@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
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-29 09:07:08
3 (of our 4) cats saw me making something on the counter and were like, "oh hey, is that for us? is it food? is it treats? gimme gimme gimme!"
So once I finished preparing my instant pho, I sat down on the floor with it and their "oh my GOD what IS THAT?? GROSS!" reaction was absolutely hilarious.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-12-29 01:58:10
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#RecipesAfterDark
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-27 14:08:12
OH: I have a Home Warranty. You pay them a monthly premium, then when something breaks, you pay them a flat fee. Then the technician diagnoses the problem, and the company finds a reason why your plan doesn't cover that. Feels like American insurance in a nutshell.
#uspol #insurance
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-28 16:19:02
Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza2025-10-29 04:28:03
Uma música com good vibes para encerrar esse dia estressante.
♬"Now I've been happy lately♬
♬Thinkin' about the good things to come♬
♬And I believe it could be♬
♬Something good has begun♬
♬Oh, I've been smilin' lately♬
♬Dreaming about the world as one♬
♬And I believe it could be♬
♬Some day it's going to come♬
♬'Cause out on the edge of darkness♬
♬There rides a peace train♬
♬Oh, peace train, take this country…
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-11-29 01:58:04
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#OverindulgenceASongOrPoem
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-11-28 01:58:03
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#ThanksgivingQuotes
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2026-01-28 01:58:08
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MusicalAShow
#HashTagGames
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-12-28 01:58:03
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#BusinessABand
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