uuldika @ uuldika @lemmy.ml

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The idea that, if all Trump supporters simply had access to better information, if they all had better education, if they were exposed to the right argument... then they'd see the light and turn into democrats - is a supremely liberal idea. We need to understand that no amount of epic slams, no amount of late night talk show roasts, no amount of facts and logic will steer us out of fascism.

Well said. And honestly, it's even counterproductive, because that assumption is a core reason why people view the establishment Left as patronizing and elitist.

It also reminds me of one of my favorite Onion videos: https://youtu.be/lpzVc7s-_e8 (I like Judith Butler, and I've even read some of Gender Trouble, but the premise and execution just gets me in stitches every time.)

nix collect-garbage, comrade! there's also another command to clean up older generations. if you're using git to version your nix config, you only really need to keep two generations: the current, and your last successful boot, since you can recover by git checkout.

look into NixOS! there might already be a package for it. and NixOS can be very good about not duplicating dependencies.

is this... somehow... real?

could you make this?

Friendship ended with nuclear non-proliferation. Now nuclear proliferation is my best friend.

Lockpicks. One day the bathroom door somehow locked from the inside without anyone in there, and I really needed to pee. Really came in handy. Turns out you could just use a flathead screwdriver, there wasn't an actual lock cylinder, but don't take this from me!

the pie is getting smaller but the oligarchs are getting bigger slices.

I don't see anything about SBA in the articles above.

the Classicists and the classists!

is there a matrix client for Android? last I checked there was like, one, and it wasn't very good. whereas there's like 14 different Lemmy apps, many of which are fabulous.

usually when politicians use Signal it's because they don't want their messages FOIA'd or audited. I can't really imagine Vance or Hegseth worrying about that, though, which makes me wonder if it's just horrible opsec, if they can't be bothered to use a SCIF or what?

I'd say eliminating patriarchy or fascism is coercive, but not (necessarily) authoritarian and definitely not fascist:

• Coercive because you're using force to suppress the idea (e.g. punching Nazis, canceling abusers.)
• Anti-authoritarian if the people are organically self-organizing to punch Nazis. More authoritarian if a centralized power is drafting people to punch Nazis.
• Not fascist because fascism is inherently far-right, and predicated on enforcing a "natural" power hierarchy.

The Paradox of Tolerance justifies the forceful suppression of fascism and patriarchy. But imo you have to be careful - I limit my application of the Paradox of Tolerance to ideas that intrinsically cannot coexist with freedom of thought.

oof.

fun fact: Windows uses 9p for bridging the Windows and Linux filesystems with WSL2. the devs had excellent taste in protocols.

Isn't jfx still actually using HTML and CSS, though? like it's cool that the UI logic is in Java, but doesn't using CSS mean you still need to lug a rendering engine around, even if not a whole browser?

you're right, apparently. from Wikipedia:

The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges."

AR-15 is semi-auto rather than selective fire, so it's not an assault rifle. I had mistakenly conflated assault rifles with "assault weapons," which is a separate (and more vague and contested) term.

you can still buy an M-16 or AK-47, but it has to be transferrable (grandfathered in before FOPA) and you need extra paperwork.

you can buy an AR-15 in any gun store. they even make a "JR-15," for kids. no, I'm not kidding.

Java (and Object Pascal, I'm assuming) have very old-looking UIs. Discord's gonna have trouble attracting users if their client looks like a billing system from 2005. Also, what do you do about the web client? Implement the UI once in HTML/CSS/JS, and again in JForms?

So if you're picking one UI to make cross-platform, and you need a web client, do you pick JForms and make it work on the web? or React and make it work on desktop?

that they're willing to let some of their kids die rather than get a vaccine they think might turn them trans or autistic shows how much they value the lives of trans and autistic people.

I had a bong as a freshman. I cleaned it with acetone. I then had several tubes instead.