Happy cake day!

The thing is that a lot of people do better without trying harder. Or don’t do so well despite trying really hard. I like the idea of free ice cream, but I also feel the injustice. Difficult

Edit: I guess my concern boils down to school grades usually not being very representative of how much effort and work a student has put into school. In higher education that changes, but before that things like familial situation, neurodivergency, etc can have a huge influence.

This is depressing though:

“Very often, other children without a [red] stripe were also given these ice creams, but some overzealous parent reported the ice-cream parlour, and the commissioner intervened very inappropriately, without knowing the full context of the situation,” he said, as quoted by TVN24.

None of these are accurate. The only shell trick that genuinely saves your sanity is fish. (/jk)

Also, these are genuinely very basic tips. It’s much more useful to learn about tmux, plugins (e.g., atuin), and useful commands like sed, grep, fd, awk, etc. Pretty much everything this article mentions becomes second nature in fish, leaving you to focus on more important things. Like learning neovim or emacs!

In my defense, this is because I had to zoom out as far as alacritty would allow to get everything on screen, so the res of the text got significantly reduced. Is there a way to take lossless screenshots of a terminal emulator, though? This was the only way I could think of doing it, zoom out really far and then capture with grim

Don’t worry, the update doesn’t bother me in the slightest; I think it only took about five minutes anyway. I just thought it was kinda funny, the sheer volume of updates. In my seven years of daily driving Linux, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many updates come at once. The closest was a Arch laptop I hadn’t opened for two months, but I don’t even think that was over two thousand, lol

I love typst! I have also been using it for about a year now, though only for personal stuff, because the math and more advanced formatting is not quite on par with latex yet. But it’s getting close and it’s so much nicer to use!

Great examples include making people wait until adulthood to smoke nicotine or cannabis, or to drink alcohol.

I mean, I agree with you, but highschool is a thing… these laws are basically useless to my knowledge. I think about 50% of my grade had smoked weed by tenth grade, and half again were addicted to nicotine by 12th. The only reason I didn’t fall victim to those (as many of my friends did), is because I was educated, by my parents, from an early age, about addiction and these substances. I never even tried them, because I knew better, thus never got addicted.

I meet all those criteria except that I’m an eight year-old dog. But nobody knows that…

Not sure if that one counts… here’s a non-cat photo

The beginning of the article is pretty weak, especially Masnick kinda defending addictive design:

Here’s a thought experiment: imagine Instagram, but every single post is a video of paint drying. Same infinite scroll. Same autoplay. Same algorithmic recommendations. Same notification systems. Is anyone addicted? Is anyone harmed? Is anyone suing?

Of course not. Because infinite scroll is not inherently harmful. Autoplay is not inherently harmful. Algorithmic recommendations are not inherently harmful. These features only matter because of the content they deliver. The “addictive design” does nothing without the underlying user-generated content that makes people want to keep scrolling.

But I gotta say, it does seem like this could set a dangerous precedent. If it becomes easy to file cases for design decisions on the platfor

Interesting, the OED adds this:

Compare post-classical Latin defenestratio (1620 or earlier, although the author claims to be coining the word). Compare also Middle French, French défenestrer to throw out of a window (1564), and German Fenstersturz (1626 or earlier in this sense; lit. ‘act of throwing from a window’; also more fully Prager Fenstersturz), the usual German name for the 1618 event.

“Defenestration, N., Etymology.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9213494086.

For anyone else curious about it: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24058-autophagy

The green planet! https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115650/

Also the first Equalizer movie with Denzel Washington: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0455944/ Denzel is just really good in this

And the Bagdad Cafe and Diva are also great!

• https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0095801
• https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082269

100%, biggest performance upgrade I ever experienced for Linux gaming was upgrading to a X3D CPU.

Because lemmy and mastodon don’t have manipulative algorithms! Maybe we should just outlaw those? /showerthoughts

This is the main reason I switched. I got about 30% less performance on a 3060 Ti in Linux than on Windows. And then Counter Strike 2 came out and I was fucked. Now I get about 30% more performance on Linux than on Windows with my 7900 XT (got it on super sale, so worth it). That is ultimately why I switched. And I can use sway and hyprland now, instead of i3. For me, the switch to AMD brought huge improvements.

Does anyone still talk about Keeper password manager? I feel like I used to hear about that one a lot, and now it has just disappeared off of the face of the earth.

The beauty of open source

Well, I unfortunately failed.

Do they install DNS filters locally on the machines at all?

No, the kids are allowed to bring their own laptops, because some rich parents insisted on their kids using MacBooks. I tried pushing Linux for the kiddo, but turns out whatever CISCO wifi system the school is using actively blocks Linux (including, for some reason, black listing the arch repos). A lot of stuff is blocked — though easily bypassed by VPNs or the wireguard router proxy I set up — by wifi black lists, including random stuff like duckduckgo and dict.cc

Actually, I did get an ad for a vibrator on dict.cc once, so maybe that makes sense after all. I, a man. Not sure what I’d use it for.

I’m unfortunately not a parent, just a relative, so there is only so much I can do to harass the school about it. I also live abroad, so 🤷 — I try though.

Nah, I managed surprisingly well. In third grade I did really intense dyslexic-specific tutoring (9h a week), and it helped massively. I actually ended up scoring the highest reading comprehension score in my random regional school’s class in 5th grade, I think because of it. There were struggles, but nothing I couldn’t live with. One of my best friends was trans (not publicly back then, ofc), and trust me their school experience was far, far more difficult. I just felt some camaraderie, finding someone else with a audio processing disorder; I didn’t mean to fish for sympathy or anything like that.