To make something very clear after the dogpiling and death threats I got yesterday:
You have the right to disagree with and criticize my word choices or opinions.
You don’t have the right to make me listen to you or respond to you.
You absolutely, positively don’t have the right to stalk me after I withdraw consent of communication by blocking you, or to threaten my family or friends with violence or death. Fuck you if you do, or if you associate with those who do.
Script of the video above:
"I think that flow states and similar times of total absorption can do a lot to help non-autistic people to make sense of #autistic experiences.
In the right environment, autistic people might enter this state of intense absorption many times on any given day – but few schools and workplaces are designed to accommodate that! It is also something that many parents and carers fail to understand, so autistic people are often wrenched out of their attention tunnels constantly – an experience that can be intensely unpleasant and disruptive, taking the place of something that could be relaxing and restorative.
Think of a time when you have almost finished a chapter of a riveting book, or a game was nearly over, and suddenly you were pulled away from it and expected to do something else entirely straight away, with no idea if or when you’ll be allowed to get back to what you were lost in. Now, imagine that happening to you several times a day, and everyone around you acts as if this is perfectly normal and no big deal! Nobody seems to understand the time it takes to shift gears, or the feeling of instability that follows from being jerked too quickly off of the track that you were on. Like many of the distressing experiences that autistic people have, this is made far worse by the failure of other people to recognise what’s happening.
#Flow states have been touted as the key to wellbeing for everyone – probably rightly, I think. They come with a sense of purpose and a kind of easy intensity that are both hard to match."
https://monotropism.org/wellbeing/
While it is true that it's hard to explain something, I think it's way harder to unexplain a concept and shift someone's perspective of it. This is why I think Ryan George's comedy, while silly, is phenomenal.
From human connections or experiences, such as friendship or dreams, to societal concepts like imprisonment, kidnapping, or the police, he manages to deconstruct these norms and make you understand and question them as if you were an alien from another p…
The new and improved Settings section for Kitten (Small Web/peer-to-peer web) apps is coming along nicely.
Should be live this week.
#Kitten #SmallWeb #Settings
Replying to @kkarhan@infosec.space since their reply to my toot is bugged or something and I can’t seem to reply to it:
Ubuntu is NOT beginner friendly anymore. Not even a bit.
Because these people don't care about snap or whatever
That’s EXACTLY part of the reason why it’s bad. They don’t care about snap. When they download Steam via the ubuntu app store and get a non-working version they won’t blame canonical or snaps. They will blame Linux.
Ubuntu gives an AWFUL experience to the tech illiterate user. There’s nothing beginner friendly about it anymore.
Additionally, ubuntu breaks like shit and doesn’t even come with snapshots on by default - requiring a complete reinstall on the minor repository fuckup you mentioned. Not many distros come with snapshots by default unfortunately, but at least most of them aren’t straight up providing easily installable broken packages for their users.
surely this version of the joke should go,
concurrency is two of the hardest problems in computer science
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/what-makes-concurrency-so-hard/
Just a reminder that adding “young” (or “old”, for that matter) in a job ad is discriminatory. Why not write down something that the candidate can actually work on improving instead, and that has something to do with the job you’ll ask them to do?
#JustSaying #Academia
No photo, but now on a C2C train to Birmingham New Street. There's three 15/16-year-old girls on here loudly talking about a gig they're going to and reminiscing about other nights out. One's just said, "what was she called? Tracy or something. She's always out and she's old, like 40 or something." 👴
I'd like to finally move my private email out of GMail. So, Fedi, what email provider would you recommend?
What I need:
• reasonably professional (i.e. that I wouldn't have to worry about suddenly being locked out for my "security", or having mail dropped)
• free or very cheap (i.e. something a person with no income could pay for without feeling very bad about it)
• support for a custom domain catch-all (I want to be able to use unique addresses on-the-fly)
• direct IMAP support (i.e. no special apps required)
• [EDIT: hosted in EU]
Truth.
PHP gets frowned upon a lot but mostly by people who need 3 times the amount of time to ship something with their fancy new tech.
