Is this your unpopular opinion about unpopular opinion being unpopular in Lemmy? …sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Serious now. My issue with those opinion subs is that they were always crap - either they’d be about popular shit being posted as unpopular for karma, or political soapboxes for the foulest PoVs.

I’m glad to see GoboLinux resurrected. I didn’t use it much, but I really like to see distros doing different stuff, like questioning even the need for the standard file hierarchy.

Bingo. It’s simply fun, you know?

I still remember rather well my imaginary friend. Or more like an imaginary pet - a tarunhe [tä.'ɾu:.ɲe]. The tarunhe didn’t speak, but it was gentle and friendly and it would follow me around the house, like a normal pet would, except it was an imaginary half-turtle, half-elephant chimera, the size of a medium dog.

Then as I got my first cat, the tarunhe slowly faded away.

Yes, it is. And more importantly, it’s a collective problem: user A (like that one) wants a technical explanation, you give it, then user B complains that it’s too technical or too verbose or “ackshyually this is inaccurate”.

I feel like the best approach might be a mix. Basically, what people have been already doing to advertise Lemmy there.

The problem is that those redditors are basically whining and demanding the impossible - an explanation that is, at the same time: comprehensive, newbie-friendly, accurate, and succinct.

(Note that I’m not even talking about 100WattWalrus individually, but the redditors as a collective thing.)

Statistics for Brazil are probably inaccurate.

There’s a local tendency for non-religious people to identify themselves as “non-practising Catholics” (CNP, católico não-praticante). Some of them are atheists, some unaffiliated theists, but if you ask their religion they’ll often answer that they’re Christian - for peace of mind, because apparently it’s verboten in the Americas to tell other people “this is none of your business, stop trying to convert me”.

And this is old enough that it might introduce two sources of error there:

1. People who were never raised Christian to begin with, but claim otherwise because their parents were CNPs.
2. People who ditch Christianity without outright stating so, thus becoming CNP.

Oh, this is cool. Way less verbose than my attempt!

It depends mostly on my mood, but:

• pingado (a small glass of coffee with a drop of milk) - I just need my caffeine fix
• machiato - the above, but I’m treating myself
• orange juice - I’m lunching, and I’d rather not have alcohol
• chilled yerba mate tea - I’m lunching, I’d rather not have alcohol, and did I mention my caffeine fix?
• beer - I’m lunching, I don’t mind some alcohol; OR I’m drinking with my friends
• wine - I’m drinking with very specific friends who also enjoy chugging cheap wine
• campari - I don’t care about whatever you guys are drinking, I want my bitters; or, I’m in the bar alone writing

In my uni times I also drunk a lot of tubão (cheap spirit + soda, mixed in the soda bottle).

I hope it works for you!

In the worst hypothesis, if tmsu doesn’t work for your needs, then @[email protected]’s idea (parallel directory tree with symlinks) sounds solid. Or even flattening the directory tree that you already use, like:

University
| - ...
| - 2024.2 Lie algebra
| - 2024.2 Operator algebra
| - 2024.2 TA activities
| - 2025.1 Mathematical Algorithms
| - 2025.1 Diophantine equations
| - 2025.1 TA activities

This way if you want to find e.g. all dirs with TA, you just Ctrl+F “TA activities” and it’ll show you both “./2024.2 TA activities” and “./2025.1 TA activities”.

This is, like, a thousand levels of awesome.

I had a similar problem and I solved it through a tagging tool, tmsu The tool works through the terminal but it has a virtual file system, so you can access your files from a GUI file manager. I recommend you to check it out, it might solve your problem.

Got it - thank you and @[email protected] for the info!

What’s up with fentanyl in USA? Serious question - I’ve seen a lot of people mentioning that drug, but is it supposed to be a bigger deal than other opioids, or even other drugs?

This could be solved by legislation, you know. Governments across the world could decide that not respecting robots.txt is malicious activity akin to DDoS, and treat it legally as such.

