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NewPipe v0.27.0 released in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Truly an xkcd #1172 situation.

Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You seem to he framing it as, “scientists went to nature to find out how humans should act,” and in my view you are missing quite a lot. I could be wrong, open to hearing more.

What is important, imho, is what I wrote in my top-level comment: I don't want to find myself in the same camp as other groups who make "nature" arguments (like "evolutionary psychologists"). If I accept their premise, I will have to accept their conclusions too -otherwise I'd have to be cherry-picking naturalist arguments only when they are politically expedient for me.

So to me, this argument is a retort against lazy, commonly used, longstanding, nonsense arguments.

I believe that this argument is best countered by saying that "regardless of what you think is natural or not, a person has the right to do what they want to do so long as their actions do not violate the freedoms and integrity of others". That's a moral value you can reason yourself into and you can be consistent about.

Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Humans are animals, and this shows non-human animals can be queer too.

I don't think it shows anything more than that the animals in question engage in same-sex intercourse. Claiming anything more than that is, to me, arbitrary anthropomorphism. I am not prepared to accept that whales can be "queer" until whales start writing sociological papers for us to find out how they understand homosexuality in their system of norms and values.

The fact animals have some behavior shouldn’t, alone, be a justification to punish or encourage some behavior.

Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but I've been in plenty of discussion already where animals engaging in same-sex intercourse was used as an argument to defend queer rights - e.g. my local queer association did hold such a panel discussion at the zoo last May.

To see this news article in /c/lgbtq_plus instead of /c/biology or /c/science does make me extrapolate that this is somehow understood as being relevant to human sexuality.

Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I dunno, I'm still not comfortable with with linking human queerness with biologism and the natural argument. Other animals also regularly do unsavoury things and those urges might still exist in our biological programming but we have reasoned our way of them them.

I don't want to accidentally make strange bedfellows with other groups who point at animal behaviours to justify their problematic shit. Such studies on animal sexuality should stay a matter of science, the queer movement should not take them on as political arguments.

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Berlin’s Amazing Trams and What We Could Learn from Them (www.youtube.com)
 

Ich bin auch überrascht.

Japan Court Rules Against Mandatory Transgender Sterilization in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why was there this law in the first place?

In Europe at least, it was often explained as "same-sex marriage and parenthood are not allowed, and a legal gender change cannot be a loophole to that". But it appears to be a post-hoc rationalisation since the forced sterilisation programmes have many more targets in the past until it was progressively abandoned for more and more groups. It was also becoming untenable since more and more countries were legalising same-sex parenthood.

So, if we are being more honest, it's eugenics.

Any good FOSS weekly planners / calendars you'd recommend? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Thunderbird's Calendar supports local, off-line calendars and tasks.

It's the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.

How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That seems to capture the intuitive idea of discontinuity for me, thanks!

How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would imagine using some sort of shapefile that I can run calculations in a scripted manner. So, in that case it will depend on the resolution of the shapefile.

How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks for the proposal. That gets us somewhere already, although only for non-landlocked countries. Using the perimeter also opens us up to the coastline paradox.

I guess you’d have to decide if archipelago nations are measured as the geometry of the sea they own, or as discrete islands.

I think that it might serve us better to consider them as distinct islands, to keep the measures comparable with landlocked countries.

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How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it? (feddit.de)
 

More of a classification question, but I'm really curious about what the metric would look like if we try to be systematic about it.

For context, there's several countries that are more or less famous for being geographically discontinuous. Top of the mind nowadays is Azerbaijan, whose sizeable territory of Nakhchivan has no land connections with the rest of the country. There's also Equatorial Guinea, whose capital city is on island which is smaller than the continental territory. That's the same for Denmark, although we seem to think of it less, because of the much smaller distances and significantly more connectivity. Then you have Indonesia which I currently think might be the most discontinuous country, with territory spanning across at least 4 major landmasses but which are shared with other countries.

But then you have countries such as Greece, Japan, or even Sweden, which are more or less archipelagic countries but do not stand out in the way Indonesia or Azerbaijan does.

How can we define a measure of geographic discontinuity that gives us a reasonable ranking? I would imagine we start with some measure that looks how much of the whole territory is in one contagious unit (less prominent main landmass = more discontinuity) but perhaps we also introduce average distance between units.

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PSA: Deutsche Bahn will currently not let you pay for Sparpreis tickets and for a BahnCard 100 with a SEPA direct debit due to fraud concerns (feddit.de)
 

I got hit with it just now and I was wondering what's going on. Here's the FAQ page: https://www.bahn.de/faq/6-warum-kann-ich-sparpreis-tickets-nicht-mit-lastschrift-bezahlen

Machine Translation:

Why can't I pay for saver fare tickets and a BahnCard 100 by direct debit?

There is currently an increase in fraudulent activity based on so-called phishing emails. As a precautionary measure for your protection, you cannot pay for Sparpreis tickets and a BahnCard 100 on this website and in the app using direct debit until further notice.

One now has to use PayPal or a MasterCard/VISA/etc-branded bank card.

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VDV announces predicted price increase for Deutschlandticket (www.iamexpat.de)
 

German source: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/deutschlandticket-zusatzkosten-100.html

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Meine Beförderung wurde abgelehnt, was nun? (feddit.de)
 

Seit Anfang des Jahres habe ich eine Beförderung beantragt, die meinen erweiterten Verantwortlichkeiten entspricht. Meine Abteilung unterstützt mich, der Personalchef hat sie abgelehnt ("Priorität der Firma sind neue Mitarbeiter").

