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wulfeet··on The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
I remember talking to a Japanese coworker about some pain I was experiencing, and they asked if it was like zukizuki or - some other word.
wulfeet··on Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany
Not necessarily.

While slave labour is cheap, at scale a combine harvester is even cheaper.

But it's not just the raw production cost that matters. If you add a 200% levy, then ofcourse you risk tipping the edge back over to the black market.

wulfeet··on Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany
I too have never tried cannabis, and I too support legalisation.

Not because of the effects it has on the consumer, but because the effects it has on the producer.

It depends on where you are, but where I am - the UK - the producers are primarily enslaved. A fact that is rarely talked about.

Recently there was a big drug bust. The headlines all described how many dogs were freed - less than twenty. But deep in the articles behind euphemistic language you could read that one and a half thousand enslaved people were also freed.

wulfeet··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
That was a fun read :-)
wulfeet··on Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
I've been using a M1 for well over a year, and until about two weeks ago I didn't know it had a notch.

I don't follow the tech press, who I'm sure discussed it a great length when it was released. And I'm not personally invested in the Mac, it's owned by my employer.

So I didn't notice the notch until my cursor disappeared while scrolling across the top of the screen.

wulfeet··on The Mana World Classic – Open-Source MMORPG
I had my first negative experience contributing to open source with Mana World.

I thought that there were too few quests, so I wanted to add some. I was struggling compile code or getting the server to run or something like that. When I asked for help in the forum, I got a rude response mocking my technical abilities. It was completely demoralising and I stopped trying to make more quests.

For years, that was my last experience with contributing to open source.

wulfeet··on Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police
2015 is not pre-austerity.
wulfeet··on Mod_blog: A Blogging Engine in C
What's it written in?
wulfeet··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
Jetbrain does have community editions that are open source.
wulfeet··on Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released
The game is free. It's open source and runs on everything.