asklemmy Asklemmy What are some terrible places to do road trips to?
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    As for the crypto piece of this puzzle, cybersecurity researcher Varun Biniwale pointed out hidden pages from the Flappy Bird website that indicate there may be such a component in the game’s launch. One page that seems to have been removed (and is archived here) said Flappy Bird will “fly higher than ever on Solana as it soars into web 3.0,” and invited players to “build, create, play and stake to own.”

    Of course it's a crypto scam.

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  • technology Technology The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms
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    It was actually a reference to Eminem's song "Stan" about an insane fan who murders his family or something.

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    3 weeks ago 100%

    Toot actually isn't official anymore. They changed it to notes (p sure), but the userbase decided to keep using toots because it's cuter.

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    I saw it in theaters, and I remember it being a great horror movie stitched together with a bunch of exposition that didn't make any sense and characters I didn't care about. Prometheus may be a very uneven movie, but it spent time building up its characters to a place where I actually could feel investment. Plus, Noomi Rapace is just a fantastic actress.

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    privacy Privacy Anyone got any thoughts on, praises of, and criticisms of Njalla?
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    I've heard nothing but good things about it. The only issue I've ever seen people call out is that by the very nature of the business, you don't actually own the domain you register on Njalla. You're basically renting it from them.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's the least shady political organization I can donate to in the US?
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    2 months ago 100%

    local groups are less likely to have aggressive fundraising arms

    And more likely to need your donation!

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  • rpgmemes RPGMemes Anyone else noticed this keeps happenning?
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    2 months ago 100%

    I mean, it only makes sense, doesn't it? You spend so much time thinking about the rules and start to notice things you don't like, so you decide to tweak things until one day you just went on a three day bender of rules documents and spreadsheets.

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    3 months ago 100%

    As negatively as I've been feeling about this game, it's nice to see someone feeling positive about it.

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    Almost everything they've taken down has been for name/character/assets reasons: Pokémon Uranium, AM2R, etc. Something like Ship of Harkinian, a source port of Ocarina of Time, doesn't provide any Nintendo assets and hasn't been taken down yet. To my extremely limited knowledge, gameplay generally isn't copyrightable unless it's specifically been patented for some reason, so I think you're in the clear.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?
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    I find he generally gives his best in whatever he's in, but the projects he takes... vary in quality, to be polite.

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    4 months ago 100%

    Just came up with these off the top of my head...

    Baby Doomer

    A Long Gay's Journey into Light

    Life Sucks and Then You Die: The Uplifting Guide to Looking on the Bright Side

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  • lgbtq_plus LGBTQ+ 'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol
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    4 months ago 100%

    I'm not saying I think you're endorsing the Taliban; I'm saying that people won't read that closely into what you're saying and THINK you are.

    And even though the Taliban aren't committing genocide (which I never said they were, I should've been clearer that the Hitler example was hyperbole for the sake of making a point), the human rights violations their government is committing are reprehensible. That's why it's an issue to say "they were just protecting their homeland": they kicked foreign invaders off their land to treat their own citizens just as poorly (if in different ways). It looks like you're taking up for a group that's pretty worthy of villainization.

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    4 months ago 100%

    First, while hallucination is a common symptom of schizophrenia (and that includes hallucinations involving ANY of the five senses), it is not a REQUIREMENT to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.

    There is nothing wrong with having a mental illness. Having a mental illness does not make you a bad person. That said, it does sound like whatever is going on with your head (whether it's schizophrenia or not) is interfering with your life in a negative way.

    As much as it can seem like they don't care, most doctors aren't actively looking to screw you over, but at the same time, 1000 bucks is indeed a lot of money. You probably shouldn't be going to a psychiatrist without also going to a licensed clinical psychologist for therapy. Developing a good and trusting therapeutic relationship will give you the space to figure out what's actually going on with your head AND it will give any psychiatrist you see someone to work with to figure out diagnoses.

    Please find a therapist you trust and feel safe with, possibly someone who specializes in psychosis because you seem to occasionally detach from reality (based on what you're saying at least, in my very unprofessional but somewhat educated opinion). And regardless of what you do, please don't stop trying to improve your life; you deserve to have a happy life!

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    I get what you're saying, but commending a group that is currently running fascistic, theocratic, totalitarian government for repelling an invading force isn't exactly the talking point you want it to be.

    Not to once again prove Godwin's law, but it's like saying "Hitler may have nearly eradicated all the Jews, but he brought Germany out of spiraling hyperinflation!" You may have a point, but no one's going to listen closely enough to prevent them from interpreting your statement as an endorsement of Hitler.

