Dæmon S.

@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

LOL! It’s a funny thing from us Brazilians: whenever we see/hear mentions of either Brazil and/or unique national/regional Brazilian aspects, we tend to get this ecstatic feeling of “Brazil mentioned”. Glad you people enjoyed it! 😄

@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Brazilian Portuguese: “Por gentileza, empilhe as cadeiras ao final do dia”.

If colloquial or more informal translations are desired:
- “Empilhar as cadeiras não faz cair a mão” (roughly “you won’t lose your hands if you take the time to stack the chairs”)
- “ô mossss, empilhascadêra fazenofavô?” (A very informal transcription from “Mineiro” (people from the state of Minas Gerais) accent for “Hey girl/boy, [can you] stack the chairs, doing [everyone] a favor [please]?”

@Lauchmelder@feddit.org @privacy@programming.dev

You’re kind of not really engaging with me in good faith, but I’ll bite anyways.

My tone, which is baseline pedantic and dry (just see my past comments on Lemmy and you’ll notice that), partly due to the fact that I’m a ESL (English as a Second Language because I was born a Portuguese-speaking Brazilian) neurodivergent person, may sound further “aggressive” precisely because this kind of ongoing theme (age checking laws, childhood, etc) deeply touches me, but in no way I mean to be aggressive or acting in “bad faith”, it’s just my somber, dry tone speaking. I’m neither intending to attack you nor your person, just trying to question your arguments.

proves nothing. Not because you’re a rando, but because there’s no control. That’s why I said you need to prove that social media is reducing teen suicides, compared to the time before social media.

This kind of study, scientifically speaking, is hard to achieve when there’s no such thing as a “control group”. It also likely varies across countries, cultures and demographics.

To make matters worse, mental health awareness is quite a recent achievement. Not too long ago, mental health issues were hardly diagnosed. While proper diagnosis still struggles nowadays (with lots of under-diagnosed cases due to systemic issues from lack of healthcare access to prejudice), there seems to be no proper way to compare depression and suicidality before and after the advent of social networks.

At least to me, it seems like a thing that can’t be proved easily, not withi the full scientific rigor required by a peer-reviewable, double-blind, scientific proof.

Those sites provide their content for logged-out users anyways, so children can still view them regardless.

Viewing is being a guest and, at least in my case, I wasn’t just a guest: I actively participated, I actively talked to people, this is how I got to expose my questions and, hopefully, getting answers, because the existing exchanges aren’t always enough to cover a specific question one may have.

Learning isn’t simply about receiving knowledge without having a voice to talk back. Although much of my formation was self-taught, I still needed people to answer me things. Yeah, there are courses, but courses can be unaffordable for some demographics, because they cost real money, and this is where Internet used to thrive the most: the social connectivity offered for free by platforms and websites such as Orkut, BBSes, mailing lists, these things allowed for people to get what they couldn’t afford otherwise.

@FiniteBanjo@feddit.online @privacy@programming.dev

First of all, my comment very clearly says the internet needs to remain anonymous, and what I mean by that is any age information you give a company should be voluntary and by its nature unverifiable.

In this regard I agree with you.

By social media I was referring to large communities: things such as Facebook, posting and commenting on YouTube, forum aggregators like Reddit and Mbin, etc. Basically, those entities shouldn’t be allowed to offer those services or knowingly provide them to minors.

Back in the days, Orkut was a large social media, especially here in Brazil where I exist. Orkut communities were a pretty popular feature, and there were several nice communities involving tech and programming, science, etc.

I learned a lot of things back then, thanks to Orkut communities. But I was a minor at the time, so if Orkut weren’t to provide for minors the intellectual connection that shaped the nerd I am today, I wouldn’t have the same amount of knowledge-pursuit drive, let alone the knowledge itself (or this biological existence, as I explicitly said how I’d have been committed suicide having nowhere else to mentally let go from my childhood nightmares).

Although… your suggestion about having limited features for minors (e.g. no video calls) while still allowing them in, is something I could sort of agree with.

