Skip Navigation

Richard
Richard @ ricdeh @lemmy.world
Posts
6
Comments
656
Joined
2 yr. ago

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

Jump

  • Can someone tell me whether Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem series is stained by Chinese communist propaganda? Because I find the story very appealing, but am wary of the many awards that the series won in Communist Pseudo-China. Are there any undertones I missed?

    • When it’s Saturday and there’s no new content on lemmy

    Jump

    • Linux Running on an NES?

    Jump

  • But theoretically not that difficult? I mean, the whole point of Unix was that it is written in C and therefore platform-independent. Principally, all you need to port a POSIX Unix OS is a C compiler for the architecture that you're targeting.

    • Louvre 1.2.0 Release (C++ Wayland Library)

    Jump

  • Okay, but what about migrating the repository to Codeberg?

    • Please form an orderly line if you want to beat this dead horse

    Jump

  • Publicly available data should be accessible to all people, period. Regardless of the personal preferences of any useless billionaire.

    • Please form an orderly line if you want to beat this dead horse

    Jump

  • Ha. Ha. Ha...

    • Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News

    Jump

  • It is not the "real solution". Increasing the battery longevity is much more sustainable than regularly replacing the battery, and is therefore the most rational and responsible course of action.

    • ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

    Jump

  • Wow, this sounds really dystopian. You monitor the porn that your daughters are watching? Then you're an absolute nut job and maybe you should be the one who should have their technology access regulated.

    • Tesla Cybertrucks Are Rusting Despite Being Made Of Stainless Steel

    Jump

  • Oh you're right, socialism always yielded incredibly superior products that were totally not of a fraction of the quality of Western products!

    • AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

    Jump

  • You cannot simply block crawlers lol

    • Windows dropped new feature called "sudo"

    Jump

  • They made fun of your grammar

    • Windows dropped new feature called "sudo"

    Jump

  • That is correct. Microsoft could simply charge for their closed-source desktop environment or their package manager or their software environment in general, but any modifications to the kernel would need to be free and open-source (though they could still charge money for it).

    • Windows dropped new feature called "sudo"

    Jump

  • An oversight by the developers. Had they licensed it under the GNU GPL v3, such a thing would not be possible.

    • Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’

    Jump

  • Lol okay our dog doesn't lose any hair, at least not more than a human

    • Is weird that I like and use both Fedora and Debian?

    Jump

  • Why should it be? I drive Arch on my desktop and Debian 12 Bookworm on my laptop, they are very different distributions but both serve me very well.

    • Practical libc-free threading on Linux

    Jump

  • Very cool, thanks for sharing!

    • New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

    Jump

  • I am kind of afraid of the corporate influence on OpenSUSE. Same for the relationship between Ubuntu and Canonical

    • Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion.

    Jump

  • That doesn't make sense because Lemmy's user base is probably almost entirely 40 or older

    • Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion.

    Jump

  • I find it more concerning that you appear to be a bootlicker for religion

    • Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in

    Jump

  • No wonder people think fission is a sure thing.

    This article is about fusion, not fission.