The engineer actually just made the eye rings out of addressable RGB LEDs cause they wanted the cool bootup animation and Skynet figured out the protocol and turned them red

dammit now I wanna read the article about The Market described as a deity by a confused anthropologist

All this tweet is about is that it’s bullshit that sports coaches are paid more than educators.

If my choice was between that and the doctor who said “I’ve got this handgun, it’s the best handgun, nobody kills more patients than me”…

All the less reason to be upset about naming your kid after a bug. If the bug isn’t even Google’s first association, why should it be yours?

so you’re saying i should have anticipated that people might have willingly misinterpreted “that is a stupid position to take and here is why” as “you as a person are stupid” and, instead of telling me why they thought I was wrong, try to get me banned from beehaw as a result?

i would’ve been okay if you’d just said yes and left it at that. but the “actually, you are calling me stupid” really rubs my fur backwards

Exactly. Discord token stealers have been around for ages but no one gives Discord flak about leaving that secret unencrypted.

Okay, so the talk show host is supposed to be the comic author. Who is the woman supposed to be?

I don’t understand at all where you’re going with this. Either Beehaw uses Lemmy on the backend or it doesn’t. Either you’re using Ladybird or you’re using a different browser. These are pretty binary choices.

What DE are you using? Different DEs handle VNC differently if you’re using Wayland as opposed to X11.

Also, what exactly don’t you know that you would need to know to run the server without a GUI? If you already know how to SSH and start the server that way (or better idea – create a systemd service for it (I can show you how to do that)) and you just need to launch the server without a head attached, just modify your startup script to do java -jar minecraft_whatever_server.jar nogui. If you want to run Minecraft commands from the server console while headless, you can type them directly into the terminal while the server is running. If you set up the Minecraft server with systemd, you won’t have a terminal, so I’d recommend using Rcon/mcrcon instead. It’s built into the vanilla server and not too tough to set up. I’ll show you how if you like.

If all else fails, of course, there’s always the low-tech solution: Amazon sells “HDMI dummy plugs”, dongles that plug into an HDMI port and pretend there’s a monitor connected. If you’re anything like me, though, that solution won’t satisfy you, so I’m here to help if you need help getting some combination of the above working.

counterpoint: nerds are just like that and you and I both know it

hope you don’t forget the semicolon on a line by itself at the end (except in functions where you want to return the value of the last expression)

i’m not calling people stupid, i’m calling an idea stupid. is that also not kosher?

I really hope more people start believing this. Our current copyright system has been abused and bought by the rich and screws over both consumers and small artists, but “copyright of any form is terrible” is harmful to artists too.

Yes, generative AI is snake oil, but that is a question of scope and power and speculation, not utility of easy to create pictures.

“Sure, AI can’t fully replace human artists, but that’s just because the technology hasn’t advanced far enough yet.”

Soviet compurers were hastily thrown together copies of Western ones because the Soviets were lagging too far behind to build a computer properly

So yes

Of course not. I would do my research, like any responsible consumer.

I’m a programmer. Which libraries I pick to add to my project have effects on everyone who will use the software I publish. I owe it to them to do my homework to compare them and figure out what the differences are and which one is better for my use case. If I just picked whichever one was most popular, I could have a polyfill.io incident on my hands every week.

I do the same thing with software I personally use, because I’m a responsible consumer. Firefox and Chrome aren’t identical. Chrome has way more downloads but I’m betting more than half the people in this thread use Firefox or one of its derivatives, like Mull or Librewolf.

I dream of a world where doing your homework when choosing software to learn is not so rare that people assume no one does, and accuse those who do of lying.

If this is provably the case, then I agree, we should stop using Lemmy. If not – and I say this as a proud supporter of the vast majority of seemingly-pointless ideological bullcrap – it is nothing but pointless ideological bullcrap.

I refuse to believe there exist two pieces of software that are truly for all intents and purposes identical, unless one is a very recent fork of the other.

Both Lemmy and Ladybird are very pointedly not forks of anything.