Das ist natürlich Bullshit. Ich bin nun auf der Suche nach einem neuen Job.

Ich bin mir über zwei Punkte nicht ganz sicher:

  1. Bald bekomme ich eine unbefristet Arbeitsvertrag. Soll ich sie annehmen? Das verlängert meine Kündigungsfrist, ist allerdings nicht unbedingt, dass ich eine neue Stelle finde, bevor der befristete Vertrag ausläuft. Ich benötige keine Arbeitserlaubnis für Deutschland, aber ich hätte während der Suche gerne einen bezahlten Job. Die Arbeitsagentur ist bei der Arbeitssuche in meiner Branche nicht sehr hilfreich. Ich würde lieber auf ALG I verzichten, als mich auf irrelevante Stellen zu bewerben.
  2. Sollte ich beantragen, dass meine Stellenbeschreibung aktualisiert wird, auch wenn es keine Beförderung/Gehaltserhöhung gibt? Das könnte mir bei der Arbeitssuche helfen. Könnte das die Möglichkeit ausschließen, später aus diesen Gründen befördert zu werden, falls ich in dem Unternehmen bleibe?
We need better changelogs on all stores. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been very disappointed that Fedora stopped making changelogs accessible for years. It used to be that you could easily toggle them on in Yum, but with DNF it's always "no info found".

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Where would you host your code if you prefer non-for-profit communities with FLOSS commitment? (feddit.de)
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My first idea was to use the Gitea instance of the Free Software Foundation Europe, but T&Cs strongly encourage only projects with direct relation to the FSFE activities, so personal projects don't seem welcome.

The first-party Gitea platform seems to be in risk of becoming for-profit.

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[Event] Berlin Tech Workers Conference, 13+14 October 2023 (techworkersberlin.com)
 

The 13th is exclusive to members of works councils. The 14th is the public portion of the conference.

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Limassol anti-migrant protest turns violent, police arrest 7 (photos and video) (update 2) | Cyprus Mail (cyprus-mail.com)
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Mindestens 18 Tote durch Waldbrände in Griechenland (www.tagesschau.de)
 

Im griechischen Nationalpark Dadia sind die Leichen von 18 Menschen gefunden worden, die offenbar infolge der schweren Waldbrände starben. Auch in anderen Teilen des Landes breiten sich die seit Tagen wütenden Feuer weiter aus.

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What are all these revolving doors for? (feddit.de)
 

Never before in my life have I encountered revolving doors so often as in Germany, and every time I have to use one, I wonder what's exactly the point.

Any ideas? The only think I can think of is that they slow down people on purpose, for crowd control.

Likely also for energy efficiency, but then the double doors system that I'm use to seems more efficient and probably cheaper than revolving doors.

Suggest me a libre OS to try using on my new desktop PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looking again, it seems like more packages are available for the Tumbleweed stream, compared to Leap. I was testing Leap.

Suggest me a libre OS to try using on my new desktop PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, that's a great idea. The whole concept of immutable OSes passed me by - I've read the terms before at some point, but I have no idea how they work and which problems they solve. Definitely ideal candidates for my experiment.

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Suggest me a libre OS to try using on my new desktop PC (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edit: And in the end, it's back to good old Fedora with Xfce. I guess I'm an old man, fixed in my ways. Haiku was interesting, but not nearly as stable as needed. OpenSuSE with Xfce was rough, it requires more polish.

I've been a Fedora Linux user for a million years by now, and I haven't touched any other OS (outside of Windows 10 and 11 at work).

Lately I got a refurbished ThinkCentre from ca 2018 (7th generation Intel i5, 16GB RAM, Intel HD 630). The initial idea was to use it as a media PC but the small form factor ended up not being small enough for my living room.

Now I'm thinking of using it as a desktop PC for a while, to see if it can make my laptop be a portable machine again instead of always plugged, always on. If it doesn't work out, I'll use it as a home server.

Since this is all an experiment, I want to give a new OS a shot before I settle for the familiar Fedora.

OpenSuSE is the first on my list, but even from the LiveUSB I noticed that the software selection is more limited than I'm used to.

I'm thinking of giving HaikuOS a shot as well.

What else has been going on in the world of free OSes since 2007? What's one that you are excited about?

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Do you feel strongly about your immigration to Germany? (feddit.de)
 

In the more active version of this community, there's a long back and forth of posts between people who need to demonstrate to others that moving to Germany was the best thing they did in their life and anyone who doesn't feel the same is doing something wrong, and of course also the inverse - that moving to Germany was the worst choice they made and that everyone else is deflecting criticism.

I have to admit that I don't get it. To me it feels very obvious that living everywhere require making trade-offs and that the balance is very individual.

I don't see for example why I should gush about Germany at every turn or try to prove that someone is objectively wrong if they find Germany unliveable for themselves. At the same time, I don't understand why someone would find it sensible to tell me "leave if you don't like it" when I express a criticism. A place doesn't have to be perfect for me to want to live there. It just needs to give me a more favourable balance of pros to cons.

So, we are a younger community here, with less historical memes and reflexes. Perhaps that can be some sort of reality check for me. Do you feel strongly that moving here was great or horrible for you?

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