@Lauchmelder@feddit.org @privacy@programming.dev

but unless you can prove that social media actively prevented teenage suicides from bullying and abuse

I didn’t kill myself (yet, although I think of death and Death Herself quite on a daily basis; Dark Mother has been in my thoughts for a long, long time). The fact I didn’t kill myself during my teen ages and talking here is a proof that the digital life somehow worked as a coping mechanism. But, well, you said yourself: my “story” is “merely anecdotal evidence”, I’m just a rando nobody, anyways, so who cares if I killed myself during my teens? 🤷‍♂️

You also don’t need social media to learn programming, there’s plenty of other resources

Your phrase is “things like social media”. Do you know what a discussion board is? Not to mention things like StackOverflow.

Also, social media isn’t evil in itself. I mean, just look around us: we’re right now taking in a programming community, in, guess what?, a social media platform! If social media was innately bad or something, we wouldn’t be here.

@FiniteBanjo@feddit.online @Sunshine@piefed.ca @privacy@programming.dev

I started using computers when I had something between 8 or 9 years old and, thanks to my participation in platforms such as Orkut and programming/tech-related discussion boards, I became a developer. You read it right: I started tinkering with programming when I had only 9 years old. And now, at 30yo., although I’m currently unemployed, I have a curriculum comprised by 10 years worth of job positions, which would place me as a senior DevOps.

What you’re proposing “banning kids from things like social media”, would lead to kids like the past me 8yo being unable to pursue a hobby and, to a certain extent, a refuge from the scholar bullying and CSA I vaguely remember having suffered from cousins (therefore, the harm I suffered was not the Internet: it was beyond the Internet). If I were banned from using computers until I completed 18, I’d likely not have completed 18, because I’d be long dead by suicide, because you bet I’d killed myself during my teen ages if I had no digital refuge to the horrors of real life.

You’re proposing kids like the past me, who will continue suffering bullying at the school, who will continue suffering CSA at their households (because age checking does nothing to prevent those offline dangers), you’re proposing to take away what’s possibly their only refuge. Such a proposal will lead to suicides among children and teens, you shall know.

I truly hope you understand what you’re advocating for.

@infeeeee@lemmy.zip @Sunshine@piefed.ca @privacy@programming.dev

Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people

IMHO, having Linux Foundation and the organizations behind Linux components (such as systemd) to follow the same steps that of IBM back in 1930s (similarly, IBM was just “following orders”, amirite?) wouldn’t be wise, either.

@1dalm@lemmy.today @linux@lemmy.ml

The country I exist in (Brazil) passed an age verification law “Lei 15.211/2025” which, to a certain extent, is even more dystopian than Californian one. Because, at least, the Californian “allows” self-declared age, while Brazilian don’t. This means systems must employ mechanisms such as ID’ing, age estimation by selfie or behavioral analysis.

When UK passed their law, threatening and, to certain extent, effectively sanctioning even even non-UK “disobedient”, something happened: many sites and platforms started to geoblock UK. Many Fediverse instances geoblocked UK.

Brazil has a similar history of legal outreach, we had court decisions trying to enforce and rule over non-Brazilians. Something similar is expected to happen when it comes to this age verification law. So I’d expect a similar widespread reaction of sites and platforms geoblocking Brazil.

In fact, it’s already happening: in mere two days since the law became effective, MidnightBSD geoblocked Brazil, Arch Linux 32-bits (not the mainstream Arch Linux) geoblocked Brazil, and others are expected to follow, both distros and websites as well. Including the Fediverse.

This kind of law will hardly stay in the countries and USian states where they’ve been implemented. It’ll spread, because the narrative it’s wrapped with is too alluring and compelling (from emotional appealing “Think about the children!?” all the way to the strawman “If you disagree with age checking laws, you’re literally a pdf file”). So expect more countries embracing this dystopia. This means fewer and fewer places where it’s not a thing. It reeks of a coordinated agenda, especially because it achieves similar things that intended by projects such as Chat Control, PIPA/SOPA, among many other previous authoritarian attempts. The authoritarian found the correct recipe: wrap 1984 in a cute “children protection” wrapping, rinse and repeat.

