Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@mrsbeanbag I may have described NATO HQ as an office building in Belgium, but after recent expansion it's the third largest office building in the world. After the Octogon, where the Egyptian dod is housed, and the Pentagon where the us dod is taking up space.

@ekg God destroys the military headquarters of a vast totalitarian empire. the tabloid press: "God hates it when everyone speaks the same language"

@mrsbeanbag I like the description of the Bible as an tabloid, I think that is an fair assessment of the amount of trust to place in its words.

@ekg new theory about the purpose of the Tower of Babel just dropped

@ekg i just looked it up and i now consider it a crime nobody calls it The Big Zipper

@mrsbeanbag I want to point out that NATO have expanded faster then the newly dubbed The Big Zipper, forcing newer members, including Sweden, to send their delegation to nearby buildings instead. Housing military command is a true challenge, requiring some of the most impressive infrastructure we humans build.

I feel like some people don’t fully appreciate the gravity of a situation where WaHo preemptively closes stores.

@vozercozer accessibility settings is inherently stupid, it denormalise certain needs/usage.

hiding settings that people that are having trouble using your device needs, to make it functional is also stupid.

Reviewers are being "meh" on Zen 5, but if you are a perf/SIMD junky this article does a great job discussing why Zen 5 is good and its going to take time for the perf benefits to show up in software. http://numberworld.org/blogs/2024_8_7_zen5_avx512_teardown/

Solidarity with the Russian civilians being bombed by the Russian government to protect the Putin regime from the consequences of a war of imperialist aggression he started.

I was enjoying my book and coffee when I felt the irrepressible need to pick up my phone.
Realizing I had nothing to look at on it, I'm just making this post instead

@gsuberland and subtitle everything, I hate when they don't subtitle the English in Korean drama. No I don't use subtitles because I don't understand Korean, I use them because I can't hear what the actors are saying.

once again pissed off at censoring / sanitising language in subtitles. it's infantilising. I use subtitles all the time because of tinnitus and auditory processing issues, and I'll be damned if I want a bunch of handwringing prudish cunts fucking about with the language. censor ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in accessibility tools. I promise we're grown up enough to handle some swears and sex words, for shit's sake.

@anthropy yeah, I am happy I live in Sweden where everyone* is guaranteed basic access to emergency care as well as some ongoing care.

*Charges may apply for Roma living in Romania.

@impactology a lot of people are terrified to be dependent on others and does everything they can to push people away, the thought of failure is terrifying. The last thing they want is to be embarrassed, that's a reminder that they are dependent on others.

Everything that you know about design and designing, every every method, principle, thumb rule, procedure, pattern, process, concept, technique that got codified into what you think of best practices was socially constructed. It was conceived and imagined by folks trying to experiment.

Don't mistake thinking that a certain way of designing is set in stone.

@phoronix @gpuopen "The code was released with AMD's approval through an email. AMD's legal department now says it's not legally binding, hence the rollback. [...] At this point, one more hostile corporation does not make much difference." does amd want to share their perspective?

@sr_ekot four mysterious death at one battery manufacture? Nothing to see here, move along.