memes Memes I can't stress enough how much I don't care.
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    snowraven
    10 months ago 100%

    The world is such a sad place to live. This comes from USA, just think about all the third world countries, it's not any better but worse sadly.

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    snowraven
    10 months ago 100%

    Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.

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  • memes Memes North America before illegal immigration
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    Unless you could link a credible source it's hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion

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    snowraven
    11 months ago 75%

    There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

    But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?

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    memes Memes Just a little of the butterfly effect
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    When you think about it, it really did change the world for almost a century. It lead to ww1 which sowed the seeds for ww2 and when that came to end, communism had been strengthened enough by stalin capatalizing under the pretence of a nazi free Europe.

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  • memes Memes You're only exceptional at keeping people poor
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    Unpopular opinion: it's more of a coping mechanism for the third world countries.

    Sure UK and much of Europe had big and terrible colonies but there were still many like sweden and norway which did not. Thus the assertion that developed countries all have built upon exploitation is not entirely true

    Assertion 2: countries such as china have shown that economic development is possible when you have a terrible history of war, destruction or otherwise poor economic background. Sure personal freedom is a joke in China but to say it isn't an economic giant is false. Poland after ww2 is another example, much of their intellects were killed and warsaw was everything but ruins at the end of 1945

    Assertion 3: geography, the age groups of the people and culture all affect the development of a nation much more than their history from 80 years ago.

    - from someone who has keen interest in history and lives in a third world country and seen corruption, bribery and every form of idiotic economic decision that a government can make to not let the country be a better place.

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  • linux Linux Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 96%

    I have read this a hundred times and it's still as beautiful as the day I first read it.

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  • memes Memes ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    I was actually refering to the headline in the picture but yeah this is an interesting piece of information too, I know the post's title was sarcastic but didn't know it was such a thoughtful joke haha

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  • opensource Open Source Ask Lemmy: What open source projects are you working on lately?
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    I have never contributed directly to open source, perhaps because I have never felt truly confident about my programming skills. But I have always done all that I can - starring repos I like, helping beginners with linux related issues, contributing to discussions in forums, promoting foss in a friendly way wherever I can and leaving feedback and reports wherever I can.

    I guess it's something Yet I find my mind wandering sometimes If I am contributing enough.

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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    Right, it makes sense to me now. The double "as" was definitely confusing, but "identified" instead of "named" immediately made the sentence clear. Thanks.

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    linuxmemes linuxmemes So thats what the hub IS!!
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    For semantic reasons.

    Each element in HTML should correspond to a proper semantic element. For example, navigation elements should go within <nav>. Elements like <center> are remanants of the good ol days when css wasn't mature enough and you'd add color to an element via attributes. Obviously, center has no semantic meaning and pretty much useless in web dev now. It hasn't been removed but deprecated.

    These are "should"s and not "must"s. This is why divs exist because many times it's hard to decide what semantic meaning a piece of content has, so divs are just generic components when you can't think of an better semantic tag.</center></nav>

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  • linuxmint Linux Mint Hide/Remove Places in start menu?
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    what do you mean by places? If you are talking about general items in the menu, you can customise it by right clicking the menu and clicking edit menu

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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    I have never been more sad to waste 30 seconds of my life to a spam ad trying to understand it if it was a hidden meme :(

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  • linux Linux Resources to learn about history of linux
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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    Lol that's a pretty fun idea actually- just to see the commits evolve over time. I know there are over 1 million commits but yeah when you think about it all of them pretty much document the state of kernel at that time.

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    Resources to learn about history of linux

    I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as [Windows refund day](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D1j9j-Ywjmbk&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi3i6fFiPuBAxX9TGwGHTcOAqEQwqsBegQIGhAG&amp;usg=AOvVaw2rOWeM2-MIvALCIOxplbtn). I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too. Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.

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    Linux snowraven 11 months ago 100%
    Resources to explore history of linux

    I am a big history enthusiast and would greatly love to read more about history and big events in the world of linux or FOSS in general. Here's one example: on Feb 15, 1999, [the windows refund day event happened](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk), I am interested to read more about such events in detail. Is there a decent book or resource that covers all this in detail?