Personally I don't use PHP for bigger stuff but it's a language that's really fun to prototype web stuff in.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodi
So I had a crazy idea... I want to try the "Pay What You Want" thing again when selling art, but offer people who can't decide on an amount a chance to "spin the wheel" and then decide if they want to pay the amount they spin.
It would be between $5 and $35 or something.
Is that too crazy or could it work?
I could always let them decide to walk away and not go through with the sale or something.
@… @… you mean "will work overtime when you fail to negotiate a timeline with the client, or simply fail planning" or something else?
I have given a talk at the Nullcon security conference about HSTS, why we have it in the first place, and an HSTS bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Unfortunately, it seems something went wrong with the recording. I'd like to give the talk again so it gets recorded. Any recommendations for events that might like to have that talk? Preferrably: In or near Berlin, not too far in the future, and of course with a reliable setup to record talks.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
— Michael J. Fox
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay
Is there some tool or something that can export a Wordpress blog to static files for archival that still keeps it browsable at least from the export?
$2 seems like a REALLY good deal for a seven foot tall alien-eye creature that obeys your commands
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Many have side jobs or hustles. Let's play!
#LibrarianSideJobsOrHustles
Good morning. Please make sure it's really Friday, check its identity card or something. If you're sure, let it in, offer tea or something. Thank you.
I canceled #lastpass premium years ago (while they were part of #logmein), then they spun off or something and guess what - my premium subscription was reinstated 😡
I've successfully had the charges refunded by my CC at least 2 years now and the charge appeared again for this year.
I sig…
It looked like it had “just been dropped down from space,” Mr. Muir said during a telephone interview on Tuesday.
The sighting immediately captured media attention, calling to mind similar mysterious objects placed around the world in late 2020.
“If you didn’t know anything, to look at it, you could have easily thought it had been dropped off by a U.F.O. or something.”
why is it that WiFi never works for me on planes, neither on my iPhone nor my iPad? I must have set network something or other on them … i get redirected from, e.g., connect.klm.com to this page.
works for lynn’s iPhone… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it’s DNS, innit?
#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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Good Night, Sweet Pence
Former VP Mike’s non-endorsement of Trump was a palpable hit. Is something rotten in the state of Donmark or will the rest be silence?
by Maureen Dowd
Silly Old Bear 🧸🍯🎈
Dramatized childrens | Adaptated from A. A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh, this is made as much for young children as adults. If you grew up with these stories - or if you want something fun to keep you company - this is for you! Instead of telling the story to Christopher Robin, the narrator i...
https://www.…
surely this version of the joke should go,
concurrency is two of the hardest problems in computer science
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/what-makes-concurrency-so-hard/
was curious how many connections you could handle simultaneously
http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/
this reminds me of a post about tableflip by cloudflare about their connections but I couldn't find a number. something about getting eBPF or the kernel to behave.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/oxy-the-journey-of-graceful-restarts/
Happiness is a clean° exhaust tip. Or something.
° ... well, "cleaner" anyway. It was almost black before, now not so much.
The iPhone/Apple Watch app I've been using for tracking climbing (Redpoint) has stopped tracking ascends which made it wonderful. I've hear a couple of other users confirming the issue.
Anyone using the altimeter data from Apple Watch could confirm that something changed or is broken with that API in the most recent iOS/WatchOS versions?
To provoke such a conflict, all one has to do is state a technical opinion supported by part of the group as obviously the right choice while at the same time using language lightly coded to be hostile to the other faction on identity grounds. Make a technical argument and mention 'woke gender’ and you've now turned a technical argument into an anti-trans identity argument, and watch the group dissolve under infighting. The people who aren't trans or staunchly trans-supportive will be stuck trying to advocate for their technical opinion but shouted down because of the transphobia now implied by their lack of saying something about the original conflation; and since being indifferent to trans issues is a pretty safe mainstream choice for them, they’ll be supported in this, mostly by the worst people.
