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  • Different cultures and different religious traditions have different norms, that’s the main thing. Giant religions, especially relatively decentralized ones are not a monolith.

    In the Gulf states the all-black style is more common for locals, Saudi is massive so it’s different in some areas, here in Lebanon you have many sects and the all-black is more associated with fundamentalist Shia Islam, and so on. Most women who wear headscarves are wearing colorful ones.

    As a little kid when we still had a bit more tourists coming from Kuwait and the UAE, I would see some women in Niqabs (full face cover) and metal face plates, which would freak me out. Those are not a thing here.

    I think most Americans think all of these are one blob, and use “burka” as a catch-all. And that one is only a thing in super fundamentalist societies in places like Afghanistan, not something common at all. It would be like me assuming all Americans live like the FLDS.

  • Seeing their flag over our land and heritage sites makes me want to puke

  • My fucking CPU comment was not that serious. The projects we were doing were just that. I have a notebook full of diagrams that I understand less and less every year.

    It was just a bit shitty that the CPU part wasn’t included with the chip itself. IIRC the nicer ones had hardware CPUs/CPU cores anyway.

    I meant it more as “hey I need to do this simple task, better write a processor real quick” which is not convenient. I’m almost certain there are dozens of FOSS RISC cores that could be burned to all of Xilinx’s FPGAs. It’s theoretically hardware agnostic but these are super popular parts.

  • I was a student and this was the first time I really felt like programmery things were paywalled. I think the licenses were per-deployment but free for education.

    I think people who learned about programming in a previous generation may be more comfortable with things being very proprietary, and arguably the newest batches of people learning it in the slop era too. But until that point everything I touched had a free (as in beer) or free-ish equivalent. I remember the professor being very excited about the Chinese less closed down stuff, saying it didn’t matter that it was slower for a lot of applications.

  • The world of FPGA is full of proprietary hardware and software blocks sadly. I haven’t dabbled since being a student but I remember finding it extremely jarring how on one hand you basically could write whatever hardware blocks you wanted (the freedom is comparable to learning programming all over again but in a fundamentally different way), but also you had super optimized “IP blocks” of software you can pull in like a paid library that you had to license. These blocks make the damn chip much more powerful for those of us not willing to write a fucking CPU, what the fuck do you mean DLC for the chip on my lab table?

    Vivado was a bit of a pain but not too bad as far as proprietary software goes. There’s more steps involved than just burning a .hex to a regular microcontroller, the debugging is different, I get it, another program makes sense.

    Personally I don’t write much code these days but I find myself yearning for like MS Visual Studio 2008. If I ever want to go back to programming on the side I will probably have to figure out my IDE situation from scratch. VS Community seems nice but there’s a lot of unnecessary features and of course Microslop’s grubby fingers all over it

  • Huh. I stand corrected. I still believe my theory though. If you normally don’t look up sports stuff, there’s a ton of places online where the match schedule and scores are published. Every sports publication has a section for that, and there’s dozens of apps in each language. And now with the explosion of sports betting there’s way more.

    The most “neutral” way to look at this information would be Google, which has its own UI for it. This is Lemmy, so obviously that wouldn’t seem like a neutral choice to most of us here, including me. I kind of still feel like this is the most neutral choice short of launching Mozilla Sports sponsored by Mozilla BetGamble

  • Seeing this post I had to bang it out, on an old game I have on my phone that I probably bought 15 years ago.

    I only missed Cape Verde and Seychelles! Still got it

  • Yeah I think this is a little attempt to make Firefox more appealing to the everyman. There’s no link to FIFA’s site, no sponsor symbols, no tournament branding, etc. If it was an ad it would be written as FIFA ™ World Cup ™ ®️™ 2026 ™. You’d know because if they wrote it like that and stuck an ugly logo without any agreement with FIFA they would have been sued for 600 million dollars.

    Even back when I had zero interest in watching sports and hung out with people who also didn’t, when the World Cup was happening, all plans change to make the most out of the match schedule.

    For most people on earth, visiting the tournament is pretty political, but watching it at a restaurant or bar kind of isn’t, and seeing a fixture list and scores absolutely isn’t. That’s why there’s so much jockeying over the political potential of the sport in the first place.

  • Frankly “people team” is one I’ve been seeing and I think that’s disingenuous or condescending or something. I don’t know what I think it should be.

  • I’ll be the first to admit that the rose tinted glasses I look back at the early web through are thick enough they resemble binoculars.

    I think what I’m trying to say is that there’s a specific, present-day framing of reactionary bullshit as just a joke, that feels distinct from shock for shock’s sake. The milieu is different. So the same transparently fucked up idea would exist in a different space.

    Even if the dev is an openly shitty person, people would play it for laughs if it was a NG submission, and stream it, and it would be a tiny event. There’d be a few comments like “guys this one is pretty fucked up, even as a joke” and “lighten up people it’s just pixels”. But mostly contained to the NG page.

    Vs. now where it seems like it could be explicitly designed to get people into online slapfights over, and where the low chance of the dev not being a shitty person basically vanishes to zero regardless. Big brouhaha around Steam, openly bad faith “don’t you agree art should make people uncomfortable? Maybe you’re the racist bigot” shit, I don’t know. Something is definitely different.

