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Cake day: January 23rd, 2022

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  • I love these “millenial” memes because you can always tell about how old the meme maker is.

    There are millenials that are in their mid 40s, and there are zoomers that are almost 30. Assuming they were just going for a round number, the creator could have said 50, 45 or 40. But no, they chose 35, presumably because they are around 35.



  • To the people saying it’s a skin color/race issue: yes, but also no. The people who put the authoritarians in power did so for reasons of deeply ingrained racism, and the power hungry narcissists gleefully abused their supporters’ easily manipulated fear of PoC to amass more power, but…

    Just like every other clique, cult and fascist regime, it’s really just about creating an in-group and an out-group. The important thing is that to the brainwashed in-group, the group’s membership seems immutable, but to everyone else (including the cult’s leaders) it’s clear that membership is entirely contingent on favor. That’s why ICE has been given the power to deport anyone and everyone, but is not doing so: it’s about maintaining control.

    Which is all to say that the deportations don’t end with eugenics. Even if the nazis remove every last person who fails the skin color check—or is just too recently descended from “non-whites” (the moving goalpost)—the deportations will continue. Just make yourself an enemy of the regime and they’ll figure out a way to brand you “an illegal” regardless of skin color or race or ethnicity or heritage; their supporters will bend over backwards to believe the lies, and their opposition will stage peaceful protests and wring their hands about “law” and “constitution” to no avail.




  • I’ve tried KDE on both Debian and Fedora. Neither have allowed me to do what I want to do: add a secondary storage device to my steam library. Whenever I try to, it just pops up a separate Dolphin window that doesn’t affect steam once a folder is selected (almost like it’s a separate process and not a child process of Steam).

    The flatpak works, but 1. Ew; 2. It runs steam on Xwayland; 3. Being a debian nerd, I want to be as much of a <default package manager> purist as possible to make life easier down the road

    I’ll switch once this is fixed, but I just gotta stick with Gnome until it is


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    What if I’m so propagandized by American technofascist social media that I am incapable of believing Marxists would be able to make and maintain a project of this size? How do I donate to the real devs? (/j)

    Real question: assuming I’m basically broke, which is more helpful to y’all: a yearly dono of $100 or a weekly pledge of $2?





  • Never heard of him, but if he’s like Bernie, I’ll endorse that.

    I’m sort of assuming that this comment can be aimed at me, which I think is accurate

    Nope, just responding to OP. I fit 3 of the items on their list, 5 depending on who you ask, and I take exception to having my issues with the party that’s supposed to represent my interests dismissed as “maga cuckoo infiltration.”

    If it is as you say, then that sounds like bad faith actors posing as 3rd party alright. People will do anything to get you sucked into engagement to drain you and keep you from being productive. I guess reminding everyone of that is a public service





  • (Why are there % signs)

    Good question, here’s the explanation man sudoers offers:

    The definitions of what constitutes a valid alias member follow.
    
           User_List ::= User |
                         User ',' User_List
    
           User ::= '!'* user name |
                    '!'* #user-ID |
                    '!'* %group |
                    '!'* %#group-ID |
                    '!'* +netgroup |
                    '!'* %:nonunix_group |
                    '!'* %:#nonunix_gid |
                    '!'* User_Alias
    
           A User_List is made up of one or more user names, user-IDs
           (prefixed with ‘#’), system group names and IDs (prefixed with%and%#’ respectively), netgroups (prefixed with+’), non-Unix
           group names and IDs (prefixed with%:’ and%:#’ respectively),
           and User_Aliases. Each list item may be prefixed with zero or more
           ‘!’ operators.  An odd number of!’ operators negate the value of
           the item; an even number just cancel each other out.  User
           netgroups are matched using the user and domain members only; the
           host member is not used when matching.
    

    TL;DR % lets the system know the following word is a group name, instead of a username


  • If you’re referring to the youtube thumbnail trend, it’s because it helps people choose videos without reading channel names. You know who it’s from just by looking, you see the title, you’re more likely to click.

    In other words, the office nerds at Mr. Beast Inc. crunched the numbers and discovered that they get ??% more viewers by putting Jimmy’s face in the thumbnail, and every other youtuber took that as gospel.