Therefore, some Fediverse instances, especially those sitting under the hurricane’s eye (e.g. Lemmy Brasil) may end up implementing age checking, or stopping altogether if they can’t afford the additional costs of age checking (it won’t be a free thing for platforms to do; a trivial cost for giants such as Meta, Google and Microsoft, but unfeasible for, say, Fediverse instances and FOSS projects).

Now, regarding the “kid friendly” limitation: if the Web gets limited to “non-adult content”… what’s “adult content” to begin with? Is it just porn, or it may end up covering several non-pornographic things?

It turns out, and here I’m risking getting too off-topic, many things would end up beneath this purposefully vague terminology “adult content”, content from many vulnerable groups: LGBTQIA+ (check out what happened during the recent itch.io and Steam crusade against “adult games”), women, pagans/occultists, political dissidents and whistleblowers, among others. This is what age verification laws are about: silencing everything deemed non-normative.

@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz @programmer_humor@programming.dev

Don’t take this as an attack

It’s okay, no offense taken.

where are you getting your news from?

Mostly from Lemmy, but also from Gizmodo.

Do people seriously believe that everything is AI in Windows now?

Tbf, it doesn’t help the fact that corps are shoving AI into everything they can and can’t. I’m far from being Anti-AI, but when we live in a world where everything is being AI-fied, I can totally understand the anti-AI fellows and their sentiment “Windows = AI”.

Recall is not yet live (it’s available as a preview feature), you have to enable it manually, and even then you can disable it easily.

As far as I read, it’s partially true. Not true, however, in cases when the PC was set up by someone other than you, e.g. in workplaces. If the company someone works to decides to enable Recall “to improve productivity”, anything done by the employee will be seen, not just by the employer, but by Microsoft too, not to mention hackers who will love to get their hands at this golden goose of private data.

They’re basically shoving the button wherever they can to goad people into using it, but that’s mostly it
It’s a button. […] Unless you click it, it does nothing other than taking up space.

Maybe. But the presence of the button, alongside the shortcuts for features “summarizing”, “auto-formatting text” and other AI-driven features, implies Copilot is a whole dependency on .dll/.exe related to Copilot, as well as potential unintended network comm with Microsoft servers.

“Purging” the OS from “AI-related crap” would purge it from AI-related crap and not break anything (source: did this on my previous work laptop)

Okay, fair point.

I agree about all the opt-out/opt-in stuff, but also understand why a company catering to 80% of the market defaults to opt-out - users are dumb, they have no clue how to explore features, so opt-in features remain forever disabled for 99% of them.

I heard the same during a discussion about Firefox here in Lemmy. “Users are dumb, so corp needs to guide them through the new features by enrolling them automatically”. Whenever I hear about how “users are dumb”, I can’t help but wonder how the so-called “dumb users” are allowed and able to drive a half-tonne car at 120kph or, even worse, (it doesn’t even need a license) voting (allowed responsibility over everyone’s lives)!

And then Apple does an update with an identical feature enabled by default, and everybody goes “damn, if only Microsoft thought of this!”

Maybe it’s because iThings aren’t socially pushed as Microsoft things are. You said yourself: Microsoft is “a company catering to 80% of the market” dominating the PC market, not Apple.

what “crime” you mean

Non-consensual relationship. Harassment. In this case, it’s software harassment disguised as dark patterns such as opt-off when it should be opt-in.

@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz @programmer_humor@programming.dev

Well, I confess I’m in no good position to say anything about Windows 11, for I’ve been a daily Linux-only user (Arch, by the way) for almost a decade.

However, as far as I’ve seen about Windows, AI (especially that spying feature designed to take screenshots and create a lookup-able timeline, “Microsoft Recall” if I recall (pun intended) correctly) seems to be so intertwined with Windows that even the Windows Explorer’s Shell has now a hard dependency on AI-related and Microsoft Edge-related libraries. This way, if someone were to try and purge the Windows from AI-related crap, it will break the OS, Explorer simply won’t launch.