The trans folks and supporters will be largely unable to talk about the technical opinion they disagree with without the transphobia being addressed, the group will split, the project will die or become Yet Another One With White Guys Who Don't Particularly Care at the helm, or maybe the trans folks will bail and make something great but it’ll be divorced from any power and be yet another great technical product that few people use.
crazy thing about playing #piano: when you start learning a new piece, it is so hard, for so long, and then something breaks through and it seems trivial and you have no idea what was so hard. I wonder if this is just because I am a noob that tinkers and I am missing some aspect of how to properly learn a song to play, Or is this how it is for everyone?
Find when something was said in a video with AI-powered SayWhen.us. Like when President Biden talked about abortion rights, gun violence and Ukraine in the SOTU.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/09/find-when-something-w…
So yeah my wife is getting death threats now (not on Mastodon, so can’t report it.)
Some of you really need to touch some grass or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112446941945993301
@… I started to watch Poor Things with two members of my family last week on DisneyPlus or something. Unfortunately my eclecticism is notorious within the family, so the smallest sign of anything odd often gets unusual films written off as “one of those films.” I bailed quite early to avoid alienating the people I love…
Thinking of implementing hcaptcha or something similar to stop these spammers signing up on my instance. #spam #MastoAdmin
The next person who complains about meeting notes, ROD or how long it takes just volunteered to be the next recording secretary.
Don't know if it is me, but for every hour a meeting lasts it takes me at least four hours to transcribe. MS Teams does a semi-fair job converting speech to text, but acronyms and accents gives it fits. I take notes throughout so I have something to go to and use the transcriptions to copy-paste large text.
Also, if you are presenting - PREPARE NOT…
Is there any kind of API or config file or something on Linux that you can use to determine if an application is running under a tiling window manager?
Obviously I can just "ps" and search the list of running processes for known window managers, but is there some kind of X server flag that lets me just determine "tiling" vs "not tiling" without having to hardcode a list of every known tiling WM and check if any are running?
Law360: "Judge Taranto said he's typically 'disappointed' with the [amicus] briefs submitted to the court, and urged the attorneys in the room to do better. 'It's very rare we get amicus briefs that say something beyond what the parties say,' he said. 'Most amicus briefs make broad, unsupported general assertions about things for which we aren't given independent basis to evaluate the truth of the assertions.'"
I'm still wondering what would be the best approach towards unique #eMail addresses with my domain.
For a long time, I've been using the " " approach with #GMail but that sucks because:
• A fair number of sites reject e-mail addresses containing a " ", and at this point it's no longer a matter of copy-pasting poor snippets, but people explicitly blocking cheap unique addresses.
• It's quite obvious, and so people can easily take the "base" address out of it.
I'm considering three alternatives:
1. The catch-all, or opt-out approach — just grab mail from all possible addresses. Easy to set up, and lets me dynamically get unique addresses with no effort. On the minus side, it's going to get lots of #spam, and I'll end up having to block a lot of commonly used usernames.
2. Prefixed catch-all — grab mail from all possible addresses starting with a specific prefix. Somewhat similar to the " " approach, except without special characters and less obvious. Would combine being able to quickly make new addresses up, while filtering out most of the generic spam. On the minus side, I don't think most of the mail providers would actually support something like that.
3. Explicit addresses, or opt-in approach — create aliases explicitly whenever I need one. Lots of work, but probably the cleanest solution. I'd probably also have to have a handful of "free" aliases on me, in case I needed to quickly give someone a unique e-mail address.
Judge says “Whether this case ends in convictions, acquittals, or something in between, the result should be one that instills confidence in the process."
Yeah, that horse left the barn when you opened the door to the magats' misogynist attacks on Fani Willis.
If you say "taxsomething" (case-sensitive!) to me I'll try to reply w/something to tax, e.g. "inheritances" (or something)
So yeah my wife is getting death threats now (not on Mastodon, so can’t report it.)
Some of you really need to touch some grass or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112446941945993301
Internet outages in some parts of West and Central Africa.
Could be #UnderSeaCables or something "more critical".
At least, my provider in #Benin is not disconnected (like the 2 others).
