Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
movies@piefed.social•Stephen Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past' Paused Post-MergerEnglish
31·22 hours agoi made this meme six months ago when it was first announced that he was doing this with Warner Bros:

I believe comma is more widespread per country
it looks like you might be right… I’m surprised to learn that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide lists 83 countries who use comma as decimal separator, and only 59 who use dot (and presumably the thousands separator is usually the opposite of the decimal separator). However there are enough countries which aren’t on either list that it isn’t entirely clear from that page which convention is actually used in more countries.
Also, it’s much more complicated than the
.vs,binary… among other oddities:- Historically, in Germany and Austria, thousands separators were occasionally denoted by alternating uses of commas and points, e.g. “1.234,567.890,12” (or “1.234,567.890·12” in Austria-Hungary and Austria prior to 1938) for “eine Milliarde 234 Millionen …”, but this is not seen today and contemporary German readers would require an explanation to understand it.
- In Switzerland, there are two styles. Currency values use an apostrophe (
') as a thousands separator along with a dot (.) as the decimal separator, like “1’234’567.89”. For other values, the SI-style “1 234 567,89” is used, with a comma (,) as the decimal separator. The apostrophe is also the most common thousands separator for non-currency values, like “1’234’567,89”.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•U.S. Expands Social Media Review for Visa Applicants Starting October
6·4 days agoif you tell them you don’t have any social media they probably won’t believe you and/or will consider that suspicious in itself
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
World News@lemmy.ml•Trump administration to support 'independent journalism' in Europe with anti-immigrant focusEnglish
15·4 days agoostensibly independent journalists all over the world who have been receiving funding from the US government over the last ~75 years but want to call out this instance of it for being not-independent:

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Videos@lemmy.world•Name me country that has better food than England 🏴English
6·4 days agoSee https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Yakko’s_World_(song)#Errors,_Inaccuracies,_and_Other_Geographical_Trivia for just a few other issues 😂
Yes, probably not all but certainly most bugs being found now are.
If the PS5 is based off of Linux
I don’t think it is though? After a few seconds searching I don’t see anything conclusive but PS4’s OS was based on FreeBSD so I would guess PS5’s probably is also. (I see that if you have a PS5 with old enough firmware you can put Linux on it yourself…)
Sony does have some experience shipping Linux-based products though (probably first with Linux for PS2 in 2002, and more recently various android devices) and surely knows how to comply with the GPL.
But still listing year’s old vulnerabilities that got fixed long ago because they are still supporting ancient stuff like 5.10LTS is Debian-specific.
The advisory this meme is about only relates to the 6.12 kernel in Debian 13 “trixie” (Debian’s current stable release), and 1,295 of these 1,313 CVEs are from 2026.
Linux 6.12 is the SLTS (“super long-term support”) release from 2024, so the Linux Foundation’s Civil Infrastructure Platform plans to continue backporting security fixes to it until 2035.
Debian stopped supporting Debian 11 “bullseye” (the one with a 5.10 kernel) in August, but that kernel is also an SLTS which CIP plans to support until 2031.
So, no, continuing support for these kernels is not something Debian-specific.
Here are the versions of linux-image-amd64 in Debian currently:
bullseye (oldoldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 5.10.262-1 [security]: amd64 bookworm (oldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.1.187-1 [security]: amd64 bookworm-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.12.95-1~bpo12+1: amd64 trixie (stable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.12.111-1 [security]: amd64 trixie-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.1.13-1~bpo13+1: amd64 forky (testing) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.2.8-1: amd64 sid (unstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.2.8-1: amd64
Time to relax. Sashi is a shitposter.

Debian problems I guess
Not really; the Linux kernel has had 8500 CVEs so far this year (according to this).
Most of them aren’t actually known to be definitely-exploitable security bugs, but some are. You can read more about how Linux issues CVEs from this post on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s website: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (and/or watch one of his talks on the subject which is linked from there).
See also this article from July: Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days: Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Several vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernelEnglish
311·4 days ago
Here is the Israel I support: https://youtu.be/GYr3hYjHlx8
That is explicitly arguing for a “two-state solution” with 1967 borders. Is that really what you think can or should happen?
Even if you do believe that having a colonial European ethnostate there is somehow a good idea if it was just limited to those borders, nobody in Israeli politics even pretends to be open to such a thing anymore so that idea is moot.
The Israel you say that you support is a wholly imaginary one, while the one that exists is continuing to commit genocide every day.
In a two state solution Israel would still be ~73% ethnically jewish
Are you sure about that? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Definitions : among other things, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics’ definition of “Population of Israel” includes Israelis (and does not include non-Israeli-citizen Palestinians) in “Area C” (which fyi icymi is on the Palestinian side of those 1967 borders you said you support).
Germany, which does have a special responsibility.
Doesn’t it feel awkward as a German to be advocating for an ideology (Zionism) which has the core premise that… European Jews should not live in Europe?
But I feel that responsibility extends to a free, equal, non-apartheid Israel and not the current course.
How much do you know about the history of Zionism? I’m guessing not enough, because it certainly never involved any idea to have a “non-apartheid Israel”. See here and here for some previous posts of mine with some links you might benefit from reading.
i thought it was about the 1954 comedy sci-fi film co-written by Lenny Bruce
sorry to cause you stress; i had checked and saw you posted several comments elsewhere well after it, so i assumed that you weren’t planning to reply to @Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone’ comment.
i am glad to hear you’re actually considering the points in it, and i look forward to reading your reply if/when you have time to write one.
crickets
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•Removed the stupid, loud beep from the kettleEnglish
14·21 days agothis post versus the series of recent posts about removing microphones from TV remote controls:

(links to some of the posts)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Anniversaries: X years ago today@sopuli.xyz•120 years ago today, Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont's *14-bis* aircraft flew between 4 and 7 meters at an altitude of about 70 centimeters in ParisEnglish
1·21 days agoThis remote-controlled toy one was commercially successful
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Coffee@lemmy.world•What is the laziest, most anti-elitist way to make coffee?English
4·23 days agobefore instant coffee displaced them, percolators were very popular. (CW: “continually cycling the boiling or nearly boiling brew through the grounds”)
































What do you think Zionism is? See here and here for two posts of mine with some links you might benefit from reading if you’re interested in learning more about the topic.