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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:19AM (#50426849)
Because he isn't from China. It's racial stereotyping that everyone that looks a certain way is a threat to America. It's dangerous especially when violent attacks on Asians in the United States have skyrocketed as a result of this kind of discourse.

Change the race and ethnicity and tell me that it's okay.

Why can't you admit that this is yellow peril?

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:59AM (#50423925)
>Is the "yellow peril", only Chinese or does it refer to all asians?

I mean, Shou Zi Chew was grilled by Congress for his "links" to the Chinese Communist Party, and made to state that Tiananmen Square 1989 was a massacre despite being born, raised in Singapore, and served the Singapore military.

Re:FreeBSD 14.5-Release on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:53PM (#49614963)
Nobody asked, but a quarter century ago we used FreeBSD stable with current ports in a small business setting. A mostly unchanging base system but always the most recent user facing software (KDE iirc).

Linux distros only recently started doing this with the rise of flatpaks on top of immutable distros (or Debian stable).

> The screenshots are literally Minecraft screenshots.

They're not. It's a voxel game engine with an open source history dating back a year (October 2010) before Minecraft 1.0 was released (November 2011).

There are plenty of games for Luanti that have different textures and objectives.

It's all open source. Download it and try some of the different games.

Re:Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:59AM (#44952343)
I liked Zen, but there was a time when every new update introduced a new behavior. Weird stuff like how the URL bar is handled for new tabs, or how videos are played. It was unexpected and annoying. I don't know if they are over this phase. I went back to Firefox.
Re:Dropbox Passwords Is Closing on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:28AM (#44732886)
Surprised they wouldn't just recommend KeePassXC with the database saved in the Dropbox folder. I've done this since the inception of Dropbox.
Re:The Fairphone 6 on Saturday July 26, 2025 @09:16AM (#44693860)
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/244630933388...

The Fairphone (Gen. 6) supports DC and PWM (1440 Hz below 90 nits) dimming.

Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:38PM (#44284506)
5.2 had FVWM95 as the default. There were menu options to restart in AfterStep and something else, probably twm. That was my first Linux. I also compiled qvwm, mlvwm, IceWM from scratch. And ultimately settled on Blackbox.
Re:Greco-Buddhist Art on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:18AM (#40854001)
When I was in undergrad, there was this theory that Buddhism had inspired Christianity.

Basically, it was something like this: Ashoka the Great sent missionaries in every direction. The most influential are the ones who permeated Southeast Asia. But the ones who traveled west ended up first in the Near East/Jewish world and later in the Greek world and there's maybe a translation that the term "Theravada" became Hellenized as "Therapudae."

And so the idea is that Buddhist monks introduced this asceticism tradition throughout the early Western world and that descendants of this tradition led to Jesus (among others) who preached similar values but from a Jewish framework/pantheon instead of the Vedic tradition.

Maybe a stretch, I haven't studied in an academic setting in a decade, but this reminded me of that idea. Thanks for sharing.