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  • As so often, the answer is found in scripture:

    One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?

    “O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!”

    WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON’T SOUND WELL.

    “I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.”

    WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

    “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it.”

    OH. WELL, THEN STOP.

    At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.

    Answer. I said answer. Not solution. Too much aspirin and your blood thins out and you need to move to Transylvania.




  • barsoap@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldThere are teenagers on the fediverse.
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    25 days ago

    Quoth Article 8:

    1. Where point (a) of Article 6(1) applies, in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old.
      Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.
      Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.
    2. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.
    3. Paragraph 1 shall not affect the general contract law of Member States such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract in relation to a child.

    The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:

    the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

    In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don’t need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there’s also b, c, d, e, and f.

    …not that I’m saying that the legal notice is bad it’s good. It’s overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says “assault is bad” then this notice is saying “please all cuddle, ok?”


  • Blahaj is also one of the most welcoming, warm communities I’ve ever seen. If you get banned from there you deserve it IME.

    When the bear thing went around there was a tread made on 196 specifically to talk about not the content of the meme, but its impact. I argued that someone interpreting the thing as “would you rather choose me or a bear”, and answering as such, instead of “would you rather choose a random man than a bear” should not be construed to be somehow misogynist or anything, really. I ate a permaban (on 196, not blahaj), reason “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN”.

    Mods with with giant chips on their shoulders exist also on blahaj.


  • Isn’t that the age old “Is Burzum NSBM” discussion. Vikernes is definitely a Nazi, but his music, as in texts etc, isn’t infested with Nazi ideology much unlike much more clear-cut NSBM: It’s not National-Socialist Black Metal, but Black Metal than happens to be created by a National Socialist.

    IMO in the end I don’t mind you listening to, or even liking, Burzum, but please have the moral wherewithal to pirate. If that means you can’t have them on the platform because you’d be exposed to lawsuits, then so be it. Fuck Vikernes, he made his own bed.



  • That’s not going to work radarr is a daemon. Well at least it’s not going to work as intended, you might be able to start the thing as a user, but it’s likely not what you want to do, you want the thing registered with systemd and start up and shut down with the system. We don’t nix-shell -p sshd either.



  • The bottom line is that Linux is harder to use in a lot of scenarios.

    And who’s at fault? The devs. To wit, the radarr devs. Really, the minimum there should be calling what they describe “manual installation” and saying “we don’t package our software for distributions, consult your distro’s package manager radarr might be available”. It’s a daemon so it’s not like they can ship a flatpak, deamons need system integration.

    The whole sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/whatever-rr dev folks don’t seem to be particularly Linux-affine in general. I consider it windows software that happens to run under linux, developed by presumably windows users running linux on their seedbox because if there’s one thing that’s worse, even for windows-heads, than learning a bit of linux then it’s using windows in a server role.



  • I’m not sure what you mean with “all of wayland”, here. The protocol is ludicrously small and minimal. It’s a way for programs to say “I have a graphics buffer, please display it and also give me some input like mouse motions plz”. Everything else is extensions because there’s devices (e.g. in automotive) that need only that, and nothing more, no windowing no nothing. You certainly don’t need global hotkey handling if all you ever run is one full-screen client.

    Whether the compositor wants to implement windowing logic (say, tiling vs. floating, what happens when you right-click a titlebar) itself or outsource that to another process is not wayland’s concern.

    KDE didn’t go that way because kwin was already an integrated compositor and window manager when it only ran on X, the smaller projects do seem to tend into that direction but they haven’t agreed on a common standard, yet.


  • I’ll quote myself, as you didn’t seem to have read it:

    They can’t just log all your keystrokes globally because that’d be a keylogger. Also there’d be no way to resolve conflicts between shortcuts.

    Go ahead, tell the X devs that their new protocol is worse than the old. That, instead of improving on things and creating a thing that won’t become unmaintainable, they fucked up royally and made things worse. I’m waiting.

    If you want to go and continue maintaining X then go ahead, noone’s stopping you.

    Or maybe you accept that the people who have been maintaining it for decades know a thing or two about the thing, and you’re just whining from the sidelines.





  • KDE locks the screen out of the box, in fact looking through the GUI options I currently see no way to do a screensaver without locking. Though granted you don’t need the compositor to do that anyways.

    What’s true is that not just any program can lock the screen under wayland, it has to be the compositor or a program the compositor grants the power to do so. That’s so that “press alt-tab to login” type prompts can reliably sniff out keyloggers.



  • xmonad doesn’t, though using xmobar is common.

    Trying to replace KDE’s task bar is quite more involved than exchanging all those minimalist bars for tiling wms, it’s way more tightly integrated. It is a separate process even on wayland, though, so the API to e.g. get live video previews of windows is exposed, in principle anyone can use it as long as KDE spawns you as a task bar and thus grants you access to the API. Which is probably just a matter of changing an obscure config file somewhere, they never hardcode such things.

    And if you’re comfortable with them changing the API under your feet because they probably didn’t submit it on the standards track because, as said, the whole ecosystem isn’t exactly mature, DEs themselves are still figuring out how to best do things and to establish a standard they actually have to agree on a common approach. There’s no taskbar stardard for X btw, either, or at least xmobar is being fed a proprietary format string via fifo every update. It’s basically just a fancy text box.