@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-26 10:41:26
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-27 19:04:03
I haven’t written any blog posts lately due to the pain I’ve been dealing with but I’m filling up my plog. Oh, my “plog” is my “pain log”, a little notebook to track when I take my pain medication and to note my pain levels. The latest entry: “12:45pm - took gabapentin and ibuprofen, had lunch, still in a shit-ton of pain”
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-26 07:46:00
A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-01-26 13:35:57
RE: https://zirk.us/@SaltiredPopcorn/115961602825498363
Interesting trailer inderdaad. 'Klassiek' geschoten op 3:4 formaat.
Die My Love (2025) on MUBI
https://mubi.com/en/nl/films/die-my-love (trailer ( film indien abo))
VPRO cinema:
https://www.cinema.nl/db/16131467-die-my-love (Op MUBI en in de bioscoop)
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-01-27 17:37:35
So I'm feeling like I'm beating my head against the wall trying to keep my guitar signal analog and yet still have access to flexible & inspiring sounds, but there really aren't any good multi effects that offer analog dry-through so I'm stuck with a reverb, a delay and a chorus, which is really not ideal for the work we do. (1/2)
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-12-28 01:35:58
TIL: the #39c3 DECT network also covers at least part of the Radisson hotel. I was just woken up by a call from someone to my DECT.
Have to switch it off next night.
Well, not much harm done, my alarm would have woken me up soon anyway for my Angel shift at 04:00 in the Cloakroom Lost and Found.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-28 05:26:31
Niet te geloven dit, voor een flink bedrag in Rusland tegen een balletje gaan slaan terwijl datzelfde land nu burgers en kinderen in Oekraïne vermoordt.
Griekspoor doet mee aan toernooi in Rusland, minister Van Weel adviseert: 'Doe het niet' - https://nos.nl/l/2592260
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-26 20:05:50
Coinbase says a former customer service agent was arrested in India, following a May breach where hackers bribed contractors to access sensitive customer data (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-27 03:48:58
Wow, it's the last #LetterboxdFriday of the year. Been doing some weird horror shorts. This year I surpassed 2,000 total films seen in my life, according to Letterboxd stats, and yeah, I probably have a problem. But at least I'm in my house watching weird movies and not out prowling the dark streets.
#Letterboxd
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 11:10:48
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
