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WHY are "modern" messengers always something that requires some container shit like flatpack or snap? why is everyone fine with this? or is it just the same crowd as with wayland?

completely shit way to develop software. this isn't "fine", there's a word for it, "shit". it's shitware. it's not even fine for a prototype.

last protocol that was remotely sane in this regard is XMPP. it had clients you could build on a normal system.

can't be video playback. that's a handful of libraries. not 300 very specific verisons only compiling with an old gcc version. except for the one exotic library that requires clang or something and 4 different scripting languages on top of the NEW and MODERN build system that is the same shit as the myriad of build systems before.

why not just TRANSFER the BYTES and then EMBED a mplayer window? DOESN'T THAT WORK WITH WAYLAND?

literally throwing away decades of good ideas about how software should be developed for ideas made of pure shit.

@cjd precisely the sort of thing i had in mind when i posted that pandoras box of technology is open. one can rig together a cnc lathe now, no stopping that :)

Husband works at the library - when he tells me the titles of children's books he's shelved I just shudder. Why would anyone dumb down their offspring?

@HippyMomPhD
Children in the early 1900s grew up on books with beautiful language & delicious vocabulary. So many modern children's books talk down to children. Your children deserve better

@spinneria @DrFell maybe just another botnet slowing things down or something

politics is the wrong wording. it should be "neet circle jerk".

hot take, aside hardware support linux desktop was much more interesting and fun 20 years ago. many cute projects doing graphical effects etc. back then.

now desktop linus is lile mac vs windows. two sides of the same boring coin constantly reinvented to be incompatible with the other side.

> Und bei denen, die ausgegrenzt wurden, weil sie sich gegen eine Impfung entschieden hatten. Das darf nicht wieder passieren.

keine sorge. das passiert nicht wieder.

This is your reminder that #AI doesn't exist yet and is just a rebranded #LLM, no matter how much the marketing team wants to sell it as one.

I am not sure if I would call bruteforcing smart in any way.

How do you know if something is actually smart?

Simple: It runs locally with very limited resources and creates results that still astonishes generation to come.

In other words: It's like our brain that our divine God created.

Everything else is a lie.

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