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  • zarkony@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldSoon™
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    23 days ago

    That’s a major part in the Ender’s Game series. They have faster than light communication, but the ships travel at like 90% the speed of light. So when traveling between planets, it’s like a two week trip to the people traveling, but 20 years on planet.

    The main character Ender travels often, so he is only 35 in the second book, a couple thousand years after the first book.






  • I agree, but unfortunately, there’s probably not a good self hosted solution to this specific problem.

    I use musicbrainz for music tagging, which is an excellent source for all metadata except lyrics. For better or worse, the only decent sources of lyrics seems to be genius and musixmatch, and neither integrate well with tagging tools like musicbrainz Picard.

    If anyone else has found an easier way to do this, I would love to hear it.












  • Spotify has almost every song on the planet

    Until a contract negotiation with UMG goes south and they lose half the catalog overnight. See what’s happening on tiktok right now for a good example of this.

    I understand the convenience draw, but I’m not a fan of continually paying for content that can disappear at any moment.


  • Yes, but the word rewrite implies that it would serve the same function and retain compatibility.

    If someone wrote a new implementation of the x protocol, as a drop in replacement for the existing x.org server, you might call that a rewrite.

    Wayland is an entirely different solution to the same problem. It doesn’t follow the x protocol, and doesn’t maintain compatibility with the x.org server.


  • It is, but as far as I understand, you can disable some of it depending on your coreboot/libreboot setup.

    Coreboot is open source, but when you build the rom for your machine, you have to pack in closed source blobs for Intel me, and any other proprietary parts of the chip.

    I’m not up to date on current happenings with libreboot, but the goal there was to get it working 100% open source, without closed source blobs.