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Left SJW due to inconsistent federation policy and not putting up federating / defederating Hexbear up to community vote like others before.

ex @misk@lemm.ee moved to: @misk@sopuli.xyz

  • How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time

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  • I'm not judging someone who read the entire series or those who did it multiple times. People are free to enjoy what they want. Regardless of that, doing 8 months multiplied by even 2-3 times is a considerable chunk of a human lifespan. It explains takes like "I don't like the adaptation because it made too many changes" and it needs to be put into perspective. I've elaborated more on this in my other comment.

  • How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time

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  • "This series is 1:1 replica of a book" and "this series is only taking a passing inspiration from original books" are merely facts and a starting point to set expectations before moving on to describe and judge an adaptation. It's okay to judge by comparing original to adaptation but "this is not a faithful adaptation, therefore it is bad" does not help in evaluating quality of derived work.

  • How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time

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  • You've read 14 book series multiple times? That's enormous investment that's probably setting unrealistic expectations.

    I've only started the first one to die out of boredom quickly so I can't imagine repeatedly getting through a slog first few books supposedly are. My girlfriend read everything after the first season and once she was finished she did a re-watch which she enjoyed, in part because it's different. Second season has higher production value but seems to be confusing with the amount of changes so far. I'm following along because the themes are interesting and there's nothing so bad that would discourage me.

    Even without reading everything it's fair to assume that this couldn't be a faithful adaptation. They'll likely have to merge more story lines, characters, then remove some things entirely and it'll still be a challenge to fit this into amount of seasons that's reasonable to produce. The Expanse did plenty of that but it still had roughly a season per book, and that was with a book series that Bezos personally enjoys.

  • Paris officially the first city in Europe to ban e-scooters. What are the rules in other countries?

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  • I guess it was up to e-scooter renting companies to come up with some kind of geofencing of reasonable parking but they failed to self-regulate which led to everyone being pissed off about them. If those companies were concerned about the spaces they littered they'd probably be still in business.

    It's a good sign that abusing good faith is punished with such severity.

  • Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

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  • I agree that it's more cybersecruity related but given that this incident led to a food product recall there is a bit of a more broad appeal so I think fits this community.

  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Paris officially the first city in Europe to ban e-scooters. What are the rules in other countries?

    www.euronews.com /next/2023/09/01/electric-scooters-what-are-the-rules-across-europe-and-where-are-injuries-highest
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    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

    techcrunch.com /2023/09/01/lidl-recalls-paw-patrol-snacks-after-website-on-packaging-displayed-porn/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

    techcrunch.com /2023/09/01/lidl-recalls-paw-patrol-snacks-after-website-on-packaging-displayed-porn/

  • Grouped Communities question

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  • No idea, I tried out Bean while it was in open test flight and was confused when the app dev went ahead with advertising this feature once it went paid. It's definitely a standout among other Lemmy clients but unfortunately it's half baked. I remained subscribed to this community to keep an eye out for when it is properly implemented.

  • Grouped Communities question

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  • It doesn't work and it's rather misleading to have as a paid feature until it does.

  • wiadomosci @szmer.info
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Rząd płaci za KPO. Pieniędzy z UE nie ma, wypłaca je Polski Fundusz Rozwoju

    www.rp.pl /polityka/art39031481-rzad-placi-za-kpo-pieniedzy-z-ue-nie-ma-wyplaca-je-polski-fundusz-rozwoju
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux

    linuxjedi.co.uk /2023/08/24/making-amiga-iff-thumbnails-work-in-linux/
  • Trees @lemmy.world
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    US health department recommends looser restrictions on cannabis

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-us-canada-66667191
  • Skeptic @sh.itjust.works
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Dog autism? 37% of US dog owners buy into anti-vaccine nonsense

    arstechnica.com /health/2023/08/dog-autism-37-of-us-dog-owners-buy-into-anti-vaccine-nonsense/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Google kills Pixel Pass without ever upgrading subscriber’s phones

    www.theverge.com /2023/8/30/23851107/google-graveyard-pixel-pass-subscription-phone-upgrades
  • Movies and TV Shows @lemmy.film
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Our Flag Means Death is back for season 2 in October

    www.theverge.com /23852544/our-flag-means-death-season-2-date-trailer-hbo-max

  • Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran

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  • I don't believe critique of JK Rowling is left wing extremism although book burning as a form of consumer boycott seems to be rather counterproductive.

  • Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran

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  • How about banning public book burning in general? Not a lot of good memories related to that.

    Want to keep burning books? Have waste collection services provide a pickup point. Then they can do it in some industrial incinerator so you'll have your book burned but without providing media with an easy outrage (unless you wanted outrage?).

    Book burning seems to be a tool of right wing extremism, even when it's used against right wing extremists of some other kind, there's very little benefit to the society.

