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Barbarian

@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works

Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.

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I wish I could experience the Stanley Parable for the first time again. That was a great game.

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Yup, played through it. Especially loved the dig at AAA game companies with the sequels in the main menu xD

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Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.

Some even have a separate production environment too.

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I agree with everything you say here, but I thought the setup-payoff joke structure and the fact I intentionally swapped testing and production for comedic effect made it obvious enough. I guess Poe's law strikes again.

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The original game that Monopoly is based on (The Landlord's Game) was a tool for teaching how bad landlords and owning land privately and permanently is. Monopoly is still a great tool to show how an early advantage leads to an ever-growing monopoly that will inevitably crush all the other players with no modifications necessary.

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They have leverage now. Previously the deal was Moldova provides food & utilities in exchange for Transnistria keeping the power plants running. Now that Moldova is linked up with the EU electrical grid, they're in a position to play hardball without the risk of Transnistria plunging the country into darkness.

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You can always refund it. Even if you've gone over the 2 hours for an auto-accept refund, if you explain the issues in the ticket Steam will always accept it in my experience.

Even got a refund for a game after 20 hours of game time due to them adding aggressive client-side anti-cheat.

Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women ( www.rollingstone.com )

Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....

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I saw a Penn Jillette interview a long time ago where he explained that quite a few other magicians fake their recorded stage performances. They'll perform a simpler trick, get the audience reactions, and then use camera trickery to make the trick look far more impressive for TV. This was in the context of him claiming that he absolutely doesn't do that.

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My completely uncorroborated gut feeling is that it's because each celebrity caught doing horrible shit causes a massive media frenzy, so even if (and I don't know if this is true) the numbers of horrible people are proportional to the overall population, there's a bias because each one is named and shamed unlike non-celebrities.

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Tbf, blocking Romania wasn't about Russia, it was drumming up support amongst xenophobes for political gain.

EDIT: Tocmai am vazut numele tau :))

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(going to reply in English for the benefit of other users)

Croatians don't have the same stigma in western Europe that we do. In the minds of German/Austrian/French/etc racists, the Polish, the Bulgarians and us Romanians are lazy, criminal welfare thieves.

Insofar as Russia is involved in the Schengen decision-making, they're likely just attempting to deepen existing fault lines and create more instability. In that context, I completely agree with the pro-Russian eurosceptic angle.

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If you want something useful, maybe some more info on what you use your computer for? Advice for a glorified web terminal would be "Click the Firefox icon". Advice for learning bash would be a massive rabbithole.

App suggestions are also very dependent on what you use your computer for.

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So on the gaming front, pretty much any mainstream Linux distro would work for that. Proton is pretty damn stable and great on any distro that supports Steam. If you like Bazzite though, you do you.

For pen testing, must-have skills are nmap, bash, sqlmap, wireshark and the burp suite. If you know how to use all those, you've got basic coverage of most common attack vectors (password cracking is also covered by bash, there's 101 different password cracking algorithms in various CLI spps).

I'm a lazy ass who doesn't care much about customization, hopefully someone else can help you with that :))

A quick Google shows that someone got sharex working on Linux: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531

Might take some effort and learning bash and WINE + winetricks to get that running, but hey, you're gonna need to do that anyways for the pentest stuff :)

Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )

A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up....

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Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That'd be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

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Simple. You trade wool for a club, then use the club to take the bricks. Finally, use the club to take back your wool. Perfect economic system!

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If you're going to separate out mainland Portugal and its overseas territories like that, then technically slavery was never legal in England.

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I didn't mean to claim that the British Empire were the good guys. I was just pointing out the silliness of only looking at one very narrow fact to make a country look good, while ignoring the wider context.

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At least here in Romania, it's the job of the accountant(s) to do the company's taxes. If you're self-employed or run a very small business (less than 10 employees) there are self-employed accountants who specialize in that and typically have 20-40 clients.

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Don't give postdocs money, they'd just spend it on booze and drugs

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Not true. First of all, Europe is not a monolith. Romania is extremely different from the Netherlands. Romania is, by some metrics, more car-centric than the US.

Secondly, even in countries that are trying to make progress towards a less car-centric environment, different cities are moving at different speeds.

Finally, even in cities moving faster away from it, you still have planning, funding and political issues that need to be ironed out.

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Of course, we have pigs running the police and government. Super standard :))

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It's actually not uncommon. Trauma and PTSD leave epigenetic changes in people. These can become hereditary through a combination of both nature and nurture. Unless treated, this leads to an intergenerational heightening of fight or flight responses and a host of other issues. This in turn predisposes people to do horrible things in the name of "survival" (in their minds), even when it's not actually necessary.

In short, traumatized families are predisposed to inflict trauma unless treated.

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2 things can be true at the same time.

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Primer is one of my favourite movies ever. It was made on a budget of 3 peanuts and pocket lint, and it shows, but damn it's an interesting premise.

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Actually, that's not the real reason patents are public. The reason is to allow everyone to freely use the patent after the expiry.

