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boo_ , 3 days ago

Lmao I thought of Allegro Common Lisp at first.

boo_ , 4 days ago

It's quite obvious that it's very different to use it as a verb and as a noun to refer to someone.

boo_ , 6 days ago

No OS is perfect, as you likely do have to use a proprietary modem and some proprietary apps, but CalyxOS works well for me on my Fairphone 4. I like the base install being as free as realistically possible on a modern Android phone, especially replacing Google apps with microG. Just don't enable SafetyNet if you don't want it to run (sandboxed) Google blobs. That API is deprecated anyways.

The experience is smooth, free and I get a repairable phone without having generative """AI""" shoved down my throat. A win on all fronts in my opinion.

boo_ , 12 days ago

Chad meme saying "Yes"

boo_ , 12 days ago

I have genuinely only seen tankie used by anarchists and libertarian socialists generally. Didn't even know that liberals knew of the term. :/

boo_ , 11 days ago

That sucks. I'll have to watch my usage of this term, or at least use it in circumstances where it's clear that it's not meant to critique leftism. Surely there's gotta be some new term now, though? The term is quite old at this point, and comes from a very specific situation where it was clearly one authoritarian side, which was criticized from the left using the term tankie. I think someone ought to have come up with an apt term to describe authoritarian """communists""" today.

boo_ , 1 month ago

Also, it's the GNU version of the 'S' language (kind of like Octave vis-à-vis MATLAB). They only say they're largely compatible, as they ofc don't own S/MATLAB, but it's pretty much the same AFAIK, only that R is now much more popular than S.