Tootfinder

Glancing over the initial survey[1] results (only a meager 18 so far 😢), I realise there're at least three more questions I should have included, especially since the emerging picture for some questions is somewhat in very stark contrast to other answers & comments received and I can't make any sense of it...
So I'm trying to get some more feedback from any of you via this channel (feel free to reply via DM):
1) What reasons do you give for _not_ using thi.ng proj…

thi.ng user survey 2024
It's already been almost 9 years since the last user survey for these projects. Please help me/us to get more insights into your own experiences, your interests, hopes and pain points — allowing the project and everyone involved to move forward more intentionally. There're 15 questions here, with ~10 of them marked as mandatory. The main focal points are the matrices in the middle of the survey. Please also do use the final freeform comments box to share any further feedback you might have. …

I hope people look at this and realize that licenses will not protect them; they will only ever protect capital in the long run https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112413898118066645

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

As Meta lowers the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU, after announcing the move in February, child safety groups criticize the move (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

The House Rules Committee's schedule for next week consists entirely of a half dozen bills to 😮prohibit the Energy Department from setting energy use standards for home appliances.😮
The Liberty in Laundry Act, the Refrigerator Freedom Act and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards, or SUDS, Act😂 are among the bills.
There is no sign, however, of legislation to provide military aid to 🇺🇦Ukraine, 🇮🇱Israel or 🇹🇼Taiwan, which some lawmakers have said they expect to come up…

House Republicans fume over "messaging" votes
"Those post offices aren't going to name themselves," a conservative lawmaker quipped.

After losing a bitter custody battle over his twin children, one of whom wants to transition:
Jeff Younger: ‘We Have To Keep Alive The Threat Of Political Violence’ – Angry White Men
https://angrywhitemen.org/2024/03/13/j

Jeff Younger: ‘We Have To Keep Alive The Threat Of Political Violence’
After losing a bitter custody battle over his twin children — as well as a race for the Texas House of Representatives — anti-LGBTQ bigot Jeff Younger has only grown more extreme. In a …

Visual experiences unique to early infancy provide building blocks of human vision https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-visual-unique-early-infancy-blocks.html "the same sequence of images improves the training of

Visual experiences unique to early infancy provide building blocks of human vision, study finds
What do infants see? What do they look at? The answers to these questions are very different for the youngest babies than they are for older infants, children and adults. Characterized by a few high-contrast edges in simple patterns, these early scenes also contain the very materials needed to build a strong foundation for human vision.

Heartbraking on the damage domestic abuse has, especially when the wort happens.
"...I can see all sorts of things that were happening in that relationship. If I knew then what I know now, I would have saved Hollie’s life..."
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I hope people look at this and realize that licenses will not protect them; they will only ever protect capital in the long run https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112413898118066645

As Meta lowers the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU, after announcing the move in February, child safety groups criticize the move (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202