[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Yep, postmarketOS uses systemd now, but in addition to OpenRC, it's since march 5th 2024. Alpine itself didn't switch to systemd. Also, thanks to your comment I noticed I actually got Artix and Alpine slightly mixed up when making this page, might edit later.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 76 points 11 hours ago

Anon didn't make up the rules, and I wouldn't wager that he was the one who decided to start that game. Everyone chose to play knowing they wouldn't be comfortable getting anon. It doesn't seem to me like anon made any advance at all. Rejecting someone's advances for whatever reason is not morally incorrect, nor is denying them physical displays of affection. But going up to someone unprompted and telling them you find them unattractive and wouldn't feel comfortable touching them is. This seem like an intermediate situation where they willingly and knowingly created a situation where they would have to do the latter. Refusing to kiss or touch anon wasn't the fault here, initiating the game was.

En vrai si tu installes le module "Ruffle", un émulateur de flash, tu peux encore jouer aux jeux flashs que tu trouves encore en ligne. C'est juste le module officiel adobe flash player qui est parti. Mais ça me surprend quand même aussi...

Very nice. I hope Blue Sky becomes compatible with Activitypub soon, so I can follow the artist.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago

Vigo Mortensen broke his toe kicking the helmet, this is because we live in a society.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

These terrible crooks, so different in looks

But words have no utility aside from being understood, a word is good as long as there is a consensus as to what it means, and you can always create other words for things it doesn't describe.

Light acting like a wave in some regards and like a particle in others is something we can see experimentally, not just a matter of semantics. It's a conclusion that experience lead us towards. Calling light "continuous" wouldn't work because there is already meaning assigned to that word, and that meaning clashes with observations. Unless we changed the whole word and redefined the continuity of everything, which would be absurd.

That "operating with unclean tools would be fine" clashes with the observation that it can lead to infections, coupled with the axiom that inflicting bodily harm to someone is bad. The axiom could still be changed, but the problem with observations is that they're imposed by reality, they would still be true even if we didn't believe they were. You could also change the word "fine" tho. If you make a language almost identical to English safe that the word "fine" means "an unreasonably dangerous practice" the sentence "Practicing surgery without disinfecting your tools is fine!" is true in that language.

Ceres not being a planet depends only on our definition of planet. It was considered a planet for a while, but what led people to reconsider that isn't just that it was smaller than believed, but also that there were many similar objects in the asteroid belt. Referring to all these objects as "planets" could've been an acceptable truth, but since that would've meant most planets known at the time are small and in the asteroid belt (the Kuiper belt and Port cloud weren't known yet, but now it's just mean most planets are in a belt), and if the likes of Pallas and Juno were included (as was the case once) it also would've meant that most planets weren't round.

Since the previously known planets would've been outliers in several ways, a new word should've been coined for them. It seemed more simple to let them be the only planets and coin the word "asteroid" for the rest (and much later the intermediate category "dwarf planet").

If a different choice had been made, asteroids could be planets, what we now call planets could be called "big planets" and dwarf planets would be called "intermediate planets". This would be an acceptable truth, it wouldn't contradict itself or observations. If it was the consensus, it would be true, but it isn't so it's false, it's as simple as that.

If in the future we find a different definition of life more useful, that definition will be true then. But that won't change what definition is true now. Ceres was a planet. Now it isn't. Something can change category either because it itself changed or because the category changed, like how substances can go from being legal to illegal or vice-versa.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

True, I guess several definitions of life may coexist with different implications and all of them are right in the right context as long as they don't contain a self-contradiction. But in the context of this debate, I think most would agree that the best definition would be the one that has the biggest consensus amongst biologists, and maybe more precisely microbiologists. And most such definitions you'd find would include "self-replication" as a necessary trait.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

We invented the word "living", we get to chose what it refers to. We are necessarily right, because this is a truth we create, not a transcendent one. If we collectively decide to change the definition of "living" to include viruses, we will still be right but it won't mean we were wrong before.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

MOTHMAN

there's no need to feel down, I said

MOTHMAN

Pick that man off the ground

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

A smooth criminal!

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

As a liker of jazz and bees, I don't agree that she should. But as too if she could... I'd say yes, but I don't think the bees would listen. We rarely find meaning where we're not looking for it, and as the bees wouldn't expect Shakira's hips to make sense, they wouldn't keep watching enough to get the whole message. Like someone standing right next to a giant word written on a giant cliff, who wouldn't see enough of it to realize these colours form letters.

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Few hips would be articulate enough to convey any precise message, which would be necessary to lie. Hers have the speed and precision required to formulate lies, in morse code for example.

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Like, you can see a leaf on and think "wow, that's a beautiful leaf". You may even pick it up to admire it (especially if you're a child or a biologist). You wouldn't do that with a strand of human hair, a human nail clipping, or even less with the parts that aren't supposed to come off like hands or eyes.