Also, “can be easily turned off” implies something that comes enabled by default: the exact same dilemma behind Mozilla Firefox and all the crap they’ve been imbuing inside the browser. In the end of the day, it’s a non-consented relation. The fact it can be opted-out doesn’t make it less of a non-consented relationship, for the non-consented relation already happened as the user proceeds to opting-out of it. In other realms of legality, it would be considered a crime, but as it’s something done by corporations (Microsoft, Mozilla, Google), they it’s suddenly “a-okay”.

@Nuvalon@lemmy.eco.br @tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br

Já cheguei a usar Ecosia por um tempo no passado, mas os resultados não me pareciam acurados. Depois de ter usado esse e vários outros, eu acabei ficando com o seguinte ritual:
- Para buscas no geral, a partir da barra de endereços, meu Fennec e Waterfox estão configurados para o DuckDuckGo.
- Para determinadas buscas onde eu não quero invocar a LLM, digito noai e o navegador completa o endereço do subdomínio “noai” (sem IA) do DuckDuckGo.
- Para imagens, o Google infelizmente ainda é imbatível, nesse caso uso pelo smartphone tanto o widget do Google na launcher nativa, quanto o Google Lens (que uso pra tentar gnose através de busca reversa de imagens das artes que eu mesmo desenhei).
- A depender da lista de resultados para imagens no Google (se há, por exemplo, imagens hospedadas no Instagram ou Facebook, onde ambos exigem login pra acessar), vou no Bing, porque o Bing puxa uma prévia da imagem em resolução maior que a do Google. (E os sites pra baixar imagem de Facebook quase sempre não funcionam, e me deparo com bastante imagem esoterica que só se encontra por lá, só que não vou criar conta em Facebook ou em Instagram).
- Em certos casos, eu apelo pra buscadores como Baidu em mandarim (o legal do Baidu é que tem um botão direto pra baixar a imagem; o bom também é que aprendo mandarim, já sei um ideograma ou outro). Nesse caso, uso um tradutor pra puxar a busca em mandarim (por exemplo, se estou pesquisando por coruja, daí boto os três ideogramas pra “águia com cabeça de gato”, mao tou ying 猫头鹰 que, em mandarim, por mais bizarro que pareça, significa coruja)
- Também apelo pra Yandex, só que o Yandex tá chato com anúncios que conseguem burlar o bloqueador de anúncios. Nesse caso, boto a busca em russkiy que também decorei uma palavra ou outra.
- Em raros casos, por exemplo, pra buscas envolvendo conhecimento esotérico, uso o Marginalia que busca na smolweb e também em mailing lists antiquíssimas.
- Para verbetes, uso diretamente a busca do Wiktionary anglófono. O bom da busca deles é que consigo filtrar por categoria (então, por exemplo, se estou pesquisando um termo em sumério pra tentar escrever algo em sumério, uso “Cuneiform script” como categoria)
- Em raríssimas situações, uso o Perplexity, uma IA, pra buscas envolvendo multitude de coisas.

@RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip @programmer_humor@programming.dev

Wasn’t there a lurking edit.exe or edit.cmd somewhere inside C:\WINDOWS\system32? Would make an interesting replacement to the enshittified “Not-e-pad”. But, then, I haven’t used Windows since Windows 10 was still a novelty (and what definitely pushed me to Linux… Arch Linux btw), so maybe I’m very old (“I’m old, Dean, very old”) to recall of a MS-DOS relic.

@REDACTED@infosec.pub @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
@programmer_humor@programming.dev

I’d say LLM is a notepad client now.

@skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com @linux@lemmy.ml

Brazilian here. I’m neither a lawyer nor a specialist, just someone who has read the Portuguese text from the Brazilian flavor of the ongoing worldwide age check set of laws.

I must note that the Brazilian age check law (Lei 15.211/2025) specifies “vedada a autodeclaração” (English: “self-declaring is forbidden”). This means that this kind of implementation, where age or birthday is an user input, wouldn’t be compliant to Lei 15.211/2025, because it requires the age information to be assessed independently from the user whose age is being assessed. This means face biometrics, government-issued ID (in our case, CPF, CNH, Passaporte and similar) or “behaviorial analysis”… Anything but a “yes I’m 18” or “I was born in day month year”, for those are self-declared and the Law says it’s “not enough”.

