Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.

“How do you do, fellow scholars”

The brilliant Marc Ribot translated it to English, and Tom Waits sang it in a pretty melancholic version. Worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pWpW4JlrM&list=RDn_pWpW4JlrM

Funnily enough there doesn’t appear to be an official theme for the American flag. The closest you’d get is Puerto Rico I guess, which I think is pretty neat.

This is interesting.

• America does not have an official flag theme, but countries like the UK (127 users), Mexico (30 users) and Canada (59 users) have theirs. Even Venezuela has one with a single user.
• Puerto Rico has two themes, though the second is named “Puerto Rico 3”. There’s no flag for California, Texas, or DC.
• The most popular official flag theme is Flag India 2, at 261 users. An additional 29 use Flag India
• The Palestinian flag has not one, but two official flag themes, totalling at 49 users
• The Israeli flag has a theme and six people use it
• Tibet does not have a flag theme, but China and Taiwan both do
• Russia (3 users) and Ukraine (21 users) are both represented
• South Korea is only Korea
• There are two Iran themes. Flag of Iran is a neutral tricolor without any emblem in the middle; Flag of Iran 2 uses the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the emblem of the Republic in the middle. No love for the monarchist lion and sun.

I imagine they had slightly fewer languages listed back in 2002!

Yeah. A lot of licensing I imagine, but at that price I would at least expect a hemisphere. And even then, it’s not exactly a typewriter.

But at least he’s self aware! That places him in an intellectual capacity at least somewhere between a giant panda and a house mouse. Not bad for a troll.

respect, kindness and have principles that I apply uniformly

Not actions that he applies uniformly. Obviously you meet people with different actions. But you can remain constant in principles.

Its possible to respect both your mother and your partner, yet only have sex with one of them. Weirdo.

I would be very happy if anyone could explain to me in a simple and coherent way why I, as a normal user who am aware of what I am doing on my device and am not targeted by any group that’s out to get me, would need a “hardened malloc”, “secure app spawning”, “vanadium browser and webview”, or a “hardened PDF viewer”. The last of these four is the only thing that means anything to me, and it sounds dumb. Yeah, I know PDFs can be dangerous if you open random shit, but come on.

If I run Waydroid it’s only to get my banking app (trusted source) and Whatsapp (not a trusted source but not directly malware either) working. I hardly need their hardened PDF reader.

I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.

Then I guess it’s possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can’t say I’m using Android for the great UX - I’m using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can’t use them on Android any more I’m switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.

I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There’s a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though, I’m just giving a pedantic answer to your question.

Now 4chan becomes the face of resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can’t speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

At least that’s the risk, and that’s why I wish these sites would go die in a hole rather than involve themselves with things I care about.

I guess power seeking politicians should have decent understanding of quantium physics, as their answers to politically sensitive questions tend to be in the quantium superposition.

Cool! Robert Fripp is not the least complex guitar player on the planet, so it checks out.

Yeah, I got what you meant - it’s a word that takes on a billion different meanings. I just find it to be important to push back against the strawman whenever I see it, as I’m not gonna let a bunch of dumb kids raised by a social media algorithm ruin feminism for me. Get off my lawn etc.

Possibly the craziest song on an album with nothing but crazy songs on it. Majestic as fuck.

Probably my favourite album of all times. Music just didn’t sound like that in 1969. Hell, it still doesn’t.

The chaotic terror of 21st Century Schizoid Man is immediately and brilliantly followed by a complete change of mood in I Talk to the Wind. The contrast between the chaos and the flute that follows it gets me every time.

Yeah, content is quickly being hidden behind all sorts of walls, and even governments are now passing laws to render content inaccessible without ID verification

I have just come to accept that the internet has shrunk. I liked it better back when it was smaller anyway. But it is frustrating whenever I have a problem that has been carefully solved by some random person on Reddit or some middle aged man on YouTube 20 years ago, only for it to be rendered inaccessible without giving up all kinds of privacy.

In feminist scholarship it tends more towards the “we are all victims of patriarchy” stance. Most my friends are academics so they tend to lean the same direction, though not always.