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What's a skill you'd like to develop? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wouldn't exactly say i'm good at it, but i'm pretty stubborn and keep trying. But i've actually memorized 5 writing systems, so at least i'm good at one thing :)

What's a skill you'd like to develop? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For latin, i can't remember actually. I just like how i can read old texts.

For ukrainian, i wanted to learn a slavic language; i was going with russian first, but ukrainian has more in relation with other slavic languages so it'd be easier to learn it, in case i ever wanted to learn another slavic language.

I'm also learning esperanto/hebrew very casually, since for esperanto i love the grammar system, and hebrew is very related to arabic so i understand a lot of it.

What's a skill you'd like to develop? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Better programming skills. I've been programming for years, i just suck :D Today, i submitted my first proper PR to an FOSS project (https://codeberg.org/lemshare/lemshare/pulls/4) and i just wrote my first matrix bot for a room for instance admins. It converts all links to use lemmyverse.link, as a convenience.

I have no idea if they like it or not, but i'm personally proud of what i did. The code for both is pretty hacky.

Besides that? Learning latin and ukrainian :)

automaton rule in c/[email protected]
Gold dinar, Umayyad Caliphate, found in modern-day Lebanon, 694 AD-695 AD in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait till you see their architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_architecture

Version 2.0.1 just dropped in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Haha lol. Thanks for the great event btw :) (just uhh, make it optional next time lol. i couldnt use photon at all during that day c:)

Can't wait to see what you have next in stock next year lmao

Congratulations to remotelove! 👏👏 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Hehe :) you probably weren't. Everybody knows MLs admins are fucking obnoxious, so nobody really listens to them.

automaton rule in c/[email protected]
Servus sum 😔 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Crosspost-ception?

Which office chairs do you recommend? Having a look right now, is Ergohuman a good brand? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It’s not great for the regular 9-to-5

No pain no gain. This'd boost my efficiency by 50%.

automaton rule in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah it'll be okay. The power of fine new-london engineering 💪

FYI Hex is now federating again and already bringing their best! Stay classy hex as always 😎 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

No shade to them, but i think we're seeing this from different viewpoints; i see this from a personal preference standpoint, and they see this from some moderation stance, which was not the point at all. This isn't meant to replace defederations.

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[email protected] - Share and discuss anything that are in the public domain. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Share and discuss writing, music, film, and other files, documents, and stories that are in the public domain.

One of tuvan's communities, seems like a valuable community

[email protected]

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This Week in Matrix 2025-03-14 (matrix.org)
 

Notable things:

Synapse

By default, only server admins may add a room to a homeserver's public rooms list.

Element X iOS

This week we’ve been monitoring the TestFlight of version 25.03.2 which is our first build of the app with Rust’s event cache enabled. There have been numerous fixes in the SDK following all of the feedback we received and we’re planning to make a second TestFlight next week with all of these fixes incorporated.

matrix-rust-sdk

The Event Cache (matrix_sdk::event_cache) is a new API that stores all your events. It now supports lazy-loading, and thus provides an improved offline support, but also a much faster user experience. Before adding more features, we are tackling the last bugs. And, oh, how nasty they are. We can group the patches in a couple of categories.

Old devices? Low-end devices? You're in our hearts and you're not forgotten! A couple of patches improve the performance and reduce the memory usage greatly!

The memory usage of a Client has been reduced by a factor of 65'536 times

SqliteEventCacheStore is 35 times faster, yup, you read it well

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Colors in Latin (i.postimg.cc)
 

credit to u/theromancrow for this great image :)

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(2011) 100,000 Bahrainis protesting, mourning for those killed for dissenting by the police and army forces. 200+ casualties and 2,000+ injured. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Never forget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_loyalty_to_martyrs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Abdulredha_Buhmaid

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Comrade Krasnov is just a follower of Leninist thought! (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27324580

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Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities [List] (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34579861

Most instances have a community where users can request the moderator role for inactive or unmoderated communities.

As each instance names these slightly differently, I thought I'd create a thread to collect as many as possible.

Please comment below with equivalent communities and I'll add them to the list.

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Ways of censoring nicole, for admins (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

The SQL way

https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/40761824, thank you to @[email protected]! Note this does not work with regex patterns.

The slur filter way

(.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*) Is what we are using on dbzer0 right now. It previews all of nicole's messages as just "removed".

Why such hacky fixes? Well truth is, due to lemmy's subpar filtering we really can't do much about this currently. At most these just repel from the potential harm of nicole's messages.

