Knusper @ Knusper @feddit.de

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Don't go faster than the speed of light (optional).

The existence of subwoofer implies the existence of domwoofer... ?

Yeah, and at least those are their pets and they don't, like, violently kidnap wild Pokémon to force those into fights.

It can also be onomatopoeia for eating something crispy. So, imagine a comic where a hamster is nibbling away at a cracker, then above that can be written:

Knusper Knusper

(basically Crunch Crunch)

But yeah, thanks for the rest of the explanation. I chose this username essentially at random when signing up here, but it's been growing on me. Just a fun word in our language.

Yeah, no, I don't think so either. It did feel like it would cause a similar groaning reaction, though.

Connect Four, I win!

Mozilla doesn't just make Firefox. At its core, Mozilla is a non-profit foundation with basically the goal of making the internet a better place for everyone.

And well, the Fediverse is an independent push for making social media better for everyone. And social media is an important part of the internet, so it's certainly in the range of things that Mozilla's donors would expect that donation money to be used.

We even have a regional word from that: "Entenklemmer", which translates verbatim to "duck pincher".

Some folks when leaving their ducks out of the enclosure, they'd check each duck for an egg in said pipeline. If there was one, they wouldn't let that duck out, because well, they wanted that egg.

So, an Entenklemmer is a scrooge, someone going to great lengths to not miss out on even tiny profits.

I do agree with that quote, but I've found, if you're surrounded by religious folks, it can feel like life is supposed to have some 'higher' meaning. And then it is easy to "find your own life essentially meaningless" in comparison.

But yes, the solution isn't to impose meaning on the universe. The solution is that since you don't believe in religion, you literally don't believe in that kind of 'higher' either.
If you put effort into whatever is your own personal life meaning, then in your own opinion, it should not be hard to have a more meaningful life than those who largely derive their personal meaning from their 'higher' meaning.

Not more than a few seconds, thankfully.

I have had multiple situations in the past months where I almost got hit by a car while going over a crosswalk, but I guess, that's just the kind of risk you take, participating in traffic without an SUV.

Personally, I have no trouble believing that. Thing is, these companies' investors don't really benefit from long-term plans. So, if it does not pay out in the next two or so years, I expect them to scrap that endeavour altogether.

I just find it weird that Apple decided to jump on that train now, but it's also possible that they started development at the peak of the hype and finished only just now.

I mean, the VR hype from a few years ago has mostly tapered off. Meta clinged onto it for quite a while with their Metaverse idea, but even they seem to have given up on it earlier this year, as LLMs stole the last bit of spotlight they had.

And the PS VR 2 launched earlier this year, too, was generally well-regarded from a hardware viewpoint, but the lack of hype means there's still not terribly many games being released for it.

It also is an expensive investment and people aren't exactly flush with money, thanks to inflation + countermeasures. So, if there is a chance, they buy this headset and no games get released for it, many people will hold off on that.

I enjoy it a lot. It's the first time that I find frontend actually fun.

A lot of the memory management aspects of Rust are bypassed by Leptos, so that doesn't come up as much as one might think.

And I do find Rust's type system really helpful for actually portraying the UI state. For example, if you execute a function that can fail, you don't have to catch some exception and then pass the error message separately into the UI or whatever.
Instead, you get a Result-type from that function, which contains either the data you want to render in the UI or the error information you want to render instead.

So, you can just pass that right through to your rendering code. And then there's pseudo-HTML inline in the code, where you can do full-blown Rust-pattern-matching to properly handle such a Result-type and simply render the appropriate UI element.
No horrid multi-line ternaries, no uninitialized variables, no separate boolean checks before accessing a variable. You simply know at all times what information is actually available.

What's also really nice with backend and frontend in the same language, is that you get compile-time-guaranteed compatibility between them, because you can simply use the exact same model types and API route constants.

It is still a relatively young ecosystem, so there are still breaking changes every so often. And well, obviously you won't find anywhere close to the number of UI component libraries as you can find for JS. So, for an experienced JS dev, it is likely a step back in productivity.

But if you've got Rust expertise instead or only backend folks on your team, then I heartily recommend it.