Someone should warn the systemd maintainers of this “Brazilian jabuticaba”.

(Cross posting this reply of mine because the post was cross posted to two different Lemmy instances)

@comfy@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Back when I used TikTok, I found some incredibly rare, interesting pitches, regarding some kind of product or service I didn’t know the existence of. Can’t really recall examples atm; it’s been a long time since I ditched TikTok, but I vaguely remember seeing some agricultural-related ads (farm machinery) which instantly led me to wonder “what the… What is this thing, how does it work?”. Of course I didn’t buy the thing, it’s just that it was interesting to learn about the existence of such a thing, even if through some annoying piece of advertisement.

Again, extremely rare situations.

@MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Humans are normally busy with all sorts of things that make them busy: working, dealing with social duties, etc. When they get some time free, they’re too exhausted to do their own research (that is, if they know how to do research, which most humans don’t), so they turn on the television (or their favourite YouTube channel) and listen to whatever the simulacrum says:

…when the radio came, and I suppose now television, anything that came through that new machine was believed. (Orson Welles)

Therefore, being able to read conspiracy theories as deeply as possible, being able to do one’s own research, being able to spend nights on books and articles, it requires one to be unemployed or, at best, having some kind of job that doesn’t drain them mentally and allows for flexible time.

Also, there’s this “Boy crying wolf” dilemma when it comes to conspiracy theories: the same places where one can discover about Bilderberg Meetings before they became officially disclosed annual event, is the same place swearing that the Earth is some kind of DVD disc ruled by extraterrestrial lizards. I used to be an avid participant of conspiracy theory communities (not 4chan, but Orkut and Telegram communities) and a conspiracy theorist myself, but these nonsensical theories were part of the reason why I departed both from conspiracy theory communities, and from christianity as well, as I began to realize how “satanic panic” was christian bigotry.

For most people, the busy and vampiric mundane life, alongside the perception of “craziness” when it comes to conspiracy theories, contributed to this boiling frog phenomenon.

But, yeah, lots of conspiracies, once theories, became fulfilled, and became integrated into the normalcy.

Maybe “ignorance is a bliss” (Cypher, The Matrix), and not knowing what will happen beforehand gives one the necessary delusions to keep their biological existence going.

Unfortunately, this is no longer my case for more than a decade. And now, with the once-conspiratorial internet ID (“age check”, now extended to OSes so, essentially, “internet ID”) helped cemented my long-standing hopelessnes… Because, now, as someone who departed from Christianity into the very opposite belief (devoted to The Dark Mother Goddess), but still surrounded by mostly christian people (and this includes potential employers, buyers and merchants), the slightest leak (purposeful and whatnot) of my real legal identity tied to my openly, mostly-occultist online activity will further cement my social ostracisation (being refused from jobs because the employers will see my online activity tied to my age check and argue that I “worship the devil” or something). But, yeah, “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”, people say…

Antes de tudo, dei uma passeada no seu perfil, e que plataforma linda, hein?

Pois é, bastante! O Calckey é, na verdade, uma derivação do Sharkey, que por sua vez é uma derivação do Misskey, que é inspirado em plataformas como Tumblr e antigo Twitter. Tem inúmeros recursos, como “Drive” (armazenamento em nuvem que, se for auto-hospedado, pode funcionar como alternativa ao Nextcloud), jogos (similares àqueles que tinham no Orkut), “Pages” (uma ferramenta pra blogging, que particularmente não usei nessa instância mas cheguei a testar noutra, evil.social), widgets, temas e figurinhas customizadas… além da relativa boa integração simultânea entre Fioverso (Lemmy, Piefed) e Blogoverso (Mastodon, etc).

Eu antes até tinha conta no Lemmy, pela instância The Lemmy Club, por onde interagia também aí com o Lemmy Brasil. Mas o Lemmy não tem feed pessoal, eu tinha que concomitantemente usar o Mastodon (assim quebrando todo o conceito de “Fediverso”). O Mastodon não tem formatação de texto, que utilizo bastante, por isso também que não usava/uso o Mastodon para interagir com o Fioverso. Então achei o Friendica, mas o Friendica vive caindo, daí encontrei o Sharkey e acabou virando a plataforma que uso no Fediverso tanto pra interagir em conversas e debates no Lemmy, quanto pra postar minhas aleatoriedades por microblogging.

