Janeway from Prodigy. Or maybe somebody from Lower Decks, but I can’t decide which.

There are many, many cartoon characters I would vote for over Trump, all the way down to other villainous incompetents like Dick Dastardly or Elmer Fudd.

Space Ghost and Dino Boy Space Ghost or Space Ghost Coast to Coast Space Ghost?

I’ve been using Duolingo. I get, and even agree with, most of the criticism of it, but I’m not sure anything else would actually work for me because the heavy gamification is what keeps me actually making progress at it.

Oui. “What method are you using?”

Y’all hiring?

(Kinda joking 'cause I know you just said you’re small, but I am genuinely interested in figuring out how to get a software dev job with a French company as an American looking to emigrate.)

Learning French

Moi aussi! Quelle methode utilisez-vous?

https://lemmy.world/post/30075546/17215433

I’ve got my kids using Linux on Raspberry Pis, and I honestly want them to break it so that then they have to figure out how to fix it.

for things that really aren’t that big a deal (like Linux vs windows)

LOL, Linux vs. Windows flame wars are literally as old as the World Wide Web, and UNIX vs. DOS flame wars are even older than that. Welcome to traditional Internet culture, undiluted by normies.

(Also, I would argue that copyleft Free Software vs. proprietary software riddled with spying, ads, and other user-hostile dark patterns is a way bigger deal than you’re giving it credit for, but that’s a topic for a different thread.)

My hate for Microsoft started with its anticompetitive business practices.

This is not a “how do I be polite” situation. This is a “how do I cover my ass legally” situation. Mistake it for the former at your peril.

I can’t claim that one because people were hating him before I was born.

☝️Case in point, LOL.

It isn’t hard at all to say whether Bill Gates is an “overall net ‘good’ person” or not. He became a billionaire (which is an inherently exploitative act), and no amount of trying to whitewash his legacy with philanthropy after the fact can change that.

They’re both forms of autocracy, but their ideological justification and means of maintaining control are at least somewhat different. I don’t see any particular reason why said justifications would shift from monarchical →fascist ones; if anything, I’d expect it to go in the other direction as a fascist dictator seeks to “legitimize” his rule by claiming “divine right” or naming a hereditary successor. I would be more inclined to agree with the statement “fascism is proto-monarchism.”

Correct. Firefox was a rewrite separate from the old Netscape/Mozilla SeaMonkey codebase.

I’d still be an “Engineer,” LOL. (I do civil engineering as well as CS, and try to work at the intersection of the two fields.)

Do you have any recommendations for a local Free Software tool to fix VHS artifacts (bad tracking etc., not just blurriness) in old videos?

What’s a “fifth glyph?”

One day I’m going to get around to hooking a local smart speaker to Home Assistant with ollama running locally on my server. Ideally, I’ll train the speech to text on Majel Barrett’s voice and be able to talk to my house like the computer in Star Trek.