So your entire spiel is based on one interaction, extrapolated by… what, vibes? Feelings? Aren’t we supposed to be the objective and rational ones?

I worded that poorly. The “you” was plural (I want the singular “thou” back) and meant to refer to the people who are losing their shit, not any one individual.

(edit) I also just want to point out that accusing me of being a sexist sympathizer and two hours later posting this shit is real funny.

Depends on the location. House in a European-style suburb (grid streets, mixed-use zoning, good public transit) over apartment, but anything in an American-style suburb (long, winding streets, car-centric, Euclidean zoning) is an instant deal breaker.

People are losing their shit, calling for boycotts, and throwing around accusations of transphobia over comments in the source code and a single line of documentation? Seriously? And brigading the developer three years after the fact‽ I was ready to write off Ladybird, but damn, this was taken way out of proportion.

I’m all in for equal treatment, but people need to get a perspective. Such an extreme reaction will ultimately hurt the cause they’re trying to advocate for. Getting bent out of shape and publicly brigading something for every perceived slight, every time someone’s feelings are hurt, or can’t get their way, will get them – and the demographic or movement they represent – labelled as undesirable.

I’m a sysadmin at a university. Fortunately we never used Adobe, and recently ditched Autodesk and Unity for Blender and Godot. Still on Windows, but I’ll take what I can get.

This bacterium gives me the sniffles. This other bacterium liquefies and eats my muscles. But if I don’t have enough of this other bacterium in me, I get violent explosive shits??

Yes, it runs flawlessly. It was the first game that was made to run on DXVK.

And yes, the Year Age Of The Linux Desktop is already here. Unless you have to use Adobe products, or play a game with some incompatible anti-cheat trojan, there are very few barriers to switching to Linux full-time.

I’ve always found natural draft cooling towers freaky. You’d think there would be more going on inside, but most of it is just hollow. The structure just needs to be there to induce a draft.

There are no “problems” with Firefox. The problems are with Mozilla and how they operate Firefox, so they could easily start affecting Thunderbird too.

Check the wording. I said Mozilla, not Firefox.

I think Firefox is a great product and want it to succeed, but lately Mozilla has been burning its reputation by chasing the advertising and AI trends. Make no mistake, they are a for-profit company. That doesn’t mean their products should be shunned, but they shouldn’t be exempt from skepticism and rational distrust simply for being the lesser evil.

The question is, can you trust Mozilla to respect those settings, to not change them, and to not remove them? Judging by the events of the last week, I certainly wouldn’t. I would prefer a solution that is entirely out of Mozilla’s control.

Change this:

    print(calculate(splitter(expression)))

to this:

    print(calculate(* splitter(expression)))

The error is that calculate expects three float values (x, and y, and z), but splitter returns a tuple object ((x, y, z) as one object, similar to arrays in other languages):

>>> type(splitter("1 + 2"))
<class 'tuple'>

Prepending a tuple or a list with a * operator (unpacking or splatting) unpacks the object into its individual items that are then passed to the function as separate arguments.

In fact, str.split() already returns a tuple. By assigning multiple values at once in x, y, z = expression.split(), you actually unpack the returned tuple into individual values, then in return x, y, z, you pack those values into a tuple.

We’ve seen a little confusion about the language

Tastes like “I’m sorry you feel that way”

Оф корс ит из сэтайрь. Ай’м виллинг ту бет мост Американс вуд шит брикс иф дей хед ту лёрн а секнд алфабет.

(Approximate transliteration of: “Of course it is satire. I’m willing to bet most Americans would shit bricks if they had to learn a second alphabet.”)

As long as you’re not behind CGNAT, you can use a dynamic DNS provider (like duckdns.org) and its web API to keep a record pointed at your IP. If you’re behind CGNAT, Tailscale also has a service (Tailscale Funnel) that can expose an internal service to the internet.

You could also pay for a small VPS with a static IP, and set up a Wireguard tunnel to your home server and an HTTPS proxy to forward traffic through the tunnel.

Also, just in general, use Tailscale. It’s serious black magic fuckery on the firewall.

It’s more accurate to say that I’m growing disillusioned with the movement as a whole and the people who claim allegiance with it, not its ideals. I support the ideals that I find right and just, and given limited options (votes and such), will support the people who promote those ideals.

I can’t address the entire reply since it’s 3 in the morning, but I just want to point out something.

I’m not a communist. I’m not a socialist, or a Marxist-Leninist. I don’t consider myself to be a “leftist” (which I see as an overly broad term), and I’m sure as hell not a centrist. If my views are inconsistent, it’s because I don’t follow any single doctrine.

Your example is about as spicy as lukewarm water. The responses I got involved the words “bootlicker”, “nazi”, “fascist”, and “chud”, various expletives, called into question my mental health and respect for minorities, and listed several examples of why holding those views made me the scum of the earth.

I’m generally leaning towards progressive or left-wing ideas, but with a few exceptions.

• While I support the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion, I believe that DEI initiatives are highly susceptible to exploitation because of the widespread and largely uncritical public support of the concept (or even just the abbreviation) with little regard to the implementation; and by tokenizing ethnicity, gender, and identity, it is at risk of doing what it was meant to prevent.
• I believe that law enforcement is a deeply flawed system to say the least, but ultimately necessary because the alternatives are lawlessness or ineffectual systems. This is of course colored by my European perspective where guns and driver’s licenses aren’t handed out like candy.
• The “tolerance is a social contract” mentality is hurting society. A person who experiences rejection and exclusion from progressive communities for voicing “intolerant” opinions will not be interested in reconciliation, and will inevitably fall in with a more radical group where they experience acceptance and belonging, where they will never be exposed to different ideas and their views will never be challenged. Integration should be sought whenever reasonable.

The last point is especially important to me. I grew up in a fairly conservative environment, and it took me a lot of conscious effort to un-learn my prejudices and learn acceptance. But whenever I get downvoted and shouted down for voicing an opinion that aligns with conservatives, or simply isn’t “leftist” enough, it makes me want to distance myself from “leftist” ideology and adds to my disillusionment.