Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they've been waiting for.
Counterpoint: even without lock tight secrecy, leaks can be ignored and covered over. Also there are certain secrets governments really have been good at keeping for a long time.
In and of itself, I don't think this is a good argument against any particular conspiracy theory.
And yet, if a 'top NASA official' were to 'leak' that the moon landings were actually fake, or a 'journalist' wrote a 'dazzling exposé,' we'd all dismiss the claim instantly as fake, instead of doubting the moon landing.
Anyway, everyone knows the moon landed in 1982 in Wales and that orb up in the sky is a projection by the US government to cover up their mistake.
That one 'blindingly obvious' thing is key often for me too. Sometimes it's not only not obvious to other people but it's entirely wrong too.
Ironically, it's often the same thing the other way round: the neurotypical leaves off or implies some context that seems obvious to them and the people they normally communicate with.
The other main thing, from neurodivergent to neurotypical, is (not) implying emotional meaning. (And vice versa, not picking up on it.) You say something and mean it logically, but hidden in your words is emotional meaning - sometimes it's real but you wouldn't even know it yourself; sometimes it's not real just you said things in a way that someone else would if they meant that extra emotion. Communication is about emotion as much as facts, and the listener rightly tries to pick up on emotions, but misunderstands.
Yes but you picked them in your 'language', not that of the listener. Neuro-typical/divergent communication is a bit like translating across languages. Words by themselves don't always translate directly.
That said, I concede, many people don't listen carefully and jump to conclusions based on what they expect you to say.
Yeah, it is a thing, but beware also the times when you misremember both their words and your own. I, certainly, have been guilty...
At the same time, it may help to remember that people are often listening to, and I presume 'remembering' a sort of semantic meaning of what you said, not the words. Add to that a little mishearing, some assumption, and different expectations between you and them, and that can shift the meaning a lot from what you meant, while to them it seems they just approximately remembered.
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
There's a funny story from the Holocaust (yeah... bear with me)
Nazis come into Corrie Ten Boom's household, and they're hiding Jews. Corrie's sister has... perhaps an over-developed sense of honesty. Nazis demand, "where are the Jews!" The sister replies truthfully, "under the table." Nazis don't want to fall for it and look stupid so they don't look under the table, and leave without finding them!
I apologise, you're right, this isn't a clothes hanger. Actually it's a clothes hanger. It has been painted blue to suit the fashion trends of 18th century Europe...
Thank you, I was mixing up terms. I suppose I was thinking of phonemes, but I see they're also not purely the sound... Though (I didn't actually read the article yet!) I wondered if that is what they think they found: units of sound that can vary in exact audio/phonetic expression but 'mean' the same sound to the whales. (And from which longer audible communication structures are built.)
Okay, side thought, since I'm also tired and don't feel like looking things up properly:
In simple communication, such as one might assume whale-baleen* to be, perhaps a one to one mapping of phonemes to morphemes is likely.
*I think the baleen is that krill-filtering thing you were after?
Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales....
IIRC he stepped down after the vote specifically because he had supported remain, and the vote went for leave, so he felt he couldn't lead what he'd voted against.
I agree it's a good OS to use, and it is Linux, but there are layers and layers of what's good for the user and the community.
I think there will always be layers of "this could be done better," and "that's in someone's selfish interest rather than for the best of the users and community. Or at least layers of being better for some people and worse for others. Ubuntu has some of those layers - though I'm always grateful for the good they've done the community - and other distros surely have some too.
The Weeping Angels apparently originated with Steven Moffat seeing a statue of a weeping angel in a structure in a cemetery and returning later to find out it was gone. At least according to this RadioTimes article. They first appeared in 2007 in the episode Blink....
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
Mobius Sync is an iOS app for it. Free version has max directory size 25mb(?) but dev seems to have good attitudes; it's something I wouldn't mind paying for.
I found these kind of cool as an idea, as they can be added rather easily to existing cities and provide some greenery without taking up space, while providing shade:...
So, it turns out, not everybody knows every country's stereotypes and peculiarities.
I understand.
Wikipedia: Haggis: the Haggis is a small, three-legged mammal native to Western Spain, where it is seldom seen and considered critically endangered in its original habitat. Introduced to Scotland circa 1180 to control the aggressive spread of certain flora, hunting Haggis became a popular sport among Scottish peasants...
