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You literally have an “x” button in the top-right of your web browser (or similar exit feature if you’ve disabled or moved that).

Thanks. I’m not Irish. I knew Ireland was at least half catholic, but now I understand that it is some percentage more, approaching 100%! Cheers! <3

Did you mean to reply to me? Thank you for confirming my claim.

Computers have ruled the planet for longer than the Greeks ever did. The history lesson is appreciated, but we’re living in the future, now, and the future is digital.

JFK and Biden both had Irish Catholic ancestry and were afforded favor with at least half of Ireland based on that.

K/M/G/T/P = decimal prefixes. K is 1000. M is 1,000,000. etc.

Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti/Pi = binary prefixes. Ki is 2¹⁰ (1024), Mi is 2²⁰ (1,048,576), etc.

It’s a disambiguation of the previous system where we would use KB to interchangeably mean 1000 or 1024 depending on context.

The American way would probably be still using the units you listed but still meaning 1024, just to be confusing.

American here. This is actually the proper way. KB is 1024 bytes. MB is 1024 KB. The terms were invented and used like that for decades.

Moving to ‘proper metric’ where KB is 1000 bytes was a scam invented by storage manufacturers to pretend to have bigger hard drives.

And then inventing the KiB prefixes was a soft-bellied capitulation by Europeans to those storage manufacturers.

Real hackers still use Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera prefixes while still thinking in powers of 2. If we accept XiB, we admit that the scummy storage vendors have won.

Note: I’ll also accept that I’m an idiot American and therefore my opinion is stupid and invalid, but I stand by it.

Nethack DROD

Boomer is a state of mind, love, and this post is a shining example of boomerism.

Well, yes, it was something beautiful and amazing and we all loved it very dearly, or we wouldn’t be so passionate about what management has done to it and continues to do to it.

This person was not a Samaritan, a proper noun meaning a person from Samaria. This person was a samaritan, “one who is compassionate or helpful to a person in distress”, a common English noun derived from the story of the good Samaritan that you are referencing. When we use the word samaritan, we are specifically trying to evoke the idea of that one good Samaritan. So yes, your point is technically correct, but not relevant.

Yes, I torrent Linux ISOs for any version or distro I want to install, and then I seed them until I download an updated version of whichever distro (and occasionally I’ll clean up old ones if I stopped using that distro but the version I have is ancient).

But of course when we talk about torrenting in public forums, it’s funny to only mention all the Linux distros we are torrenting and remaining hush-hush about other things we may be sharing.

Honestly, I just self-host. I download my ebooks, use Calibre to clean them, convert them to my favorite format (ePub), and tag the shit out of them with metadata. My Calibre library lives in a folder that gets synced to all my devices (I’m currently using a commercial cloud storage platform from one of the big providers, but working on spinning up a Nextcloud instance). Then I just open my ebooks in Moon+ Reader Pro on my phone and read away.

oof :( sorry to see fellow lemmings falling victim to the AI movement.

Thank you for pasting the contents in the post. I refuse to click a link to a scummy site that uses AI art.

Republican-controlled states block this every chance they get. My state is refusing federal dollars to pay for lunches for kids during the summer.

I don’t know what Train AI Tools are, but I’d be ok with them if they had the temperament of Thomas the Train rather than Blain the Mono. How do we know which Train AI is buying our data?

Yeah, why would I engage with that sort of disingenuous nonsense. We’re talking about cell coverage. Area matters. Period. Full statewide 5G coverage may be possible in a tiny state, but it starts to get bad and then abysmal as states become larger and are mostly rural.

No, but I know what state I’m in. You’re not in Alaska or Texas or you wouldn’t be making these fantastic claims, so by process of elimination, you do not live in a larger state than I.

Yes, my state is far larger than yours, so that may be a difference. We only have 5G coverage in major cities and along interstates.

Well, you’re the one who said you’re shocked at the small numbers of Tmo customers. It may be a shock in your area if they have good coverage, but in my state they are trash. I have TMo and lose signal anywhere outside a city center. I visit my verrrrry rural parents and get zero signal in a 30 mile radius around their house until I get there and connect to their wifi … powered by an att-connected 4g router.

Are you still talking about the EU here? I’ve heard that is a common sentiment in America, where iphone and android are about 50/50, but it is not my experience that Apple has enough market share anywhere else to make that a serious consideration.

I’m mixed on this one.

As a detterrent to drinking, great. Fuck alcohol.