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Init wars part 7 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Hey, it's been a while.
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She's sometimes seen as the archetypal tsundere, her (perceived) opposition to Rei paving the road to a thousand standoffs between tsundere and kuudere, such as Nagato vs Haruhi; but it doesn't seem right to me. Firstly because Nadia, from Anno's previous anime was much more of a tsundere, but also Asuka never felt like a tsundere to me in the first place; and I think I just found the words to explain why. She definitely has the "tsun"; she is hostile to the point of aggression towards Shinji, and it would also seems that she might be interested in him romantically (the "dere"). However, she lacks a causal relation between the two. See, the idea of a tsundere is that her hostility serves to hide the romantic feeling towards its object, which she doesn't want to admit. Asuna, however, isn't bashful about love. She has no qualms hitting on Kaji or kissing Shinji. The cause of her hostility is another feeling she represses and that's seeing herself in Shinji. The need she feels to be strong, talented, perfect, and getting praised for it is a huge part of her character; which is why she does away with any doubt or weakness. But Shinji is a reflection of all these weaknesses, and he doesn't have the "decency" to hide it like she does, and that's what makes him unbearable to her. And yet, perhaps some part of her wishes she could let herself be weak like he does. Like the widely hated line "What, don't to kiss a girl on the day of your mother's death?", she's making fun of supposed mommy issues Shinji might have, but really making light of her own mommy issues to help her dominate them. I think this plays intoher aggressive tendencies much more than romantic feelings, hence why I find the term "tsundere" less than appropriate.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works to c/english@lemmy.ca

The word "elsewhere" conveniently exist to spare us the chore of saying "somewhere else". Why then do we waste or time saying "someone else" or "some other time"?

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"You" can either mean the second person (Shakira in this case) or people in general.
Therefore, "I never really knew you could danc like this" can mean either "I didn't know you (Shakira) were able to dance like this." or "I didn't know it was humanly possible to dance like this". It is usually context that tells these interpretations apart, for example, the first one would only make sense if Wyclef already knows Shakira. But is Wyclef's character supposed to know Shakira's in the story of the song?

Two lines later, he asks her "Como te llamas?", which seems to imply that he doesn't. #However he later also says "Shakira, Shakira", even tho she hasn't answered yet, implying he did know her name. What gives?

I'm not sure either why he keeps saying "No fighting".

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TL:DR : I just want xterm to not do anything special when I start typing ctrl+shift+u so I can write special character, so I must remove the ctrl+u default keybind.

I'm using xterm on a laptop (no discrete gpu and pretty bad integrated graphics, so gpu-accelerated ones like kitty are counterproductive, and I use i3 so an xorg based one sounds better). I also like using vim.

I'm also using a qwerty keyboard, but sometimes write in French and need accents. I've memorized the codes for those I often need, like ctrl+maj+u+e+9 for é, but it doesn't work in xterm because it executes the ctrl+u keybind (delete previous characters and then types "(" (because it's maj+9).

So, following online guides, I've created a .Xresource file with the following code:

XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \n\
   Ctrl <Key>U: none

And I also added the line

exec xrdb ~/.Xresources

But to no avail, even when restarting the x session or manualy running xrdb ~/.Xresources.

What am I doing wrong?

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Hello!

I recently moved, bringing both my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X131e running Debian) and my desctop (msi A320m pro motherboard, amd ryzen 5 cpu, running Arch).

My desktop didn't have a wifi card (I'd removed it to add a graphic card, my mobo didn't fit them both), it uses ethernet, but it turns out my new place has wifi included, but no ethernet. I'll grab my wifi card where I left it in two weeks, but in the meantime I wanted to connect my computer to my laptop so I could still use it with internet sometimes.

I followed this guide to accomplish it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Internet_sharing Regarding the parts where there are several options:

-For step 2.3.1 (Enable Nat) I used nftables, since that's what I had installed

-For step 2.4 I chose to manually add an IP

After that, the ethernet indicator at the bottom of my screen (I use i3) shows the address I added in green, so it should work... Alas, when I try updating or pinging any site, I get the "Temporary failure in name resolution" error. That is before I try to change anything about my dns conf. At the end, the wiki says "configure a dns server for each client". The client should already have a dns since I've been using it with ethernet. I tried manually setting the dns in mtui t see if that did something, but it just made the connection no longer work at all.

So, what part might I be doing wrong? Thank you in advance if you have any advice, and thank you anyway for reading!

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Cruelle Destinée (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works to c/rance@jlai.lu

Des erreurs ont été commises

Un nombre insuffisant de chaussures a été emmené lors du déménagement.

Des chaussures ont été mises sans chaussettes, qui n'auraient dût être portées qu'avec.

Du bicarbonate de sodium a été mis pour absorbé l'humidité, jusque-là sans beaucoup d'effet.

Les souliers retrouveront-ils une odeur tolérable ?

Seul le temps nous le dira, l'histoire reste encore à écrire.

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Init wars part 6 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Init wars part 5 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Only one page this time, but the color is back... Sorta, I'm experimenting different methods.

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