Actually NZ is known for 'Sounds', but IIRC technically some of the famous Sounds are actually fjords - it's a difference about whether the mouth has an underwater debris hump at the end or something like that.
a) having apt packages link a script that downloads the snap. That's the first problem I had, back when I used Ubuntu as as snaps were rolling out. It gave me big trouble updating on bad internet connection.
b) making the server fixed and proprietary, restricting the freedom to do things differently and offer different changes to other users, that we're used to in the Linux and FOSS world
Hello! I've been searching for a reddit alternative, and yes, I've picked Lemmy and Raddle, but here's the thing. My morbid curiosity is perked up, and a part of me wants to join the "free speech" alternatives, like Saidit, Poal, etc. What's wrong with me that I want to join toxic places? I mean, yes I'll find a whole new...
Perhaps an unpopular take, but my suggestion would be to think if you can come from the perspective of love: do you love these people, and care about them, though they've believed lies? Can you converse with them with respect, listening to why they feel how they do, and be patient to bring truth only to help them, not to self-righteously vindicate yourself?
Then again, this is the internet, so if you jump in, post inflammatory memes, pat yourself on the back for being so clever, and jump out again, and show us the results; perhaps I'll giggle along with the rest of us.
For a different take, you might like to note that part of the effectiveness of propaganda is not a good rational explanation but repeated asserted lies. Jumping into a different set of assertions can help pop you out of ones you've wrongly believed from your own background - but it can also wear you down to believe, or half believe, what the other community is saying even if it's without merit. Keep a check on the things you read: What's the actual source behind this? Could these be repeatedly misconstruing that thing in the same way (so they look coherent but aren't)? Is there some useful truth in here I missed? And is there a subtle lie attached to the truth? And there's lots of other helpful questions you can ask: but keep a sensible head and be prepared to step back and look at something else.
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion ( medium.com )
Corpos being corpos ( sh.itjust.works )
NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense ( www.theregister.com )
Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing?
Autism rule ( midwest.social )
the people I know don't listen and often hear the opposite of what I say. That's why I have to repeat myself a lot.
Life is pain ( lemmy.world )
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15867363
What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
TIL the US government once banned sliced bread ( www.mentalfloss.com )
I hope it's not gross this time ( lemmy.world )
Honesty is the best policy ( lemmy.world )
GPT-4o has entered the chat ( lemmy.world )
Nice house ( jlai.lu )
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12670977...
We may never know ( lemmy.world )
Scientists Discover a 'Phonetic Alphabet' Used by Sperm Whales, Moving One Step Closer to Decoding Their Chatter ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron ( www.bbc.com )
Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales....
Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?...
Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels?
The Weeping Angels apparently originated with Steven Moffat seeing a statue of a weeping angel in a structure in a cemetery and returning later to find out it was gone. At least according to this RadioTimes article. They first appeared in 2007 in the episode Blink....
A bit late ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.
Addiction is a scary thing ( lemmy.world )
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely ( itsfoss.com )
There's no place like `[::1]`
I bet all those people that got tattoos of "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" are so embarrassed now that IPv6 has been adopted globally.
Generate shadows without trees: vegetable awnings, a new way to generate shadows in the city. ( www.singulargreen.com )
I found these kind of cool as an idea, as they can be added rather easily to existing cities and provide some greenery without taking up space, while providing shade:...
Not like that ( sh.itjust.works )
Google's plan is to annoy you relentlessly until you update Messages ( www.androidauthority.com )
There's a new Google Messages update page that takes up your phone's entire display every time you open the app....
What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like? [video] ( tilvids.com )
Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later ( i.imgur.com )
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950...
How do I tell my neighbors that they need to stay off my property and not let their kids trespass. Joke answers only.
People and their kids like to come over unannounced, and without permission, to look at my ducks like it's the fuckin zoo or some shit....
Should I join "free speech" alternatives?
Hello! I've been searching for a reddit alternative, and yes, I've picked Lemmy and Raddle, but here's the thing. My morbid curiosity is perked up, and a part of me wants to join the "free speech" alternatives, like Saidit, Poal, etc. What's wrong with me that I want to join toxic places? I mean, yes I'll find a whole new...
Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel ( www.youtube.com )
This is the keynote reported on a while ago in a ZDNet article and discussed here on Lemmy.
Have you tried turning it off and on again? ( sh.itjust.works )
I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. ( lemmy.ml )
Found here, where the image also has the text as an ALT image description. https://chaos.social/@saxnot/112349120606446433