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    4 months ago 100%

    I'd argue Fedora Atomic does the job with even less fuss for a larger number of people. NixOS is great if you want/need to tinker, but Fedora Atomic is just giddy up and go as long as you don't require any specialized programs or drivers.

    I say this as someone who currently uses NixOS on both of my computers.

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    4 months ago 100%

    I'm in a California suburb, and the oldest building we have is an old adobe barn from 1852, which is pretty old for California. We actually have a lot of historical buildings, too.

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  • linux Linux Lix - a new fork of Nix
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    5 months ago 100%

    It's basically focused on establishing good community-centered governance, cleaning up the codebase, standardizing workflows (reconciling disparate parts of nix), and (I think?) eventually reimplementing the whole thing in Rust instead of C++.

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    Aux is only keeping the code on GitHub temporarily because money is tight and there are very few options for a soft fork of a repo as huge and active as nixpkgs. Plus, they want ease of accessibility for devs considering it's a very new project.

    Long term plans are to move off of GitHub. I'm pretty sure some people are talking to Codeberg to see how feasible it would be to move there in the future.

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    5 months ago 100%

    In Kvaesitso, just go to the app list, long press the app, hit the three vertical dots in the corner of the pop-up, and select hide.

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  • linux Linux I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡
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    5 months ago 100%

    Okay? OpenSUSE Leap is a point release by and for companies. While Fedora isn't necessarily a server distro, it IS a point release designed with enterprise use in mind.

    If we look at both of their strictly enterprise counterparts, I've never heard of any complaints about SUSE and any complaints with RHEL I've heard are with source availability. Neither of them have the mega amounts of bad publicity of Canonical.

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    Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.

    Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.

    When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

    #thathappened

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    The lesson is to use a Community distro, not a Corporate distro.

    Okay, but you don't see these kinds of complaints with Fedora or SUSE. While I don't necessarily disagree with your core point (community is better), this doesn't seem like an issue with corporations so much as an issue strictly with Canonical.

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    Mixed feelings about giving money to houseless people

    So, to get this out of the way, I'm a cisgender white man from a well-off family in a fairly affluent town. I'm making this post because I want to hear perspectives from those who are different from and likely significantly more knowledgeable than me. (Literally as I was writing this post, I came to the epiphany that I should probably more properly educate myself on socialism.) **TL;DR: What is your opinion on giving money to houseless people you see IRL?** I like to consider myself socialist/progressive in thought---in favor of wealth redistribution via various methods, live and let live, freedom for everyone as long as you're not materially harming anyone, etc.---but I grew up in a fairly conservative household (more socially than fiscally, but even then). Being in a rich area, I never really saw houseless people around unless I went to one of the nearby cities, and the general policy was keep walking and don't look. My parents definitely raised me to be kind and generous, but more in a detached "give to charity" way. Rather recently, I've really embraced this idea of being socialist, and I've become very free with giving my money in particular (though I'm aware I could do more, like join a DSA branch or somethin'). I love giving to non-profit organizations when I can, I support creators I like on Patreon. I've even started giving to people on Fedi who I've seen need money for whatever reason. Spread the wealth, right? Now, things have changed where I live, and even in my rich lil burb, you can usually find at least one refugee or houseless person when you go out to a grocery store or something. I just saw a guy who was standing outside a grocery store asking for spare change, and it was a rare occasion that I actually had cash in my wallet. On my way out, I gave it to him. Simple. But I feel weird about it. I have all these ideas in my head from White America saying that they'll just buy alcohol or drugs with it or that they're scamming me or anything else like that. Then on the other hand, I think that it's just as likely (if not *more*) that they're going to spend it on things they actually need to live and how it's not my job to police how they use their money. And then on the *third* hand, I think that maybe it would be better to donate money to organizations that help out houseless people than just giving money to random people. Then on the ***fourth*** hand---you get the idea. For those of you who actually read the whole post and didn't stop at the TL;DR, I have a few questions: 1. Why in God's name did you actually read this whole thing? 2. Are these feelings normal or am I just a self-centered prick? 3. What are your opinions on giving money to houseless people you just randomly meet? 4. As a bonus question for the socialists out there: Any recs on socialism learning resources for someone who likes reading, but doesn't like reading books? For those of you who made it all the way to the end, thank you for reading my neurotic ramblings. --- **EDIT:** I didn't really expect this to blow up... but thank you all so much for your perspectives on everything. It was exactly what I was hoping for and exactly what I didn't think I was going to get. I tried to read everything and I feel simultaneously less conflicted, but definitely more... not confused, but maybe full of ideas?

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