I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the first book of the Expanse series. I haven't watched the TV series, since I wanted to dive into the books without previous knowledge.

I'm using Tusky, I switched to it some months ago from the official Mastodon app; but I don't remember exactly the missing feature that forced me to switch ahahah

Anyway I am really liking Tusky, it looks modern, clean, fast and personally I did not find any relevant bugs in it.

I'm reading "So You Want to Be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander and "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson.

I also have "Needful Things" by Stephen King and "The Great Hunt" (The Wheel of Time book 2) by Robert Jordan sitting at roughly 50%, but they currently are in pause; unfortunately reading more than 2 books simultaneously is difficult if you also have to work.

Pop_OS on both laptop and desktop, since it has integrated nvidia graphic drivers and handles them without too much hassle. Before switching to Pop_OS I used to use Fedora for many years.

Yes, we do.

"Il/lo/la/i/gli/le" instead of "the", the precise article is chosen taking in consideration gender and plurality. We even have elliptic forms with " l' ," for words starting with a vowel.

Then we have "un/uno/una" instead of "a". Again elliptic form "un' " for feminine words starting with a vowel.

Italian here 🤌

Is that an OCaml reference/joke?

My first Internet connection was based on GPRS and I remember images taking ages to load and loading in chunks. Moreover the connection kept interfering with the surround audio system and sometimes I would hear noises similar to the dial up modems.

I also remember the first times I tried using eMule (is it still up and running?): I was searching for the video song "Elevation" by U2 but I was unaware of rule 34; you can imagine what I actually downloaded.

Aren't voice and video calls (basically VoIP) what Turn (coturn) is supposed to support?

https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.41/turn-howto.html

I just started this series this year by picking up Going Postal, which I finished something like a month ago. I liked it a lot and as my "gateway drug" into the Discworld, I think I will always have good memories of it.

I agree, I've always used sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade and flatpak update on Pop OS and never used the pop shop.

They revoked the "English only" rule in August. Source.

La notizia non è per nulla positiva, ma (senza offesa) trovo cringe la maggior parte dei commenti finora visti in questo thread; mi ricordano il tipico atteggiamento dell'adolescente arrogante e pretenzioso che crede di essere super intelligente, considerando gli altri tutti degli idioti e co---oni. Dalle serie, usando un detto, "sono tutte pu---ne, tranne mia sorella, mia madre e mia figlia"; non mi sembra il migliore degli atteggiamenti.

@[email protected] @[email protected] anziché considere tutti gli altri come un "cancro" (semicit.) e credere che siano tutti utOnti, non sarà la tematica un pelino più articolata? Personalmente penso che da un lato ci siano aziende che stanno sfruttando i punti di debolezza di molti utenti in questa nuova economia dell'attenzione, dall'altro c'è effettivamente una fetta di utenti senza una adeguata "tech literacy", ma non necessariamente perché scemi; semplicemente forse sono stati risucchiati nel mondo digitale troppo velocemente, senza aver attraversato questo mondo "per stadi" e senza avere il tempo di informarsi di volta in volta sulle novità e nuove tech. Penso a chi ha scoperto Facebook senza prima essersi fatto le ossa sui forum in phpbb o su blog vari e MySpace, alle nuove gen che magari non sanno che oltre al semplice "mi connetto al wifi", esiste una distinzione fra modem, router e switch.

Sia chiaro che non voglio dire che la mia analisi sia QUELLA giusta, vi voglio semplicemente suggerire un modo di pensare che non colpevolizza e non offende il 90% della popolazione, cosa che fra l'altro vi renderebbe più ostico comunicare con questa popolazione senza risultare antipatici e saccenti.

Hi, I'm a full stack dev at work who likes to read nonfiction (but also scifi and fantasy, although that's offtopic here) as one of the many hobbies. I don't have a specific nonfiction genre I'm interested in, I usually read stuff that I find interesting in a particular moment, although I tend towards science, politics and a little bit of self-help.

Some of my favourites nonfiction books are "Atomic habits" by James Clear, "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

There are a ton of good content creators I follow, mostly in the edutainment field; I'll post three of them (the first three that came up in my mind) for the YouTube and Podcast category

YouTube:

• CGPGrey
• Kurzgesagt
• Veritasium

Podcasts:

• Hello Internet
• Writing Excuses
• If Books Could Kill

Yup, I think you can do that on Tusky by clicking on the human avatar with the plus icon on the right corner of this picture (you can also silence topics with other buttons)

Me too, if I subscribe to communities in other instances, most of the time I see a different number of comments and posts here on lemmy.ml.

Right now I am reading "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling and before this one I finished "On Writing and Worldbuilding vol 1" by Timothy Hickson, which was very interesting even though I'm not a writer.

There's also another similar list written by Umberto Eco about the so called "Ur Fascism" ("perpetual fascism"); he basically identifies fascist-like characteristics which can be found even in governments that do not adhere to the old concept of "traditional" old-style fascism (which in Italy is forbidden by law).

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

Needless to say that his words sounded very topical during the last italian elections, dominated by the party "Brothers of Italy"; luckily this party has become more "moderate" after winning the elections, even though some aspects can still be "problematic".

Thanks a lot for the welcome! :)

Science and self-help are becoming a little tricky though, because lots of popular books, especially in social and behavioural sciences and pop science, are affected by the replication crisis.

I also have discovered a podcast where they debunk some parts of some books (or the whole book if it is very controversial): it is called "If Books Could Kill" (if you are interested, you may find it wherever you listen to podcast; I personally use PocketCasts). They already have done an episode on "Freakonomics" (which I read a year ago) and on the 15th of June they have released an episode on "Atomic Habits" (also read a year ago); I will definitely listen to what they have to say about it, hoping that they will not "destroy" the whole book ahahahah

I'm still reading it and I'm halfway through it. I agree in recommending it! Moreover gapminder (which is the source of most of the stats) now has data updated up to the year 2022.