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These memes about required specs make Linux look like its primary userbase are bums.

2mo ago

Download high bit-rate songs [solved]

Nonsense, everything is labelled with its original title there. If you're looking for Russian music there you'll probably have to use the Russian band name, but otherwise not.

2mo ago

Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?

There's way too many languages and dialects with way too many sounds out there for this to be practically doable. For foreign names some basic degree of approximation is desirable, but nothing more than that. In principle you shouldn't expect or demand people to produce sounds not found in their native dialect (unless they're actually learning the foreign language, but even then they will usually stick to the same language within the same sentence).

Besides, it's not even odd for people not to be able to pronounce stuff according to the standard norm of their own native language, due to the dialectal variety within the same language.

As for names from within the same language, it could sound artificial and even condescending if you tried to go for a pronunciation not native to you. Bob is just Bob, no need to stress that he's "American/British Bob".

2mo ago

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I understand that most of the rhetoric towards white people that I believe could be interpreted as “racist” are made by the direct victims of white colonialism/racism

On Lemmy? Nah.

2mo ago

Do you think you can become a benevolent dictator without ever getting corrupted or turn evil?

With all due respect to Guido, creating software does not have the same weight and responsibilities as leading a country.

2mo ago

Do you think you can become a benevolent dictator without ever getting corrupted or turn evil?

No, because "benevolent dictatorship" can't exist (the only benevolent action of such a dictatorship would be self-abolishment).

3mo ago

Damm commies

Even 'labor' is a bit of a giveaway, IMO. Still funny tho

3mo ago

Cracker Barrel gets welcome

the West has fallen 😞

3mo ago

Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis

audience ratings on RT
Letterboxd (preferably, with time you pick out the users whose ratings and reviews you find useful)

3mo ago

Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis

TLDR

The article is a fun read though, tbh.

3mo ago

Feel old yet?

Strong Ivan Bilibin vibes (but apparently it's by an another Russian artist, Ernest Lissner).

3mo ago

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Maybe it’s a me thing, but no amount of turning extensions on or off was able to fix it on my end

It's not just you. For me, for whatever reason, it used to get stuck regularly, for months on end, regardless of the extensions. Then it suddenly started working almost perfectly, maybe half a year ago. Now it works fine like 75% the time but still gets kind of stuck from time to time.

3mo ago

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Nice, it looks like they also mirror HathiTrust now?

Pity about .is, over the last year it's probably been offline more than online. It was the original one, but AA carries on the torch.

3mo ago

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.is domain is kill, but .li is still fine, as well as Z-lib, you can download there - Anna's Archive provides a link whenever available, under external links.

As for Cloudflare, I sometimes have problems with it on Firefox, it likes to get stuck in a loop. Try opening it in incognito, without extensions, to see if any of them might be causing the issue. If that doesn't work, try opening the link in an another browser.

3mo ago

Nobody uses the white emojis

any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default

Now I'm wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?

Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly...

but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.

If xkcd introduced character whose head-circle was filled with black, that character would definitely be viewed as black. But - if all the characters had black heads, would we default back to all of them being white?

4mo ago

Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?

ɯᴉuoʇuɐ @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4mo ago

He operates /c/[email protected] :D

4mo ago

Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?