    Also obligatory, fuck organized religion.

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’

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  • Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’

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  • 9/6 is the PS5 date. Still no word from Larian on the Mac date - the last I heard was when they originally announced it would be delayed, and that they didn't want to give a date and not meet it.

    I just checked Wikipedia which I think I got it from and it states 9/6 but the link cited as source doesn't state it anywhere.

    grumble

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’

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  • I was similarly disappointed but IIRC it was delayed to September 6th.

    I wonder how will it run in Act 3 since DX11 is so much more performant than Vulkan and I assume they use either MoltenVK or straight Metal. It's likely the reason for the delay.

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’

    www.theverge.com /2023/8/24/23844418/baldurs-gate-3-xbox-release-series-x-s-cross-save-split-screen

  • How I competed in Europe's first ever Extreme Relaxing Championships

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  • You're already trying too hard but are also not extreme enough to win. Sorry.

  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    How I competed in Europe's first ever Extreme Relaxing Championships

    www.euronews.com /culture/2023/08/24/how-i-competed-in-europes-first-ever-extreme-relaxing-championships
  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-66599733
  • wiadomosci @szmer.info
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Zabraknie 40 tys. nauczycieli, a resort min. Czarnka uważa, że jest "wspaniale". "No to poczekajmy do września"

    www.tokfm.pl /Tokfm/7,103087,30106814,w-szkolach-zabraknie-40-tys-nauczycieli-a-mein-uwaza-ze-jest.html
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    The History of Windows 2.0

    www.abortretry.fail /p/the-history-of-windows-20

  • Poland's leader says Russia's moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security

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  • There's an election in Poland in 2 months and PiS is campaigning on military security so take everything they say with a grain of salt.

  • Target of European Space Debris Removal Mission Is Itself Hit by Space Debris

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  • Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel

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  • I think it's just the first step since VBA is in a dire need of a replacement.

    Around the time Office 365 rolled out and replaced Office 2023 at my old job we've had a crapload of old VBA tools just refuse to work. Those tools were in use for 10-15 years sometimes with barely any maintenance required.

    Then with O365 some calls to certain 3rd party libraries resulted in Excel crashing without any single error message, stack, nothing. At that time everyone understood they need to get off that ship ASAP, corporate policies got super strict on end user created stuff. PowerBI and Power Automate are not there to replace it and I think MS feels threatened.

  • Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel

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  • You don't need to convince me web is currently at risk of repeat of what we had in late 90s. It doesn't really have many similarities to what's happening here because corporate entities are in almost complete power over JS interpreters/compilers due to how web browsers are in position to capture market.

    What Microsoft does here is adding another scripting language to Excel because VBA is outdated shitshow that creates enormous barrier of entry for millions of people that could get way more out of their flagship product. There is a genuine benefit to Microsoft and Excel users to add Python scripting.

    Python is a general purpose / glue language for countless useful libraries and APIs. Excel will be one of many big fishes in that pond, among Tensorflow by Google, PyTorch by Meta and plenty of others. There's nothing to be gained from breaking Python here. There's also no room to strong arm non-corporate part of Python world into anything because we're not married to any particular implementation.

    Microsoft, like most big corporations, is Inherently evil, but not every single thing they do is evil. I've worked in enough big corporations to know that they're so disorganized that you should look at what particular departament does because left hand doesn't really know what right hand does. Excel team has been incredibly customer facing and deserves benefit of the doubt.

  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Frans Timmermans resigns from key EU Commission job in bid to become next Dutch PM

    www.euronews.com /my-europe/2023/08/22/frans-timmermans-resigns-from-key-eu-commission-job-in-bid-to-become-next-dutch-pm
  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Penguin at Edinburgh Zoo promoted to Major General in Norway army

    www.euronews.com /2023/08/22/penguin-promoted-to-3rd-highest-rank-in-norway-army

  • Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel

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  • You do realize that in 2020 Microsoft hired Guido van Rossum who then resigned from Python steering committee elections?

    How would you even embrace, extend & extinguish an insanely popular programming language? For what purpose?

  • Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

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  • There's a caveat. Most countries will heavily regulate access to limited resources, for example radio frequency bands. SpaceX is occupying defined orbit which means it's perfectly reasonable to ensure society benefits from this privilege.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

    www.newyorker.com /magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon, Roscosmos says

    www.euronews.com /next/2023/08/20/russias-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-into-moon-roscosmos-says
  • worldnews @sh.itjust.works
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    US, Japan and South Korea agree to boost security ties at Camp David summit

    www.euronews.com /2023/08/19/us-japan-and-south-korea-agree-to-boost-security-ties-at-camp-david-summit
  • Europe @feddit.de
    misk @sh.itjust.works

    Drone attack hits building in central Moscow

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-66541027