There’s nuance to this.

Fairy tales, as we know them, are a fairly recent (18th century) invention. The traditional European folktales they were based off of, didn’t include morals, weren’t aimed at children, nor were they intended to be used as teaching tools. More likely, they were stories to be told around campfires or at hearths while sewing, weaving or whatever, and mostly were told amongst adults to amuse each other. Thus the very mature topics and dark humor tone of many traditional tales, specially those that didn’t include children or animal characters.

Stories with morals where usually of the tradition of Aesop’s fables, and more common on academic or philosophy circles as study material. It was Perrault and Grimm’s innovation, popularizing these folk stories by adapting them and mixing in a fable structure and aiming the stories to an audience of the high class, first the high royal courts, then the Victorian aristocracy. This audience were the one’s who emphasized moral rectitude and using the folk stories as teaching aids for children.

Then the 20th century saw the commercialization of fairy tales as stories aimed at children through the rise of bedtime stories literature and Disney’s animated film tradition.

It’s just fun with alliteration. It is not so random if you know Italian, they are basically alliterative puns. Sahur is Indonesian, there are version with several languages who have come up with it in the same spirit as the Italian original ones. Usually accompanied by shitty AI renders, because, well using gen ai images is en vogue.

My friend, sorry to break it to you. But you are the one out of date. Big back and turning Ohio are long gone. Those kids are already on the “I’m too cool to like my childhood things anymore” stage.

I keep all my ebooks neatly categorized in Calibre. I also keep track on Storygraph. I still register what I read once in a while, but don’t bother with any of the reading streak pressure because it causes me anxiety. I love checking once a year and see that, despite the fact that my currently reading list never goes down. My read list is always growing (as well as my to-read list). So I decided to stop worrying and just enjoy whatever it is I’m reading at the moment without pressure.

Check that again. OneDrive is not a backup application, it is a cloud storage application. By default it syncs folders. If you open OneDrive on the web and delete a file there, it will be deleted on the computer on your drive. It’s not backing up your folder, it is replacing it. The internet is filled with testimonies of people failing to understand this basic difference and getting confused about why their files are deleted. Most other cloud services do one way backup by default. MS does a poor job of explaining this behavior and just push for the use of OneDrive blindly.

By default OneDrive comes configured to backup the entire user folder, it overrides the default user structure. It creates a labyrinth of shortcuts. This messes with other applications that expect a default user folder hierarchy, but sometimes it fails to resolve the correct links. You effectively end up with two user folders that coexist on the same symbolic links and are both present in your computer at the same time (different place on the harddrive but same place for the OS). This wouldn’t be a problem if OneDrive were only backing up the folders one way. Unfortunately, it is actually syncing the OneDrive and your folders bidirectionally, and this includes deleting files and folders.

Thus, if another program or another computer associated with your active directory user account messes with the folders at the same time, there exists the possibility that OneDrive confuses your empty user folder, with the virtual user folder. It believes the empty folder structure is the newest and most updated version. Because internally it only has time stamps but it doesn’t store metadata on the procedures. It sees, file existed at 01:33:12 and no longer exists at 01:33:13, it doesn’t know why it doesn’t exist anymore. Now it thinks this computer is outdated and it proceeds to sync, erasing all files without prompt.

I’ve seen this happen at least three times.

Whenever any of this comes up I remember that physics professor’s speech on first day of quantum mechanics that got viral:

“Nobody understands quantum mechanics. The people who came up with it don’t understand it. I will do my best so that by the end of this course you don’t understand it either, and so you can got out to the world and spread our ignorance.”

Or something to that effect.

No, they were dating then later married. She traveled to Spain during world tours, she wasn’t even a Spanish citizen back then. The idea was that Piqué’s lawyer is the one who set up the supposed companies that diverted money to tax havens. They were married, so they shared a lot of income and ventures. She didn’t pay attention and thought that her responsibilities in Spain were covered, but got targeted. Things got worse when it turned out that Piqué was cheating on her, apparently was trying to seize part of her fortune, and ultimately abandoned her with a lot of paperwork hanging from her side of the divorce.

