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corvus , 1 month ago

It’s about time it’s also the title of one of the best introductory books on relativity by David Mermin. Specially for those who aren’t good at math but want to understand it beyond popular science books.

corvus , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Yes, It is MRI… Man Roughly Incinerated.

corvus , 1 month ago

AFAIK SpongeBob is not vegetarian.

corvus , 2 months ago

Recently I started playing chess and it came to my mind that it’s an impossible task for you.

corvus , 4 months ago

Amazing but more usual that one might think, it’s the same anger you can see in people that identity themselves with some other fictions like religion, nationalism, football teams, ideology, race, etc. When watching a movie you kind of temporarily turn off your disbelief to experience joy, sadness, anxiety etc but when the movie is over the healthy behavior is the recognition that everything was an acting. But with the fictions that I just described somehow the disbelief is never turned on, the critical thinking is canceled.

corvus , 4 months ago

With all the information available at your fingertips being ignorant is a choice.

“this parallel financial system can also serve a tangible social good, offering an onramp to the financial system for people who would otherwise be left out. In countries where the vast majority of the population is unbanked, national currencies are no longer a safe store of value, remittances comprise a hefty portion of GDP, and international sanctions complicate connections to the global economy, a virtual currency that doesn’t require an intermediary to approve transactions can be a vital lifeline for survival”

Bitcoin is poised to blow up Africa’s $86 billion banking system

corvus , 4 months ago

I’ve never been in Reddit so I can’t talk about it but I wouldn’t have been so harsh if you hadn’t already stated that it seems only useful for illegal and immoral activities when it’s so easy to find, if you are “genuinely interested”, that it’s not the case.

corvus , 4 months ago

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. In the the next issue of Linux Magazine Torvalds talks about the new default in the single click behavior of Plasma: “KDE, fuck you”

corvus , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Capitalism just means stuff can be >privately owned

This is the antithesis of free software. FOSS can not be owned. Patents and copyright are essential to capitalism. You are not allowed to copy and redistribute Adobe Photoshop, nor the music of your favorite band, movies, books, etc etc

corvus , 5 months ago

That’s not how percentages work.

corvus , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

If you kill 5% of the population every year from 1933 to 1945, how much of the initial population >you end up killing?

This is the simple math problem you stated and the answer is 46%, not 60%. Nobody does the calculation the way you do. Or you think that a simple math problem has two contradictory answers? Show me a single example that someone does the calculation the way you do to answer such a problem, you have the whole internet. I accept my error if you find it.

corvus , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

That’s how he made the calculation, but it’s not what he said, because 5% of European jews each year it’s not the same as 5% of the initial European jews. The word initial is absent and in my view that make its numbers wrong. But yeah, may be I’m being too strict and most of you understood what he meant. By I think it’s misleading because it can give you the idea that in general if you have 60% in 12 years you can calculate the percentage for each year just by dividing by 12. And that is certainly wrong.

corvus , 5 months ago

Still on 6.1.0-17 and nothing shows up after sudo apt update.

corvus , 8 months ago

It’s not unusual to see people talking about android users being Linux users “because android is Linux too” clearly not understanding the difference between Linux the OS, i.e. GNU/Linux, and Linux the kernel. So it’s useful when you have to make such a distinction.

corvus , 8 months ago

Unfortunately for them this means that 99.99% of the Linux distributions out there do not qualify as >GNU/Linux, even the ones like Debian, Red Hat, or Ubuntu that did adopt the GNU/Linux name >scheme, because they all host, promote, or allow users access to non-free software in some way.

You are totally confused. In words of R. Stallman:

“The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux”.

“Today there are many different variants of the GNU/Linux system (often called “distros”). Most of them include nonfree programs”.

www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

corvus , 9 months ago

Libgen.rs (books for free) By doing without reading you are at risk of not understanding the meaning of what you are doing.

corvus , 9 months ago

That’s correct.

corvus , 11 months ago

I use Debian+KDE but I’d love there was a KDE Neon Debian Edition, à la Mint.

corvus , 11 months ago

Using a smartphone today is like buying a house and discovering that is full of cameras and microphones spying you. Would you accept thtat?

corvus , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

He is clearly talking about the problems with Linux the OS, i.e. GNU/Linux, not with Linux the kernel, which is what Android is based on. So Android users don’t count as Linux OS users. Besides that, I’ve been using Debian+KDE for over a decade as a daily driver and never had any such issues, It’s hard for me to remember a single issue of importance.