Arrested for felony possession of cuteness

Sentenced to 30 minutes of snuggles

ALAS, THAT WAS MYSTIQUE, NOT MAGNETO. MAGNETO IS IN ANOTHER PLACE. GO! X-MEN!

MISTER TORGUE IS ALWAYS IN ALL CAPS. EXPLOSIONS!!!

WE GET SIGNAL

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

GET YOUR ROCK OFF MY MAP

UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN LIVING. CRY, THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER!

I don’t want to have children, but if I knew I was going to get Alzheimer’s at 65 I would plan to leave this world at 64.

Indeed, it is in reference to its long wings, not a penis. There are several other insects and birds whose scientific names include this term.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longipennis

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?t=ftsa&q=longipennis

The slur filter targets derogatory words, not “bad” words in general. The regex can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/utils/slurs.rs

Yes Town

bizarre pseudo-libre license

It’s not okay to pretend your software is open source (Drew DeVault, 2018)

I imagine a world beyond proprietary software, and GNU/Linux is the most promising implementation of that.

I don’t agree with reducing software-freedom to an issue of mere privacy-friendliness. I’m willing to be realistic about the security shortcomings of Libre software but not if the alternative is locked down silos and walled gardens.

Being a free software GNU distribution is also the point of Guix, and it’s part of what attracted me to it (although its practical abilities are nice as well).

You’re being heavily downvoted because this instance is “a community of free software and privacy enthusiasts” as the title on the front page suggests, and this in particular is the !opensource@lemmy.ml community. Discord is the complete antithesis of this, as it is a proprietary application locked to a centralized server that also spies on its users.

What is wrong with Discord (Richard Stallman)

Spyware level: Extremely High (Spyware Watchdog)

That being said, there are modern alternatives to IRC, such as Matrix, XMPP, Zulip, Mattermost, or RocketChat. However, I think IRC is fairly good at what it does.

this, it’s a cryptomoney scheme. They need to promote Brave in order to increase the value of the cryptomoney token. There’s also an affiliate referral link program I’ve seen spammed a couple of times

I’m very fond of Guix for a few reasons:

• functional package management. Every package in the Guix store is in its own isolated directory (identified by the hash of that package + its dependencies) and every package knows where its dependencies are in the store, so you can have packages that depend on conflicting versions of libraries, for example.
• transactional system upgrades, and ability to roll-back to a previous version of the system if an upgrade goes wrong somehow
• per-user package management (each user has their own set of packages that doesn’t require root to manage)
• packages/repositories (“channels”) are declared in a programming language (Scheme; not my choice of language but a language nonetheless) and version-controlled as git repos
• packages are built from source by default but can also be available as pre-built binaries (“substitutes” in Guix lingo) if a trusted CI server has them available. I think this is the “best of both worlds” of a binary and source based package manager (this does come with an annoying pain-point, where you don’t really know if you’re going to get pre-built substitutes when you run guix upgrade, especially as packages that are less trivial to build also end up more likely to not be available from the CI server)
• being able to install a package from a different source (e.g. a tarball, git branch/commit) (guix install --with-source, --with-branch, -with-commit, etc)
• the default repository adheres to GNU’s free distro guidelines, which is always (for me) a plus. That being said, there’s maybe a dozen user-created channels with non-free kernels and non-free apps if that’s your thing too.

Package Management section of Guix manual

Now, one thing I don’t like about Guix is that its unconventional approach to package management often makes building more complicated packages a challenge, because those packages have to be patched to behave properly in the Guix environment.