By and large, nationalists are bound to be disunited when it comes to practical matters, because each one only truly cares about their interests (it’s right there in the name, “national interests” is what nationalist parties call their own interests).

They do seem united when it comes to promoting their “principles”, but that’s because the same propaganda slogans (“us good, them bad”, “less taxes”, etc.) work everywhere and so all nationalists sing the same song.

The only long-lasting relationship between nationalists is where one side is a subject of another, and even those are only stable as long as the power balance doesn’t change.

I read a ton of memes on tiktok - does that count?

Here too (Italy) the education system makes a pretty terrible job at teaching the joys of reading (or those of music, maths, and… pretty much anything to be honest).

Maybe that’s why people love soccer so much… because they have not been properly taught to like other things?

I’ve been told by people who live in the US (California, IDK if it’s the same elsewhere) that kids have reading periods at school where the class is silent and each kid sits by their own and reads whatever book they please.

It made me chuckle at first, but then I started wondering if that could work better than assigning books to read at home and report on like they do here.

That’s very romantic.

When you say reading "reading “sorta activates all parts of your brain” do you mean in the objective MRI sense or a personal romantic/mystical one?

When you say reading is more valuable than sudoku or crossword (I assume, for senile dementia?), do you say that based on your impression or on clinical data?

Where does the line lay, between withdrawing support and enacting sanctions?

IDK why reading books is considered such a worthy activity per se, and nobody ever analyses what people read.

If we are going to be honest, most books are mere entertainment and there are also a lot of titles that actually make the reader a worse human being (I am thinking of books about conspiracies, neo-far-right manifestos, and similar waste of paper).

Putin does want peace. He wants his peace though, which is unacceptable for Ukraine and (I hope!) most people in the EU.

Depicting the issue of how this conflict should be resolved as a binary “peace” vs “war” choice (as some do both among those who support Ukraine and those who’d like to seem them capitulate) is of no use.

Once in while it’s nice to hear some good news, even small ones :)

TLDR:

What the author baptizes “do-nothing scripts” are interactive scripts that print out the steps of some procedure one by one and wait for you to confirm each step (eg. “1. do this. press enter when done” “2. do something else. press enter when done” and so forth).

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@OP (if you are the author)

I HATE those sites where popups come up when you are halfway reading something.

What’s the idea behind it, besides annoying your users as much as possible?

We do support Canada!

We’d love for you to join as the 28th EU state!

Wait, what do you mean “We are good just the way we are, sorry”? What if we gave you Greenland? (you can have the Suez canal too)

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relevant issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1307

For those kind of issues I’d recommend snapshots instead of backups

Syncthing or unison might be what you want

Your system will appeal to the intersection between people who like gambling and people who like donating to charities.

Even among them, I don’t see why anyone would prefer putting 100$ in your web3 thingie instead of just donating 50$, gambling with 45$, and buying a beer with the 5$ they would lose to you… well, there are a lot of stupid peculiar people (especially among crypto bros), so you might actually be ok.

About the implementation, the 50% to charities should be transferred automatically… what’s the point of a smart contract if people must trust you to “check the total donations and create a donation on The Giving Block”?

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IDK about the US, but where I live gambling is regulated very strictly: make sure to double check with a lawyer before getting into trouble.

I don’t see the ethics implications of sharing that? What would happen if you did disclose your discoveries/techniques?

I don’t know much about LLMs, but doesn’t removing these safeguards just make the model as a whole less useful?

Wow, that’s so neat!

On my machine it opens a fullscreen plasma spash and then it shows the new session intermixed/overlayed with my current one instead of in a new window… basically, it’s a mess :D

If I may abuse your patience:

• what distro/plasma version are you running? (here it’s opensuse slowroll w/ plasma 6.1.4)
• what happens if you just run startplasma-wayland from a terminal as your user? (I see the plasma splash screen and then I’m back to my old session)

Read this, delete this post and try again.

Yes, XML is different than JSON and YAML, but it’s not particularly easier or harder to manually read/edit than JSON or YAML are (IMO the are all a pain, each in its own way).

If you want to look at it from the programmer’s side (which is not what OP was talking about)… marshalling/unmarshalling has been a solved issue for at least 20yrs now :) just have a library do it for you (do map json/yaml properties to you objects manually?).

You don’t need to worry about attributes/child elements: <person name="jack" /> and <person><name>jack</name></person> will work the same (ok, this may depend on what language/library you pick - the lib I used back in the day worked either way).

If anything, the issue with XML is all the unnecessarily complicated stuff they added to its “core” (eg. CDATA, namespaces, non-standalone documents, …) and all the unnecessarily complicated technologies/standards they developed around XML (from Xinclude to SOAP and many others)… but just ignore that BS (like the rest of the world does) and you’ll mostly be fine :)

Yaml is fundamentally the same as the json and xml it has mostly replaced (and the toml that didn’t manage to replace yaml)… it’s a data serialization format and just doesn’t have any facility for making abstractions, which are the main tool we human use to deal with complexity.