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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldHands off?
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    1 day ago

    I’d also argue that it isn’t really about the daughters for some of these men. They rather fantasize about being in a situation where it is socially acceptable to use violence, because they want to use violence. They want to be the hero, which requires a crisis.

    They might still not be in favor of pedophiles running around freely, all things considered, but they’re certainly not going to be as strongly opposed to it as their violent fantasies might make you believe.


  • Yeah, I always found it really valuable to know a person on the other side. Obviously, they’re not immune to propaganda either, but even just seeing the differences in propaganda can teach you a lot, both about which parts may be untrue, but also how propaganda works.

    For example, I once saw a guy on Mastodon, who posted a populist Indian news article and expressed his agreement. The article was about some policy the EU was discussing, following Putins attack on the Ukraine, which would’ve affected India.
    That policy was controversial here in the EU. I don’t remember what policy it was, but I didn’t feel good about it, my country (Germany) didn’t support it, but the EU as a whole did agree to it.

    Meanwhile, that article framed it as “Europe is doing a bad thing” and “the West is blah”.
    Like, man, I doubt, I would agree with my neighbor about this policy, but somehow I’m being generalized into an amorphous blob, the size of half the fucking planet.
    It dehumanizes. It makes it seem like we’re not open for discussion, despite us internally leading extremely heated discussions.

    But of course, we do the exact fucking same. We talk about India collectively all the time, even though it is much larger than the EU, with 1.4 billion different opinions. You don’t hear “the East” as often these days, but you do hear “Asia”, which is effectively just as meaningless of a word.

    And yeah, just seeing the inverse happen to me, made it instantly clear why this is shit, which I would not have even thought about, if I only ever read our news outlets.



  • “They wanted to get to church at a particular hour, or say their morning prayers early in the morning, because they thought that brought them closer to God.” There was often a sense of one-upmanship, she adds, in terms of who was up and at their prayers earlier than the next person.

    Oh man, there’s some weird traditions in my hometown. If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass. Admittedly, I am still suspicious of this not actually being a tradition and rather just an excuse she came up with to insult us.

    Another tradition is that on Easter Sunday, the local wind band would form small groups and walk through the streets to play Easter songs, starting at 5:30 in the morning.
    I actually participated in that a few times and the only explanation I have for us not experiencing violence is that people still had to get dressed, while we already moved on to the next street.


  • I feel like folks are antsy, because it doesn’t look revolutionarily different from the original Steam Machines, which flopped back then.
    But yeah, there actually is a revolutionary difference, which is that the vast majority of games now do run on the new Steam Machines. This has also already been proven to the public with the Steam Deck.

    And I do think there is a market of folks looking at a Steam Deck and thinking they don’t need it to be a handheld and would rather have more bang for their buck.

    I guess, we will have to see, but I could also imagine the cornered memory market playing into the hands of the Steam Machine, as the better memory efficiency of Linux will let you do more for less.


  • I don’t find downvotes useful for that. If no one tells me why they disagree, a negative number isn’t going to tell me that either. Not to mention that the most popular answer is often not equivalent to the correct answer.

    But I also have the display of downvotes disabled, because I want to judge other comments without much bias.
    I always hated the snowballing of downvotes. As soon as you’re at like -2, people will stop giving you the benefit of the doubt and just hit downvote some more, or even worse: Start harassing you, because you’ve said a thing that others disagreed with.
    Admittedly, this was more of a problem on Reddit, haven’t seen that too much on Lemmy yet, but I don’t find seeing the downvotes particularly useful to begin with, so I’d rather not have the bias myself.


  • Oh man, I don’t want to get deep into all the politics involved, but man, this reads like complete non-sense:

    The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

    If they did specifically target US corporations in UAE, that would make some amount of sense as direct retaliation.
    I guess, you can also attack UAE and hope that they pressure the US to stop invading.
    But in any case, this seems like a really good way to drag more nations into the conflict, or at least to force them to become active, which is not in the interest of Iran.


  • Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
    Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.

    Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.devTOML
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    10 days ago

    Well, I assume they had other concerns, too. For example, it adds a bunch of complexity for reformatting a JSON from single-line to pretty-print, if comments can appear in there. I’m certainly not saying that I’m always best friends with the decision to remove comments, just that I can somewhat understand it.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlTOML
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    10 days ago

    I can understand the sentiment and would 100% agree for programming languages.
    But personally I actually like that it encourages a flat structure, because you do not want to be yakshaving the structure of your config file. Too much nesting means you will sooner or later run into configuration keys being nested under the wrong category, because your project context changed over time.

    And well, as I’ve argued in a few other comments already, I think non-techie users have a disproportionally simpler time when no nesting is used. They understand the concept of a heading and then just adding a line underneath the appropriate heading is really intuitive.
    You can just tell them to add the line certificate="/tmp/cert.crt" under [network.tls] and they will find a line in their config file which actually reads [network.tls] and they can just paste that line as-is.

    With nesting, they’d need to add it under here:

    network: {
        tls: {
            certificate: "/tmp/cert.crt"
        }
    }
    

    Which means:

    • You need some awkward explanation where they should nest it, or an explanation that e.g. “network.tls” translates to nesting.
    • They will ask whether they should indent the line you sent them.
    • Well, and it’s also surprisingly difficult to explain between which braces they should put the text, and that’s at the end of the braces, but not after the braces etc., if you’re talking to them on a call.

    It’s not even that I’m completely enamored with TOML, but this aspect is certainly growing on me…



  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlTOML
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    11 days ago

    VSCode is Electron, i.e. a webpage, so it’s not hugely surprising that they opted for the natively supported JavaScript Object Notation. And also shows that they don’t care for using the right tool for the job to begin with.

    Personally, I much prefer TOML over YAML, because it does not have significant whitespace, and because you can read the spec in a reasonable amount of time. It just has so much less complexity, while still covering the vast majority of use-cases perfectly well.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.devTOML
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    12 days ago

    They’re not supposed to contain data, but some parsers will allow you to access what’s written into comments. And so, of course, someone made use of that and I had to extract what was encoded basically like that:

    <!--
        Host: toaster,
        Location: moon,
    -->
    <data>Actual XML follows...</data>
    

    My best guess is that they added this data into comments rather than child nodes or attributes, because they were worried some of the programs using this XML would not be able to handle an extension of the format.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlTOML
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    12 days ago

    We just document that this is how you write the config file:

    [network]
    bind.host = "127.0.0.1"
    bind.port = 1234
    
    # etc.
    

    And that seems straightforward enough. Yeah, technically users can opt to use inline tables or raw strings or whatever, but they don’t have to.