CynicusRex

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[–] CynicusRex 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have I got a pleasant surprise for you: Zen Browser is to Firefox what Vivaldi is to Chromium: a feature-rich powerhouse.

[–] CynicusRex 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently this update has significantly increased the time for my desktop to load and show. I see the a black screen with the KDE logo for approximately 10 seconds. Before, this time was negligible. It occurs on all my systems.

Edit: nevermind, today's update fixed it.

[–] CynicusRex 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
  1. Work in a cloud-synced folder by default.

That's all my step 🦥

[–] CynicusRex 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, unexpected response. Have an excellent day fellow “philosopher” ;)

[–] CynicusRex 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fortunately I completely disagree.

“Imagine going back to the year 1600. Even then, Western Europe was one of the more educated parts of the planet, but back then about 20% of the population could read and write. And I suspect if you went back there and you asked someone who was capable of reading and writing—say a member of the clergy—and you said: “What percentage of the population is even capable of it?” They might have said: “If you have an incredible education system, maybe 50%.” You fast-forward 400 years to today, and we know that that prediction would have been wildly pessimistic; that nearly 100% of the population can be literate. But what similar blinders we have on today? If I were to ask you: “What percentage of the population is capable of understanding quantum physics? Or what percentage of the population is capable of contributing to medical research?” You might say maybe 5 or 10%, or with a really good education system maybe 15 or 20%. But what if the answer is a 100%? What could that mean for the rate at which human society could progress? What would that mean for the human condition? But that is just one aspect of the types of blinders we have on today, that in 400 years will hopefully seem silly.” —Salman Khan, Harvard Class Day 2014

[–] CynicusRex 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I work at a meteorological institute in Europe and we also get phonecalls from angry imbeciles insulting the meteorologists.

My passion for science and curiosity peaked when I got the job. Now I realise everything is a pipe dream if we do not revolutionise education into something that makes more decent philosophers of us all.

[–] CynicusRex 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Golden Sun.

The most memorable RPG I've ever played. The music and art style, beautiful. Especially considering it's a Gameboy Advance game.

 

Multi-level marketing at its prime.

[–] CynicusRex 6 points 1 month ago

And I just installed uBOL on a couple of company employee laptops expecting it to be future-proof. Should've stuck with uBO.

[–] CynicusRex 1 points 1 month ago

Considering the Pixel 8 is significantly newer than my Samsung Galaxy S10e I think it should definitely be possible to get it to work. I ran into trouble as well due to downloading the wrong APK, and another time because I didn't really understand what ReVanced was doing so I screwed up the correct procedure.

If I recall correctly,

  • Download the APK it recommends
  • Patch it
  • Save the patched APK by tapping the save button on the bottom left (?)
  • Install via the patched APK
  • Launch the actually patched app and not the original one 🙃
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YouTube Music without ads (th-ch.github.io)
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On Android one can use ReVanced: https://revanced.app

[–] CynicusRex 9 points 1 month ago

Like a kid's temper tantrum, vandalism won't improve society whatsoever. Fight the rich with wit, wisdom, and relentless ridicule.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13071478

The data on this page was obtained from the USDA NASS Quickstats Database. The cattle slaughter numbers include bulls, heifers, steers, and dairy cows. Calves are counted separately and amounted to about 315,900 deaths in 2023.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13071478

The data on this page was obtained from the USDA NASS Quickstats Database. The cattle slaughter numbers include bulls, heifers, steers, and dairy cows. Calves are counted separately and amounted to about 315,900 deaths in 2023.

 

The data on this page was obtained from the USDA NASS Quickstats Database. The cattle slaughter numbers include bulls, heifers, steers, and dairy cows. Calves are counted separately and amounted to about 315,900 deaths in 2023.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CynicusRex to c/adblocking
 

Lichess goes to show how it is possible to create a completely free yet premium service without it needing ads to survive. This what the entire World Wide Web should emulate.

Lichess is safe, because it is free of ads and trackers.

But browsing the rest of the Internet exposes us to the following threats:

Advertisement sells our screen estate and influences us
Tracking sells our personal information to increase advertisement effectiveness

These don't benefit us, the website users, in any way. In fact, they use a lot of our computing power and bandwidth against us.” —Thibault Duplessis

 

To me it seems deliberative democracy is the most logical democracy.

Britannica:

Deliberative democracy, school of thought in political theory that claims that political decisions should be the product of fair and reasonable discussion and debate among citizens.”

Wikipedia:

Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality over quantity by limiting decision-makers to a smaller but more representative sample of the population that is given the time and resources to focus on one issue.”

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