  • I’ve been paying more attention to my health lately and honestly going from occasional sugar free soft drinks to even more occasional full sugar drinks has been a great “perk”. The sugary version tastes better, and 300-400 extra calories per month isn’t a big deal when I’m paying attention to my actual day to day consumption.

    Besides, yeah yeah natural fallacy etc, but those non-sweetener ingredients probably aren’t stellar for your health either, and less overall volume of this stuff is probably better.

  • I actually think that might be the line.

    It took some effort and wasn’t profitable or really monetizable in a meaningful way.

    It also was part of what felt like a slightly more genuine wave of “hey isn’t this fucked up? The internet is a crazy place” and not the ragebait/post-irony wink wink nudge nudge game we live in today

  • I wish their stuff didn’t get as widely marketed as it did. They seem like luxury little hardware toys and exactly like something that can stimulate me back into making more projects. But they are universally known as “those hacking things for thieves”, so even importing one can get me into hot water probably.

    Nice step up, so this is the Pi Zero one if the Zero was the Pico one (try saying that three times quickly). Cool

  • I’m aniseed 🥀

  • I mean this is an extreme case. The booing warms my heart but everyone I know who is in teaching is either 100% on the Kool Aid IV drip or absolutely crashing out over what they feel is the end of organized society.

    An old friend of mine was a younger, well liked middle school teacher who was very motivated to get the kids interested in actually wanting to seek out more stuff and to nurture that, since our curricula here are ancient. She quit this year. Outright. Mid fucking year. She says that in French the chatbots are even more repetitive and every student from the most inattentive to the “best” seems incapable to hand in any essay without at least running it through the slop machine for good measure.

    The infinitesimally thin silver lining is that I’m not just hearing of AI fatigue online.

    But the kids call it lies, they say “that’s AI” to mean that’s a hoax, they call their memes brainrot, so the self awareness is there. Then they completely fall apart on writing and researching. I was a dreadfully unfocused categorically shit student with a bad work ethic at school and even I’m offended

  • There’s a funny cognitive dissonance for me where every MLish person I know in person basically believes this very specific thing (plus an overt religious element) and then I log on here and get a completely different type of average user. Social progressivism here is almost always among the well to do middle class libby types (who tend to be nicer too and less conspiratorial, just with a problematic belief in the inevitability of capitalism)

    That and the easiest people to fire up into working on mutual aid during a crisis are “nice” religious people who have probably never considered once in their lives that important work in emergencies can be done outside of emergencies and wouldn’t that be good for the community? Some of coolest people are the ones you meet out volunteering/helping in an emergency, but the bulk of lefty people have a lot of doomerism and aren’t out there.

    Yay living in a reactionary society

  • New bit idea: guy who insists he doesn’t have any internalized racism to confront, since he doesn’t have a sexual preference for interracial scenes, he simply believes they are better from a composition and cinematography perspective

  • The post text is dripping with it but I haven’t looked at the code. A lot of my complaining about slop is how people for whom English is not a strong language over-depend on it, kind of never developing a voice over time. Instead sounding like the Burger King support bot.

    I wouldn’t even know if the code was machine generated. I never tried that so I don’t recognize it if it’s not glaring.

    Code is out there though so maybe someone can port it into a Thunderbird addon or something. I think this is a very cool project

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Somehow, I've been chosen to speak at my company's internal meeting on whether or not AI integration has actually been useful to us. I want feedback on my thoughts + inputs from you people too.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Somehow, I've been chosen to speak at my company's internal meeting on whether or not AI integration has actually been useful to us. I want feedback on my thoughts + inputs from you people too.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    I replaced a few parts on my computer mouse. They don't make it anymore, but I'm glad the one I have can be used for many more years.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?

  • Proton @lemmy.world

    Small question about the VPN service, for those of you with subs. Specifically if it's possible to set up someone else's device for VPN use without giving them access to the entire account.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Has YouTube just blacklisted every Mullvad server in some countries?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    Broke my keyboard's USB port while knocking it against the table to get some dust out.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts?

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Latest dose of tech-doomerism for me: more things blocking VPNs, more countries I'd want to VPN into becoming digitally restrictive

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Thoughts on needing, using, and changing a "home" VPN exit country, in the wake of increasingly restrictive internet laws.

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml

    Green Brigade, Celtic Ultras, February 2024

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml

    [3:00] Faraj Suleiman - Shere3 Yafa (Streets of Yafa/Hymn to Gentrification) - Has official closed captions in English

  • Nicoled @feddit.org

    There's a possibility this spam is a harassment campaign, and I think we need to be careful with just treating it like spam or an ARG.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    I Miss the Internet (rant post)

  • Games @lemmy.world

    Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world

    Boring Dystopia Rant from Lebanon: logging in to WFH during war

  • Reddit @lemmy.world

    It's been around a year since a lot of us quit Reddit, myself included. I'm happy with Lemmy, but I still feel a bit lost online since leaving the old site. Discussion?