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@Natanox @michaelgemar the gist of the Discworld series is that humanity is ridiculous, creative, sometimes loving, and sometimes violent.

@cjust @hannu_ikonen

@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen I love how Command Vimes always fights racism in these books. And races on the disc world are not like us humans with just different skin colors.

There is so much positivity in it.

@leroimiracle Cool if it works for you. 🙂 Unfortunately I couldn't concentrate at all as I can either listen and build the imaginary world the book describes (or the logical connections if it ain't a novel) or work an whatever I want. 😅 Only music works for me that way.

Listening to audio books generally sounds like an idea, however I despise big companies and their streaming services. Can't afford to buy everything physically either though so I'm just avoiding the whole concept. 😐

@Natanox sorry I'm just popping in, have you considered audio books ? I sometimes miss on some paragraphs but it works well for me :)

(sorry for the unsollicited advice, i'm on the adhd spectrum but mine hasn't kept me from reading yet - however I do enjoy doing various tasks while listening to audio books and podcasts :) helps me focus.)

@onepict Random tangent, Roddy McDowall's reading of Craig Shaw Gardiner's novelisation of the 1989 Batman film is well worth listening to.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9517Miwosco

@onepict Me too. I was a pretty solitary kid, but I felt like he understood what it was like to be a bit sideways to the world. His stories got me through so many things.

@hedders I think so.

Pratchett's books were friends to me when I was a kid.

@onepict People looked down on Dickens too. I think Pratchett will be remembered as Dickens' equal, in time.

@Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen No problem, Pratchett started as a Journalist. In the 90s some folks compared him to Charles Dickens.

But lots of folks looked down in his writing as it was comic fantasy.

But he was way better than Authors like Craig Shaw Gardiner (another Fantasy author who I like).

How can we conciliate malleability and some form of stability for user config and extensions?

I think #Emacs itself is the gold standard here: long deprecation periods and clear documentation. (Third-party Emacs packages are often not doing as good a job these days!)

In #Guix we’re discussing a deprecation policy to serve both as a guideline for contributors and as a “contract” with users:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72840

The latter is important: users should know that they can trust Guix to not change overnight without prior warning, that scripts, manifests, OS configs, etc. won’t break unexpectedly.

If you’re a Guix person, now’s the time to make your voice heard!

I checked on the trending topics a few times on X over the evening including after the Taylor Swift endorsement and "Taylor Swift" was not trending. Even after an hour or so the only Taylor related tag was "Tay Tay" and it wasn't in the top five.

It could be that there are simply no women on X anymore.

But, I can't shake the feeling a billionaire messed with his algorithm.

Of course I can't prove this. But it's reasonable, right?

I’m a big fan of malleable and extensible software packages à la Emacs; I think they’re the way to provide practical freedom to users, when licenses provide freedom “de jure” only.

That one can gradually discover the code and fiddle with it blurs the user/developer distinction and reduces the dependency of one group on another.

#FreeSoftware

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As a user, there are times when I’m in the mood for fiddling with the code I use, and others when I just want to get other things done.

I recently had my config “broken” by changes in a new version EXWM, the Emacs window manager.

It’s a situation where malleability gets in the way and could encourage some to turn to rigid solutions where they can hope to be an undisturbed “end user”, at the cost of decreased autonomy.

@clacke volkseigene Betriebe, iow gov owned enterprises. Who, in my reading of that page would send staff and their families there to holiday as a perk.

@clacke The page for the island of Usedom suggests that while tourism was important 1945-1990 it took place in the context of all facilities being run from off-island VEBs and with many military facilities on the island. Likely meaning whoever was allowed to stay there was tightly controlled? With no 'celebs' from anywhere. And probably also means an absence of statistics.

@clacke I'm not impressed by Harari. He's just making stuff up and stating it with extreme confidence. Worse than Dawkins.

@clacke I love this image by an Spanish artist DiesClara https://linktr.ee/DiesClara

https://futurerack.info/main.php

@clacke so i moved the bot to another server a while back and i guess i just stopped the service on the old one but forgot to disable it, so eventually after a reboot it came back. should be fixed now, thanks again for letting me know