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In the EU. It must be as easy to select no as it is to select yes. Afaik, each country has its own agency that you can contact about violations.

I like that people like different things, even if I can’t see what they see in it. Nobody should be made to feel like a freak for liking something, or being interested in something.

If we can’t be social, how can we implement socialism?

What is your favourite topic?

Yes! I know that feeling. David Foster Wallace wrote in one of his novels, I forget which, something like “how strange that I can have all this inside me, and to you it’s just words”. When you find something that emotionally resonate with you, art or poetry or anything, do you think that the meaning is what the artist intended, that there’s a 1:1 connection with what the artist felt, or is it more that the art allows us to put meaning into it? Like a more sophisticated and guided Rorschach test?

Oh! Thanks :) I’m trying to imagine this in the situation when they are flapping their wings trying to get out through a closed window. The next time it happens I’ll try to get it so it lies on its back.

This week a bird flew into a room I was in, a small one. Ok, they are actually called blue tit, but don’t let that distract, it’s a nice little bird. Anyway, it couldn’t find its way out, so I had to catch it in my hands. I was afraid I was going to hurt it by mistake, because it was trying to break free from my grip, but I managed to carry it back to the open window and it flew away (seemingly) happy. It’s the second time this happens, so I started searching online for the correct way to carry a small bird that doesn’t want to be carried. I did not find this information, but on a page about pet birds, I found this paragraph: “Spend quality time with your bird in a calm and positive manner. Offer treats, engage in gentle play, and use soft, soothing voices to build trust.” I am not a bird of course, but you know what, that doesn’t sound too bad! I want that. I showed it to my girlfriend and she gave me a look. We’ve been arguing a lot lately because she’s been emotionally distant and sort of spiraling out of control. I just wish I had a life like that “how to treat your bird” description but mutual. Do you know what I mean?

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But not Mastodon.

That’s how we know that GNU tools are genuine, with this lack of polish you know that their real interest is in the code alone. https://www.gnu.org/graphics/package-logos.html

Is that real? Can one hypothetically actually get them? If so, where?

For some reason this made me think of spaghetti, which is straight until it gets hot and wet, and actually, SpaghettiOS would not be a bad name for a distro. Except for trademark issues etc, but still.

I see, I thought they were synonyms, english isn’t my first language.

Pen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.

Yes, unfortunately. Everything is better now. We don’t even have to generate a new xorg.conf anymore and worry about getting the refresh rate wrong.

They might try to stop Linux from booting at all with locked bootloaders.

Famous last words…

0 money. I already had a pair of bunny ears, improvised a tail from curtain tassel tie-back thing that was already like a fluffy white ball, white clothes.

Is this separate from the Suite Numerique project or is it the german branded version? I’m worried that we (european governments) are not leveraging existing projects enough. In a way it’s good to have options, but also imagine if we all worked towards a very polished real alternative to the Google ecosystem.

I’ve heard that boat owners are happy on two days. The day they buy it, and the day they sell it.

A while ago I read through the classic Unix Programming Environment from 1984 while trying out the things described on a Debian system. I like the unix philosophy. Ken is a genius. ed is the standard editor. The more I read though, the more I was thinking that this just isn’t how we use computers today. I think Linux is trying to be two things at once. On the one hand it’s sort of a UNIX-clone, on the other hand it’s a black box that our containers and browsers and applications rest on. I’m not sure why we are heading towards less and less UNIX, but it seems to be by popular demand?