I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but it is definitely odd.

In my opinion, the headline is very clear.

Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.

Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.

I never know when to engage or ignore.

In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.

Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.

Definitely recommemd the read.

It’s a joke.

UTF-16 already exists, which doesn’t favor Roman characters as much, but UTF-8 is more popular because it is backword compatible with the legacy ASCII.

UTF-32 also exists which has exactly equal length representation for every character.

But the thing that equalizes languages is compression.

Yes, a text written in Cyrillic with UTF-8 will take more space than a Roman language, easily double. However this extra space is much more easily compressed by an algorithm like GZIP.

So after compression, the two compressed texts will then be similarly sized and much smaller than UTF-16 or UTF-32.

And the Soviets did the same with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

For sure, but population wise they are also just smaller. Not that many British/Irish content creators relative to the Americans.

The USA dominates the anglosphere.

Good on privacy and monero. I wish he would do more hands-on I2P and Monero stuff.

Dislike the politics. But alt-right sympathizers have been part of the scene ever since I can remember.

I prefer the European cyperpunk scene. Less guns and bootlicking, more sticking it to the man. Sadly, we aren’t really producing much English language content, so Americans still have an edge online.

No, you have to support Russia’s invasions of its neighbours to be a tankie.

No, there is a big group that supports Ukraine and Israel.

And that group includes a majority in Congress, President Biden and (in Ukraine) president Zelensky.

And then there are also the tankies that support Palestine and Russia.

Finally, a lot of people are neutral or non-aligned in Israel vs Palestine, including myself, but definitely pro-Ukraine.

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A complimentary poop knife and ruler should be provided.

True, but there were also concerns about the proliferation of nuclear technology and the risks of nuclear war.

If we could power the earth without nuclear or fossil fuels, that would be objectively better. But it just doesn’t seem possible.

And trying to achieve an impossible goal while simultaneously burning even more carbon is irresponsible.

So we need to quickly build out the required nuclear capacity.

Math.

John McCarthy had a saying: He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

And I can confirm, society talks a lot of nonsense.

Thank you. And amazing to see you have positive upvotes.

Whenever someone makes a comment like this on reddit, an army of accounts would appear to downvote and argue against it.

I’m convinced the narrative on reddit is highly controlled on these kind of topics.

Either that, or the retards of WSB were the culprits and they haven’t found their way to lemmy yet.

Now that I think of it, perhaps those same accounts were used to manipulate retail traders on WSB… hmmm…

I used to like him back in 2018. And he made me a lot of money, so I can’t really say I hate him. I also think that some of the criticism he receives is a bit overblown.

But overall, I disapprove of his conduct and do not support him anymore.

Sure, they all use open source to varying degrees.

But most of Android is actually contributed by engineers who are being paid by Google.

We could argue that $300K in San Francisco is still exploitation, but there are worse forms of exploitation in any case.

Tell me how the math works out on this one.

Because last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Google still are the biggest companies and their wealth rests primarily on closed source software.

I would think for the “largest” transfer of wealth, we would be able to pinpoint some poor exploited geeks coding software juxtaposed against some rich fat cats making money off of it.

But Linus Torvalds doesn’t seem poor and IBM/Red Hat, while rich, is much smaller than Microsoft.

The reason this meme doesn’t work is because people in 5001 BC also had bows.

It would have a better punch if you took something like the burning of Alexandria in 48 B.C. or the stabbing of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.