@[email protected] has opened these two issues:

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How are you doing? - weekly thread #3 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

(i forgot. Again. Only for three days though, hopefully it isn't a big deal)

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List of European Linux Distributions (inspired by blaze's post) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
89 comments fedilink
 

A note! the desktop field is completely optional! You can install any other desktop you like, but the listed are the "main" ones, usually recommended by the distro.

Linux Mint

  • Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
  • Experience: Simple
  • Desktop: Cinnamon

Best distro for beginners. has two versions: One based off of ubuntu (default), and another one debian (recommended, LMDE)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu

  • Country: Britain 🇬🇧
  • Experience: Simple
  • Desktop: GNOME

Good distro, but has some controversies. Though it's the most popular beginners distro by far.

https://ubuntu.com/

EndeavourOS

  • Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

My second favorite :) Arch based, easy installer and updater, friendly community and beautiful themes. I recommend this distro if you are into arch based distros without wanting the painful part of it.

https://endeavouros.com/

OpenSUSE

  • Country: Germany 🇩🇪
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE

It's mainly built around using the GUI, with tools like yast. Uses KDE.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Manjaro

  • Country: Germany 🇩🇪 / Austria 🇦🇹 / France🇫🇷
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

Added because of popular recommendation. I recommend EndeavourOS more, since manjaro has a... history.

https://manjaro.org/

NixOS

  • Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME

My personal favorite <3 Great for servers. It's not for the faint of heart, though hah. It's an immutable distro, where there is no package manager, or manually modifying config files; your entire system is created with .nix files, not commands. Reproducable.

https://nixos.org/

Arch

  • Country: Canada 🇨🇦 (Yes yes, it's not european but how can you not mention arch???)
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: None

Most popular distro for dedicated users, and for good reason; bleeding edge, full power over your system. Though you have to manually set up everything, from internet to your deskop environment.

Void

  • Country: Spain 🇪🇸
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: XFCE

Great distro if you want something like arch, but without systemd or slightly more stable (Also, musl support). Obscure but amazing.

https://voidlinux.org/

Debian [Honorary mention]

  • Country: Global 🌍
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

An honorary mention. Isn't suited for everyone, but is the golden standard for servers, and the grandfather of a huge family tree of distros.

https://www.debian.org/

VanillaOS [Honorary mention]

  • Country: Global 🌍️
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: GNOME

VanillaOS is a debian-based immutable operating system, which can install packages from any other distro and is very hard to brick.

https://vanillaos.org/

That should cover a lot. Please heed the desktop warning, and please correct me/comment suggestions. This is not perfect, so please do criticize where possible c:

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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data (www.404media.co)
 

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

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افضل فرع للبيك 😍😍😍 (قانون) (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink
 
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Resources for latin - Codex magnus de lingua latina (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

WARNING! This Guide is not finished yet! the ultimate goal is for a fully comprehensive guide for latin, and we're far from that, currently!

If you have any recommendations and suggestions, comment them, please.

Salvete Omnes!

I want to share some sources for learning Latin, because in Anno Domini, there is absolutely no excuse for not knowing at least "Roma in Italia est" >:(

Tips

  • When reading a word, don't think of the equivalent of it in your language; either imagine an image of it, or compose it out of smaller Latin words. So when you hear pluvia in latin, imagine rain, not the word itself.

    pluvia -> rain -> 🌧️? non!

    pluvia -> 🌧️ <- rain? sic!

  • Patience. Latin takes a long time to learn, and for some it is easy if they are speaking a romance language, and harder for some if not. Take your time digesting information, even if it takes days to analyze a single page.

  • Don't feel afraid to use Latin. Language proficiency requires reading and writing; write about your day in Latin, or translate something that you enjoy. If you can't find good Latin vocab to refer to modern concepts, it's fine to borrow something on the spot, or reuse some old word.

  • You'll hear horror stories that say that "three is death", about the third declension and third conjugation. Don't pay too much attention to those stories; instead make sure that you have a good grasp on how nouns and verbs work, before hitting those two, then it's all about memorisation of a bunch of patterns.

  • A very small tip, but might help: V in latin = U, they are the same. If you read PLVVIA or PLUUIA, it means Pluvia. However, the canonical pronounciation would be "plu-wia"

  • A great list of tips: https://www.latin.org/resources/documents/latinspeakinghints.php

Text Books

Practice Texts

Latin and English Dictionaries

Latin to English Dictionaries

  • Whittaker's words: Warning, this is unsuitable for learning the meanings of words, due to the lack of context!
  • Logeion

Media [optional]

Youtube

Mastodon

Misc

If you'd like a bigger list of resources, at courtesy of r/latin and the LLPSI discord, Here is the Thesaurus Anbrutalis!

Good luck with your studies!

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