arsCynic

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[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

For f*&% sake, I'm using JPEG XL on my website for some high res images that are amazingly well compressed using it, and especially to reduce the repository size on Codeberg. Only now discovered that only my niche main browser, Zen, renders them. What a stupid decision; their compression of high quality images is superior. Perfect to use alongside AVIF which does better in low quality images and illustrations and the like, or PNG which is best at preserving images containing text such as screenshots.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?

  1. Always use uBlock Origin in a Firefox-based browser (e.g., LibreWolf, Zen).
  2. Never click on links in communication of any kind that you didn't expect or are too good to be true.
  3. Never reinstall Windows.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Submitted. Thanks!

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Anything that touches greed-incentivizing cr*ptocurrencies turns to shit. Use Matrix, XMPP, or Tox instead.


✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly what I Iearned by working in a scientific institute for 3 years. Before that I put scientists on a pedestal and wanted to be one. Now, not anymore. They are as flawed and morally mediocre as most of the general populace.


✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

All crypto"currencies" are greed-inducing society-eroding pyramid schemes.

Get out this Crypto Cult Science.


✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No. Deleted my WhatsApp account though.


✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net
 

A powerful essay on why capitalism must end.
TL;DR: the increasing wealth inequality which mainly originates in past slavery is still the continuation thereof, even though that form of public slavery has now "ended".

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, well, good thing your feeling is more important than any potential source of actual data.

That's not at all what it says; sarcasm is uncalled for.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like ⅒ is a gross overestimation and regular search engines should consume at least 100 times less than GPTs.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Ecofeminists examine the effect of gender categories in order to demonstrate the ways in which social norms exert unjust dominance over women and nature. The philosophy also contends that those norms lead to an incomplete view of the world, and its practitioners advocate an alternative worldview that values the earth as sacred, recognizes humanity’s dependency on the natural world, and embraces all life as valuable.” —https://www.britannica.com/topic/ecofeminism

Yes. Because it goes hand in hand with Cynicism, my main guiding philosophy:

Cynic: “an adherent of an ancient Greek school of philosophers who held the view that virtue is the only good and that its essence lies in self-control and independence” —Merriam-Webster

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I ran a few kilometers in a circlepit while they were playing

We would've been best of buddies that night.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As luck would have it, Brutal Sphincter is unironically my favourite goregrind band.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21481987

More precisely, GitHub Pages to Codeberg + statichost.eu, not Codeberg Pages.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21481987

More precisely, GitHub Pages to Codeberg + statichost.eu, not Codeberg Pages.

 

More precisely, GitHub Pages to Codeberg + statichost.eu, not Codeberg Pages.

 

Alt text: "Photograph of a bench surrounded by cars in a public square that's actually a parking lot. Extremely visually displeasing. NSFW."

 

The career of garbageman or cleaning lady is generally looked down upon by the common people, yet it is the common people's garbage they are cleaning. The latter should be frowned upon, not the former.

Related: CEOs may be tough, but cleaning is tougher.

 

Video description:

"44,794 views May 7, 2025
VALVE cancelled the Counter-Strike fan mod Classic Offensive. After eight years of development and after being approved by Steam Greenlight in 2017, VALVE has ordered the developers of Classic Offensive to halt development and not release the mod.
The full story on: https://classic-offensive.net/
#counterstrike #cs2 #csgo

 

For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to "remap" keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there's XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there's Espanso, but it doesn't support keyboard shortcuts yet.

 

Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.max-p.me/post/2679376

I don't normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I'm pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.

Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.

That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.

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