that it does harm in some way, I would let you know, though. Not to attack you, but because I would assume that you want to do no evil. And that you don't subscribe to the ~horseshit~ belief that your own ignorance of evil makes it moral.

    I feel like I really need to drive home that veganism is when you care, but you're also lazy. I don't want to have to inform myself about every supply chain for my food and every possible moral effect that my actions might have. So, I just nope the fuck out of a large chunk of that by not dealing with animal-sourced products.

    Like, yeah, if a bird drops a feather in front of you, the supply chain is quite obvious and I would hope you don't set off a trend of enough people wanting feathers in their homes for there to emerge an industry.

    So, it's almost certainly fine. But if I myself don't actually want a feather, you can bet your ass that I will gladly stop thinking right then and there.

    If these were not just random examples and rather genuine questions, then I would try to help you reason through it, but ultimately the decision is yours...

  • I guess, they might not be talking about individuals, but rather humanity as a whole. So, if a person rapes someone and this becomes publicly known, they will generally be shamed more than a woman having consensual sex (even though some rapists also get to be president, I guess).

    But across the board, we have insults that every kid knows, which equate to "woman having (consensual) sex bad", as well as gossip of the like, and even men being shamed for going out with a woman who has sex.Compared to that, rape is rarely talked about...

  • Waterfox. It started out as a 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows, back when Mozilla didn't offer that yet. These days, I believe, it just offers a few different defaults...

  • Veganism isn't a hivemind. We're all individuals that came to similar conclusions. And we will have different opinions on the details.

    Some folks will say consuming those that died naturally is a-ok. Others will argue that it incentivizes creating conditions under which animals die "naturally" to harvest them.Personally, I'm part of the group that is probably the largest by a long shot, whose opinion is: Why are we even thinking about that?

    The vast majority of vegans find corpses gross, much like anything you might derive from corpses.It also seriously does not happen often, that animals drop dead in front of you. And there's nothing on an animal's body that you can't find a different alternative for. So, it really just is not a relevant question in our lives...

  • I find it so tricky, too. With the maintainers that I see struggling, it's rarely a lack of contributions that fucks them up, but rather a lack of maintainers. And they can't easily onboard other maintainers, because:

    1. there's hardly anyone willing to invest enough time into your project to be a particularly helpful maintainer.
    2. everyone's just strangers on the internet, who may or may not want to ship malware as part of your project.

    Like, I even have a friend who's excited for a project that I'm building, but so far, they're purely cheerleading (which is appreciated), because they do have projects of their own that they find fun, and in particular also a life outside of programming.I do not currently struggle with maintainership (because I haven't announced my projects anywhere publicly 🤪), but yeah, it just feels like it's asking for a lot, if I were to try to get that friend on board. In particular also, because not many aspects of maintainership are fun.

  • I'm currently prototyping a macro to help reduce boilerplate, as part of a more general library. And I'm doing some wild shit, like defining the fields of a data type from the parameter list of a function.

    But then, yeah, what I'm now stuck on is that my generated code references a data type under one name, but it's actually got a different name in the public API. All the wild shit was smooth sailing, but a technicality now fucks me over. 🫠

  • Sure, but as it happens with multiplayer games, you typically have a friend group that plays a certain game. Getting all of them to switch to another game can definitely be a problem.

  • Eh, it's gonna depend on your taste in games. If competitive multiplayer games are your thing, then it is a problem. But sure, there's lots of people who have zero interest in competitive multiplayer.

  • Smooth

    Jump
  • Or a bus seat...

  • recreational coding

    Well, good news, it actually is fun to dick around in the Nix configuration and see those changes manifest on your system.

  • The purpose is similar, i.e. configuring a system, but I'd say Ansible works best, if you need to make a few small changes from an existing distro, whereas NixOS rather takes the approach of controlling everything about the operating system.

    And in many ways, controlling everything is actually simpler.

  • As the other person said, the bit about Arch is just the preamble.But you can use Nix Home-Manager on Arch (or other distros), if you're so inclined, which will give you that reproducibility for the stuff in your home-directory.

    In some ways, this is like backing up and restoring your dotfiles, but it allows you to template those dotfiles and depending on the program, it offers simple ways to populate the dotfile templates. For example, KDE applications don't generally offer very legible dotfiles and so configuring e.g. a panel via dotfiles is kind of a pain. To help with this, there's Nix Plasma-Manager.

  • Pretty sure that knowing COBOL isn't the hard part. It has relatively few language concepts.

    This lack of language concepts just makes it difficult to reason about it, so that's what you're getting a paycheck for. Well, and possibly also because it might take months to have a new dev figure out your legacy codebase, so it's cheaper to keep the current dev by paying them competitive prices.

  • Oh man, a few years ago, we had a military dude as conductor in our wind band. And I was always one of his favorites, I'm guessing because I have broad shoulders and a deep voice – prime military recruit material.

    ...except that I'm vegan. So, one day he sits next to me during lunch and asks me why I'm vegan. I do the usual dance of avoiding the topic, but he does not want to let it go. So, I tell him that I think killing animals is wrong. He walked out of that conversation like a hurt gazelle.

    Like, fuck me, dude, if you're gonna do the whole military tough guy spiel, but cannot take a kid disagreeing with you, then maybe you're not as tough after all.

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    Lies and Slander

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    This week in KDE: most of GNOME shell in the Overview effect

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