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  • Is that an OCaml reference/joke?

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    What have you been reading this month?
  • I'm reading "So You Want to Be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander and "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson.

    I also have "Needful Things" by Stephen King and "The Great Hunt" (The Wheel of Time book 2) by Robert Jordan sitting at roughly 50%, but they currently are in pause; unfortunately reading more than 2 books simultaneously is difficult if you also have to work.

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    Tiktok chiede le password degli iPhone agli utenti per ragioni sconosciute
  • La notizia non è per nulla positiva, ma (senza offesa) trovo cringe la maggior parte dei commenti finora visti in questo thread; mi ricordano il tipico atteggiamento dell'adolescente arrogante e pretenzioso che crede di essere super intelligente, considerando gli altri tutti degli idioti e co---oni. Dalle serie, usando un detto, "sono tutte pu---ne, tranne mia sorella, mia madre e mia figlia"; non mi sembra il migliore degli atteggiamenti.

    @naixke@mastodon.uno @informapirata@mastodon.uno anziché considere tutti gli altri come un "cancro" (semicit.) e credere che siano tutti utOnti, non sarà la tematica un pelino più articolata? Personalmente penso che da un lato ci siano aziende che stanno sfruttando i punti di debolezza di molti utenti in questa nuova economia dell'attenzione, dall'altro c'è effettivamente una fetta di utenti senza una adeguata "tech literacy", ma non necessariamente perché scemi; semplicemente forse sono stati risucchiati nel mondo digitale troppo velocemente, senza aver attraversato questo mondo "per stadi" e senza avere il tempo di informarsi di volta in volta sulle novità e nuove tech. Penso a chi ha scoperto Facebook senza prima essersi fatto le ossa sui forum in phpbb o su blog vari e MySpace, alle nuove gen che magari non sanno che oltre al semplice "mi connetto al wifi", esiste una distinzione fra modem, router e switch.

    Sia chiaro che non voglio dire che la mia analisi sia QUELLA giusta, vi voglio semplicemente suggerire un modo di pensare che non colpevolizza e non offende il 90% della popolazione, cosa che fra l'altro vi renderebbe più ostico comunicare con questa popolazione senza risultare antipatici e saccenti.

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    Threads and the Fediverse | Kev Quirk
  • They revoked the "English only" rule in August. Source.

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  • Hi, I purchased the ads-free version of Boost for Lemmy on my smartphone through the "Remove ads" button. However on a different device (tablet) I still see the "remove ads" button (while on the phone it is now correctly not shown) in the left sidebar. Does it take some time for the new setting to be detected? I've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and deleting all the data after forcefully closing the app, but the button is still there.

    To be honest, I'm not seeing ads right now, so maybe it's just a UI problem? I will post updates here in case I see ads even after purchasing the ads free version.

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    What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
  • "Why not? You and I are eccentrics. We’re certainly not typical of the people living on Terminus. As for criminals, that’s a matter of definition. And if criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses, I’m willing to pay it. I demand the price be paid. [...] You can't have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don't see how you can have on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry." - Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

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    Best distro for gaming in 2023?
  • I agree, I've always used sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade and flatpak update on Pop OS and never used the pop shop.

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    I need Podcast app recommendations for Android/PC
  • I'm using PocketCasts and I paid a one-time fee before it became subscription based (but there's still a free tier), in order to be able to listen to podcast using the web app on PC. Thus I now have lifetime premium access.

    I'm very satisfied with their service, I did not find any problems with both the Android app and the web app, moreover it has almost every feature I need, except voice to text conversion in order to be able to share slices of audio in text format (but there are dedicated apps for that).

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    What books are you reading at the moment?
  • I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the first book of the Expanse series. I haven't watched the TV series, since I wanted to dive into the books without previous knowledge.

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    Your favorite Discworld novel?
  • I just started this series this year by picking up Going Postal, which I finished something like a month ago. I liked it a lot and as my "gateway drug" into the Discworld, I think I will always have good memories of it.

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