At the very least, any software that produces error messages that lie is extremely annoying.

Are you Swiss German by any chance?

Tada!

Therefore the “deception” would be discovered the moment anyone tried to debug exactly those error messages in this …open source application.

Bike fall meme material.

From a purely software engineering point of view, I don’t understand why they feel the need to hardcode such a list. This is precisely the kind of thing that should be a configuration file, not code.

Wait, that’s a conspiracy theory?

Just don’t drink and drive folks.

Holy fuck that’s profound.

So free software is actually about freedom, huh.

Money hoarding worker abuser said what?

Nope, didn’t know I had to, I’ve had multiple prints succeed previously, but also clogs often enough to be annoying, so maybe that’s it. Thank you very much for the pointer, let’s hope it’s what was missing.

Elegoo Centauri Carbon, and I’m using Orca on Linux.

Canadian conservatives talking about “Soviet style bread lines” in response to Avi Lewis proposing public grocery stores, while there are literal bread lines at food banks.

There are better and worse democracies. Overall, democracy this decade is on the decline: https://www.v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/

Since it’s called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, why not pick up the extremely low hanging fruit and call it GNU Imp? It also comes with a free mascot.

Edit: And given that Wilber already has a cheeky smile and two horn-like ears, it wouldn’t even be that much of a new mascot either. I mean come on people, do I have to think of everything around here?

The Reconquista in Spain, yes. In the Levant/Outremer? That’s just not what happened.

PS. I know that in the US, (CW: Hegseth) the christian nationalists are using crusading iconography to promote their deranged fascist apocalypticism. They are instrumentalizing the past the way fascists always do. Knowing and insisting on the actual history is a kind of negation of that instrumentalization. Don’t be tempted to just mirror a reverted image of their anti-intellectualism back to them.

Yes, obviously there is no total order. There is a partial order though.

That’s why I prefaced my whole comment with «Side thing,…». I’m doing an «um ackchyually» about the history of the Crusades, nothing more.

Side thing, but I don’t see the Crusades as at the same level of the Holocaust or the Holodomor. They were religious wars of conquest not campaigns of extermination. They were brutal, sure, but if you add them, then you have to start piling a bunch of other wars in there too, like the Mongol conquests, the Timurid conquests, the Arab conquests, the Ottoman conquests, the Aztec conquests etc. Which kind of dilutes the point of “grave crimes”.

There is nothing particularly unique about the Crusades, and at the time, the Roman Empire that invited them and tried to sanction them actually had a legitimate claim of them being reconquests of Roman territory (even though they ended up killing it off anyway in 1204).

We need more tech unions and tech coops.