#Internet
I keep dreaming about this restaurant that doesn’t exist, but it’s an amalgamation of a bunch of restaurants and places I’ve been to.
Think of Casa Bonita but even more grand and luxurious (and that’s saying something as that place is incredible).
What is wrong with me? Or what does this dream mean?
It perplexes me how often arrogance and confidence are confused, or mistaken for each other, by people.
Arrogance:
Too much pride and claiming excessive consideration and/or control for yourself and too little regard and respect given for others.
Confidence:
Certainty - the quality of being reliably true. A fact that is definitely true or an event that will inevitably happen.
A firm trust in the certainty of someone or something based on abilities or qualities.<…
Mehdi Hasan on Gaza & the US
"The idea that the United States of America, the world’s only superpower, cannot tell its ally, “You know what? We’re going to put aid into Gaza because we want to, and you’re not going to stop us, especially since we’re the ones arming you,” is bizarre. It’s something I think Biden will never be able to get past or live down. ... we can’t even get our own aid in, while they’re bombing with our bombs"
#MehdiHasan #Gaza #Biden
What do you see on the right-hand-side of this image?
Answer in the below poll 👇
Due to a new regulation, green electricity providers in the EU EEA have to provide their customers information about the countries of origin of their electricity (or the certificates, which... isn't really the same, but I disgress...). If you got something like that lately, can you scan it or make a photo and send it to me? https://hb…
was curious how many connections you could handle simultaneously
http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/
this reminds me of a post about tableflip by cloudflare about their connections but I couldn't find a number. something about getting eBPF or the kernel to behave.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/oxy-the-journey-of-graceful-restarts/
This looks like it _could_ be good, if they kept the twin thing a secret twist or something. In classic Apple TV fashion, I imagine the film will be just the trailer with a bunch of filler added and completely boring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ucGt_Xp14
I've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.
But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”
There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!
The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.
This is bad.
The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”
The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”
These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.
"Something happens when one tries to have rational conversations about downsides with people strongly advocating expansion of type-level programming capabilities (…) This happens all the time once extensive type-level programming facilities are available in a language–they immediately get misapplied in ways that makes code harder to understand, excludes beginners and fails to convince those from the outside."
Don Syme, creator of F#
I need to invent a time machine, go back a decade in time or more, and tell myself that one can be a brilliant cryptographer and an even greater imbecile. What’s the point of being so great at something if you end up as such an unimpressive human in most other respects? This is why most well-balanced people focus instead on good work, but also on friendships, sports, health, family, art, culture, hobbies, travel, and especially understanding all the different parts of the world.
Those OTP/2FA tokens... are they really random or are they made so you can remember them more easily while switching from your phone to your PC?
I often get the impression that it's not 6 different digits. I just had one that was something like 555 606 and it messes with my head 😵💫
#cryptography
Even if tech companies and governments mandate AI watermarks/metadata, an easy workaround is using an open-source model or taking your own photo of an image to remove even a steganographic watermark. On the other hand, trusted sources *can* add a reliable digital signature to their media to ensure their validity. We may not be able to tell when something is fake, but we could tell when something is real.
A philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
When did the word “performative” acquire its current disapproving meaning, to describe empty words or gestures, done just for show? Merriam-Webster has this as the 2nd of 4 meanings, the 4th being what I considered more significant: words that perform an action, that themselves do something. Like wedding vows—saying those words is how you marry someone. Or, precisely the opposite of meaninglessly or hypocritically “performative.”
It's not that I think Tiktok is an angel or I love the CCP, –I think the data collection done by Tiktok and all other apps/sites should be banned. It's sus to go after one app unless it's doing something Meta wouldn't do.
While I appreciate every project that I work on, I would really love something longer term, or contractural.
17 years experience of working remotely so far!
#fedihired
#WordWeavers April 14: Is your MC spontaneous, or a planner?
A planner for sure, except sometimes when he's caught off-guard.
