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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So, we have reasons not to use Signal, reasons not to use Matrix

yes, nearly all possible things in the world have been argued by someone somewhere already

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

mission accomplished? That has the same effect as making it private, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

because you're here bringing down the average

obvious troll is obvious

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Apple used to be the underdog in comparison to Microsoft before the iPhone existed.

Mozilla, well I tend to defend FOSS organizations, but this particular one isn't very easy to defend.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

nah the next round number is 4096 what did you think https://xkcd.com/1000/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

oddly enough those also correspond approximately to how well I (native German speaker) know each of these languages; but why is there a stereotype that us Python devs and Esperantists need to shower more? :(

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

tests are for confirming your code STILL works if someone ever changes something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

All the time, both on Windows and KDE Plasma. It's especially convenient for starting an app you don't have pinned to your taskbar, just press the Windows key and then type the name of the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Rarely, but when I do: cutting in half, then eating it with a spoon. I never knew people did it other ways too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have a very good answer to that either tbh; do we really need to do that so often?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

video → video producer

audio → musician, podcaster, … depending on the type of audio

text media → author

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Do we need a general term? Someone who uploads their videos to a video platform is probably a "video producer".

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator

 

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He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.

expl: https://explainxkcd.com/2967/

 

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Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

explananation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2966:_Exam_Numbers

 

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Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump.

Explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/2964/

 

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People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me.

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2963:_House_Inputs_and_Outputs

 

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We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike

 

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IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more.

explanation: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2960:_Organ_Meanings

 

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Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."

 

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Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.

 

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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

 

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They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.

 

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The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.

 

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Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.

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