Ainda uso o Lemmy, sem conta, pra ler o feed de fios (aquela listagem inicial do Lemmy, ordenada por Novos comentários) e puxar a URL daquilo que quero interagir (copio a URL do Lemmy, colo na busca do Calckey, daí o Calckey puxa o post/comentário e daí consigo interagir).

Estranho mesmo. É a lógica do mercador: vende o máximo para investir o mínimo.

Pois é, ou como dizem na gringa, “line must go up”.

Mais estranho ainda é o movimento recente de adoção de dinheiro vivo.

Eita. Essa é nova pra mim, apesar que, pela URL, é coisa recente (7 de Fevereiro). Tô na torcida pra voltar o dinheiro vivo à popularidade! haha

Que nunca chegou ao Brasil inclusive, não é?

Não me lembro de ter visto totem com capacidade pra notas. Já vi geladeiras de refrigerante que aceitam moedas, tal como brinquedos infantis, mas daí é moedas, valores baixos. No sentido de notas mesmo, o que já vi foi caixa eletrônico com capacidade pra depósito e pagamentos sem necessidade de inspeção humana, incluindo caixas do Bradesco e da rede integrada Banco24Horas.

No Japão isso é comum

Sim! Apesar de ser um país altamente tecnológico, preferem bastante aquilo que é mais analógico.

Não entendo como não toca pela linha direta, mas pelo mensageiro, sim

Talvez ela ativou o modo do Android de “não perturbe” que silencia ligações recebidas? Essa função costuma ser frequentemente ativada por conta de robocall de operadora.

Ligação telefônica e mensageiro alternativo, os dois a 80 km/h, qual dos dois ganha na corrida de comunicação alternativa?

Hahaha, pois é, acho que dá num empate, viu.

@yogthos@lemmy.ml @usa@lemmy.ml

On the one hand, we shall bring some napkin math to the table.

A human brain consumes something around 20W (Balasubramanian V. Brain power. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 10;118(32):e2107022118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2107022118. PMID: 34341108; PMCID: PMC8364152).

One hour = 20 Wh, or 20 × 3.6 = 72 kJ
One day = 72 kJ × 24 hours = 1728 kJ or 1.728 MJ
One year = 1.728 MJ × 365.25 ~= 631.152 MJ
20 years ~= 12.6 GJ

The entire world population in 2024 (you’ll understand soon why I’m using 2024) was estimated as 8,141,808,945 (World Bank Group, World Development Indicators)
Rough brain power consumption for all humans who were alive in 2024 (I’m using values for one year instead of 20yo bc the 8 bi. accounts for all ages) = 8,141,808,945 × 631.152 MJ ~= 5.14 EJ (Exajoules)

Globally, data centers (excluding cryptocurrency mining) used an estimated 415 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2024
(Agrawal H. "Data Center Energy Consumption: How Much Energy Did/Do/Will They Eat?, Clean Energy Forum, University of Yale, 2025 Nov 12, https://cleanenergyforum.yale.edu/2025/11/12/data-center-energy-consumption-how-much-energy-diddowill-they-eat)

In Joules it’s 415 TWh × 3.6 = 1.494 EJ (Exajoules)

My napkin math may be heavily inaccurate (hence “napkin”) but, yeah, Math tells us humans (roughly) consumed more than all non-cryptocurrency data centers (1.49 EJ is less than the 5.14 EJ required by 8 billion Homo sapiens for thinking).

And I’m only considering brain power. The number would certainly be bigger if I were to consider the rest of metabolic consumption, this would further consolidate the entire humanity, when taken together, as indeed consuming more energy than AI data centers worldwide.

On the other hand, hell no! I’m not gonna agree with Sam Altman! Especially bc they’re ignoring several factors.

For starters, the fact that AI and their data centers required humans, so the “human energetic bill” is shared with AIs, not disconnected from them. After all, AI is not something existing in a vacuum.

