cwagner

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[–] cwagner 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As was mentioned, these were very high shorts, implying a far higher confidence than mere rumors.

[–] cwagner 1 points 11 months ago

See, that's another "no", but then I read just as convincing "yes" posts, and I just don't care enough to make my own research, so I have Schrödinger's lightning network ;)

But any way, it would have to be mentioned in a serious sticker.

[–] cwagner 11 points 11 months ago

I avoid visiting fascist sites, I had enough of that when I selfhosted, and before I blocked hexbear, and saw the cheerleading for civilians being bombed in Ukraine. But good to know they are not totally lost.

[–] cwagner 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Not even a mention of lightning? I have no idea if it works as I’ve been hearing both yes and no for several years, but writing such an article without mentioning what at least theoretically would be the solution just seems bad.

[–] cwagner 26 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It’s a reference to the fascists on hexbear and their friends, who all call themselves left and make up a large part of Lemmy. For them, left is anything that’s anti-USA.

[–] cwagner 3 points 11 months ago

Is Reacher S02 out now?

Didn’t even start yet, it’s under my "upcoming" subheading ;)

[–] cwagner 11 points 11 months ago

There are a lot of people/instances/admins on lemmy who love everything authoritarian fascist Putin does, but call themselves left.

[–] cwagner 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah, exactly. But fascist instances like lemmy.ml ban you for such outrageous statements.

[–] cwagner 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Love, Death & Robots

Some episodes fall flat, but there are a lot of really cool shorts in that series.

Fringe

Amazing show, watched it twice, once by myself and then later again with my wife.

Currently, we are rewatching Continuum. It’s decent, but not as good as I remember. There are quite some writing issues and logic sometimes goes out the window.

We watched 3 episodes of "The Old Man", but stopped because it was too much of an action show. We might check out "Blue Eye Samurai" on Netflix, a bunch of people on a Metal Discord were loving it and the trailer seems okay.

Upcoming shows that we plan to watch once their respective seasons are done:

  • Invincible, we will wait till the whole season is out, as it’s weirdly split.
  • Vigil is returning for Season 2, typical slow British crime drama mystery show, with tons of well-known people because there are only like 50 or so British actors doing these shows ;)
  • Fargo, slightly comedic seasonal crime drama anthology, is returning for a 5th season. The last 4 were amazing, so I have high hopes for this one as well.
  • Slow Horses, an off beat spy drama about bad spies. Not a comedy, though it has its moments. 3rd seasons of a show that is very much character driven.
  • For All Mankind S04, we only recently started watching it. The series feels a bit aimless, but has very strong acting and characters, which carries the often weak writing.
  • Reacher S02 is easy watching, funny and over the top action.
[–] cwagner 41 points 11 months ago (33 children)

I wonder if the alleged leftists of Lemmy will keep cheering to this.

[–] cwagner 1 points 11 months ago

Indeed. I haven’t seen him in anything since, love it.

[–] cwagner 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know what you mean, but FWIW: You probably mean "move fast and break things". "Fail fast" is usually about not hiding/carrying with you potentially bad errors, and instead "fail fast" when you know there’s an issue. It’s an important tool for reliability.

An unrealistic example: Better to fail fast and not start the car at all when there’s abnormal voltage fluctuations, then explode while driving ;)

 

Meta will introduce a pay or get tracked option.

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During the revolt — known as the Maji Maji Rebellion — between 200,000 and 300,000 Indigenous people were murdered, as German troops systematically wiped out villages and fields, experts say.

Germany’s long-standing commitment to historical remembrance has centred around the atrocities it committed during World War II, specifically the slaughter of six million Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust.

While I had heard about the genocide in Namibia, I don’t think my history lessons (which mainly center around WWII and the surroundings, including the holocaust) ever mentioned such a slaughter in Tanzania. (edit: They were also 20 years ago, if you are German and younger, feel free to tell me if anything changed)

Wikipedia (German links are far more detailed if you speak it):

 

Not only literature, but this still seemed like the best community for it.

Seems like a cool thing to do if you are in or around London.

 

All this Doro talk we are having today, and while checking out Heavy Blog is Heavy’s Release Day Roundup I come upon a Doro Video, turns out she just released a new album "Conqueress - Forever Strong And Proud" ;)

If you are a sap like me, you might instead prefer Total Eclipse of the Heart from the same album, Rob Halford of Judas Priest. Damn, I love all covers and versions of this damn song, it’s so catchy.

 

I love cooking, and I cook every day for me and my wife (home office since 2008 helps there), and I love hearing about new things. I have the book "The Science of Cooking" which was fascinating.

 

This article is weirdly written, but the one I found it via is so clickbaity and overexcited Spotify is changing its royalty model to crush streaming fraud and introduce a minimum payment threshold. Its plan? To shift $1 billion in payouts towards ‘working artists’ over the next 5 years. (what a title… and in all caps…)

Relevant and why I’m posting this:

Introducing a threshold of minimum annual streams before a track starts generating royalties on Spotify – in a move expected to de-monetize a portion of tracks that previously absorbed 0.5% of the service’s royalty pool;

As a fan of some bands that checks currently have only 191 monthly listeners for all their works combined on Spotify, this is absolutely moving in a direction that I’d expect a major label owned service to move in.

 

Thought this was interesting. Partially because of raised prices, but apparently mainly because of tax enforcement.

The shift follows the deployment of 1,400 paramilitary-trained field officers by the Kenya Revenue Authority

 

I’m an accidental DBA, but I still never quite got the hate for ORMs. I thought this article does a good job explaining the issue, and why they aren’t so bad.

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