pragmakist

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[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Surely the only languages that are not weird are those specifically designed to be widely spoken?

And no-one wants to speak those!

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

It keeps the butter hard and useless?

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Who goes there", John Campbell, 1938.

(And I seem to recall more movies that are rehashes of that novella.)

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

So, yeah, looking at those examples I'd say we should try to prevent our opponets from going fascist.

If there's anything fascists are good at it's murdering lots and lots of people, so Id say we should stop them from gaining a following or try to remove their following if they already got one.

Easier said then done, but, to steal your words, doesn't mean it's impossible.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah , but ...

In Paris we fought and were massacred.
In Korea/Manchuria we fought and were massacred.
In Ukraine we fought and were massacred.
And as you say in Spain we fought, but then we were massacred.

There's more of course, but you get the idea.

Something probably should be done differently in the future.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's German, and you're about as right as anyone trying to say a German word in English can expect to get.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Some of the flickering can be gotten rid of by disabling hardware-acceleration for qtwebengine.

I've got
`export QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_GPU_THREAD=1

export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu-compositing --num-raster-threads=1 --enable-viewport --main-frame-resizes-are-orientation-changes --disable-composited-antialiasing"`
in .bashrc.

Note that there is still enough flickering left to annoy, and some (appimage?) apps dont seem to register the setting.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Niti og ni, 9*10+9 was used in Danish on cheques.
I doubt those exist anymore, though.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Yeah, and it's wrong.
Nioghalvfems is 9 + 1/2 * 5 * 20!
NOT that silly 9+(4+1/2)*20.

What do they take us for? Calculators?

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think what's happening in the US today rhymes hard on the fall of the Roman Republic.

And I'm sorry, but I don't think the people won back then.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Or Earth.

Pieces of Earth was do doubt also flung about.

 

So There's This System where you can specify which language you're writing in, and I always write in English.

So why, oh God why, does it keep insisting on changing it to Danish?

I mean, Kbin please, could you ask me?

Or just bloody remember what I always set it to (when I accidentially remember to set it)?

#AskKbin

 

So, I've just set up my own peertube instance over at tube.puggaard-nyborg.dk, and that was surprising simple.

Or I should say that the instructions were surprisingly clear and correct, more so than what I've seen from other comparable open-source system.

Anyway, easy-peasy.

And now I want to follow some other instances, so I go looking at PeerTube instances.

And ye Gods are there a lot of ... people who don't agree with me politically.

Do any of you people out there know of a listing of instances-instances?

I'd settle for an instances-instance that leans anarchist, if you of any such beast?

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