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@ colin @lemmy.uninsane.org

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  • Feesh

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  • people who wear glasses with text written on the lens are on another level. like "there's this bit of text floating in the corner of my vision everywhere i go but it's fine"

  • Loophole rule

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  • but what do you do when you run into something?

  • YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users

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  • just heads up if you're getting captchas on YT you'll probably start getting those on other Google services over time too.

    it snowballs like this: YouTube decides you're a bot => you use less YouTube => Google/Alphabet gets less information/fingerprints of you => Google Search decides you're a bot => you switch to a different search engine => Google Maps decides you're a robot ...

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  • if you're arguing that violence is a poor way by which to shape a society, preach that to the police. it's literally what they do for a living.

  • sticker rule

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  • i want this to be true.

    but it's probably just the TA who's using it.

  • rule

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  • My head cannon

    intentional or not, the image fits 👍

  • Dying boy, 15, gets wish: losing virginity [Chicago Sun Times, Dec. 23, 2001]

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  • if it read "what's the problem", i'd agree. otherwise, i'll toss it to whoever's well-versed in Chicago speech styles. perhaps the passive-aggressiveness of Seattle is coloring my view 🙃

  • Dying boy, 15, gets wish: losing virginity [Chicago Sun Times, Dec. 23, 2001]

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  • half of the clergy said "what's your problem", which would usually mean "the answer to whatever you just asked is so obviously 'no' that you're a bad person just for asking it: what's your problem". i have to respect that some topics are simply off-limits for some people: if you're going to someone asking for advice about a moral quandary and their convictions are strong enough they don't wanna discuss the topic beyond "hell no", i don't fault them for that.

  • USA healthcare does not rule

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  • in my head, there's a direct causal chain:

    1. the court presents me with the accusation and the evidence.
    2. i declare if the evidence supports the accusation.
    3. the judge declares a punishment in response to that verdict.
    4. law enforcement delivers the punishment.

    if i believe (3) and (4) will function as stated, then it's equally accurate to say that in step 2 i am deciding whether or not to confiscate $250,000 from this mother and cancel her home internet connection.

    but a huge number of people i present this to refuse to admit that equivalence. there is some question about whether weakening the norm might cause more damage than mistreating the mother, but does that even weaken the point? the common answer from those who bring it up is "there's too much uncertainty to say": build a complex enough machine, and people are eager to deny the downstream effects of their actions.

    (you can overcome most of the degradation-of-norms issue by making this a secret hearing, and still a lot of people will hesitate to admit the equivalence between their verdict in step 2 and the effects of step 3/4)

  • USA healthcare does not rule

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  • i've had better luck illustrating the point with a less abstract case: the 2000's called and it's your turn for jury dury. the case for today is that of a single mother who downloaded some Disney movies off Limewire for her kids to watch so she could get some time to herself to take care of chores.

    should the jury find her guilty, you suspect that the judge will fine her $250,000 and cancel her home internet connection. you think such a punishment would do more net harm than good. but you don't get to decide the punishment (that's for the judge to announce after the jury deliberates), you just decide the guilty/not-guilty verdict.

    you look at the evidence: the mother definitely downloaded those files. what verdict do you deliver the judge?

  • Rule!! 💡

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  • ourethra

  • Rule

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  • oh god, Cybertruck culture is just incel culture applied to a different topic. different groups, maybe, but the same culture.

  • Free gifts rule!

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  • crafting a search term has changed over the years though. the old approach of "type 3-5 keywords into the box and get a list of pages that use those words close to eachother" isn't supported anymore, and the new approach is "type a phrase and we'll look for things semantically related".

    at that point, the input box isn't that different from the chatbot box.

  • rulebot unlimited

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  • that's a lot to remember and i don't see the point of it. android girls are perfectly alright with me 👌

  • Undecided Voters [Rule]

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  • i know this form has only two boxes but you gave me this pen and there's some room in the margin so --

    hmm, who's that lady my Aunt plays bridge with each Sunday? Jill something-or-other? she seemed kind 📝

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    Family Planning Rule

  • notifications rule

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  • slide out keyboards are a niche that's just barely hanging on. there's the F(x)tec Pro, and the Cosmo Communicator, at least. seems they're more in style for handheld game consoles: i'm crossing my fingers ASUS or one of the other mobile-phone gaming manufacturers will notice that and cash in.

  • notifications rule

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  • soup is what happens when the fridge isn't totally empty, but somehow's still missing a key ingredient for every recipe you can remember.

    so i guess that's not far off, and the rest is just a matter of outlook (and taste)

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    Acorn rule

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  • first birds, now acorns? fvck, man...

  • Linux rule

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  • troubleshooting sucks, and also, the default security model of desktop linux terrifies me. i legitimately don't understand how i can be running all this random code off the internet without being pwned. i figure i probably can't, and that it's really just a matter of time until something real bad happens.

    i went down the "sandbox everything" rabbit hole, and 6 months later random stuff still pops up like "trying to connect to an IPv6 link-local address at this LAN party... wait why don't i have an IPv6 link-local address? i know IPv6 connectivity works fine when i'm at home." turns out those NetworkManager hardening patches i've been meaning to upstream forever break SLAAC, and now i'm too worried what other edge-cases they break to try pushing them upstream, and now i understand why distros all run these things as root with access to way more resources than they probably need 🫤

  • Linux rule

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  • so, i try to build a CMake project, i know i'm going to be tearing my hair out for a day. i'll need the reference open just to know whether pkg_check_modules(A B) is searching for library A and assigning that to variable B or vice versa. and i know that once i do get it compiling, it'll be another day before i can get it cross compiling from my desktop to my arm chromebook or mobile phone.

    so i find a similar project written in meson, where a = find_dependency(b) is immediately obvious to me, and i can make sense of the thing or even tweak it a bit without a manual, just by following the patterns. i build it first try; 80% chance it cross compiles already -- 20% chance it doesn't and i can fix that and send the fix upstream (and now 81% of meson projects cross compile).

    the CMake camp: "but we all already know CMake, this new meson thing doesn't make anything easier for us. cross compiling? that's called QEMU." and they're totally right about both of those things. but that's useless for me.

    sure, it'd be nice if the GTK/KDE split (for example) didn't lead to so much duplication of the non-GUI parts. but if you just say "no splitting" that's the same as saying "you half go find some other hobby". it's really not an easy thing to sort through all the little differences and steer things such that everyone can feel at home in the same project. that's work, and unless you're BDFL it means a whole lot of drawn-out discussions trying to convince everyone to change their ways for someone else's sake.

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    Agile Rule

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    Tectonic Rule

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    wrong rule

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    Expert rule

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    Cow Rule

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    Traditional English Cuisine

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    Croe Rule

  • Blåhaj @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Blåhaj in its natural habitat

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    Every 196 post deserves to be happy rule

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    We slice the rule

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    rulefighter

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    pspspsp rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    don’t be this guy rule

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    Portapotty Rule

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    Tsunderule

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    rule