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For whatever reason, GIMP includes this image of a green pepper as a built-in brush.

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You literally said “instead of algorithms”, implying that algorithms would be replaced.

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In what settings is it socially acceptable to talk to strangers?

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The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.

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This comment is ironic considering that this article is exaggerating what Musk said.

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Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

@fediverse

@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.

Those who believe that 's costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done "for free", who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: "advertisers".

Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!

In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their "value", a bit like in the human farm in Matrix...

We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic

In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi's, effective and respectful of users' privacy, has landed here in the .

mastodon.social/

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But SearxNG doesn’t have the nice features like bangs, redirects, changing the priority of domains, custom CSS, lenses, etc.

Kagi has clearly stated that the AI features will always be optional and the engine is designed to be useful without them.

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.com is for commercial sites (though many sites misuse it). Most Mastodon instances are not commercial.

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IMO, The best way to stop it would be to find ways for men to stop being attracted to women and desiring a romantic/sexual relationship. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much research around that.

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It is often said that “facts don’t care about feelings”, unfortunately, the reverse is also true: feelings don’t care about facts. I rationally know that I should respect women’s rights to not have undesirable men be attracted to them, but I still feel the attraction and don’t know how to deal with it.

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Do you have any resources on that? All the ones I’ve found suggest that feelings of attraction are hard-wired into the brain and getting rid of them is impossible.

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If by “acting on them” you mean staring, catcalling, asking out, etc. I’m already trying my best to not do that. I’d say I’m quite successful at it, though in crowded spaces it’s often difficult to find a direction to look in that doesn’t contain a woman. And my mom sometimes tells me that I should look at and approach women, so there’s social pressure too.

However, what draws people to incel spaces is the sadness that comes from seeing couples in public or among your friends and knowing that you’ll never experience what they’re doing. Unless I’m misunderstanding, I don’t think what you’re suggesting helps with that.

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First off, thank you for engaging critically with my comments rather than dismissing them :) I apologize for the delayed response, I had to sort my thoughts about this.

Basically, your brain thinking “no, don’t do creepy shit.”

But with your example, exercising rationality actually would help, because “the sadness that comes from seeing couples in public or among your friends and knowing that you’ll never experience what they’re doing” is actually an irrational thought.

Isn’t it kind of an example of what you stated in the previous paragraph? By acknowledging that women don’t see me as a potential partner, my brain is preventing me from hurting women by showing my romantic interest. While I could try to combat this thought, it would not be in the best interest of others.

On the contrary, wanting a partner is an irrational thought because it ultimately comes from the natural instinct to reproduce. Hypothetically, if I were asexual, I could just live a fulfilling life alone and everyone would be better off.

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Why not just add function overloading to the language and have a function named copy that takes a string and an optional character count?

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Try writing 20 algebraic manipulations of the equation on paper and you’ll quickly understand why it’s written that way.

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As someone who used to visit incel communities (though I never supported the misogynist views), I think a lot of the appeal comes from the fact that they seem to be the only support groups for lonely men. Why aren’t there any non-toxic ones?

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There are more straight men who want a partner than women, so someone will be inevitably left out no matter the amount of therapy.

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I don’t know. I’m mildly left by normal standards, a Nazi by Lemmy standards and a communist by conservative standards.

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Rust is downloading 1546 dependencies

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What’s the point of having a function in the standard library if the universal recommendation is to never use it?

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Or Nim?

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Only a part. A lot of the complexity is completely unnecessary.

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Good for you. Not all of us have terabytes of free space on our computers.

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To be honest, my comment probably applies more to gets, but the point is the same.

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Being able to do what you want is a part of private ownership. Some people just like making their code available to everyone.

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I’d be fine with hating fascists if the word referred to actual fascists and not everyone who even slightly disagrees with you.

Also, I don’t think physical violence against people based on their political views is justified, no matter how horrendous the views are.

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Because Lemmy is usually marketed as the Fediverse alternative to Reddit, not as a communist platform.

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Explain how Free and Open Source, federation-based communities are more Capitalist than Marxist.

The ability to choose what platform to use seems closer to the principle of voluntary exchange than to authoritatianism.

Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...

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And what are we meant to do about that?

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It’s freeware, but not FOSS.

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It does not give the exact answer, only an approximation.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8z9fFJgVA

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Not only that, it makes your entire purchase free due to NaN arithmetic.

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Because touch screens are very different from typewriters and having to precisely press tiny keys without making full use of their capabilities is extremely inefficient.

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OpenNIC still seems to be engaged with blockchain bullshit: emercoin.com/…/2015-01-15-Emercoin_Reaches_Peerin…

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As a student, I unlock my laptop several times per day.

Should I join "free speech" alternatives?

Hello! I’ve been searching for a reddit alternative, and yes, I’ve picked Lemmy and Raddle, but here’s the thing. My morbid curiosity is perked up, and a part of me wants to join the “free speech” alternatives, like Saidit, Poal, etc. What’s wrong with me that I want to join toxic places? I mean, yes I’ll find a...

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Since when is Saidit a fascist site?

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That’s a very narrow definition of freedom of speech.

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I haven’t seen any of what they said on Saidit.

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NewPipe seems to be unmaintained now, use the fork Tubular instead.

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Not sure why people started thinking newpipe is unmantained, this is the second time I hear it here on Lemmy

Because it has been unable to load comments and constantly shown errors for several months now.

Almost every problem in the world would be dealt with meaningfully if we outlawed billionaires.

Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing....

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Let’s say you get to pass a law in the USA that would make it illegal to have more than a billion dollars. How would you formulate this law and what would you expect to happen when it’s passed?

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Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

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Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

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An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

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Not if the language is standardized from the start.

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All you need to know to get upvotes on Lemmy is “left good, right bad”.

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Because until the Middle Ages, Europeans were afraid of the number 0.

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