In the beginning we had aalib for rendering ASCII-art, which allowed saving GIMP images as ASCII art and playing movies in a text console with MPlayer. Then libcaca added colour support. And caca means poo in Latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or French, so…
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There is no such thing as ‘biological sex’ or, as you put it, sex as part of your basic biology, like some sort of immutable biological property each individual gets alongside other biological traits, such as eye or hair color. Like something you cannot discuss because it would be like discussing how many fingers you have on your hand. Sex is a classification made by humans based on some loosely grouped and kind of varying physical traits, which are even not always used consistently to tell sexes apart.
The first argument in defense of biological sex is that people with a penis and testicles are inherently and biologically men and people with a vulva and vagina are biologically women. But, you know, even when they are not common, there are people who have both or none in varying degrees. This usually turns to “women are people with XX chromosomes and men are people with XY chromosomes”. But people with XXY chromosomes (Klinefelter syndrome) and just X chromosomes (Turner syndrome) also exist. You may say those people will be men or women based on what their physical development will make them look like. But you can already see how this starts taking sex assignment into some subjective area and not a basic biology property anymore. Then, you also have De La Chapelle syndrome and Swyer syndrome, which are people with XX chromosomes developing physical traits traditionally considered male and people with XY chromosomes developing physical traits traditionally considered female, respectively. We can continue going over the dozens of different conditions that make it impossible to tell that someone has one unquestionable basic biological sex. You could tell those cases are very rare (if you consider 1 % of the population as very rare), but they do exist. And, since you want to appeal to biology, in science you cannot simply ignore a scenario because it’s not favourable for you and claim that your theory still holds because it works for the majority. Sex is a spectrum and sex binarism is a social construct: https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a
The same way that there is also no such thing as “biological race” and I thought that debate was over decades ago: https://bioanth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AAPA_Biological_Race_1996.pdf
Once you start questioning the idea of sex and race as basic biology that cannot be argued, you start seeing how those ideas are harder to sustain and insisting in doing so will place you in, let’s say, uncomfortable positions.
chuso@fedia.iotointerestingasfuck@lemmy.world•Father crosses the river with his son inside a sack so that he arrives clean at school.
0·2 months agoSorry, but I can’t just believe every extraordinary claim that I see on social media, so I had to double-check it. In this case it seems to be true (although not his father but a “village strongman”) and happened in Vietnam: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kids-cross-river-in-plastic-bag-school-video_n_5002877 https://vov.vn/tin-24h/chui-tui-nilon-vuot-suoi-lu-den-truong-nguoi-trong-cuoc-noi-gi-809014.vov Although quite old, so not sure if it’s still happening.
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Linux@programming.dev•432 Linux kernel CVEs published in the last 24 hours
0·4 months agoContext: https://tuxcare.com/blog/the-great-kernel-cve-flood-of-2024/
Summary: After Linus’s previous stance that security vulnerabilities are just bugs and don’t require special treatment, the kernel’s new policy is that almost every bug gets a CVE if it has the potential to become a security vulnerability.
I don’t know if it’s ironic or they really mean it, but it’s published on Substack Nazi platformers, so who cares.
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pics@lemmy.world•The Smiling Peanut statue located in Plains, Georgia.
0·5 months agoBonus for the small fence around it which is almost collapsing.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Porto, Portugal's official name is The Ancient, Very Noble, Ever Loyal and Undefeated City of Porto
10·5 months agoIs that true? The article doesn’t provide any reference to support that claim and the Portuguese Wikipedia only has a very brief mention at the 9th paragraph that it’s also known by that name, but nothing about being its official name.
Ah, yes, it can have that meaning in Spain too, but not so common. It’s all about context, indeed.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What misconception are you tired of being spread?
0·6 months ago“Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres”.
No, it doesn’t.
Funny twist: in Spain, “chorizo” is slang for thief, so that would be actually saying “I’m a thief”.
Indeed, you can choose anything you want as the destination language.

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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: The United States Has 10x More Serial Killers Than Any Other Country on Earth
2·8 months agoI was referring to the image in this post, which is where the absolute numbers I was referring to are mentioned, and there they are comparing the US and England.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: The United States Has 10x More Serial Killers Than Any Other Country on Earth
91·8 months agoAlso, it seems they are comparing absolute numbers and not a rate or anything like that while USA population is almost six times that of England. This is complete anecdata.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why
1·9 months agoAh, sorry, I didn’t click on the link 😅
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why
6·9 months agoAnd l10n for localization.
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Political Memes@lemmy.ca•Chad Lenin who legalized homosexuality in the 1920s
0·10 months agoSo, OP’s claim that Lenin “legalized homosexuality entirely” in the USSR is wrong because, as @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works pointed out, it remained illegal in some parts of the USSR, such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Therefore, it was never entirely legalized across the entire USSR until Stalin banned it entirely again in 1934. During that decade, homosexuality was only legal in the RSFSR and not because of a standalone law advocating for sexual freedom, but because the Tsarist legal codes were abolished (which also included abolishing the Senate, the Tsarist courts and the private property, which were more likely to be the target of this move) without introducing a specific ban in the new legal code.
So it’s also misleading to claim that homosexuality was legalized like it was an intentional move towards sexual freedom (which Lenin cared very little about with no public record of him on this topic) instead of just the kind of accidental outcome of abolishing the Tsarist legal codes.
Even if everything else were true, the USSR still wouldn’t have been the first country to legalize it in modern history, which was France in 1791.
https://libcom.org/article/notes-early-soviet-attitudes-homosexuality
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Technology@lemmy.world•200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
0·10 months agoI don’t see any reference to 2023 in that article, but this:
Pornhub has not worked with Mixpanel since 2021, which means that the stolen data would be from that year or earlier
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Technology@lemmy.world•200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
0·10 months agoSorry, but I don’t think we’re emphasising enough that Pornhub shared details of its users, such as their search history and watched videos, with an external company and that external company kept that data for over four years after their relationship ended.
No, it seems you are a bit confused.
You are talking about autossh, which is a completely different third-party SSH client tool that you have to install separately (as the link you shared describes) to have persistent SSH client connections and has nothing to do with systemd other than that you can start it as a systemd service (like any other third-party service).
OP is talking about systemd-ssh-generator, which is described here by Lennart Poettering (author of systemd) as working exactly as OP described it.




In my view, this way of thinking makes a less obvious mistake, which is also reproduced in the comments. It assumes that someone would change jobs only for a higher salary. However, some people would also accept a lower salary in exchange for better working conditions.