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How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

Some might say interconnecting everything could be a legitimate goal. Nonetheless, some people started to report about huge amounts of data and metadata being sent to Matrix central servers.

Curious that this claim is without source in the original.

I also have porblems with their claims about bridges. Bridges are Band-Aids to allow you to communicate with people not on Matrix, not a dark masterplan to build a central spionage hub.

By default, a homeserver trusts matrix.org in questions of federation and identity of other servers. You have to get that trust from somewhere. You are free to choose another source for that.

(For example, my homeserver isn't federated at all, and has that trusted server removed; it doesn't communicate with anyone. Also it's not synapse, but that's besides the point.)

Out of curiosity, where on this curve lies "20k lines of Nix config"? (Asking for a friend 👀)

I guess it's a matter of taste then. I really enjoy the vibrancy and fluidity of animation we get today. And I find them to be no less expressive.

Yep.

Those older movies are beautiful achievements for sure. But it's disingenuous to say that there isn't a plethora of movies and shows today that rival and surpass those older examples visually. Not to speak of just how much more fluent animation has become.

Many of the people who worked on those older masterpieces are still in animation today, and have only become better at their art.

They are still being being painted by hand. On a graphics tablet, for example.

That's great.

Please beware that DNS over TLS is transport protection; the dns server itself of course still sees and knows everything.

How exactly does Free, non-open-source software prevent that?

Drop if-let

Over my cold dead body. if-let-else is such a fantastic pattern. Makes everything an order of magnitude more readable. Works so nicely for unwrapping opts/errs.

True! There's even some of the first lessons for some languages on youtube, in their old, CD form.

Do note though, they updated some courses in the past couple of years to be more "modern" in the language used and taught.

Thanks for reading my rant lol :D

Yeah, it's really nice to get up and running with a language you know nothing about yet. It's probably not really helpful though if you already know it a small to moderate amount.

While I'm paying for their subscription, I do need to point out that, should you be inclined to sail the high seas, bounty is easily found; after all, it's really just some audiobooks.

Love Death Robots

I'm currently re-reading Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, and something struck me. If this had been made into an HBO/... show, like, 8 years ago, it could have been a genre- and generation defining TV event akin to Game of Thrones.

But if it was to be produced today? It would be a cringe, plastic-feeling knock-off akin to Netflix' Last Airbender.

Github, Lemmy, my blog.

Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes were my absolutely favorite dish as a kid.

Am German though, so...

Funny. I'm German, and in German it's actually a rule that the word after the ":" must be capitalized. I always have to go back through my English writing and un-capitalize those words because I just can't get used to not doing it.

Thanks! :) Yes, definitely not dropping it :)

Pimsleur is actually a rather "old" program, originally devised just as a kind of audiobook, but now they also do have an app. It's 30min/day and basically only teaches you to speak. They do not make any claims about getting you to a point where you are fluent, can read, write, reason about grammar, or anything the like; but they do, very very quickly, get you to actually talk and to understand other people talking.

I initially started learning with them, 20 days before a vacation to a notoriously non-English-speaking country, and it was actually great to, at that early point, already be able to get across what you needed to say and to understand what was being communicated to you in 95% of situations, AND not be hampered by the usual shyness to speak in a foreign language, because I was already so used to actually speaking out loud in it.

I've since added a more traditional grammar/vocab curriculum, but continued Pimsleur precisely because I'd be lacking speaking exercise otherwise. So, yeah, no, I'll probably continue on with it.

What I actually dislike about it is

1. they do not teach you any systematic grammar (which is OK!), but then also think that therefore, you cannot pick up on patterns. The consequence of this is that ~90 lessons in, if a new verb is introduced as vocabulary, then I can be certain that the vocab section for that lesson will contain that verb, that verb as a question, that verb in the past tense, and that verb negated, even if those forms are 100% regular. Which would not be a problem, EXCEPT they put a stupid 10-vocab-cards-per-lesson limit upon themselves, so now whenever a new, actually difficult form or concept is introduced, it is never in the vocab and I have no way of revisiting things I did not understand. (The same, btw, is true for numbers. Literally every number from 1 to 100, and basically every multiple of 100 up to 10.000 is in the vocab at some point, despite it being crystal clear how to form numbers once you have seen 1-20, 100, and 200. Yesterday - again, 90 lessons in!! - my vocab included the word for "twelve".)
2. their "spaced repetition" is a joke, because a) its "spaces" are way, way too big and b) obviously do not adapt to your skill/gaps.

So, yeah: really nice to get talking quickly and to help with pronunciation and getting used to speaking; really bad for everything else.

That's a pretty apt description, I'd say! Getting everything you ever wanted and still feeling like you don't belong and cannot be happy.

IDK if you've seen the show, but if not: that's definitely still a big theme there, but while it is never dropped completely, it is alleviated somewhat because the characters grow closer as a group than they did in the books. Can highly recommend both.

Meh... Lacking motivation this week. Also starting to feel like Pimsleur is a bit pointless.