Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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“Two economists are walking in a forest” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual
Looking at the network tab while loading a thread, I see you need to include
type_=All.(lemmy-ui sends other parameters too but your example URL works for me with just
tyoe_=Alladded.)
4·1 month agohttps://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/23/fact-check-has-the-netherlands-banned-antifa
tldr
although the motion was voted through, motions are recommendations, rather than legally binding decisions.
This means that, contrary to online claims, the Netherlands has not banned Antifa. The next steps remain in the hands of the government and the cabinet, who are not under any obligation to carry motions through, unless they concern a motion of no confidence.
this is the futo funder
1·1 month agoHere is the paper: Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills (sci-hub pdf link).
It was published in 2017 but only won the Ig Nobel prize this year.
Abstract
Aims: A popular belief is that alcohol improves the ability to speak in a foreign language. The effect of acute alcohol consumption on perceived foreign language performance and actual foreign language performance in foreign language learners has not been investigated. The aim of the current study was to test the effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-rated and observer-rated verbal foreign language performance in participants who have recently learned this language.
Methods: Fifty native German speakers who had recently learned Dutch were randomized to receive either a low dose of alcohol or a control beverage that contained no alcohol. Following the experimental manipulation, participants took part in a standardized discussion in Dutch with a blinded experimenter. The discussion was audio-recorded and foreign language skills were subsequently rated by two native Dutch speakers who were blind to the experimental condition (observer-rating). Participants also rated their own individual Dutch language skills during the discussion (self-rating).
Results: Participants who consumed alcohol had significantly better observer-ratings for their Dutch language, specifically better pronunciation, compared with those who did not consume alcohol. However, alcohol had no effect on self-ratings of Dutch language skills.
Conclusions: Acute alcohol consumption may have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language in people who have recently learned that language.
14·1 month agoGitea has gone open core; it is still free software but its development is controlled by a for-profit company which is developing non-free features. So, Forgejo is the community-run fork of it which people outside the Gitea company are contributing to instead now. You can read more about their divergence here.
you have posted only two comments on lemmy so far, and both are telling people to buy this phone. do you have any affiliation with it, and/or are you planning to continue using your lemmy account solely to encourage people to buy it?
also, since you seem to know about this, i am curious if you can enlighten me: are there any benefits of iodéOS compared with LineageOS which it is a derivative of? i didn’t find a comparison between them on the website.
0·1 month agoimo this (.world link) is a better choice
the guy in the middle is a pro at photobombing
9·2 months ago'oh boy, nazis' - tldr it's about killing nazis
I don’t know who the guy on the right is, but the robot is G.I. Robot so I assume this is a reference to this scene in Creature Commandos episode 3 “Cheers to the Tin Man” where (to the music of Amanda Palmer’s Coin-Operated Boy) he kills a lot of neo-nazis.
(I’ve never seen the show besides that scene and only know about any of this from memes…)
Authorities don’t need to ask Signal for metadata; Signal promises they don’t log any themselves and that is probably true.
But, they outsource their server operation to Jeff Bezos, and then they do some absurd security theater to pretend that cryptography makes it so that the server (Amazon) couldn’t possibly log metadata - which is obviously false.
How to install Linux on a dead badger (written in 2004, might not work with modern distributions)
20·2 months agoThanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that “journal” was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they’re also anti-trans, and they’re gold bugs… and they’re asking tough questions like “do viruses exist” 🤡
I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.
1·2 months agoThis blog post has some details about the bad reporting around this story (claiming they used paper maps, and that they were circling for an hour) but it ultimately does agree that the “some issue with the GPS” reported by the pilot (the post includes radio recordings from the air and again from the ground after landing where the pilot says “GPS issues”) must in fact be some type of GPS interference.
Meanwhile flightradar24 says “Yes, and we’re also saying there is no evidence of spoofing. There are numerous issues that could have affected the crew’s ability to perform a GPS-based approach that aren’t related to jamming or spoofing.”
🤷
the info line contains the answer:
You need to remove Hexchat if you want to remove the end-of-life runtimes it requires.
I regret to inform you that the maintainer wrote in February 2024: This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
If you’re low on disk space you probably want to have everything installed as either user or system, to avoid having some runtimes installed in both.