Well, when I can just do $EDITOR file…

That blue dot is like quantum fluctuations.
Except that quantum fluctuations only have enough of a chance to get bigger when in a void.

I started that mainly because it felt weird that a comment I wrote, had a blue up, when I didn’t do it.
Now I consider upvoting something as a way to emphasise the post/comment and not upvoting all my comments makes me show a point when I do upvote something that I wrote.
It is really just for myself though, as a single upvote doesn’t really matter and others are not really seeing if I am the one that has upvoted it. You can call it a compulsion, I suppose.

Trans people are like witches that hand out curses that cause harm? I think your skepticism alarm should be going off.

When I said that - some person told me that they actually work - I didn’t mean to say that I believed that part.

Although I understand that I didn’t mention that multiple times in capital words (because I didn’t feel the need to), just because some of the poor trans people banded with some poor eunuchs to make a cult, of which I have a bad impression, that doesn’t mean, I have said impression for trans people all over the world.
I was mostly just giving a list of past events, and they most definitely don’t tell my current thoughts, which I feel, the last 2 paragraphs should have explained well enough.

I have once even gone pretty far into explaining how important I consider, not to have prejudice, which even got quite a bit of backlash and a ban from a community. So I am not going to put the effort into reiterating it over here.

But of course, anyone may feel free to label me as anti-trans or whatever anyone may feel like and I may feel free to consider them an unreasonable person.

Yeah, but on my instance, anything you post automatically has a +1 from yourself, which you must have removed.

I didn’t downvote my post, I just un-upvoted it. It is possible to downvote it and that would give me a -1 from myself.

The first thing that came to mind after reading the title was, “uninstall PulseAudio”.
Jokes aside, it could be some setting of the DE you are using. If the audio output device is detected as headphones, there tend to be settings that reduce the master volume on certain events.
I remember KDE Plasma used to do that. Every time I switched the output device (or was it when I unplugged and re-plugged it?), it set the headphone volume to 60%.

That’s it!
Been so many years since I last read/heard that word that all I could recall was “stillets”, which is not a word and looking it up only got me to “stilettos”.

Did you downvote your own post?! The scores are +0-1 when I’m seeing it (and the-1 isn’t me).

Considering there was a 17 hours gap, it’s quite possible that someone had the time to read and downvote it before you saw it.
And I get it, there are quite a few people who don’t like people that don’t perform fake values.

One of the depictions of unreasonable trans people was a video that came up in the beginning of the this trend of trans people coming out + a lot of people getting medical treatments related to their gender identity.
It was some tall, brown coloured, athletically muscular “man” (because he looked mostly like a man, apart from the lipstick, which might as well have been just a man wearing lipstick, to those around him) loudly complaining about something in a restaurant, while the staff tried to de-escalate. One of the staff members then calls him (her?) “Sir”, to which (s)he then became melodramatic. Although the chap didn’t end up telling others what (s)he wanted to be called, until the very end of the video.

Now, it might have been someone with a genuine problem, that was just not captured in the video, but could also have been someone just trying to gather hatred towards a community that hadn’t even been formed yet.

But of course, I have had a depiction of trans(-ish?) people long before the trend started on the US internet. It is of groups of people (called “ladyboys” by English reporters, but there has been a colloquial term) who are often hermaphrodites, but could also be eunuchs.
The story about them I was told as a child, was that they come in groups during marriages, asking for exorbitant (but somewhat payable) amounts of money and ‘make a scene’ if not paid. The scene they make would be stuff like public nudity, with obscene looking displays, or going around cursing people (which some person told me that they actually work).

To me, that looked like just some begging+harassment ring. Add to that, an anecdote of one my relatives having been casually molested in public as a child by them, made me think pretty lowly of them.

Those groups seem to have died down now (I think?), which maybe partially because the Government officially recognised the third gender (quite a while ago actually, since I see it in govt. forms) and apart from them getting access to education (the Govt. funded kind, meant for poor people, because if one is rich, being in a minority is just a minor inconvenience as far as “means” go), also getting some reservation quota for certain menial jobs, if they were to not find work normally.

And then there was the depiction of a hermaphrodite in the pretty popular cartoon (anime) “Kochikame”, which made me think that Japan had been ahead in this kind of thing, as the depicted person was normally working as an officer.

Unless you are someone exceptionally good at walking with long leg-sticks (I don’t know the appropriate name for that) and have someone to make an over-engineered leg-stick for this purpose.

You usually won’t find it hard to avoid offending people with reasonable expectations. Just don’t be a dick, be respectful instead.

But there can be unreasonable in all groups. You just haven’t met an unreasonable trans person yet.
Although I haven’t either and the depictions I know of might just have been another one of those social stunts, there most probably are a few out there.

Usually, I assume darker blue to be deeper waters.

That would be nice.
But then you get another outside government to come and annex them.

Ideally you^[1] have to manage the 2 parameters:

• profitability for anyone trying to annex the country
  • Your military power needs to scale with GDP and exploitable geographical resources to protect from outside threats
  • But the more money/power the government gets, the greater the internal threat (corruption mostly)
• QoL of citizens

Kinda reminds me of a planet in the game Endless Sky which had rich people go to it for retiring and the only other people were the staff at the resort planet.

I am not sure which point you are answering to.
COuld you please specify.

I have been suggested alternative programs to install to work with Ctrl+r, which are supposed to work better, but I just end up using kwrite ~/.bash_history when Ctrl+r fails.

Yeah, it does tend to be hard to determine when to use () {} [] etc.
Even after I RTFM and used those in scripts multiple times, I tend to forget it by the time I need to implement something next.

In case of Arch, for bash, you have the bash-completions package, apart from which some program packages install their own bash completions.
Then there is also zsh-completions for zsh.

I remember having to install them separately, but maybe you know some package group that did it for you.

Another point is, the reason Google’s AI is able to identify CSAM is because it has that in its training data, flagged as such.

In that case, it would have detected the training material as ~100% match.

I don’t get though, how it ended up being openly available as if it were properly tagged, they would probably exclude it from the open-sourced data. And now I see it would also not be viable to have an open-source, openly scrutinisable AI deployment for CSAM detection for the same reason.

And while some governmental body got a lot of backlash for trying to implement such an AI thing on chat stuff, Google gets to do so all it wants because it’s E-Mail/GDrive and all on their servers and you can’t expect privacy.

Considering how many such stories of people having problems due to this system is coming up, is there any statistic of legitimate catches using this model? I suspect not, because why would anyone use Google services for this kind of stuff?

The abbreviation sounds like some kind of exotic Surface to Air Missile lol

It does.
Somehow acronyms just end up sounding cool. Guess we should just use the full form. That would be better.

The poo dropped right on someone’s car.

And here I was considering petitioning for an open source UPI app.
Turns out, the Government is just another company now.