rtxn @ rtxn @lemmy.world

I take my shitposts very seriously.

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Don't forget:

• Massive fucking fonts
• No visual separation between UI elements
• Hijacked scrolling
• Everything shoved into animated menus
• One (1) context action in the bottom right

Unfortunately, beyond the standard Markdown elements, there is zero feature parity between various front-ends and their Markdown renderers.

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(apologies to everyone whose device can't render HTML entities)

I concede the point about the word's origin... not that I've seen anyone ever refer to a branch as a "slave", nor do I think that it's appropriate given that the branches are not subservient to the trunk/master/main/etc until one is merged into or rebased onto the other...

I also wrote a whole-ass speech about the modern world's relation to the Atlantic slave trade and the guilt certain people are trying to inflict on everyone, but I know what the replies will be (we're just redditors by another name after all) and it's ultimately not a soapbox worth dying on. Anyway, my thesis is study history, learn its injustices, and learn how to do better effectively.

Ah, I see you're a degenerate of culture as well.

It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

Honestly it's not even about convenience. As far as breaking conventions go, this one has none-to-minimal impact -- existing master branches won't suddenly become invalid. But it's yet another instance of a subset of a subset of a subset of users getting to enforce their sensibilities for superficial reasons, and ultimately with zero effect regarding the cause they claim to represent; cultural and linguistic differences be damned.

I'd love to be more specific, but I don't want the comments to turn into a warzone.

And don't pretend like master doesn't mean what it means.

It's a retroactive bastardization of the word based on one particular culture's one particular interpretation of it (master being, apparently, a slaveowner) that ignores both the much earlier meanings of master artisan or master craftsman (as opposed to journeyman and apprentice) and masterpiece (through which an artisan is recognised as a master), and the modern meaning of a master copy (like a master record in disc printing).

This isn't like replacing the "master and slave" terminology with regard to connected devices. That one was warranted because it was often inaccurate and confusing. But forcing the adoption of main instead of master feels like someone got offended on someone else's behalf because a word looked superficially like that other bad word, and apparently we can't have an understanding that goes deeper than what letters it's made up of.

Amerika ist wunderbar. This is an --initial-branch=master household.

Slaanesh's sixth circle of seduction: indolency.

I've made that exact comparison before. TLS uses encryption; ransomware also uses encryption; by their logic, serving web content through HTTPS with no way to bypass it is a form of malware. The same goes for injecting their donation banner using an iframe.

But don't you know that Anubis is MALWARE?

...according to some of the clowns at the FSF, which is definitely one of the opinions to have. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

No, that's "incompetent". "Invincible" means not having the means to pay for legal representation.

Technically it fits inside the highest class-A subnet... but I've seen so many people (especially teachers) who think that class-A and /8 subnets are equivalent that I firmly believe that the idea of classful networking should be removed from technical literature altogether.

Factorio is a helluva drug.

"When a gift horse is munching on one's carrot, one must be very careful not to look it in the mouth." - Albert Confucius, 1969-04-20

Furries when they encounter kids that watched Twilight once and now pretend that they're werewolves

My immediate thought is a cron job that tests the user account's last login time and fires a script if it is exceeded.

Pretty sure most squirrels are also terrible drivers.