pmk

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[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 1 week ago (16 children)

A narrative? Like, "Not only am I naked, I'm on my way to... water the plants. They are thirsty, and so am I... In the background, dimly lit, you can see an ESP32 microcontroller... yup, that's the kind of guy I am... oh my, I can do pulse width modulation with my bare hands..."

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't tried typst, how does it compare to plain TeX?

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a TeX hobbyist, I would argue that they serve slightly different purposes. Plain TeX is for typography, the workflow is that of low level control where your human judgement is needed for interventions and decisions. LaTeX serves a different purpose, it aides the author of a text to focus on the content while abstracting away the underlying inherent problems in fitting letters on a page. TeX is small, difficult, but simple. LaTeX is huge, with 30 years of abstractions built on top of abstractions, until nowadays few people know how to actually deal with an overfull or underfull hbox the right way.

 

I've been looking for an overview of how different fediverse services interact in practice.
For example, what happens if I follow a lemmy account from mastodon, or if I send a dm to a writefreely blog, or use gotosocial to comment on peertube, etc?
Is there something published on this subject? If not, would it be of interest to other people?

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

You can use a mastodon frontend that doesn't require js.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ANDRUM or FJร„TTRA could work.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago

Purely anecdotal, but the dominance/submission dynamic is something that many women seem to actually want. I have never steered things in that direction since it's not my thing, but everyone I have been with has asked for some actions like that, being held down, light choking, some pain, etc. Remember how popular 50 shades was? It saddened me, like, "this is what mainstream women actually want"? It's not what I want.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately our social democrats are in favor of chat control too, it was Ylva Johanssons idea to begin with.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

As a swede, what about the picture is different to what you are used to in America?

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"If at least one of them never did what you proposed Iโ€™ll eat my hat.".

The way this is phrased means that if there is 1 or more who never did it, you will eat your hat.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Will to Change by bell hooks is the one book that made me feel seen as a person. Usually I open a feminist book with the suspicion that the author will be like "all men are evil" and that usually makes me care less about feminism for a while. But that book was a pleasant surprise, it spoke to me and not at me.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Man walks down the street wearing that, you know he's not afraid of anything.

[โ€“] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It would be nice to have proton drive integration in linux. I guess it's a matter of priorities.

 

I'm trying to understand the way Mastodon works. Back in the day I started with IRC and then the many php-based forums and then reddit which led to lemmy. I never used twitter or similar platforms.
My understanding (and this is where I need help) is that all of the above are topic-based, whereas Mastodon is person-based? What I mean is that on lemmy I subscribe to things based on topic and I don't really care about usernames or user profiles, I only care about discussing a topic. It seems to me like Mastodon is the opposite? You follow persons and what they might say about any topic?
Is there something I'm missing here? Are hashtags close enough to sorting it by topic that it works just like a topic based platform? Is this difference inherent or just in my head because I don't understand Mastodon?

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