As a serious source of taxation, I hate any sort of tax that disproportionally burdens the poorer members of society.

This.

My friends/family: this is amazing, you could sell these!

Thank you for the compliment, but no. Absolutely no. I make plenty of money at my day job. I enjoy making sawdust and wood chips, and want to keep enjoying it.

As far as I understand it, the US invented the internet (possibly through the divine inspiration of Vice President Al Gore), so it makes sense that they can make or break any rules they want.

In my country, while it is illegal to download or to share pirated content, our law enforcement really only goes after the big fish doing the sharing. Sites may go down, but as an end user, my only real risk is getting a DMCA notice from my ISP if I’m sharing data (seeding torrents) while not using a VPN, and possibly having my service disconnected if I continue. While technically I could be in trouble with the law, it is not really a fear in my country to be a downloader of pirated media.

Stronger legislation could mean laws that entice law enforcement to act on smaller uploaders or even downloaders.

Though it makes me sad to think we needed to make “hopepunk” a word; how is having hope a “punk” thing? :|

It’s punk af. Punk is a leftist/inclusive/anti-authoritarian movement that focuses on self-reliance and direct activism to get shit done. A lot of the general punk scene has been all over the board on their optimism/pessimism about our ability to affect meaningful change. Recently, subgenres of punk have sprung up that are very much still punk, but focus on one category of change or have a more optimistic outlook. Solarpunk is a branch of the punk movement with a green focus. Hopepunk focuses on can optimistic outlook with traditional punk values. Fashion-wise and music-wise, they tend to lean towards greens/blues or brighter/lighter colors or more folk-punk or upbeat tunes.

Weird Barbie would definitely qualify as hopepunk.

Just like any other sub-genre, though, if it rubs you the wrong way, it’s generally fine to just refer to it as the parent genre. Hopepunk is still punk, so feel free to call it that if it works better for you.

Bookware seems to be audiobooks, but I’m surprised it’s so low on the list.

Tradition. We just thought it looked rad af in the demo scene and warez scene in the 80s and 90s and its just one of those timeless things that seems to remain cool generations later.

There is no solution for that beyond properly setting user expectations. Users may want to understand that anything published on the internet should be assumed to be a permanent record. Anybody that can access a post on any website has the ability to copy and re-post it on another website such as an internet archive.

What does that stake get them? They own a bit of Grinding Gear Games (Path of Exile), and GGG has said Tencent basically gave GGG a big cash infusion in exchange for the rights to modify the game for the Chinese market, and they otherwise leave global game development alone. Ten cent is happy farming their Chinese gamers with p2w microtransactions, and from a user-perspective, the non-Chinese version of the game hasn’t seemed to suffer from the arrangement.

“newest self-made billionaire.”

Uh-huh. She was in a relationship with Sergey Brin when she founded 23andme. She really tightened her belt and pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Such an inspiration.

Hard links cannot traverse filesystems.

Ooh, I wasn’t thinking. Thanks! I see somebody else posted an archive link already, so I deleted my comment and will try to be more mindful in the future.

Yes, it’s been a good 4 years for getting the American left to the polls, and if that continues, we’d have less to worry about. I hope we continue to vote enthusiastically.

What do you think “defund the police” means?

You’re in the piracy sub. A large part of the conversation is going to be about the late-stage capitalism that is driving us to piracy.

Even if Biden beats Trump, I still fear for the effect of an apathetic, depressed voter turnout on down-ticket races. If Biden holds onto the presidency, but a congress and state and oocal races go the other way, we won’t be in a great place.

It’s a protocol named NTP. If you want to say “the ___ protocol”, you can say “the network time protocol” or “the NTP protocol”. Both are correct, even if the latter is technically redundant. You would sound really weird if you insisted on saying “the NTP”. Let’s not bring the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse. Needlessly pedantic is something we can move beyond.

Reddit used to have an open API. A lot of mobile apps sprung up to access reddit over the years, with different features. Reddit gained a lot of loyal members through users of these apps, but couldn’t make ad revenue off them. Reddit decided last summer to start charging a lot of money to these app developers to continue using the API. A few of the apps started a for-pay subscription model to continue operating, but many just shut down their apps. Many redditors and Reddit mods revolted, because these apps made the site usable (some of them offered advanced mod tools, etc). We protested, shut down subreddits temporarily or permanently, deleted our accounts, moved to new platforms (like lemmy/kbin), etc. This was basically a move to maximize their ad revenue while Reddit positions itself for an IPO. It was really not cool.