m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@gemlog
Damn! I knew lead was harmful or course, but not to this extent 🤯

@romin
That would actually be great!
Instead I'm getting force-fed with all this shiny shit that I'm *supposed to* want, but never asked for, then I'm *strongly suggested* that I have to pay for it in one way or the other 😩

@newt
This is addiction at this point, no?

@romin
And I'm not paying for any of that!

@purusa
There is logrotate that automates it a bit.
AFAIR, originally a Debian tool, but you can use it anywhere — I'm using it on my Void machine to handle nginx logs.

@iska

@newt
In Russian they also "steal", but manage to break the stolen in the process — the third way no one asked for 🤣

@genmaicha

@newt
In Russian, due to being transliterated into a different alphabet, this shit at times doesn't make any sense at all, you pronounce it very differently from the way it's written: "it's an exception, you just have to remember it",— it's literally what they teach you in school!
In case with Japanese, I think it's just transliterated awkwardly, but then just read as if it would be written in kana: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/113711955834045265

@genmaicha

@newt
That is true for loanwords in most languages — in English these exceptions at least make some sense, probably due to being borrowed mostly from European languages using the same Latin alphabet — but even with Greek ones it still makes some sense: you see certain sequences of letters and you can guess where the word came from and how it's pronounced.

@genmaicha

@newt
And we aren't arguing much — just exchanging thoughts. I could've taken your side, it just won't be as fun. Like I said, I'm not even practicing what I preach here, I'm using «ё» — not only the letter, but these weird quotation marks too, these aren't present in any standard layouts, I have to use specialised ones to enter them — or compose-key incantations.

@genmaicha

@newt
> a language that is incapable of expressing Ulysses is certainly a gimped one
Well, it seems English wasn't enough for Finnegan's Wake — he had to borrow from other languages 😂

@genmaicha

@djsumdog @kirby @ZySoua
Why though? 🤔 In this here case her moving on is the immediate outcome of him overdosing.
I think the whole courtesy of respecting the dead was made up by really bad people so others wouldn't be literally shitting on their graves when they're gone.

@inyanblood @kaia
> mutual attraction — 27'386
> mutual respect — 17'916
🤨

@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