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  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIt's all about perspective
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    3 months ago

    It’s an edit. In the original, the TV screen makes it look like the guy on the left is threatening the guy on the right (the foot looks like a knife). It’s meant to be a commentary on how biased media coverage can essentially reverse the roles of the oppressed and the oppressors. And this edit was made to show how in America, republican media coverage tells people that the democrats are “sucking off” leftists, even though democrats don’t agree on a lot of things with actual leftists in reality. The caption explaining all of that has been cropped of, you’re just meant to know it, which is what makes this meme funny.




  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlwas this not allowed before?
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    3 months ago

    You can tho? You can use arrow keys to move around the text, and hold down control to move by entire words in most apps. CMD + C to copy and CMD + V to paste (CMD is what they call the super key). But yeah, they’re trying to push a pointer-centric design that nobody really wants instead of putting the keyboard first.


  • Well, the issue is just that you’re not thinking with the Apple mindset. If you’re having difficulty doing something through an Apple product, it really just means you were trying to do the wrong thing in the first place. Where Apple products really excel is in their integration, both between software and hardware, and between separate devices through iCloud servihahahaha I’m just messing with you but can you imagine some fanboy actually typing out shit like this?


  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlwas this not allowed before?
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    3 months ago

    Try Mac OS next lol. “Here, hold down alt, smack your left ass cheek, and tap dance around your computer to run this unsigned executable”. It really feels like they’re deliberately violating the principle of discoverability to stop your from doing things that they don’t like.






  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlEven paper glows
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    3 months ago

    After all, describing the problem and the outline of the solution is usually the hardest part.

    This is what people who think that AI will replace programmers don’t understand. Programming is a way of thinking; knowing all the syntax and best practices is of course important, but secondary. If you’ve got that curiosity burning inside, those skills will come automatically as you gain more experience. Keep on learning, and don’t be afraid to use the latest tools to your advantage, no matter what snobs on the internet say!





  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlEven paper glows
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    3 months ago

    I find that a large number of conspiracy theories are asking the right questions, just not providing the right answers. Does big tech want to control our minds with 5G towers and microchips hidden in covid vaccines? Probably not. Does big tech want to control our minds with social media and invasive advertising? Absolutely. Is the world controlled by a secret society of lizard people? Probably not. Is the world controlled by a not-so-secret society of billionaires and politicians? To a large extent. Even those awful racist or bigoted conspiracy theories start to sound somewhat palpable palatable if you filter out the racist or bigoted part. Do Jews make life for the rest of us miserable by controlling the economy? No. But replace “Jews” with “the owning class”, and suddenly it kind of makes sense.

    EDIT: Is the government putting chemicals in the water that turn frogs gay? No. Are corporations putting chemicals in water bottles that turn frogs into hermaphrodites? Literally yes

    EDIT PART TWO - ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: Palatable, not palpable. Words are hard.


  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlEven paper glows
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    3 months ago

    Of course it “counts”! Whatever gets the job done! I personally am pretty bad with writing shell scripts, so I often use LLMs as “pseudocode compilers”. Like, I literally give it an entire program in pseudocode, and most of the time it can “compile” it to BASH or posix shell pretty well. Maybe some people might argue that it’s better to just sit down and learn shell scripting yourself, but I would argue that just by looking at or tweaking LLM-generated scripts you’re already passively learning the basic syntax and conventions. Not to mention that you can ask it to explain parts of the code to you!


  • I don’t know shit about fuck, but you explanation seems correct.

    I do remember hearing that precisely because of the limitations of vinyl compared to CD, music is mastered differently for each medium. So the CD master of a certain song might be more compressed (dynamic compression, not digital compression) to make it sound “louder”, while the vinyl release has a wider dynamic range. So some people might prefer the vinyl version because it actually does sound different to the CD version.

    Keep in mind tho, I might be spreading misinformation here.


  • Digital music can be taken as easily as it can be given.

    Digital does not always mean DRM. You can pry my bandcamp FLACs from my cold dead hands. Physical media nowadays is more about the experience than functionality. Maybe there are snobs who claim that vinyls are somehow functionally superior, but generally the people who use vinyls or CDs or tapes instead of digital are really just looking for that physical experience in a highly digitalized world.

    They have sound quality as good as digital

    CD quality is actually superior to streaming services like spotify (I personally can’t tell the difference tho).



  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlEven paper glows
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    Just take a photo with a trusted regular camera app and then enhance it with imagemagick. I have this script, works like a charm: convert INPUT_IMAGE.jpg -colorspace gray \( +clone -blur 15,15 \) -compose Divide_Src -composite -normalize -threshold 80% OUTPUT_IMAGE.jpg. Pretty sure you can also specify multiple input images, and imagemagick can merge it into a PDF file. For joining a really large number of images into PDF files (e.g.scans of entire books), you can convert each image individually, and then pdunite them. So something like for i in *; do convert $i $i.pdf; done; pdfunite $(ls *.pdf | sort -n) output.pdf

    Apps are bloat. Reject modernity, embrace shell scripts.