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Slight correction: Linux drivers *do* exist, but not in the kernel; there's some random person's repository that contains out-of-tree drivers which, according to them, "are not official and are hacked together from other Realtek drivers"

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Guess who now has a comically oversized USB Bluetooth dongle with massive antenna that provides wireless headphone coverage through the whole house?

(It's technically a WiFi 6 dongle with Bluetooth 5.3 support on the side (or rather "Wireless 5.3" support, in the manufacturer's words), but there's no Linux drivers for the WiFi part, only for the Bluetooth part...)

"Color Dance", acrylics on 30x30cm canvas. I made this #art by hand, as all of my art - this one was made with help of my #artSpinner

#Painting #HumanArt #NoAI #BuyIntoArt #QueerArt #AbstractArt

Literally 9/10 of the people accused of being a secret trans person beating up on "poor defenseless women" at the Olympics is a Black/African cis or intersex woman

But sure sure, the idea of proper womanhood isn't an inherently racialized one

@Sinegrave @so_treu Here you go: sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10. (note: this is technically piracy).

Didn't show up on sci-hub for the provided URL, but passing in the DOI instead worked

advice that may or may not be relevant 

@colinstu I generally recommend people to pick a project they want to build, turn it into a series of increasingly complex steps, and start with the absolute simplest version of it. I've done a lot of professional tutoring (heavily self-directed) and that's the only thing I've found to work reliably for people.

For example, the final goal may be building fedi software like Mastodon, but the absolute simplest version is "page that shows a bit of text", then it becomes "page that shows a bit of text *from a database*", and so on, until eventually some day you might get to full-fledged fedi software, having learned a lot along the way.

This doesn't help if you can't find a project you want to do, of course, but I've noticed that a lot of people (sometimes subconsciously) try to limit themselves to "simple enough" projects, when really it can work with a project of *any* complexity, as long as you treat it as a learning project you may never actually finish.

I don't know if that applies in your case; if not, then my suggestion is probably equivalent to what you were already considering, and can be safely ignored :)

re: unsolicited opinion 

@joshix @benaryorg @lea@lea.pet @jessew This wouldn't have been possible; XMPP MUCs are centralized and that's not really acceptable usability-wise in a federated system where any one individual instance has a low assurance of sticking around, because if an instance dies for any reason your entire community is gone

@joshix @lea@lea.pet @jessew While that's true from the perspective of someone who *wants* to self-host their stuff, that doesn't do anything for the folks who are dependent on others to run it for them (which is going to be the majority of people even in an ideal world, because most people don't have time or interest to maintain servers).

re: unsolicited opinion 

@benaryorg @lea@lea.pet @joshix @jessew As someone who actually tried to get involved in XMPP stuff to fix these issues, and eventually jumped to Matrix: it really wasn't that simple.

Trying to get people in the XMPP ecosystem to care about usability was, in my experience, like talking to a brick wall. The vast majority of people at the time wouldn't even recognize that it's a thing that's valuable, let alone be willing to take *any* steps to improve it.

At some point you have to take your losses and create a better environment for that, which is pretty much what Matrix ended up being. The improvement of XMPP was never going to happen on any reasonable timescale purely due to cultural inertia.

@lea@lea.pet @joshix @jessew (This is understandable because it seems to be basically impossible to make a messenger with vaguely complete featureset that *doesn't* leak this metadata, for technical reasons; it's the claiming that they are somehow exempt from that that's misleading)

@lea@lea.pet @joshix @jessew As far as I've been able to determine from the scant technical documentation, sealed sender doesn't do this either and in the end still boils down to "trust us bro" (it just describes the way in which they *claim* they have made it harder for themselves to correlate, but they still have all the control needed to quietly undo that)

uspol, furries, kink, Elon Musk, the world is a joke 

Elon Musk was kicked out of the Bay Area Babyfur community.

Much respect to the furries for recognizing how much of a toxic piece of shit Elon is, and giving him no quarter. Even if this may have led to him acquiring twitter so that he could avoid being kicked out, it really shows the power of furry communities to maintain a healthy environment.

x.com/denimneverdies/status/18

x.com/HYENAFREQUENCY/status/18

old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpa

uspol, furries, kink, Elon Musk, the world is a joke 

Aspiring manipulators of public perception take note: this is how you guide a narrative away from harming your own communities.

One option would be to ignore it because, even if it's about someone you hate, it makes fun of your own community. To do so would give up control of the narrative, and it's going to come out anyway. To suppress it would align your interests with his.

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"whenever we are rotating the parent, we are also rotating the child" is a cursed phrase outside of gamedev context

#godot #gamedev

Top tip on German trains: if something is unclear with your ticket *seek out on board staff before they find you* - that way you’re being the helpful and proactive one, not being evasive or hiding

Due to a partial cancellation of a later train I wasn’t entirely sure I could take this earlier one

Find train manager, ask, explain - and now it’s all fixed

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openSUSE 10.2 in the mid-2000s was BRINGING IT. Just sublime.

#linux

sabotage in France (clarification) 

To be clear, I'm not saying that *the act itself* could not be carried out by a leftist! The rail network would be a strange choice of target, but there could conceivably be circumstances where this would happen. It's the "nobody has claimed responsibility" part that makes this weird.

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sabotage in France 

Authorities claiming that the arson attacks on rail infrastucture were probably carried out by "the ultra-left".

I don't know, but it doesn't seem very credible to me that an actual leftist would do that *and then not claim it*. It doesn't really make sense in the context of leftist politics - you'd want to be making a point, and ensure it is clearly understood.

Unlike right-wing groups, which thrive on fear and blame, I don't see that leftist groups really have much to gain from just causing unspecified chaos... that's not how leftist politics work.

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