cabbage

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago

This trial is a huge event in France. Hopefully it will lead to some real cultural change, and with any luck the rest of the world will be able to learn something as well.

The bravery of this lady for going public and beating on the pots and pans as loud as she can is incredible.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's a crisis! Let the wannabe sun king do whatever he wants, it's a crisis!!

He just wants to fuck up the country enough that it'll be beyond repair by the left by then.

I just hope the left gets strong enough not to have to depend on Melanchon. I hate him as much as Macron. Maybe more.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still... Fair enough. I'm hopeful :)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's great!!

I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.

I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That's https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Great post!

I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

I guess I'm a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I'm wondering if we're, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we're a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

Edit:
Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I'm sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn't of course, but what a blast it would be.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 33 points 3 days ago

Initially I was convinced Biden had the right intentions, and somehow I still like to believe he does. But his political weakness in this conflict is inexcusable, and will hang as a dark cloud over his legacy.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Flipboard's Dot Social is pretty great: @dot_social@flipboard.video

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

It's a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it's an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.

I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it's not what it does best at the moment.

I don't think I'm the target audience of this, and I'm not sure it'll be a success. But I think it's a very interesting and important development anyway.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Probably more realistic, I was just working out of the premise that history would repeat itself.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Little more than four years from now, the insurrectionist crowd will be chanting "hang JD Vance". And JD Vance will chant along.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago

Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?

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Nick Cave - Frogs (2024) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by cabbage@piefed.social to c/music@lemmy.world
 

From Nick Cave's latest album, Wild God.

The song prompted a fan to ask Cave the following:

what makes you decide whether a lyric is great or should be dumped cos it’s utter shit, cos, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, you walk a very fine tightrope between the two, my man.

Which Nick Cave chose to personally answer on his website. It's a fine read.

 

One of the all time greatest songwriters. There's not a single song on his first album (Kristofferson) that is not made for the history books.

Nick Cave recemtly referenced him (and his cleanest dirty shirt) on his newest album (Wild God, song Frogs), in a song that is all about life and death. Seems relevant somehow.

Then I headed back for home
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing
And it echoed through the canyons
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cabbage@piefed.social to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
 

I picked up a Ducky One Mini at a flea market yesterday, and after cleaning it extensively it seems to be working pretty well for the most part. I'm using it for writing and coding, so not having dedicated arrow keys will take some getting used to, but other than that it seems neat enough for the price I paid.

However, the alternative graphic button (on the right side of the space bar) is completely unresponsive. Pressing it just makes no difference at all. I used a tool that maps keyboard presses in Linux (xev), and it showed nothing when Alt Gr was pressed (just like the Fn button), so it seems no signal is being sent from the keyboard to the computer.

It could be that this is due to some setting made by the previous owner, or maybe there's something else going on. Maybe I need to update the firmware. Maybe it's broken. I have no idea.

The back-light behind some of the numerical keys is also disabled or broken, but it doesn't bother me much as I'm not a big fan of back-light anyway.

But if anyone has any suggestions what to try for the alternative graphic key it would be much appreciated! For now I have re-routed right super (Windows button) to be read as Alt Gr, but it's not very convenient when writing Latex and using a lot of curly brackets. :)

 

This song is also definitely not about anything going right now. No, it's a history song about people long, long ago who found themselves trapped on a ship of fools.

In Yiddish with lyrics by Michael Wex.

Geoff Berner is a Canadian musician and songwriter with a background in punk and klezmer, notorious for writing angry accordion songs about being antifascist and/or jewish.

 

Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine.

Looks like Labour is doing what they can to make sure UK politics remains completely fucked even after the end of the Tory rule.

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