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    snowraven
    11 months ago 100%

    Some glance at the comments in the video tells me that this video aged like wine, the guy might be harassing coworkers. I say might because, I am not 100% sure.

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    snowraven
    12 months ago 100%

    It makes sense, I agree but speaking from personal experience from India where this positive discrimination called reservation exists, just leads to horrible segregation, it flares up every now and then in people. People from high castes always curse the lower ones for not getting their "supposed government job" that they should have gotten. Such measures should be entirely based on economic status and not some birth status. I say this because I know plenty of rich but lower caste people who have terribly exploited this system.

    I also agree that in the end, matters relating to such birth statuses are complicated. If only humans could co exist all peacefully but alas.

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    12 months ago 88%

    It's absurd if that's true. Who would in their right mind believe this solves any racism? If anything it creates more segregation about races. It's the social acceptance that minorities need not economic or education privilege. Sad times.

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    snowraven
    12 months ago 96%

    It's not socially acceptable anywhere in the urban places but in rural places it can a quite a problem.

    I have lived my entire life in a urban city without any discrimination whatsoever, but I have also heard of rural places where they would literally burn people alive for intercaste marriage.

    One of the main reasons it's not extinct yet is because people love to take "pride" in their caste. There are plenty of songs dedicated to "jatt" people, people of a higher caste. "Khatris" are often glorified in movies for fighting. You can see the problem is same as if white people started making songs on "being white and proud" and Britishers claiming victory in ww2 because they were "white". It's absurd and I have felt the pain but I am thankful for the present situation and I suppose it's better than being burnt alive haha.

    Yes there is reservation and that's absurd too, imagine if "black" people were allowed reservation for jobs in government.

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    snowraven
    12 months ago 100%

    It's as close to a "universal packaging system" as can get now.

    There was a lot of talk back in time, when Ubuntu decided to forcefully shove snaps onto users. The thing is, Ubuntu could have embraced flatpaks like many other distros but it chose snaps which is not ideal for people who like an OS whose primary goals revolve around freedom and privacy. You see, it is the proprietary nature of snaps that gets them this hate.

    Appimage and other packaging methods don't get this hate because they are open source and users have a "choice". What we are seeing against snaps is the result of forcing people to a choice, ofcourse the people in question are linux users - people who are famous about taking freedom of choice seriously. Yes, you can get ride of snaps on Ubuntu but you can get rid of lot of ads and stuff on windows with a lot of tinkering too - I think you see the point.

    Many people tend to have a preference for flatpaks because they do basically what snaps do but better and ofcourse flatpaks fit into the "freedom and privacy" spirit of linux.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes And Gentoo as well, but shush
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    snowraven
    12 months ago 100%

    Thanks, Now excuse me while I put a million compiler flags to optimse my program by 1 nanosecond and contemplate the reasons for human existence.

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  • memes Memes Marx failed to consider why the cheese is free
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    snowraven
    12 months ago 100%

    It's unironically true for most proprietary but free services- people think they are free but their is always hidden stuff like data collection.

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    snowraven
    12 months ago 66%

    You might as well tell others to just use windows at this point.

    Edit: Yeah sorry, my point is that freedom is what makes linux linux. I don't really think you have ever used linux mint before and I don't want to sound like a white knight for linux mint but you should atleast be a little less condenscending towards a distro that has been among the top distro for beginners to switch and has fulfilled the role of a full OS without ever needing for many like me to dig too deep into linux configs and stuff. Mint's development towards debian is only a good thing for many users like me because it preserves the future in case of a ubuntu upstream issue, besides freedom is the spirit of linux.

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    snowraven
    12 months ago 99%

    Purely in technical terms, this meme doesn't really fit unless they start running literally from the edge.

    While and do while are equal except for the very first test. So if the very first test does not evaluate to false, they are essentially same. In the meme that implies they started running sometime before reaching the edge, that runs the "run()" atleast once and later on for every run it would be checked and it would be false at the cliff edge.

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