I mean, she is still a rich person, so I want her taxed to highest rate that is legally possible. But she also pays taxes in two other countries and in the two others got investigated and turns out she pays way more tax than she should. Why commit fraud in one country but not the others? The distinguishing factor is the power that Piqué had over her estate as her husband in a very misogynist country that still has feudal holdovers and is still a monarchy. You have no idea how bureaucratic Spanish tax law is.

In the end she is actually being responsible and taking up the penalty with grace. While there are other celebrities who have proven in court that the IRPF lies to collect penalties from people. Reading the court proceedings is really laughable, it reads like a fiction novella rather than a legal document.

She wasn’t avoiding them. It was her then husband, Gerard Piqué. Spanish footballers are notorious tax convicts. She just decided that it wasn’t worth the hassle to fight for it and just paid the penalty as she was literally in the middle of a divorce with him when the issue reached courts. If have had the time and emotional energy to fight the case, she would’ve proven her innocence. But when you are rich it is easier to just pay for the problem to go away.

Of course, but the problem is that it is a waste of time over something that shouldn’t happen in the first place. Our teams are often out in rural areas with spotty internet connections. If a bad sync can wipe their user folders, it takes a good connection to do the rollback with the ICT team hundreds of kilometers away. You can take a wrench out of the gearbox, but it doesn’t mean the gearbox isn’t fucked for a long while during repairs, and the wrench shouldn’t have been thrown in to begin with.

The worst part is that we have to keep working with the neutered OneDrive because MS is shit.

Am I the only one that thinks one drive is cool?

I mean, yes. It is cool until a timestamp error convinces OneDrive to nuke your entire use folder. IT at my organization actually bans the use of OneDrive for whole disk synchronization. We can’t get rid of it because it is just part of the Office and Outlook package, they depend on it for some dumb reason. But, enough people lost work valuable documents, and it consumes so much storage, that we were under a “how to disable OneDrive backup without losing your documents” campaign for several months. It is also an information leak target, that shit sends unencrypted telemetry and compromised our data security model.

Permanent installation for server multiplexer is useful.

KDE plasma has like 90% of the feadures.

Really good 4K+ scans of film made with HDR in mind can look even better than that. That video demo has some amateurish lighting here and there. Hollywood level professional lighting and production looks extraordinary if tone mapping was properly done during digital scan. Right now there’s a lot of bad quality HDR and sketchy OLED panels around, though.

Oh dear Winston, don’t you love big brother?

You are the Neo in The Matrix, a prisoner of the struggle you are so thoroughly convinced you chose to fight in. The Ghorman protester running in shouting your rebellion at the Empire’s beat into the plaza.

So completely brainwashed that even the concept of winning the fight frightens and freezes you.

Rebels who admire their oppressors make marketers salivate.

That’s you.

Companies secretly love their software being pirated, in a marketing sense. It means they’re the most popular option. Microsoft’s attempts to stop Windows piracy were gestures to keep legal protections. So are adobe’s. It means they still get to keep the monopoly over the industry, even if the people pirating it don’t immediately give them money. It forces corporate employers to shell out big budgets for subscriptions. It means freelancers have to acquire licenses if they want to work with the big contractors. Every person who pirates their software to learn it, is another fish feeding their stranglehold on the graphics industry. It means they get to dictate what is the standard and force billion dollar companies to conform to them and not the other way around. It’s a blight. Piracy keeps the status quo.

It’s not so much a reward. It’s just the natural outcome when your intent is to stop crime, and not to be cruel with punishments. In most countries it is still culturally taboo, but treating people well is the first step to stopping them from committing crimes. Mental health attention is only possible when you work with person who is being treated with basic human dignity. Antisocial personalities of course are an exception who commit crimes and trespass social norms out of different reasons than common criminal but they aren’t actually that frequent or common. Crime is a complex multifactor issue. More often than not it is a mix of unmet needs, opportunity and the belief that they can get away with it. If you fulfill the needs of the person in a socially acceptable and healthy way then reduce the open opportunities for crime, you can stop crime before it happens. Punishment and its harshness, on the other hand, have absolutely no impact on crime rates.

I’m having flashbacks to having to explain to idiots that one large pizza is way more pizza than two medium pizzas.

Is this one of those Arch things that I’m too immutable to relate to?

That meme has always irked me. Squidward is dishing attitude towards the firh ordering the only thing they have on menu. It is not like they make anything other than crab patties.