Fossil fuel, the elephant in the room, is another factor in play: I didn’t research a CO2 side-by-side comparison between human-emitted CO2 (from biological processes such as respiration) and the the amount of CO2 emitted to keep said data centers running, but this can’t be ignored.

Homo sapiens (usually) don’t ingest fossil fuels (i.e. in normal situations, we don’t drink gasoline… nor we eat coal).

Meanwhile, global data centers seem far from achieving green energy (e.g. hydro power), they rely heavily on fossil fuels, therefore they’re expected to be breathing out more CO2 than humans.

Tables would only turn regarding CO2 when (and if, a big if, considering how AI is currently at the hands of corps who, in turn, deny and ignore the climate change because “line must go up”) data centers pivoted to full (and true, not the “green-washing” creative accounting that tech corps usually do) green energy.

@yogthos@lemmy.ml @programming@lemmy.ml

The x86css didn’t work because CSS @function rules aren’t yet implemented on Firefox (by extension, Waterfox). I’m not gonna spin up the Chromium.

Then I tried other projects from this lyra.horse website, I tried the CSS clicker (a clicker game which uses no JS, just CSS and HTML). It’s very interesting. There are a few glitches (e.g. the “Name your website:” should behave like input[type='text'] but actually behaves like textarea, thus allowing newlines where the semantic (a title) expects none; IIRC, there are CSS properties allowing a [contenteditable] element to restrict the input to an one-line text) but interesting nonetheless.

The only problem, besides the limited support for certain state-of-the-art features across browser engines, is the fact that this “CSS-oriented functional programming” ends up requiring more processing power than JS does, because JS has optimizations that CSS often lack.

Don’t get me wrong: it’s really interesting, and I’m quite fond of unorthodox approaches to programming. I myself once used nodemon (a live-reloading CLI tool intended for Node.js but also usable for other programming languages) to compile and run an Assembly (GNU Assembly) Linux program as the code was being edited, and I also used the same Assembly tool-chain to code a “program” whose compilation result wasn’t an actual runnable program, but a whole, valid BMP (Bitmap) image structure, full with a linear gradient, I achieved this by using compiler macros. This is how much I’m fond of unorthodox programming, so I’m far from being against CSS programming, much to the contrary: it’s awesome!..

… but this whole approach, using CSS as a whole functional programming language, unfortunately ends up heating my old poor I5-7200U laptop…

@yogthos@lemmy.ml

The specific part about “Thou”, and how it was used in both sacred (praying) contexts, as well as a form of insulting, called to my attention.

I didn’t know the latter usage (“Thou” as demeaning), and now I’m wondering (and slightly worried inside) about this. I often catch myself creatively using “Thou”, as far as an ESL (English as a second language) person could achieve during the 21st century, in a context of esoteric/pagan praying (specifically, invocation and channeling of Dark Mother Goddess, as in, e.g. “Where art Thou?, I said, then I saw Thee, and I got frightened by Thy vision, and thou kissedst me with Thy eyes and engulfedst me beneath Thy wrath”).

I use “Thee”/“Thou”/“Thy” because I feel it’s the most “divine” way to express in said contexts, inspired by the bible while also being purposefully heretical and blasphemous bible-wise (as “Thou” isn’t being used to refer to their “God”, but to the Goddess they demonize). And also because it’s interchangeable to my native language’s second person (“Tu”, “Tua”, “Teu”; Portugal and some Brazilian states (especially northeast and north) uses “Tu” on a daily basis analogously to “você” (“you”); here in southeast Brazil, however, when “Tu” is used, it’s often in liturgical contexts, generally inside churches; I never heard the second-person pronoun “Tu” being used around me (São Paulo) in swearing or insulting use-cases).

Is there any noticeable grammatical difference, albeit subtle, when “Thou” is used to insult rather than to express devotion/awe/fear? Or, instead, the pronoun is interchangeable so much it’s impossible to infer its intention (devotion or insulting) when detached from its surroundings (i.e. when the specific excerpt using “Thou” is isolated from the rest of the text/speech)?