Rust in the backend and frontend, via WebAssembly. I'm using the Leptos framework for the frontend.

Tons of infosec folks are furries, gay etc.. I'm presuming, because having to hide your personality is quite the motivation to learn about potential attacks and defenses.

So, no matter whether you think of this particular stunt as good or bad, it's really not indicative of gay furry hackers a whole. Most of them are holding our IT infrastructure together, without doing big name hacks in their freetime.

Oh yeah, for sure. I hate all the slimy idiots that can't speak with a woman without perverted comments and everyone who defends them.

I did have a specific example in mind when I wrote the above, but it happened in German, so the double meaning won't make quite as much sense:
I was working with a lady colleague on wrapping articles and whenever we had completed one, we placed it into a larger carton for shipping. Each of us had our own larger carton that we filled.

Well, and one time, I went to put my article away, but got shortly confused and then exclaimed "Oh, now I just wanted to shove it into yours.".

And then, yeah, she asked, if I'm aware what I just said, and I replied that I am, but I only noticed after I had said it. Enqueue awkward silence.

So, there was no actual problem. She was no fan of me having said that, but she understood that this happens and knew me already well enough that I was honest about it.

I just thought about it afterwards and realized that I didn't even actually desire traditional, penetrative sex with her.

I do think sexuality in general is cool, as in two consenting adults making each other feel good. And she is gorgeous. She often talked about how she visited the gym and worked on her body and one time admitted that she felt self-conscious about it.
So, there was a certain curiosity what her body looks like and I would have loved to tell her that she's a fucking dumbass for being self-conscious about it. And yeah, sure, some amount of instinctive sexual desire will be involved. I can't shut that part of my brain off completely.

But all of that is ignoring that I'm a fucking dumbass, too. I'm also self-conscious about my body. And I don't train, I actually have a reason to be self-conscious. As incumbent of the male gender role, I'm not supposed to, but that doesn't sit well with me.
I would need a lot of trust to believe that a girl actually wants to have sex with me, both because I don't find my body desirable and because I care about consent beyond yes or no. A girl enduring sex with me, just because she likes me in other ways, that sounds like the worst kind of hell for me.

But yeah, none of that mattered in that situation.

Honestly, I don't even think, it was necessarily that someone didn't want to admit missing knowledge.

In my experience, us humans still love our false gods.
For example, how was the universe created? Well, there was the Big Bang, end of story. Most people just accept a big explosion as an explanation.

In reality, not only is the Big Bang not actually an explosion (nor finished), things happened before it, too. And we have a hard time seeing what happened before it, so we actually do not know that the universe was created. The theory with the least assumptions would be that it was not created, just spatially a lot smaller.

Of course, religion was itself involved in spreading the theory that the universe was created, but you've still got theoretically intelligent people not questioning how the void just kind of exploded for no reason and suddenly everything existed.

Another absolute classic of modern false gods: AI.
In most contexts, when a computer scientist says "AI", you can mentally replace that with "magic" and it's similarly meaningful. It's basically just a code word for them to not need to explain further.

I'm not at all trying to say that I don't think that's reasonable. I'm complaining that I don't feel like I have an influence on the matter.

Sometimes, you accidentally say something with a double meaning that can be interpreted sexually and it's the girl who points that out and then assumes you're thinking perverted things, because she's been told anyone with a penis does that all the time.

I am annoyed by that, because I'm a big fan of girls and don't want to convey that they're just meat to entertain my sexuality. If you're reading me as a tone-deaf pervert, that will not make sense.

I'm pretty sure, that was a hyperbole, not an actual, verbatim response. Most girls won't actually say these things, because that would say a lot more (that they're conceited). But you can often tell that they're overthinking it from their reaction, which is of course difficult to portray with words.

But yeah, it should be clarified that girls are not to blame for this. Society as a whole, both men and women, are involved in passing this non-sense continually onwards.

Well, I understood this post to mean, if you had a wish, what would you wish for? Not necessarily that it's realistic...

I do agree with your points. Although, I can't help but feel like more people would prefer local files, if those actually sounded better than the bandwidth-limited streaming services.