Some people use quotes for emphasis, though. So, not sure if this faculty’s on our side.

It’s a fourth-wall breaking game, a game whose characters are aware that they’re in a game. Their personalities, knowledge, and awareness change throughout the game and the consistency is limited to “pathes” that you take. The devs are playing with and making fun of the rules.

No idea. Maybe donations, fees from conventions, ad revenue…?

Why wouldn’t the friends like it then?

Damn I’m surprised you say that. I’m a native french speaker I’ve always thought that portuguese is a godsend. So fewer bullshit, so much more rational…

What’s the marketing meaning? I only know about the psychological effect of feeling anxious when disconnected or not taking part to an event.

That’s exactly how it works right now with VDI. I’m using one at work.

If it’s the input the problem, I use KDE connect to use my phone as a remote control. You can use the gyroscope in your phone to point to the screen like a Wii controller.

I haven’t tried Scrinever. What follows is about trying to convert people to Linux, you can safely ignore the comment if you’re not interested.

If the will doesn’t come from him, he will certainly look for things he doesn’t like and that will confort him in staying on Windows.

I’d say keep him informed and let him make his decisions with the information he has.

This meme was taken as example to showcase GPT4 image input: https://i0.wp.com/chatgptplus.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gpt-4-understands-images.png?w=1200&ssl=1

Honestly impressive!

In english, “I know you are, but what am I” is a childlish rebuttal to name-calling. It’s like saying “no, it’s not me, it’s you” or “it’s the one who says it who is”.

It’s the degree zero of rebuttal becaude there’s no argument. In this joke, the rebuttal actually works in a court setting and seems to convince the judge.

Nice machine! How does it turn the pages?

Depends if the rate of creation of the suspicious instances is higher than the mods can manage.

Two solutions that I see:

1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.

Did Musk do something that made people realize he’s an idiot?

Of course. And I’ll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I’m better off blocking it. I’m not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I’m against advertisement abuse and greed.

I’ll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.

Well the “federated” feed is similar to /r/all, that’s a useful feature imo. The local feed has no equivalent because it relies on the concept of instance.

Translated in french :)

Very interesting read, thanks for sharing. I particularly liked the part about the origin of the energy we use and wheter that energy would have heated the planet anyway. Carbon trapped in fossil fuel comes from the sun and would have heated the planet during the Carboniferous. By burning it, we “import” heat from this era. Nuclear fission is “importing” heat from the supernovae that seeded the solar system. However, is geothermal “importing” remnant heat of the solar system’s creation, as material collapsed in the Earth’s gravity well? The heat from the center of the planet would have traveled to the surface eventually, but it would have taken much longer. Maybe we are “importing” heat from the future instead of the past in this case.

There are two things he didn’t mention that seem relevant to me. Firstly, that entropy can go down locally. Of course it always rises in a closed system, but the Earth surface is not a closed system. Life, an incredibly organized machine risen from just photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, is an exceptional example of entropy locally decreasing because of external influx of energy from the Sun and the center of the Earth.

Secondly, he justly warned about gathering energy from outer space and importing in on Earth, something that I had never considered. But what if we used this energy in outer space as well? This seems like a good motivation for space colonization. That’s a (probably foolish) dream that could be compatible with exponential growth beyond what is available on Earth.