Artist: Ajita Ponzu (gelbooru)
Bit late with this one as I had quite a bit to do today, but I'll make sure that there aren't any leftovers.
If you need a file host see if catbox fits your needs.
The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos... Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).
I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.
If I can give my thoughts on what I've seen in research and linking various factors together.
- A not insignificant amount of neurodivergent people tend to pursue a career in IT (mainly people with ASD), these people can learn a lot through self study as it tends to align more with their personal interests, at some point through this they may become exposed to Linux and open source and subsequently choose to learn about that.
- Research has revealed a strong link between ASD and gender dysphoria. People diagnosed with ASD are ~4 times more likely to experience it.
- Even if you go through gender reassignment, you are still subject to the societal programming associated with your initial gender (which for boys tends to include videogames).
While these 3 facts on their own don't mean much, I can see how these come together to create an above-average amount of trans women in the IT and Linux spheres and this only gets amplified by stereotypes.
That said, this is mere speculation on my end based on the things I mentioned above, I am sure it plays a role; but I cannot be sure as to how significant that is in the grand scheme of things.
I love how musk is trying to make X the everything app all on his centralized network, and here we are building a decentralized everything network with dozens of open platforms and good 3rd party clients outpacing whatever musk is trying to cook.
Hi, it seems like you posted to Lemmy from mastodon, while this is perfectly possible there are a few things to keep in mind.
- The first line of your toot will be the title, this should be pure text and avoid things like links, emoji, and other text markup as Lemmy doesn't render those.
- Lemmy will only ever show the first image on a mastodon toot.
- Lemmy doesn't handle image alt text very well, this is not a huge issue and I expect this one to get resolved as time goes on.
Just include their account address, the webui or your app should do the rest if needed.
I've been using Vendetta with a custom stylesheet for mobile which does the AMOLED theme much better than discord, haven't used the new app yet and I'm honestly contemplating whether I should get the old android native app running again.
Looks very interesting, love to see how well it works (and interoperates between different fediverse platforms)
Tbh, I would not mind a proper chat standard built on activitypub, it's obvious that this protocol works, now if only somebody built a secure messaging platform with it.
It's because they rewrote the app from the ground up. They had a lot of issues getting the AMOLED theme to work because the base of the entire thing was written with the idea that there will only ever be 2 themes.
Yup, still mad about that one. Some day nobody will remember that the mobile app was somewhat responsive. I do know that there are projects that still allow you to use the old app; but I don't know how long the API for it will still be supported by discord.
Source: unknown (tried saucenao and iqdb)
Wanted to do a bit of a semi-regular post and like any sane person I have a collection of artwork of anime girls (totaling 3.2GiB).
it started popping up on lemmy 0.18 instances for me and it's inconsistent, sometimes refreshing or updating the feed or even posting something there would make the buttons pop up (as new elements that is).
I can't interact with them so something is definitely wrong.
I know people will say I'm biased, but you can't spell biased without "I" and "based".
I like both designs quite a bit myself; but I feel like the remake one does a couple things that I don't like.
The original is a really good embodyment of the character and is able to do a lot with Takeuchi's more primitive art at the time, it manages to set her apart and highlight what her character is while not straying from what the rest of the VN is. That said it is obvious that like many other things og tsukihime that it is very much a diamond in the rough situation and that it does lack this aspect of polish.
The remake is able to address a lot of this by just 20 years of extra experience and in many ways is able to refine the overall design a fair bit; even if we have to put up with the sameface problem (even though Ciel suffers the least from this). My main gripe with the remake is her executioner outfit which goes from pretty badass but still rough to an immitation of Mash from Fate/Grand Order, while I do like a lot of the work put in the new outfit and all it does to try and improve; it goes from bland in comparison to the rest of the game to bland in comparison to the rest of the nasuverse. The big thing for me is the tattoos (or lack thereof), they worked as a really nice accentuation to her outfit and managed to make executioner Ciel a quite nice and detailed design especially in the original game; remake throws all of this out of the window for a more generic version of her outfit which would do well with the tattoos and early design documents show that they were considered and then later removed.
Title says it all.
Not just you, your brain is wired to pick up language, how did you learn your first one?
I can attest that English classes here aren't great either (although most people here do speak English as a second or third language)
This is a known side effect of premature output (writing/speaking before you feel comfortable doing so), you don't just listen to what's around you, you primarily listen to yourself and pronunciation differs between languages, this premature output becomes toxic input for your brain which then uses that from then on (you can try and get rid of it; but it is really hard to do)
Yup, that's natural understanding for you. When you speak a language you don't care about the rules; you should instinctively know them.
As for my issue with Duolingo: it ignores the amount of time it takes to properly acquire a language, if I were to split up all the time I spent watching english youtube into 5 minute chunks it'd take me well over 15 years (and that's just accounting for the initial 4 month span; I've learned more things after as I naturally used the language). Combine that with the fact it throws established research on this topic to the wayside to push the school-based one which we know goes against the natural way in which we learn. I found a great blog post online about this, while it mostly revolves around learning Japanese; the core principles apply to learning pretty much any language. The beginning of the post does sum the entire thing up pretty well though:
There are some really good parts in that blog that apply to any language; but a lot of it is geared towards Japanese specifically.