Xeno

if you normalize political violence against your opponents then you also normalize it against yourself.

Their political violence against us (their opponents) has always been normalized and it never led to what you said.

🤦🏾‍♂️ Free as in freedom, DF isn’t even source available.

There’s a bot that crossposts reddit posts here, I forgot it’s name because I blocked it. I’ll check my blocked list and post it here, brb.

edit: it’s this bot: @bot@lemmit.online

I love it when the libre software world moves from “what if there was an open source version of this” to “thanks for the starting concept, dear company, we’ll take it from here and make something bigger and better”.

I remember I tried Luanti a while ago (before the name change) but got a bit confused by the many games, like I thought it would be literally just a libre version of minecraft with builtin moddability. Once I read a bit about it it made a lot more sense, but by that time I was too busy to try it again. I’ve been thinking of getting back to gaming, I might give this a shot if I can’t find a libre version of Dwarf Fortress.

edit: changed ‘free’ to ‘libre’ to avoid ambiguities.

This place is full of former redditors. We’ve all been in the situation where someone comments the most deranged, obviously satire thing, you upvote and start playing in on the joke, saying something even more deranged, and they agree with you in an obviously satire back and forth, then you check their comment history and it turns out it was never satire from their side and you were encouraging a flat-earther. As much as the /s and the mOcKiNg CaSe annoy me, I think they’re necessary these days.

In my small town cars and pedestrians just kinda share the street. Like we take a look at each other and whoever seems to be the most in a hurry goes first. There’s very few traffic lights and crossings. Also very few cars and people, lol.

But back when I lived in a huge city, there was this big commercial street where traffic lights were literally ignored. A car would slowly threaten to run the pedestrians over until they stopped crossing, then the other cars would follow until enough pedestrians started threatening to get run over by the cars, then everyone would follow, and that was it, traffic was controlled by pedestrians’ willingness to die vs drivers’ willingness to kill them.

Worth mentioning that this only worked because that street was so crowded that at certain times of the year you could get an actual pedestrian jam, like the entire street filled with people, barely able to move, and more people constantly arriving.

Also, whenever police showed up, all the unlicensed street merchants would pack up their carts and run through the middle of the street so police wouldn’t steal their merch, cars were just expected to stop for them. Which was weird because the street was always full of regular cops, but there was this special type of cop whose only job was to steal merch from unlicensed merchants. The regular cops just ignored them.

I never understood why cars were allowed on that street, nor why drivers kept using it instead of taking a detour. Needless to say, moving away from that shithole of a city did wonders for my mental (and physical) health.

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I’m baffled I just downvoted a comment saying “intellectual property is bullshit”. There’s a first time for everything I guess. And yes it is bullshit but gosh, what a weird place to take that stance.

Bic pens and lighters.

I’m just stupid and sleep deprived and misread the conversation. But how did you know I was south american?

But even Taiwan would give 2 possible countries, my guess in this case would be somewhere in the UK cuz they’re already pretty ambiguous on what is a “country”. Say, Northern Ireland could be considered as it’s own country, Ireland or UK. And then USians think the EU is a country, idk but that makes sense as 3 or 4.

edit: Oh shit I’m fucking stupid, I didn’t realize you were the actual person who commented, my bad, I assumed you were one of us randos trying to figure out the mistery. Ignore me, I’ll leave the comment here so people remember to sleep properly.

I can’t even say I have a homelab yet, lol, but two steps toward starting it made me really proud. Not much but honest work.

First was merely rooting an old redmi 9i, then degoogling it. Like I always wanted to root a phone but I’m too poor to take the risk. Xiaomi was kind enough to enforce planned obsolescense so hard on the software that for the first time in our lives my mom was forced to buy a new phone before the hardware broke, so it was the first time I had access to a truly expendable device since it was already unusable. I’m planning on flashing an abandoned custom rom I found when I have the time, then I’ll just use it for chroot experiments, since the software is no longer supported and it’s probably gonna be an open door at the kernel level. But maybe I can find some service that I could run on an untrusted device, or figure out a way to harden it, idk, I’m honestly very new to this.

Second was figuring out how to make emacs and org mode usable on my regular phone through a combination of syncthing, tailscale, unexpected keyboard, termux, tmux, and the new android port of emacs (like I can’t get the sharedUserID versions to work on this device, so I just switch between native emacs + termux emacs to make up for each other’s weaknesses). It’s a work in progress but it already made it much easier to do simple habit tracking and note taking on the go without mobile internet. Like I don’t have to worry about things getting out of sync. Again, not much at all, but a huge QoL improvement for me nonetheless.

The next step is fixing a little thin client I bought for ~30 USD in the current conversion rate. I’m pretty sure I just need to replace the motherboard’s coin battery, that’s what chatgpt told me based on the symptoms. It’s really weak, like 1 GB ram 1 GB flash storage, but it’s a real machine so I plan on trying alpine, seeing what I can run with so little resources, and then maybe trying my own LFS some day, or my own kernel experiments, idk.

Latveria, I want to be dr. Doom’s manservant

I can fix him 🥺

English: ghoti

lol no I was joking, but I did subscribe to this guy specifically because I was curious about the concept, like I read the comments and I can’t tell if people are role playing or they actually think it’s a real guy (and as I said, it might actually be and I was the actual fool).

Difference is people in the US are generally not defending negative US history or actions

Yeah, I won’t even waste my time arguing, I just ask that you understand that it’s possible for people to disagree with this, as absurd as it may sound to you. I don’t think you’re acting on bad faith but you have no idea how absurd this claim sounds to me, if you want to assume bad faith that’s your problem.

But the point of my comment is: I can block lemmy.world if it bothers me enough, or I can not block it if it doesn’t bother me enough. And I don’t need to make a whole rant about it. That’s immature as fuck.

I’m curious, what problem do you think this would solve that regular blocking doesn’t? I mean, I’m an emacs zealot user, I genuinely think everything that could be done through a plain text file should be done through a plain text file, lol, but other than some tiny convenience when creating new accounts, what do you think this could achieve?

I don’t like Russia but people supporting Russia doesn’t bother me near as much as people supporting the US/West. Yet I still haven’t blocked lemmy.world which is not only blatantly pro-west, but so heavily biased that most people legit think they aren’t, like I can tell they’re being sincere.

And if I ever block it or any instance/community/user, I won’t make a fuss about it, I’ll merely enjoy the peace of mind of not dealing with them. I’m happy for you that you won’t have to deal with these people anymore, I’ve blocked a few communities and instances as well and I love the fact we’re able to do it, that we get some level of control over what we see on our feed as opposed to some algorithm forcing us to pay attention to stuff that hurts us. But this post is immature as fuck. Grow up.

Not a boomer but I follow a thirst trap guy on youtube who I was always sure was AI (like fully artificial, not based on a real person), but then he posted a really messy video (like imperfect skin, not fully shredded, awful lighting, messy room that didn’t look glamorous) and now I’m no longer sure, like there’s a chance it’s a real guy recording himself then asking AI to make him look flawless. Which means I may have been thirsting over a human all this time, ugh.

The point is I knew AI could improve real videos or generate realistic videos from scratch, but I assumed it was still easy to tell one from the other. Well, turns out either AI is now able to generate messy videos from scratch (that truly look low quality/effort) or it’s able to make real videos look like they were made from scratch. So I genuinely don’t trust myself to distinguish what’s AI anymore. And I’m around 30, so I don’t even have the age excuse.

Anything but the metric system!

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