calliope

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 21 points 1 week ago

This is an independent project for fun.

KRetro’s development started in 2023 with a desire to help build more apps for Plasma Mobile (shout out to Devin for the idea and help along the way). I worked on it for a while, but unfortunately got busy with school and other things. In addition, the Qt 6 transition came and went, which left KRetro effectively abandoned.

Thankfully, in 2024, Dexter Reed came through with an MR to port the KRetro codebase to Qt6. And finally, in 2025 with more time on my hands, I finally picked the project back up, bringing us to today!

The name? The K-prefix naming has mostly been phased out these days in KDE for new apps… you could say it is a retro naming scheme 😉

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This especially embarrassing since they just blamed Trump’s Tarriffs a couple months ago.

On July 9, 2025, Claire's warned that it would be considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its U.S. operations for the second time in 7 years. The company blamed declining consumer demand, rising import costs caused by President Donald Trump’s U.S. tariffs and heavy debt as a result of the decision.

Eat shit Claire’s, selling cheap crap and piercing ears poorly isn’t a business model.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you’re already generating an md5 and truncating it (an md5 of what?), you might as well use pwgen.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to indict furries as a whole, but to point out the crossover exists because it’s interesting.

Know Your Meme has a good breakdown of the culture, starting in 2005. Wikifur also has an article about it.

And it’s not hard for all of the things he described to be furry. That’s the joke.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I too have a military family, and it’s ok to be angry at them.

The inherent integrity of the military has changed a lot over the past two or three generations, but the blind worship of the military has not.

What would most people have said to the soldiers who committed the Mai Lai Massacre? Or the Abu Ghraib tortures?

“Thank you for your service.”

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago

It’s a replacement for grep, which searches the content of text files for a regular expression.

Ripgrep is very fast. If you use grep, it’s an easy drop-in.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In a nutshell, it’s swastika tattoos.

This politician followed an account with a fetishized racial name (“obedient slur”) that that posted, among other things, shirtless men with swastika tattoos and comments about white power.

The politician re-posted a shirtless man in his underwear without any swastikas from that account.

Essentially, to me it looks like the openly gay politician was looking at fetish content and re-posting non-fetish content a long time ago and should have used a different username.

I haven’t looked, but I’m sure all the rest of what you mentioned exists, though. Plus all of them being furries.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, like commodity pizza

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, whatever template I use looks really nice. Very professional.

It’s actually the most editable format my resume has ever been in, too! I started using LaTeX over a decade ago. I just update it when I need to and it prints out exactly the same way to PDF.

I will proselytize something like this for a resume any time. I am very curious about typst as well!

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I used LaTeX! I found a resume template and edited it.

I’m surprised there isn’t a good typst template for resumes that is easy to edit!

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago

To use a different atrocity as an example, the Japanese saw the Chinese as “pigs” during the Nanjing Massacre.

It’s easy to see how dehumanizing your enemy has an effect. Here is an excerpt from The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.

there were those in the imperial army who saw the Chinese as subhuman beings whose murder would carry no greater moral weight than squashing a bug or butchering a hog. In fact, both before and during the war members of the Japanese military at all levels frequently compared the Chinese to pigs. For example, a Japanese general told a correspondent: “To be frank, your view of Chinese is totally different from mine. You regard the Chinese as human beings while I regard the Chinese as pigs.”

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’m not reading all that. Sorry for your issue, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.

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