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Cake day: December 1st, 2023

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  • Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there’s a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower.

    This is true.

    Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.

    I don’t think that’s the right interpretation. There are words in English that would require sentences to be made for each if conveyed in a different language. But the same is true vice-versa.

    Have a look at subtitles for movies from one language to any other. Translators struggle conveying what should be paragraph long sentences of context behind a single word for one language. Do not get me started on double speak.


  • I don’t think Lemmy or Mastodon would be a good place to start necessarily. Don’t be discouraged, I just mean that I think this should be something separate, like a library,

    True. I meant suggesting this idea for generally any website that uses tagging. Will update post to show this better.

    As a code library it could be maintained elsewhere and let these folks keep working on their projects.

    We would need a group like the Wiki Foundation to set this up. Though I wouldn’t know how to pitch this.







  • In my opinion, the issue is that a cell phone is such a free-software-hostile environment that arguably GPL software shouldn’t “be allowed to” come into contact with it in any capacity if the spirit of the GPL were being upheld.

    How are phones free-software-hostile? I know IOS is, but Android not really. There’s a list of open source Android distributions. Although not very good, they are viable.

    Actually, maybe making it a realistic possibility to drop in a recompiled replacement should be a part of the GPL. I remember people were talking about this decades ago

    It does feel out of place how that isn’t in the GPL.


  • If you had also read the article BTW you would have realized that spoilers: it’s not about source code availability.

    You saw the first few paragraphs about the Red Hat drama and didn’t read further.

    Reading the whole thing you’d realize it’s a list of reasons why open source software hasn’t become popular with the wider public, and his proposed solution to this.

    I just included the idea he is proposing, others can read the article to see his reasoning.



  • I am all for having more people, but being an obscure “site” is a good filter imo.

    The Voyager App has some bugs, but for what it is, I’m amazed by the polish.

    On Reddit, all I did was look at memes from the top subreddits, spending my day filtering through the vastly unfunny majority. It’s also through memes that I kept up to date with the news.

    On Lemmy, I decided to not fall into that sort of doom scrolling again. I blocked all meme communities. I browse through “All” to find any obscure community that peaks my interest, block the ones that don’t and add the ones that do to “Home” or “Favourites”.

    This means my feed is much more curated than the slop I was ingesting on Reddit. I still doom scroll sometimes 😅, but it’s better now than it was before, I think.









  • Here’s a couple silly reasons why:

    • I kept asking for supernatural things to happen, or to win something like a small school lottery. The fact nothing happened, let alone a clear punishment, did disappoint me.

    • When I discovered that Santa was fake was when my faith started to really crumble.

    • Sometimes listening to the Pastors speak gives me a nice sensation on the back of my neck. I later discovered ASMR. I sometimes still listen to old religious people speak, but I’m not actually paying attention.

    Here’s the real reasons why:

    • Finding too many things I disagreed with or did not understand from the text.

    • Having a religious preacher fail to explain them to me.

    • Discovering other religions exist.

    • Learning what a cult is and making 1:1 comparisons to most religious entities.

    • Discovering how shitty the real world is.

    • Science (like, all of it)

    • History (also, all of it)

    • Discovering philosophy