So in highschool, I was one of those annoying kids that went “why do we have to learn how to analyze poems? We’re never gonna need this in real life” in English (well… German, but doesn’t matter) class.

I’m deeply grateful for my teachers back then to patiently get me to do these things anyways, because there came a point in my life years later where I suddenly understood that those “useless” lessons and hours “wasted” analyzing Goethe and Borchert and Fitzgerald handed me the tools to understand media (and not just literature!) instead of just consuming it.

I hope it’s clear how that relates to the screenshot. More than that though, I sometimes feel like the slew of shit media over the past decade is at least in part to blame on writers/studios/… now assuming people do in fact merely consume. But that’s a rant that’s completely off-topic here, so I’ll shut up now.

LMAO, I might have missed the six fingers, mainly because my eyes went directly to the map with everything from France, Belgium, Germany,… simply labeled “Russland” (Russia).

Definitely, but not categorically different.

Also I just re-read my comment and realized it could sound like I’m trying to defend Duolingo. I’m not. It’s shit. My issue was with the “only total immersion” aspect. While no doubt immersion can help boost your learning and motivation, it also seems to have turned into a buzzword used by (a subset of) (mainly the English-native) language learning community, to the point where I’m now weary of people using the word because far too often it’s not used as “you should actually use the new language!” and instead as “textbooks and grammar studying are useless, just watch anime 8hr/day until you are fluent”.

Sorry if I projected that frustration on your original comment. The above is just the abstract of a rant I’ve been itching to write for a while 😄

Duo is not going to make anyone fluent. No single program or method will. It also isn’t, for most people, something that will make you educated in a language in a day or a week or a year, or probably ten. Nothing short of total immersial will do that.

That’s just patently untrue. School systems in most non-English speaking countries spit out fluent English speakers after a time investment of fewer than 4hrs/week, for a maximum of 8-9 years.

Thanks, I just woke my partner because I burst out laughing. Comment of the week for me.

Oof, OK. I have seen some S1 Andor deep-dives in the past which were genuinely good. Haven’t watched anything on S2 yet, because I didn’t like it.

Which one? Mind sharing?

Huh, not what I would have expected. I work for a company that has sadly shifted very AI-focused, with the exception of the actual engineers. Literally none of us likes or uses LLMs. Every other week someone from the C-suite reminds us that we are encouraged to use it, and get 300$ or some such in credits for AI tooling per month, and that they don’t understand why it hasn’t been claimed even once.

I’m so torn on this, because IN THEORY the argument “git blame should show the dunce who committed this” makes sense.

But then why not add the AI as a co-committer.

(All of this of course sidesteps the actual question, “why the fuck are you allowing AI contributions in the first place”.)

a number of these things are actual security exploits

yes, sure, but in the sense of “social engineering the slopbot”, not “there’s a vulnerability in [x] which does not apply proper sanitation to non-body text content before evaluating it”

Ah, makes sense. My mind was going more towards actual security exploits, but… yeah. Makes sense.

Anyways, thank you Flere-Imsaho, I will never not love seeing your username on here.

I’m apparently too out of coffee dumb to properly get the joke. What’s the implications if some system parses the PNG text chunks in the same way it does the body of the email?

Yeaaaaah I saw that on the schedule and decoded to not go, lol.

Really? Which ones? I didn’t notice any

Not the person you replied to, but I also switched to Librewolf a couple of months ago, also greatly enjoy it. Here’s a link to my nix config where Librewolf gets made to behave a little closer to default Firefox in terms of usability. Honestly not too bad!

All the fash stuff is incredibly bad, but I cannot get over this:

I personally found a lot of enjoyment in the Framework discord. The format of a discord server is a lot more useful for chatting and discussion within a community than something like a forum (which seems a little more siloed).

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. EITHER YOU ARE INSANE OR I AM.

I cannot believe I am rooting for GEMA. What a weird world this has become.

Oh what the fuck why can Mozilla not just STOP. Just… STOP. Honestly sick of this shit.