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I’m trying to get to sleep (I work night shifts) but can’t because it too bloody humid.

How do the Spaniards do it?

flamingos ,
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Mammals need to be pregnant to produce milk, so to get cow milk you have to impregnate a cow. That’s what they mean by rapist.

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And? My point still stands, a cow that hasn’t been impregnated will not produce milk. Is only doing it once supposed to make it better?

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

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What do you mean by “pro Jewish”? I doubt a comment like “Jewish people are human beings that deserve respect” would get you downvoted.

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I haven’t seen that myself, but I’m sure some of them exist and they’re dumb for thinking that. The person I’m replying to, though, is clearly taking the position that anti-Zionism = antisemitism.

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I meant downpunxx.

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If we don’t have the power to stop generative AI, then what makes you think we have the power the change copyright law? Generative AI uses up huge amount of power and water to the point of causing issues for national infrastructure. There is a clear climate case to be made against generative AI and unlike copyright law the public actually care about climate change.

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If our politicians are already bought and sold to the point that calling for these industries to be regulated is pointless, then why would politicians listen to our calls for ‘open weights by default’.

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Can’t believe they didn’t call it Stadium.

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> Tango makes a great game
> Put it day one on Game Pass
> Close the studio when it doesn’t meet sale targets

Corp. logic truly is something else.

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This would be a great band shirt.

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https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/51230fae-4031-4d8b-b9b1-c1606ffd1810.jpeg

One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub (thenewstack.io)

In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not...

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“ActivityPub’s API is how client applications interact with the data on a user’s main account server. It lets the user read data on the same or other servers, and it lets them create activities and other kinds of objects on that server that get shared (under the user’s control) with the rest of the world.”

I can’t see how Apub’s C2S API can realistically be implemented. It’s fairly light on details and if I’m understanding it correctly the only standard way to get activity from the server is to pull from an actor’s inbox, which has to be an OrderedCollection of all the activity the actor has received (likes, notifications, posts, the lot). This shifts a lot of the work to clients which, apart from being being very classist, is very limiting for implementations.

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Lollypop, it’s a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can’t comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don’t get the point of them.

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Mastodon users don’t want such a thing, they see things like it as potential vectors for abuse and harassment.

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Zoxide, lets you quickly jump to places in your filesystem. E.g. z pic will put you in ~/Pictures.

flamingos ,
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They did mention Lemmy in the article.

flamingos ,
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It’s performative cruelty to desperately claw back some points in the polls.

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Catodon is an new and upcoming fediverse platform, based on Firefish

God, how many Misskey forks are there now?

flamingos ,
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The right to life and freedom from harm.

flamingos ,
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Just because they’re incapable of being moral agents, i.e. capable of understanding why murder is wrong, doesn’t make it OK to murder them. A toddler would happily push you off a cliff, but that doesn’t give you the right to push toddlers off cliffs.

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Like what? What criteria would allow for toddlers to be given moral consideration that would exclude animals?

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NTT?

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Never heard of the term before now, but yeah I suppose it is NTT.

flamingos ,
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it is obvious that there is a difference or we wouldn’t discriminate between humans and non-human animals.

Isn’t this just the is-ought problem though? Just because we currently distinguish between animals and humans doesn’t mean we ought to.

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I’m not saying there are, but just because we currently murder pigs is not justification to continue killing them.

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living things are in competition and killing is a matter of course. it is natural.

And?

i think a special case must be made against killings. among humans, there are many (distinct) arguments against killing. among the ones i’ve heard, the ones which would also apply to animals are not ones that i personally believe.

What do you believe? From what I’ve been able to gather from your replies to me and others, you put hold the following two beliefs:

  1. That ‘human’ is a distinct category of being that makes us the only thing worthy of moral consideration;
  2. That the practice of killing animals is so widespread, so normalised, that it must be morally OK, because if it were wrong, we wouldn’t practice it so widely;

I don’t think these are sound arguments.

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OK, so this is literally an appeal to nature. I seriously don’t see why behaviour should get a free pass just because it’s ‘natural,’ except the very natural phenomenon of humans killing each other.

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i don’t know what it’s like to be a chicken or a pig

But you do know what it’s like to suffer. And you know pigs, chickens, and other farm animals can suffer. Does that not count for anything? Or do you not consider suffering to be an inheriently bad thing?

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No it’s not. Disease is a natural phenomenon and is bad.

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Do you think we shouldn’t try to minimise unnecessary suffering?

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Is disease prevention also amoral?

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Why not? If actions I take cause you suffering, shouldn’t I try my best to prevent that?

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I think being indifferent to the suffering you cause on those around you is a moral failing. You said yourself you aim to treat people how you want to be treated, do you not care if those around you inflict suffering on you? I don’t see how indifference to suffering can be universalised.

Edit: didn’t see your edit before posting, I still don’t think you’ve justified why the unnecessary killing/causing suffering of a person and animal are different. Your argument seems very circular on this, killing humans and animals are different because they are different.

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Why are two remakes on this? It’s not like this year has been short on good releases.

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I’m not saying that these, or remakes generally, are bad(I’ve even been thinking of picking up the DS remake). I just don’t think they should be contenders for GOTY.

Xenia wouldn't suggest that :c (lemmy.world)

please don’t harrass or insult that website, but I recently browsed that website because I wanted to get a wallpaper, but then I realized the top bar was saying “Xenia suggests you get Firefox”, wait what?? She wouldn’t suggest that first of all, second, this means that the website knows if you are using Google or...

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Checking if the user is using Firefox is pretty easy:


<span style="color:#323232;">CSS.supports('(-moz-user-input: none)') // only returns true in FF
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Chrome, and browsers based on it, currently account for more than three quarters of web traffic. This gives Google a huge amount of power over the web and how people are able to interact with it. Google is also a company who’s primary business is advertising and surveillance; this means they have every incentive to curtail your ability to stop websites from spying on you and force you to use the web on their terms. They’re currently exercising this power with the rollout of Manifest V3, where they’re severely limiting the functionality of content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin.

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Damn, what are the odds?

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GTK currently has a CSS extension that lets you define named colours with @define-color.

flamingos ,
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Why wouldn’t you use Afghanistan, the county America actually occupied for 20 years, here?

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What’s the flag south of the Confederate one? I can’t find it on here.

Edit: Never mind, it’s Rhodesia

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    flamingos ,
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    I’m from the UK and I was definitely taught to use the genderless he in formal writing, I remember my teacher commenting on how sexist it was.

    Also, no idea where you got the idea that the singular they is only a hundred years old, Oxford puts the earliest use of it to the fifteenth century.

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    Its brush engine is kinda bad though. You basically have to turn on “Zero pressure at both ends” and put the stabiliser up to like 15 to get anything usable. Not sure I can recommend it.

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    It’s main advantage, as far as I can tell, is having a much simpler interface. It’s snapping tools are trivial to use and discover, but far less robust than Krita’s assistant tool. It’s easier to add brushes, but you have far less options in configuring them. I don’t thinks there’s anything that Firealpaca can do that’s partially hard to do in Krita. Also, Firealpaca doesn’t have a dark mode.

    I’m not an experienced artist though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

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    Tablet, for whatever reason it gives blobby output like this:

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