dactylotheca 1mo ago • 98%
I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: "translate this campaign text to Latin", because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it's called Latin America too!
Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
I've only done it the "manual" way but I don't think the script was even a thing the last time I installed Arch, which must have been close to 15 years ago now.
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
Oh it's not quite as "from scratch" as some people make it out to be. It definitely can be more work than most distros, but mostly it's pretty straightforward and you generally just follow some wiki guide or another when picking "components" to install and I think nowadays you can use prebuilt binaries too (I haven't used Arch in a good while.) There's really not all that many moving parts, most of them are sort of a package deal – if you want to use X, you have to install Y and Z. It really is more like building a PC from parts.
Now, if you actually want to build a Linux system from scratch, there's the very surprisingly named Linux From Scratch project
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
Academics, think tanks and magazines are buzzing with conversations about how to undo the damage wrought by half a century of misguided economic policies. On the right, that debate has already spilled out into the public view.
Well, if vocally campaigning to make shit much worse qualifies as "spilled out into the public view", then yeah I guess it has
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 60%
I thought he'd understood why it was better for him to drop out of the race, but I guess that was overly optimistic of me
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
I'd be a bit nervous about those rockets
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
I'm surprised I haven't seen any "trump for Harris" generated images yet in this thread.
It'd mean having to give money to Musk
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
Clueless MBA parasites ruining shit for everybody again?
Must be a day that ends in Y
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
I doubt he's that open-minded. He's one bottle of whiskey away from suggesting concentration camps for minorities and "woke" people
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
Well, separating his [REDACTED]
from his [REDACTED]
using the famous French invention called [REDACTED]
would definitely be justice
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
As long as we keep pretending conservatism is a valid political ideology and not a dangerous mental disorder that should land you in treatment and on a watch list, no civilized society can be safe.
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
got a jail sentence again after he outraged the modesty of a woman by touching her feet
My modesty is outraged!
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
What he needs is something I can't say out loud if I don't want to get banned.
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 99%
I love it that reich-wing lunatics are now eating their own. They suddenly think Andrew Tate is trans, ditto for that one cockwomble who shot protestors (Kyle something?), and now even Trump is a deep state operative.
Keep it up, conservatives. Maybe murder each other and not us LGBT+ folks for a change?
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
The Usenet post I linked to claims it's originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that's accurate or not. I actually can't find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it's usually attributed to him at any rate.
But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90's
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
Well, no. The originally German / Nazi tactic called Lügenpresse aka. "Lying Press" is more about just claiming that the press is lying – like how conservatives latched onto calling everything "fake news" after US Republicans and Trump started doing it after their bullshit was called out with that term.
The idea with the "firehose of falsehood", like the page I linked to explains, is to saturate media with so much high volume and continuous bullshit that people start to doubt whether it's even possible to know anything about objective reality in the first place. The point isn't to proclaim that the media is lying, but to simply lie so much that people start to think that all media is just lies. The tactic originated in Russia and has been in use since Soviet times and the internet has allowed them to take it to a completely new level.
And yes, Nazi-controlled media was obviously also full of total fabrications, but that doesn't mean that these two tactics are the same thing.
dactylotheca 2mo ago • 100%
The WHO hopes its latest declaration, that mpox is a public health emergency of international concern, will trigger greater support to the areas most affected.
lol, good one
By [Jon S. Stumpf](http://web.mit.edu/cfields/News/odetoc) May your signals all trap May your references be bounded All memory aligned Floats to ints rounded Remember ... Non-zero is true `++` adds one Arrays start with zero and, `NULL` is for none For octal, use zero `0x` means hex `=` will set `==` means test use `->` for a pointer a dot if its not `? :` is confusing use them a lot a.out is your program there's no U in foobar and, `char (*(*x())[])()` is a function returning a pointer to an array of pointers to functions returning `char`
https://www.instagram.com/calkearns
Guess it's sort of appropriate that you have to pay for crushing dystopian sadness
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/19813767
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ A fairly in-depth and "dense" [C3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress) talk about the AGC that covers the architecture and instruction set, the hardware implementation, peripherals, and the system & mission software. Really interesting stuff if you're into retrocomputing and/or computers that *got people to the fucking Moon*, and if you're not the sort of person who turns into an unskippable cutscene when the AGC is mentioned, you'll probably learn a lot. If you're like me and you _are_ that sort of person, you'll probably enjoy the talk anyhow. (book tips: *[The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation](https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781441908766)* by Frank O'Brien for AGC details, and *[Digital Apollo](https://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/)* by David Mindell for a general overview of the automation in Apollo)
cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/3091267 >https://lastplacecomics.com/ > > That "What am I pregnant with??" absolutely sent me
https://lastplacecomics.com/ That "What am I pregnant with??" absolutely sent me
**Edit:** and the title is in no way meant to disparage sex workers, I really do believe sex work is real work
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