The tradeoff is supposed to be the inventor gets exclusive use for a decade in exchange for detailing exactly how the thing works for everyone else.

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Khorne is honourable and honest. Khorne will never stab you in the back or lie to you. He'd stab you in the front, shouting obscenities in your face.

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Funnily enough, median income actually went up quite a bit here in Romania over the last year. Mainly because of successful union action.

Is there a License that requires the user to donate if they make revenue?

I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:...

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The best use case for purchasing FOSS software is contractor work, specific modules for existing platforms and/or FOSS projects. I've done that myself in the past. The client pays for the custom software, it's written, and then they gets to do absolutely whatever they want with it. If the client wants to publish it, they're well within their rights. Most of the time it's too entangled with their internal company workflow to be useful to anyone else though.

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Only if the users on that server treat it like a death sentence.

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According to a quick Google search (I'm no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes "sufficiently original" seems to be pretty arbitrary.

So I guess if you post a short story, that's automatically copyrighted. Commenting "this" is not. And then there's a huge grey zone in the middle.

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It can reliably copy the simple things in it's training data from stackoverflow.

But at that point, why not just go to stackoverflow instead?

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Totally understandable. Haven't used windows at all, home or work, in at least a decade. However, I went through my insufferable Linux zealot phase about 15 years ago.

I was an annoying judgemental ass, but I got better.

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That's not to say that I still don't honestly consider Linux a better option in most use cases. I just don't generally wade in past the most simple explanations of stuff.

If people want to switch, they will. I've realized I'm not doing anyone any favours by being pushy.

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It seems pretty clear that queer people would be persecuted a hell of a lot more under Trump than Biden.

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people like you

I'm not even American. I don't think I was "shouting" or "pushing" anything. Was just commenting my opinion, for as little as that's worth.

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Maybe a battery weight limitation?

I'm no aviation engineer, but as far as I understand it that's exactly it. The more weight, the more thrust you need, which means your fuel (or in this case, stored energy) needs to be very efficient in thrust per kg.

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Sort of? Vanguardism is inherently totalitarian, for example. The core idea is that the vanguard know better than the poor proles what's good for them (Maoism is basically vanguardism). Stalinism is quite obviously and clearly totalitarian, putting rapid "strong" decision-making for the goal of rapid economic development above everything.

There are more democratic and equal forms of socialism, like Democratic socialism, syndicalism, mutualism (if you accept anarchists as part of the umbrella) and so on.

My core point is that socialism can be totalitarian or not depending on the actual ideology inside the big varied umbrella term.

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"It takes a village to raise a child" is an old expression for a reason. Historically (EDIT: And today in most of the world), parents wouldn't take care of their kids 24/7. They would have parents, siblings, neighbours and friends to help share the load.

The idea that parents and parents alone do 100% of everything to raise a child is a very modern western thing.

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For the families who can afford it, daycare is the replacement.

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. ( newrepublic.com )

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

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I don't know the details of this app, but if it's specifically US streets and notes on households there, then GDPR does not apply, as they're not mapping EU households. GDPR is only invoked if the personal information of Europeans is at risk.

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That was a loophole to the original GDPR. That's now against the law in the EU, but bringing cases against all these sites is time consuming.

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The league of nations is entirely unequipped to deal with Italy's illegal Ethiopian offensive.

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The point being made here is that it's not about income, at least not directly.

It's about whether or not you need to work for others for that income.

Petit bourgeoisie, the origin of what would become middle class, originally meant small business owner. This was to differentiate between the owners of massive factories and small shops.

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I haven’t said a damn thing for or against communism.

Neither have I.

valid class identifiers

I don't know if that's true. The modern definition of "middle class" is very fuzzy and poorly defined. Sometimes tertiary education is a requirement, sometimes not. Sometimes it's about professional certification. Sometimes it's about whether you're a manager.

Even if you're looking at a definition that only cares about income and nothing else, that's still a pretty terrible definition. Cost of living is drastically different depending on where you are. Somebody in New York might be middle class, but lives like a member of the lower class compared to someone on that same income in Kansas.

If we then ignore income and only care about standard of living, does that mean someone living frugally and saving a lot of money becomes lower class due to their spartan lifestyle? Instinctively, that seems wrong.

EDIT: I should mention that I find the worker/small owner/owner distinction more useful than the lower/middle/upper distinction because it's far better at figuring out who has interests that are aligned. Workers, generally, want higher wages. Small owners and owners are aligned on lower wages, but are not aligned on taxation and regulation. Interestingly, small owners and workers tend to be aligned on minimum wage for competitiveness reasons vs the owners.

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Not in any real or useful sense, no.

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even at the cost of our own privileges

I agree with everything you've said except for this. With worldwide growing inequality, it's very clear where those resources are going. The people making less if the janitors get a pay bump isn't the middle managers. It's the owners, by a very tiny amount. If you don't have a share of the company, you're not affected by other people making more or spending less.

Funnily enough though, another winner in that scenario are small local business owners. More local income means more customers.

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Stewart can only do Mondays because that's when he can borrow the funny stone

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