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kbal

@ kbal @fedia.io

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • Just got this popup while trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • Yikes. I was imagining they were only trying to trick people into using their phones that could be tracked (in addition to jumping through arbitrarily placed hoops in the traditional captcha style) not that they were actually requiring a phone running Google spyware. That's insane.

  • Just got this popup while trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • As we know, only humans are capable of reading QR codes.

  • Russia’s foreign affairs minister says Eurovision participation requires ‘outright Satanism’

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  • I have some doubts about the Russian minister's understanding of the tenets of Satanism.

  • Will Piefed ever be ported to Go language instead of Python?

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  • Of all the languages you could choose to randomly stan for. I hate Go. It seems like every cosmetic change they made to the syntax in order to make it look slightly different than C was a change for the worse.

  • You have 3 movies or TV shows to use to craft a world you would love to live in. What are they?

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  • Star Trek, The Mighty Boosh, Gilligan's Island

  • What brought you to the Fediverse?

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  • I wanted to try out this "twitter" thing everyone was talking about in 2019, but it wouldn't let me sign up without a mobile phone so I went with fedi instead.

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  • What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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  • Two spaces sure, but that's for people who don't use tabs.

  • What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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  • I've heard of 8, 4, and even 3 which is pretty crazy... how could it possibly be 2!?

  • What are some social media platforms everyone should know?

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  • That is social, but it isn't media.

  • What's Debian going to name their releases after when they run out of Toy Story characters?

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  • A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they'll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

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    Why does Monaco have a higher GDP per capita than the United States?

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  • Sure, in the inevitable future where AI has complete control over everyone's writing, speech, and thought.

  • How do you pronounce zebra in your country: zeebra or rhymes with Debra?

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  • Canada: I don't know, they both seem pretty normal to me. We don't say "zebra" too much around here. I just typed "zerba" and feel like I should say it like that next time.

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  • It's not the first time some people got over-excited about baseless predictions of imminent AGI. It's just the most expensive.

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  • It's a vast field of study that's been around since the 1950s, which has been completely demolished in the popular imagination by the social mania recently surrounding a select few of its inventions.

  • Do you know any songs about trains?

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  • It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.

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  • It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.

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  • Rust-coreutils may eventually become a suitable replacement for coreutils but it hasn't yet existed for long enough to iron out all the bugs and there's no real advantage to using it right now.

    The idea is that Rust will make everything easier to maintain and improve in the long run, or something like that. It's somewhat plausible, but it's not totally obvious whether that will prove correct. So it's easy to suspect that there must be some other unstated motivations behind it, although to me there don't appear to be any in view.