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Which brands belong to US companies, even if they may not be immediately recognizable as such?

Häagen-Dazs

"Häagen-Dazs" is an invented pseudo-Scandinavian phrase coined by the American Reuben Mattus, in a quest for a brand name that he claimed was Danish-sounding. However, the company's pronunciation of the name ignores the letters "ä" and "s", and letters like "ä" or digraphs like "zs" do not exist in Danish.

His daughter Doris Hurley reported in the 1996 PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show that her father sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked.

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Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?

Lemmy has certainly already won me over reddit. Going back to centralized social media is something I will actively avoid if at all possible.

However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub. Having your account/identity tied so strongly to a particular instance is undesirable. As soon as there is a reddit-like (or even forum-like) client for nostr which is relatively active/polished, I will switch. Nip 172 can't come soon enough.

In addition to being less popular / newer than activitypub, nostr is also full of bitcoin1 bros and twitter refugees (not my crowd). But frankly I think complaints about that are like the complaints that lemmy is a place for tankies a couple years ago when people's only exposure was to a (much smaller than today) lemmy.ml.

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  1. monero support would be nice though...

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Is a VPN necessary for torrenting?

Alternatively if price is an issue (NEVER use a “free” VPN) you could torrent over I2P, which is free and very safe (at least as safe as tor, if not moreso).

Also the next release of qbittorrent is about to have built in I2P support (but also standard I2P comes with its own torrenting software).

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Bongripper - Worship (Stoner/Doom)

diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral

HMs:

  • Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
  • Winter - Into Darkness
  • Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (opening track alone)
  • Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia
  • Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
  • Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
  • Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
  • Bongripper - Hippie Killer
  • Asphyx - Last One on Earth
  • Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
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Chimera Linux

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This is patently false. Most alternatives to GNU software are permissively licensed (MIT, BSD, Apache, etc.). Just look at musl, clang, bzip2, and the various “new” userland replacements like ripgrep, neovim, bat, exa, dust, etc. The one notable exception is busybox which is GPL 2.

I don’t know why this trend exists, but I am constantly disappointed that talented young open source devs choose to sacrifice software freedom just because it will make their software easier to integrate in proprietary contexts. This strikes me as pure vanity or greed on the devs part so that their software is more popular and maybe even monetizable.

I hope that trend halts, but time will tell.

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Text editor with predefined text snippets?

If I understand you correctly, this is trivial in emacs:

(defun insert-text ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "your text here"))

(global-set-key your-keybind-here #'insert-text)

You could make it a format string if it relies on data specific to some file or parameter. You could also make the keybind local to certain modes/files rather than a global keybind if you don't want to pollute your keybind space.