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Re: on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:08PM (#36884172)
Cory Doctorow on this issue (kind of):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

Re: on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:06PM (#36884129)
Could this be the end of my Youtube addiction arc?
Is there something like a 'Lemmy frontpage' yet?

As in a view/site that aggregates top posts across Lemmy instances?

Re:Slack will no longer be translated into Russian on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:26AM (#36308539)
I see you are truly living in an orwellian nightmare, but what has that to do with the topic?
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:47AM (#36295475)
He probably alludes to the common conservative trope that jews/blacks/environmentalists/gays/trans people are 'pedophiles' (depending on which era you look at)
Re:Canada’s Big Flex in Space on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:52AM (#36294607)
'Darm' means 'colon' in german
You are describing a scenario that's very scary for any economy that depends on fossil energy sources to some extent.

Do you really not see the geostrategic advantage in being able to control who gets "free" energy and who doesn't?

Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:40PM (#22700261)
The book 'how to write smart notes' is a great writeup un that topic.

This post is quite good aswell: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettel...

Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:30PM (#22700222)
I implemented the zettelkastem system with vimwiki for myself and I think it's great for that if you are into vim.
It's obviously not a problem of the pollution of that specific car but of endorsing the culture of cumbustion engines.
Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @07:31AM (#19011451)
I should have written 'The Leftist Party' or 'Die Linke' instead of 'the leftist party' because I was actually referring to the party and I'm sorry I got carried away with this cheap America slur.

As a German I can assure you that from within leftist circles no one would think of Die Linke as a communist party . They'd rather think of KPD but that party is not existing anymore so I went with the least fringe party that actually has some kind of consensus on communist ideas. Everyone I know who is affiliated to Die Linke is aiming for socialism and doesn't support any communist tendencies. From what I read and heard the same holds true for a majority of party members.

I know that parts of the general public don't recognize that or don't care, which is probably due to the usual disproportional media coverage for more extreme wings of less politically centered parties, but that doesn't change the real circumstances and I really don't get how the public opinion would be an argument against a factual statement.

I understand that your message wasn't supposed to be nuanced but just let me clarify it then, would you?

Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:14PM (#19009994)
Oh wow is that the famous american 'anything slightly left is communist'? Last time I checked he Rosa Luxembourg Foundation was affiliated with the leftist Party and not the DKP.
Re:Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:56AM (#18945573)
I'm really happy about the upcoming measurement tools. One step further towards making Inkscape a viable CAD program.
Re:Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:52AM (#18945562)
There seems to be theming and icon set support in 1.0, that should hopefully solve this issue.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0#Us...

Re:iPhones are hard to use on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:40PM (#18285557)
A handheld engine-diagnostics module is not hard to use. Take it out of the box and drive in a nail with it.

Saying that there is something you can do with a device without an explanation doesn't automatically imply that it's easy to use. Ease of use is a metric for how much of the full potential of something you can utilize with as little instructions as possible. The article has a point that this ease of use is quite reduced when you are disabled or don't have prior knowledge of devices.

I'm not saying that the title couldn't be less sensational but simply saying that iPhones aren't difficult to use is wrong aswell.