Also, for people using some Readarr derivative with Hardcover metadata, how much of a pain is it to migrate from Goodreads to Hardcover (and is it worth it)?

Calibre-Web has always been interesting to me. Can it be deployed in such a way as to keep a Calibre content server also accessible? (e.g. for sync with the desktop app/Koreader/etc.)

Yeah, unfortunately. Apparently it was hell to maintain, especially the metadata server and all.

It was never about skin colour though, was it?

I sometimes wonder if I’m wrong about myself, maybe I am racist in some way but am blind to it. How would I even know?

My stance is that everyone is at least a little racist, in some way. Racism is such an essential part of society and culture, probably almost everywhere by now, that no one can avoid it entirely. However, we can try to recognize it in ourselves and other people and minimize it, and that’s what really makes the difference, the end goal being to eradicate racism entirely (also apply this to all kinds of -isms and -phobias you can think of).

Maybe there are people who have cleansed themselves entirely of racism. In my view, that’s comparable to achieving some sort of enlightened or transcendent state, which most of us can only aspire to.

Was reminded of this article if you’ve got some time to read

And so do the “avoid nuclear at all costs” people

And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at .ml and never channel it into their actual codebase.

When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I’ve already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that’s completely tangential) that I couldn’t do it.

Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn’t. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they’re trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn’t do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).

but why would I believe that?

No inherent reason to believe that, but seems like lying about this should be illegal. The belief is in Meta’s compliance with the law rather than in its ethics, which, according to these claims, is unfortunately an unfounded belief.

Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.

Right-handed people writing right-to-left languages (there are a lot of them) can sympathize, I guess

I guess they’re trained on words, not numbers

I don’t quite get what you mean, could you elaborate further?

JREs, man providers, *roff, …

Arch does indeed have a special mechanism for Java, but Debian and Fedora have a general-purpose system (the same system actually)

Is Pacman still missing a proper alternatives system?

Not from this instance as well, but I think the distinction would be as to whether you think that Israel should exist at the expense of the Palestinians (not just Gaza and the West Bank, but the refugee crisis dating back to 1948 and possibly before).

If you recognize that both Israel and Palestine are already here, and that both represent national identities (not necessarily countries) that are, at present, as legitimate as any other one (regardless of their history), I think that’s just pragmatic and wouldn’t make you a Zionist.

Feel free to correct me!

Try that argument with your local topologist

relatively easy

Very incomplete list of things about English which are not easy:

• The sheer amount of vowel phonemes
  • French and German do “a lot of vowels” properly
  • Sometimes they’re diphthongs
  • Complete with arcane allophony
• Stress timing ⇒ vowel reduction, weak forms
• Adjective order???
  • Not actually difficult, it’s just weird that it even exists.
• Sequence of tenses
  • Actually might be worse than Latin
• The verbal system is messy, identical forms can specify different tenses/aspects/moods and can be treated differently by the syntax accordingly
  • There are somewhere between 2 and 12 tenses, and I’m genuinely not sure which is it.
  • English verbs are very expressive, but the forms are mandatory. Other languages also have a lot of markers, but they’re often optional.
• Morphology is pretty easy for anyone who speaks a language other than the famously analytic Chinese, I guess.
• Not technically a part of the spoken language, but spelling (at least three spelling systems not even trying to masquerade as one + GVS, also grammatical gender but only sometimes, e.g. blond/blonde).

Some things are not difficult, but I find them endearing:

• English is really afraid of hiatus and will do anything to avoid it
• The GVS messed things up so hard that most English speakers (outside of Scotland and parts of England and Ireland) can’t even borrow monophthongs properly.
• Do-support: to negate a verb, you need another verb, but the new verb has exactly zero meaning (but some verbs don’t require do-support).

Not contesting the practicality though, and I agree that “dumb” is meaningless when it comes to language.

It’s true that there is a very large transfer between violin and viola, but just the experience of playing multiple instruments, even if this similar, increases one’s value by a lot. Depending on the situation wherever you happen to be, demand for violists can be much greater than for violinists, so playing both rather than the violin alone is a big boost.

Any law people please correct me, but this must be less of a problem in civil law in comparison to common law, right? As all decisions are derived primarily from the relevant codes

Maybe impetus

cum impetu, magno cum impetu, summo cum impetu