Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.

Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn’t that much larger. It’s a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.

I’d say it still counts as diurnal, unless you’re actually sitting completely in the dark (and yes, the screen counts as a light source) Ü

Also, as someone who also is awake most nights, I get the impression that it’s not particular healthy, i.e. is in conflict with our biology.

All other things being equal, eyes specialized on daylight activity will just be better at the kinds of intricacies needed for shaping the tools, collecting the right materials etc., mostly because night vision is pretty much greyscale for mammals. And would humans even be as likely to start using fire if they could see in the dark? It’s obviously still useful for preparing food, but IDK that I’d choose to place a beacon of light and smoke (smell) in the night if I could see without it.

I’d assume that humans used tools long before they started using fire, because making fire is far more involved than using simple tools. Though this might actually be worth looking up.

Tool use and being nocturnal are kind of a bad fit, so it’s hard to believe that humans would have evolved in a recognizable form if they had been nocturnal.

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I’d want to be as far away from US for-profit companies as possible, and Fedora is (afaik) the upstream for Red Hat’s commercial offerings. Though if Red Hat is turning full evil, Linux has a big problem anyway, considering that (afaik) they employ most of the people who (are paid to) develop the linux kernel, systemd and gnome.

Either way, replacing Microsoft with Red Hat (if the EU ends up using Red Hat’s support in some way) seems kind of unnecessary, considering that SUSE and Ubuntu are both European.

In 2025, Hansson published a blog post[30] expressing support for far-right British activist Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests. In response, members of the Ruby on Rails community called for his removal from project governance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson#Right-wing_politics_and_controversy

This is apparently also a big part of why the Ruby Gems controversy happened, one of its sponsors pulled out because they didn’t want to be associated with far righters, and then Shopify made its move to fill the gap and do a takeover.

I can’t quite imagine that the people on Omarchy’s team are unaware of this.

Well, have fun with your far right distro. I’m not going to trust such a central part of my life like my PC’s operating system with someone who is aligned with people who commit racist violence. Might as well send Trump my email password.

Hadn’t heard of Omarchy, sounds interesting …

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH*

Oh No

(Let’s be real, I’d never actually use an Arch derivative. Maybe worth checking out to steal the config.)

*the Ruby on Rails guy

Really nice list, though. e.g. I didn’t know that KaOS is completely its own thing and also doesn’t use systemd.

You can do that, but fediverse and threadiverse (Mastodon and Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin) are very different kinds of websites and it will lead to unexpected weirdness. Best to make a separate account for each type of thing (i.e. one for the twitter-like experience, one for the reddit-like, one for the instagram-like etc.).

Whether you use the same identity (e.g. same username on Mastodon and Piefed, linking your Mastodon profile in your Piefed profile etc.) for the whole fediverse is a matter of taste.

Larian is from Belgium and made Divinity: Original Sin and Baldur’s Gate 3!

If you like adventures, check out Daedalic’s “Edna and Harvey” and “Deponia” series.

Didn’t work for me anyway, though that might just be the dozens of addons in my Firefox browser.

TBF the video is in Polish and doesn’t even have English subtitles. Still a dick move to not link the original, though.

These aren’t “Donuts” btw. “Pączki” are more similar to German Berliner/Krapfen, since they don’t have a hole and are filled with jam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pączki

This is the description of the video, translated with deepl (sorry, I don’t speak a word of Polish):

The calculation was simple. One doughnut from Lidl costs 9 groszy and has 440 kcal. 133 doughnuts from Lidl weigh 10 kg and have a calorific value of… 18.5 MJ/kg, which is… exactly the same as wood briquettes. However, my doughnuts cost PLN 12, and the briquettes cost PLN 19. What did this data show? Check it out!

Thanks for linking! I don’t speak a lick of Polish, but it was interesting nontheless. I would have thought these kinds of sweets would contain too much water to burn well, especially if you stack them up like that. Wish he’d shown the residue after it’s burned out. Do they burn cleanly, is his oven caked with caramel now? Did some of the “donuts” turn into round, charred bricks?

Early Dutch was actually a Middle German dialect that had some elements of Low German, there was basically no difference between the dialect that was/is spoken in the German town of Kleve and the Dutch across the border, and the Kleve dialect was/is just another in a gradient of similar dialects in the area. And yes, High German is distinct from Low German, but Low German is not less German than High German; if anything, today’s Standard German is mostly based on Middle German dialects such as Obersächsisch (Upper Saxon, unrelated to the (proto-)Low German-speaking Saxons), with some pronounciation elements from both Low German and High German.

Calling Standard German “Hochdeutsch”, though common in colloquial German, is a misnomer and doesn’t really correspond to the linguistic categories of Low, Middle and High German.

When is EU5 set? It’s not really wrong in like the 13th century (to the extent that “German” exists at all, rather than being a collection of related languages with wildly varying mutual intelligibility).

The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren’t for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn’t really that great.

Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.

You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.

Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.