…but why would they do that? Governments don’t exist to serve you.

When translating things professionally I use the standards of the target language. Informally, though… screw it, I use my own punctuation conventions across multiple languages:

• instead of en dash, tilde for ranges; e.g. 19:00~22:00.
• no em dash either - I use space, hyphen, space.
• generally I avoid single quotation marks, by default I use double.
• nested marks become guillemets; e.g. “she said «fuck this shit» and left”
• nested parentheses become square brackets; e.g. "I’m not buying cheese (although I love it [specially gorgonzola and emmenthaler]). Except if I’m writing about phonetics/phonology, then I simply rephrase the sentence.
• I use the semicolon a fair bit; perhaps even more than the comma.

I wonder how Reddit managed to fuck the blocking function up so fucking bad.

No, wait, I don’t. I know how:

• Reddit doesn’t hire people to curb down harassment because that reduces the margins of profit
• harassment runs rampant in the site
• some users want to hide from harassers, and suggest that blocking should prevent the blocked from contacting the blocker
• Reddit be like: “that’s cheaper than doing the right thing! Let’s do it!”
• new blocking has exploits and more exploits, since it allows unilateral control of the conversation
• Reddit tries to fix those exploits, introducing even more exploits

Anyway. Will Digg enshittify again? (Yes.) And unless the functionality of the site changes upon relaunching, Digg is not a good replacement for what Reddit has become; Reddit is not just a link-sharing platform any more, it’s more like a bunch of forums.

Yup, pretty much.

And, as usual, advertisers are to be blamed: they’re the ones interested on “engagement”, and indirectly siccing platforms to artificially inflate their engagement numbers.

Bob Dylan defence strikes again~ “Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king.”

…yes, copyright laws are awful, in every bloody country. But if they’re going to be kept they need to be applied to both megacorpos and us. Not just to us.

• lemmynsfw.com - there’s [email protected] but only mods can create posts. I couldn’t find any direct equivalent to a support comm.
• lemmygrad.ml - [email protected] ; there’s also [email protected] for official content
• lemmy.eco.br - support strictu sensu is done through Matrix, https://matrix.to/#/#lemmyecobr:matrix.org . But there’s also [email protected] to talk about the server.

I’ll try to summarise it but the text is long and messy, so watch out for potential inaccuracies from my part. TL;DR:

It starts off with a group from Siberia and another from East Asia merging into a new group. The new group then re-splits.

One side of the split stays in Siberia. The descendants of the other half then settle the Americas, in three separated waves, in 23~20kya:

• a “ghost” population, not directly attested.
• the “main” ancestors of the Native Americans (ANA)
• Ancient Beringians.

All three crossed the strait and arrived in the Americas, but separately, between 20kya and 23kya. The Mixe people have some partial heritage from the “ghost” population, but the past that the “ghost” population died off.

The Ancient Beringians didn’t go too far, they only reached as far as Alaska. ~7kya or so they died off.

One of those populations also made its way into Japan, but the text doesn’t specify which.

Around 21~16kya, ANA split, but the text doesn’t mention how. Then around 15.7kya, it split again, into two new groups:

• Northern (I’ll call them NNA) - ancestors of the Algonquian, Salishan, Tsimshian and Na-Dené. More on the Na-Dené later.
• Southern (SNA) - they spread like crazy, being the ancestors of most Amerindians except the above.

There was also some backmigration of NNA back into both northern China and Siberia. There’s some linguistic evidence of that in the Dené-Yeniseian language family; if I got it right the Yeniseians are descendants of the backmigrants.

Further on the text details the further Amerindian genetic pool splits, but I didn’t read it so far.

From a linguistic PoV this reinforces the Dené-Yeniseian language family hypothesis, but more importantly: it shows that Joseph Greenberg’s proposal of an “Amerind language family” is likely true. Sadly our current methods are rather shitty to deal with such old stuff, even Proto-Afro-Asiatic is a bit of a stretch of the method.