He has a background in politics, mostly the thankless and boring kind. The kind where you're caught between several sides who all want something different, and you spend weeks ironing out details and trying to address all concerns at once, and sometimes…
Due to a new regulation, green electricity providers in the EU EEA have to provide their customers information about the countries of origin of their electricity (or the certificates, which... isn't really the same, but I disgress...). If you got something like that lately, can you scan it or make a photo and send it to me? https://hb…
No, in order for large language models (that’s what we’re talking about here because it certainly isn’t artificial or intelligent) to function it has to poach the work of other artists, writers, musicians, etc. in order to regurgitate something that closely matches your prompt. That isn’t even a remix. It’s basically plagiarism.
https://<…
After 11 months of being here, I decided to do a very small reflection.
When I first arrived, I didn't have any expectations or goals I'd like to achieve. Matter of fact, the main reason I left Twitter is because of all the bots that followed me and how I almost never got any real interaction.
Over time, things got a little rocky here and it seemed as though, personally, I wasn't going to be enjoying it any further at that time and contemplating shutting the instance down completely and just "disappearing".
However, several months on from that, I'm VERY glad I didn't. I like it here and I like having my "own little space" where nobody can tell me what I can and cannot discuss nor what I can and cannot see.
Something I've just recently realized though, is how important a good bit of you have become to me, personally and my Fedi experience would be very lacking without some of you here. What I didn't expect, was getting that same sentiment back when I discussed it with those few of you. I really appreciate knowing that for some of you, I have been consistently a "good" addition to your timelines and everyday online life.
Those types of comments and feelings they give me, keep me here and sane on those wilder days. To each and every one of you that have followed me for so long, through all the craziness, slight drama, wild opinions, and more, THANK YOU.
If I hadn't been almost universally accepted with such open arms and returned the same energy I try to put out, then I doubt I would still be here to this day.
I'm 11 months in and I think I'm ready to "give back" to those few folks that I consider friends and am on the cusps of creating something new and hopefully something good for Fedi as a whole.
I'm going to keep it very limited for specific reasons I'll lay out later. But, this is new ground for me and I have to figure some things out and hopefully not make too many missteps and learn some things along the way.
Thank you Fedi. I wouldn't be who I am right now, without you.
Every time I spend 5 minutes, 5 days, or 5 years learning about something the basic facts are always:
Religious nuts and Sex-Phobic Puritans are wrong.
Scientists are right.
“I do not consider it my place to tell you what to do or how to play. I'm quite willing to let my opinions be heard (if I think the band is making beautiful progress or a heaving mistake, I consider it part of my job to tell them) but if the band decides to pursue something, I'll see that it gets done.“
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers (Michael J. Totten/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/something-like-fire
TIL that some people think the royal family are trying to pull a Weekend At Bernie's and that Kate is actually dead, or trying to regrow a new lizard tail, or something.
I want to write something about innovative ideas/tools or functions in Apps for #Mastodon. Like the new #CatchUp for @…, the whole App @…
Somehow the relevance of this research using LLM, AI to train robots is not fully appreciated i think. If we can train robots in simulated worlds and that learning can be applied in real world applications, it seems that learning for Robots has no problems with regard to enough trainingdata or am i missing something ? Also this could really accelerate the applications for all kind of tasks.
I want to find and follow people who do commissions, dammit!
I’m starting to think about my mersona/fursona and I eventually want to commission a ref sheet or something, once I have a more complete idea of what I want, and I’d rather to commission it from artists on fedi
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Celebrities have ice cream, pizzas and even cheeseburgers combos named after them that highlight their characteristics. Some brand food items after themselves. What about fictional characters? Let's play!
#FoodsNamedAfterCharacters
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
Hint: Can be TV, movie, book, song, or other fictional characters
The Mantawauk Caves - complete series 🕵️♂️🦇📖
Dramatized horror mystery series | Total listening time: 9h 20m
On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someone - or something.
2024 iHeartPodcast Award...
Optics nerds: What's the easiest, lowest cost way to build something that focuses a lot of light from a fairly wide (say 90 degree, give or take a bit) FOV into a spectrometer with a SMA 905 fiber input?
