i like how #esperanto has a word "ulo" that functions a lot like the informal word for a person (so, like "dude" or "guy"), but also isn't gendered

cynicism is absolutely poisonous to politics

if you don't expect any of your local politicians to stand for anything, and just treat them all as interchangeable corrupt douchebags, the end result is going to be an environment where corruption and cronyism runs amok

and we already got plenty of that, alright?

i don't want every country's politics to turn into a variation of early 20th century u.s., where instead of running on a consistent set of ideals or at least practical concerns, parties just draft random communities in order to get their votes (apparently, back then you'd have, as an example, the democrats in some city pledging support to the local irish community and the republicans to the polish community, and the only reason to vote for a party would be so it would benefit your community specifically)

so, what alternatives to the nvim-treesitter plugin exist now that it's archived? and isn't neovim supposed to have built-in tree-sitter support? #neovim

i once again express my belief that, much like a lot of places have laws forbidding employers from firing someone due to absence if said absence was due to a hospitalization, there should also be similar laws for cases of absence due to being arrested/detained by law enforcement, at least if said person wasn't convicted of a crime at the end

i have a question for speakers of different languages regarding how the software you are using expresses the concept of "an action is currently happening" (examples in english: "Downloading updates..." / "Saving report.doc, please wait...")

so far i see the following options, please correct me or provide with additional ones, or info on languages i have not mentioned

#german / #deutsch: passive voice with phrases such as "wird heruntergeladen" (is being downloaded)

#french / #français: nouns corresponding to verbs, such as "lecture" (reading), "téléchargement" (down-/uploading) and "enregistrement" (saving)

#russian / #русский: likewise verbal nouns, such as "чтение" (reading), "загрузка" (loading/uploading), "сохранение" (saving)

#italian / #italiano: verbal nouns ending in -aggio

#japanese / #日本語: verbs ending in 中

#l10n #i18n #translation

iel mi ne legis la komencon de dokumento de "Komputeko" ĝis nun

ĝi parolas pri ĝusta tradukado de anglaj tekstoj, kaj kongruas kun mia komprenado tute



uzu imperativon por tekstoj, kiuj adresas al uzanto, kaj infinitivon por agoj, kiujn faras la programo


uzu nomusklon anstataŭ Titolan Usklecon


"ŝargi" aplikiĝas por datumoj, kiuj estas necesaj por funkciado, kaj "ŝarĝi" por tiuj, kiuj necesas por uzanto (aŭ neniu)

#komputeko #esperanto

they should invent some kind of thing where i get to hug and/or cuddle with my friends

if there's one thing that i'd want killed in politics, it's the expectation that any liberal or left-wing politician is still held fully responsible for whatever happened (or might have happened) under their (or "their") rule decades ago, whereas any conservative blunders are forgotten near-instantly

trump's first term was a disaster he actively caused, and somehow that was forgotten enough that biden's disappointing four years suddenly made enough people go "you know what, trump was fine actually, let's elect him again"

whereas any bad move by a politician on the other side is remembered for decades

some people still think the democrats hate video games because, back in the 1990s, joe lieberman and hillary clinton saw that video games were not rated the same way movies are, with nintendo, sega and other publishers basically coming up with their own inconsistent private censorship rules and rating systems, and threatened the industry with regulation if they wouldn't get their shit together

the latter part is what happened, when the video game industry created the ESRB, a private board that hands out ratings for north american releases of games -- basically the same way the MPAA, another private board, rates movies

ultimately, this was a good thing for gaming (including players who like violence, sex jokes and characters with boobs), because instead of nintendo forcing all games to be squeaky-clean or sega having to hide blood behind a cheat code, now there was a single consistent system that made the parents' question of "should i buy this game for my little timmy?" easy to answer

and now with online distribution, it's possible (and easy) to make and sell games without an ESRB rating at all -- platforms like steam and itch can show an ESRB rating for a game if one exists, but they now also have their own private content warning system that works internationally and provides more detailed information

but nooooo, instead we had gamergaters go "we can't let hillary clinton win or she'll remove sexy women from gaming!!", all because of a position she held as a bargaining tactic 20 years before (you might notice that the united states, as a country with a tradition of free speech, has very few restrictions on violence and sex in regards to books, movies and music, the idea that gaming would suddenly get a government censorship board even though most other entertainment industries were allowed to self-regulate would be absurd, that was the goal in the first place)

even though, on this specific issue, hillary clinton already won, and that victory made things better for you and other sexy video game women appreciators specifically