m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@inyanblood @kaia
> mutual attraction — 27'386
> mutual respect — 17'916
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@newt
But we aren't even talking art here — most people aren't using the language to write Ulysses, they are doing stuff like "What's your name? Let's fuck!" or writing their stupid emails to the accounting department… sometimes it's both 🤔
Anyway, language is a tool — in most cases it's supposed to be utilitarian, you don't need a swiss army knife where normal one would do. If you want to write a book that won't "be boring", you can do what Joyce did or even make a language up!
@genmaicha

@newt
> It just will be very boring.
Minimalism department called, they want to reduce your funding 😏
Expressing more with less is an art of its own. And being less limited doesn't always mean being more expressive — remove the genre boundaries and you won't get another shining masterpiece, in absolute most cases you'd get something inconsistent and falling apart. Book written in the most complex language is not the be the highest form of art, it's the one no one read.
@genmaicha

@newt
> next city after it to have reached 1mil? London around 1870s
Well, deceases don't favour centralisation — makes a lot of sense! The number of people living in a city is a rather poor metric — Moscow has greater population than some European countries, but it's hardly the best city to live in.
But I'm not even disputing the role of Roman Empire, my pun was about boasting how great it was back in the day without taking everything into account.
@genmaicha

@newt
Oh, BTW, I'm using the letter «ё» — am I eligible to adding a couple of inches to my penis size? 🤭
Most don't even know how to type it, it's often not labeled, especially on non-standard keyboards. Do you think they suffer? No, they are using normal «е» instead and still use the correct wovel when speaking, it might be elusive to foreigners, but native speakers are doing this without thinking 🤷
@genmaicha

@newt
If you can throw something out, but it still works and works well, this probably should be done — despite there always being those nostalgic for the good old days, they weren't personally living. Did you know that Roman Empire is now considered responsible for IQ drop by 2-3 points throughout Europe due to led poisoning? 🤓
As for languages using the cyrillic script — I don't think they become harder to write, they change with the script too, become more streamlined.
@genmaicha

@newt
> abominations like the French "-eaux" referring to just one single vowel
Poor Asian dudes, they must be really suffering being able to type their script in using a standard keyboard, not the one that is four times as big and has five more modifier keys 😱
Being able to use a more complex tool instead of a more simple one doesn't make you a "manly man", sometimes it just makes you waste less time fighting with that tool and leaves more room for actually doing something with it.
@genmaicha

@newt But you aren't a writing system — it's not you who's "getting drilled a pussy", a writing system is something you interact with, interacting with feminine should be more enjoyable for a straight guy, right? 😜
@genmaicha

@newt
Being straight I very much enjoy "pussification", thank you! 😊

@genmaicha

@romin
Oh no, sound the alarm 😱
I have to act immediately and download Malware Remover Pro Plus Premium from a shady site that I've been keeping in my bookmarks all these years — I knew this day would come!

@romin
Can I access it using Mastodon Platinum with some sort of converter?

@themilkman
To be fair, some people do exhibit antisocial behaviour — without even realising it, thanks to their own upbringing. And it is important to identify that, being able to decline things you don't like without overreacting and such, but otherwise — yeah, by being too paranoid you're just ruining it for yourself.

@kaia

@hyc
I believe this was just a bug that has been fixed since then, but that left her account in this state, I don't want to go back to XMPP just because of this once TBH
Besides, Element works more or less consistently across platforms — even voice calls work (most of the time 🤭)
Dealing with XMPP clients is a mixed bag — especially for the less geeky folk.

@merlin

@merlin
> my encryption keys are permanently broken
Yeah, sadly this used to happen a lot in the past.
I cannot establish an encrypted 1-on-1 room with one of my friends, she lives in a different country now so fixing this by trial and error is problematic. When she was coming to visit me I thought that I could use this opportunity to fix this for good. And I more or less understand how things work… Still couldn't do it — seems impossible without completely resetting the keys on her account😩

@merlin
It's always wise to have a spare!
What if you get logged out in one of them and don't have any other device or your encryption key on you? Easy — log in using another device, verify it with your other app, then use this new device to verify the original app that got logged out! 🤣

@themilkman
Yeah, just behaving nicely and not acting like an asshole or a freak all of a sudden is more than enough!
It's also important to keep in mind that the other party most often isn't someone who is willing to exploit you (and in even less cases skilled at that), but someone as confused as you are — some are better at mustering confidence, some are putting on airs for that. But that's about it!

@kaia

@ozzelot
I wonder how viable is running modern Linux on a PS3 🤔

@romin @iska
And my midrange phone can probably run circles around my vintage Mac Pro 😂
In 2000s I would never expect myself to say it, but computing power is what I seek in a computer the least today, battery life is close second — those two are through the roof already, repairability, user-serviceability and openness of modern hardware on the other hand is a goddamn mess.
Again, I would have never expected to care about those, but when everything is just soldered and glued together — meh 😖