OneRedFox 7d ago • 100%
My personal favorite from the NYT hall of shit is from back in 1922 when they published an article about Hitler, which uh:
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."
lmao
It's been a worthless trash rag for longer than any of us have been alive.
[Transcript](https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-harris-mid-2000s-neocon-re-brand-and-centrist-voters-as-free-real-estate-f53c1fc54a5e)
OneRedFox 2w ago • 100%
Night in the Woods was made by DemSocs and is basically exploring the consequences of neoliberalism on a rust-belt town.
OneRedFox 1mo ago • 100%
Infrastructure for a 300 MAU Mastodon instance isn't very much, but if they're paying employees to run it then that will drive expenses up quite a bit compared to how it is with volunteer-run instances.
OneRedFox 1mo ago • 100%
American socialism has the demilitarization of the police and ending police brutality as key policy goals, so news like this is of interest to keeping tabs on that problem.
OneRedFox 1mo ago • 100%
That's a shame to see. Fediverse denizens are like the primary demographic that would consider using Firefox in the first place, so them hosting an instance was pretty cool.
OneRedFox 1mo ago • 100%
Hopefully Pocketpair wins, because they made the better monster catching game. I'm still reeling from how bad the performance is in Scarlet/Violet.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
It's because they'd have to install it to use it. I put my boomers on Fedora with GNOME over a year ago and there hasn't been a single Linux-related issue since. Most people use their computers as Facebook and YouTube machines and Linux doesn't make that any harder than Windows/MacOS. It's not like it's 2010 where you'd need to install some desktop app that doesn't have a Linux version and you'd have to fuck around with WINE, which was a massive pain in the ass and often buggy even if it did work. Now in 2024, those apps are in the browser (barring more niche use-cases) and we have access to Firefox and Chrome like everyone else. If Linux shipped on most pre-builts, then I think the average person would be fine.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
GTK 2 has been EoL since 2020 (GTK 3 released in 2011). GIMP 3 marks the completion of the GTK 3 port, which by itself offers:
- Moving to an actively supported version of GTK (and future migrations will be easier because the difference between 3 and 4 is a lot less than the difference between 2 and 3)
- Better graphics tablet support
- Better handling of HiPPI displays
- Better Wayland support
- Should also mean that they finished refactoring the code, thus making it easier to implement new features.
And on that last point, I would say that the biggest benefit overall with the release of GIMP 3 is that we'll finally, finally start seeing serious work on implementing non-destructive editing; I've read that some of the preliminary work is going to be shipping with the 3.0 release.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
Did you manually set the icon theme in qt5ct/qt6ct? I recall having to do that on a fresh install.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
You just download and put the theme files where it tells you to (and in the qt6ct folder too) and set the theme (and icon theme) in the app. Icons breaking is interesting; I just installed Dolphin and it had no problem using my icon theme. Does PCManFM-Qt also have this issue for you?
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
Did qt5ct/qt6ct not work for you? There's also Kvantum support.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
But it’s getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems – global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order… how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.
Privacy as a cause is something that helps support other forms of activism. We live in a world in which hostile state actors routinely surveil activists in order to more effectively divide, subvert, marginalize, and intimidate them; privacy is important counterplay against this. It's like saying that you're not going to eat healthy because exercising is more important; one facilitates the other.
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
I always forget that they added a graphical installer, but IMO it kinda defeats the point of having a declarative config file setup your system.
What issues are you having with Qt themes?
OneRedFox 2mo ago • 100%
Sounds like it'd improve interop. Make it so that there's a curation system where communities can choose specific users/instances to watch for this content.
OneRedFox 3mo ago • 100%
Then that's very concerning, because IIRC that is actually Mozilla's largest funding source and losing that could easily threaten Firefox.
OneRedFox 3mo ago • 100%
Government prosecutors had argued during the trial that Google illegally monopolized control over the internet search market, spending tens of billions of dollars each year on contracts to providers such as Apple and Samsung in order to become the default search engine on their devices. Justice department lawyers accused Google of using its dominant market position – they alleged the company controls about 90% of the US search market – to crowd out rivals and boost its own advertising revenues.
Does this mean that their deal with Mozilla was ruled to be an antitrust violation?
OneRedFox 3mo ago • 100%
I still remember when they ran 16 negative stories about him in 16 hours; I think that was a record for them.
OneRedFox 3mo ago • 100%
Corporate media be like that; can't trust them.
OneRedFox 3mo ago • 100%
It's owned by Bezos, yes.