[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 137 points 3 months ago

a meticulously crafted email that UHC will promptly and carefully deliver directly to their recycle bin

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Comission (by Gilmang) (files.catbox.moe)

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/19314877

Artist: Gilmang | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

Full quality: .jpg 11 MB (4683 × 7281)

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 193 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Personally I think a large part of the lack of outrage over the first four is that no one who watched the movies had heard of the source material. People who watch Marvel movies don't tend to read the comics, but Ariel was a Disney movie (one of the most famous of all time) remade as another Disney movie.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 181 points 6 months ago

Some data formats are easy for humans to read but difficult for computers to efficiently parse. Others, like packed binary data, are dead simple for computers to parse but borderline impossible for a human to read.

XML bucks this trend and bravely proves that data formats do not have to be one or the other by somehow managing to be bad at both.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 151 points 7 months ago

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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typewrule (mander.xyz)

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16695440

Thesis writing

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 125 points 8 months ago

Ordinarily I would be fine with this. I use Arch anyway. But an Arch system configured by somebody else? I'd be safer leaving my laptop at home!

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 150 points 8 months ago

Another day of being extremely thankful I decided not to learn JavaScript

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by AVincentInSpace@pawb.social to c/canvas@toast.ooo

Whenever Reddit hosted r/place, it got instantly dominated by streamers and massive clans covering the canvas in their insignia, anybody else who wanted to draw be damned. I remember in 2022 I was working with a smaller subreddit to try to put a 16x16 graphic somewhere unobtrusive and could scarcely put 3 pixels down before getting overwritten by the German flag that was already taking up 1/3 of the canvas.

On Canvas yesterday, somebody put up a ~50 pixels wide drawing of Princess Celestia fighting Nightmare Moon (something that wouldn't have survived 20 seconds on Reddit before being vandalized) and the people drawing the osu! logo went behind it!

I'm just kind of amazed and stunned and glad that we seem to be infinitely better at silently collaborating and not stepping on each other than the people on That Other Site who are obsessed with pointless internet clout.

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a Blast from VRChat's past (static1.e621.net)
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Reddit users are called Redditors, Tumblr has Tumblrinas, Lemmy has Lemmings, ~~Twitter has Twits~~...

I feel like Beehaw is separate enough from the rest of the Fediverse both in terms of ideals and the space you're trying to create and in terms of actually being separate (defederated) from many of the most popular Lemmy instances to deserve its own demonym. Beehaw users aren't just any old Lemmings. We should have our own word. What do you think it should be?

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I've been seeing a worrying number of these people on Lemmy lately, sharing enlightened takes including but not limited to "voting for Biden is tantamount to fascism" and "the concept of an assigned gender, or even an assigned name, at birth is transphobic" and none of them seem to be interested in reading more than the first sentence of any of my comments before writing a reply.

More often than not they reply with a concern I addressed in the comment they're replying to, without any explanation of why my argument was invalid. Some of them cannot even state their own position, instead simply repeatedly calling mine oppressive in some way.

It occurred to me just now that these interactions reminded me of nothing so much as an evangelical Christian I got into an argument with on Matrix a while ago, in which I met him 95% of the way, conceded that God might well be real and that being trans was sinful and tried to convince him not to tell that to every trans person he passed, and failed. I am 100% convinced he was trolling -- in retrospect I'm pretty sure I could've built a municipal transport system by letting people ride on top of his goalposts (that's what I get for picking a fight with a Christian at 2AM) -- and the only reason I'm not convinced these leftists on Lemmy are trolls is the sheer fucking number of them.

I made this post and what felt like half the responses fell into this category. Am I going insane?

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 196 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome to 2013, Apple fans! Maybe in 5 more years you'll get ~~homescreen widgets~~ customizable layouts (change number of apps per row etc). In 10 you might get custom launchers!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AVincentInSpace@pawb.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

Not voting isn't going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he's publicly told Israel to "finish up their war". He'll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn't a straight cisgender male back here at home.

A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it's a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy's, and "sticking it to liberals" and "refusing to support genocide" (that's not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way -- a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.

How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump's campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?

I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I'll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there's a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 121 points 1 year ago

Java: "Sorry, but the developers of Peanut didn't declare it to implement the Crackable interface, even though it has all the relevant methods, so if you want to treat it like a nut your choices are write a wrapper class or call those methods using Reflections"

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 199 points 1 year ago

Yo where's my boy Jellyfin

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 104 points 1 year ago

No. This is fake, it's gotta be. Not even the "I use Kali by the way" script kiddies are that stupid.

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perrule the crayons (64.media.tumblr.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AVincentInSpace@pawb.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

no but seriously how am i supposed to find enough funny memes in the specific 196 genre to post one every time before i leave

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rule (i.redd.it)
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Late night gaming (nitter.rawbit.ninja)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AVincentInSpace@pawb.social to c/memes@yiffit.net
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Linux rule (lemmy.world)
[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 149 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those have gotten a lot better in recent years. Last time I had an issue with WiFi drivers was in 2016.

Graphics drivers, on the other hand, especially Optimus...

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 155 points 1 year ago

(yeah i know that's not what this is about but it still fits)

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