Goal is to collect UV-VIS-NIR spectra of the night sky (particularly interested in both light pollution and auroras) over as much of the 200-1200nm range as I can get with low-cost optics (i.e. I don't want to spend extra to get a bit further outside visible, but will take what…
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
If you say "hello" (case-sensitive!) to me I might reply by saying, "Hallo!" (or something)
Where the Glasgow Embedded code of conduct avoids this is by being broad strokes, and pretty clear about who the project is run by. It's much more constitutional in nature, and by being vague about the specific problems but specific in who will care and act on them, it's much easier to build a coherent group around, and the specific issues they care about are much more likely to have a unified response. It's much harder to weaponize because there's a who embedded with the what: it's not up to argument whether something "counts" or not. The core group of people who made the project are going to decide and they’re not going to put up with any anti-trans rhetoric in this case. They're gonna be okay on racism, if not perfect. You can see how it'll land if there's conflict, and the conflict is largely going to be technical _or_ social , but not both. This is way easier to deal with.
A philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
It's not that I think Tiktok is an angel or I love the CCP, –I think the data collection done by Tiktok and all other apps/sites should be banned. It's sus to go after one app unless it's doing something Meta wouldn't do.
Making fun of BIMI and pointing out its weaknesses is all fun and giggles, but it's also kinda unpaid work for me right now. I'm half-jokingly thinking whether I should start a kickstarter or something to pay me making fun of BIMI. Should I?
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Celebrities have ice cream, pizzas and even cheeseburgers combos named after them that highlight their characteristics. Some brand food items after themselves. What about fictional characters? Let's play!
#FoodsNamedAfterCharacters
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
Hint: Can be TV, movie, book, song, or other fictional characters
The problem with Nazis is most of the time they just act like normal people.
They don’t see themselves as fanatics or cult followers—it’s them being normal and there’s something wrong with the other people.
But they’re also people themselves so sometimes they aren’t interested in “fixing” other people and they get tired of debating or murdering or trying to fix the world according to their worldview just as people who aren’t evil do.
They're not always in full uniform…
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Act fast on things that compound. Never let a day pass without doing something that will benefit you in a decade.”
— James Clear
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay
Looking at my ToDo/planned list I realized that many things on it will never happen the way I keep trying to do them: You can only ever take so many hours away from sleep to do something and it doesn't work well with long-term or more complex projects.
I had thought about applying to grants for small software projects/book writing projects (got both on my list ;)) but realized that the application process would again cut so deeply into my little time that the small chances of getti…
“I do not consider it my place to tell you what to do or how to play. I'm quite willing to let my opinions be heard (if I think the band is making beautiful progress or a heaving mistake, I consider it part of my job to tell them) but if the band decides to pursue something, I'll see that it gets done.“
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana
@… and myself have decided to add a new rule to the #AllThingsTech instance.
That rules is: Accounts are no longer allowed to make posts related to cryptocurrency in any way.
Got my shiny new 9 kHz - 40 GHz 2.92mm DC blocks, put them on the big scope, and...
...managed to destroy the female contact on one of them, probably by misaligning the pin or something when I mated it. $245 down the drain and an expensive lesson learned.
If you say "insultme" (case-sensitive!) to me I'll try to insult you, e.g. by saying "You are disgusting" (or something)
If you want to be Bad @ Podcasts, you could use YouTube to generate auto-craptions *and* then pretend that is your transcript.
It’s ok to be Bad @ CSS. It’s not ok to rely on YouTube for the barest accommodations.
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/dont
"how to know something is happening" != "how to judge if something is effective/right"
but I bet you get /some/ of that effect by listening to diverse viewpoints. not awful viewpoints (but you should still know what awful people are threatening to do)
maybe this is more... questioning things about your inner friend circle or your own assumptions? or widening your circle of people you get advice from?
<.< damn if only not being a newb were easier
If you say "badgroup" (case-sensitive!) to me I'll try to reply w/a group I consider to be bad, for example, "Republicans for National Renewal" (or something)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
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