LainTrain @ LainTrain @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I will choose neither as I don't have any time for games

https://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Hide_an_Empire.html?id=ITpeDwAAQBAJ

I've literally never heard of any of them. I knew the rules of chess since I was 5 or 6.

It is a leftist idea and it is good business.

Likely won't work.

Buuut, what if the government made an alternative social media kids could access?

All while making access to adult social media extremely inconvenient (at this point the big ones should require IDs I'm sorry internet freedom bros I don't see another option).

This kid-friendly something where rules are more strictly enforced and moderation could end up with the kid's school being told about the kid saying the N word or whatever, to teach kids that with free speech comes the responsibility for one's speech and it's consequences, plus that could also just repell them from the concept outright.

This social media would have no data harvesting/personalized algorithm, no encryption and full ID checks on sign ups and 100% human moderation, just chronological sorting and a paginated feed, with filters by local and country-wide, and parents would have to pay a small fee for it.

I've been debating whether or not I experience empathy, because I certainly do not do any of that "mirroring" shite the school PD teacher tried to convince me exists (which I'm still not entirely convinced exists as an adult) and most of the time people try to guess how I am feeling they are incredibly wrong and I really have no clue how anyone else is feeling or what the fuck is going on in their heads.

I'm pretty observant and if I think about it I'm usually accurate enough for basically a blind guess, but it seldom if ever involves anything to do with emotions and is definitely not automatic. I definitely do not experience anything resembling their mind state as a sort of dream or hallucination much like how I don't experience memories as visions, it's more like raw data from which different types of constructs can be made, and I analyze them like I analyze the logic of an argument, or the flow of a computer program or any other such system.

I also don't feel feelings by proxy, if anything - if I was having a shit day and someone else was happy I'd probably seethe about the fact I'm not doing well also, the most comforting thing to me in misery is commiseration. E.g. if I sprained my wrist I'd go read stories of others doing so, and feel better because now I know it could be worse and that I'm not alone in the experience. This to me is just basic solidarity. But I wouldn't go reading about people having good days with unsprained wrists because I'd just feel shittier about my own luck then.

And I generally do hate people, at least as individuals, I would pay good money to be as far the fuck away from most of them as possible and I see interactions on the internet as a much needed upgrade to the in-person stuff, but I don't wish any harm to humanity or any particular innate-characteristic-based grouping thereof collectively, in fact I have a really strong sense of justice (and a huge disdain for injustice and inequality) and highly egalitarian values overall, not because I have empathy for some individual(s), but because it's a better future for everyone that we can build, which is just conceptually satisfying for the lack of a better word, and humanism and leftism are just appropriate frameworks for creating such a world I think. I'm def one of those people who wouldn't hurt a fly.

Tribalism is utterly foreign to me, yet at the same time I believe loyalty to your friends and S.O. and any other found family are everything. I'm generally pretty emotional myself, not to like a negative degree, but I do experience them.

So idk, what do you think, random internet stranger I monologues at for five paragraphs?

It's a shame the nu-Trek is utter mass appeal apolitical dogshit that has nothing to say about anything except that Alex Kurtzman should not be let anywhere near a production of anything other than a Big Mac.

EDIT: By the way, if anybody is looking for something with the same sort of tight drama, clever storytelling and progressive politics (but not virtue signaling for its own sake) and confronting complicated issues and good people doing what's right overcoming them, but would also like it to be a bit more human, down to earth and character centric then trek veteran writer of TNG and DS9 - Ronald D. Moore and I - his biggest fan girl this side of the internet - would like to invite you to watch For All Mankind.

It is an alternate history show where the soviets "win" the race to the moon and the space race continues and every season is set in a new decade, or at least that is the tagline because underneath the goofy premise and out of context clips of the sea dragon or nuclear space planes or AK-47s wielded by cosmonauts on the moon, what you'll find is a tightly written complex drama about an ensemble cast of characters and their changing relationships to themselves, each other and the tumultous world around them.

The show covers everything from the consequences of operation paperclip, misoginy, red scare and cold war distrust to civil rights, feminism, yuppie culture, privatisation of space, startup culture, homophobia, labour unions, psychedelics, PTSD, opioids, threat of nuclear war, militarization and so, so much more.

I really can't say enough good things about it. Oh yeah - the licensed song choice is great. Petula Clark's The World Song, M83, Smashing Pumpkins, John Lennon screaming his lungs out in 'Well Well Well'? And that earworm song from actual IRL North Korea which is the first and only song I've ever heard of theirs? If only they didn't use 'Come as You Are' but oh well nothing's perfect.

The first season is a bit rough in places at the start as the show finds it's footing and the stupid generically modern intro animation and music really sucks but S2 is an actual masterpiece of TV.

Idk I just find dark mode depressing as fuck. I already stare at terminals enough.

Kids don't game. Why would you when there's sensory content on tap?

Go lick the boot more. There's more to the world than some fucking computers. Go download yourself some grass and touch it.

I will in fact, fuck the GPL, I will make sweet passionate love to GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/.

Rule #1 of investing: if it looks like a scam I invest

Rule #2: fight club

If you're running externally, use a cloudflare tunnel.

No ports exposed = no attack surface. This is 99% of security.

HTTPS is provided by CF although only secures comms between your devices to CF, not CF to your Pi, meaning CF can see clear text technically.

If that's not good enough then use a VPN server like PiVPN and put it on your pi and OpenVPN on your devices. *This has nothing to do with paid VPN Client subscriptions like Tunnelbear or Proton or whatever. *

You will be running a VPN server on your pi to which you will connect from your devices on which you want to watch JF by downloading a device profile to your devices and opening it in the OpenVPN app.

You do not need to pay for anything at all anywhere ever (other than something for DDNS and a domain name), use a strong password and make sure your JF is updated if there's any CVE. Expose nothing else to the internet.

You don't even need HTTPS at that point or any certs, a VPN will encrypt your traffic anyway. The only cleartext you'll have is between your VPN and your JF, and if both are on the pi then the only MITM vector is literally inside your Pi which is unlikely to have any issues.

Exactly opposite for me. Dark mode is just eww

It's alright, shaped my music taste from early on, but not something I revisit now. Kinda like Aphex Twin was for gen x

the only thing you owe your existence to?

That out of the gate is an incorrect assumption. I owe my existence to nature to some degree for sure, but also to a significant degree - technology. An even larger part of why that existence is tolerable is exclusively technology. Were it not for science, medicine and again - technology, I wouldn't be glad I even exist at all.

view it as a kind of ideological laziness, an unwillingness to accept that which come before you and will be after you

I don't see how I don't accept it? Besides I would argue it's the opposite that is "ideological laziness", we as human beings are defined by our defiance of nature, we evolved brains so we could outsmart it and build our own environments so we could be better off.

Of course that doesn't mean humans are that awesome either, we escaped the wolves only to create new wolves just to throw people to them. There's probably an actually good argument there about evolution creating a cruel sort of balance, but nonetheless - a balance, and perhaps civilization is just a trick for the worst of us to gain the most power, and a monopoly on power is a monopoly on violence - a truly unnatural concept, and then they could impose the kinds of suffering on others that'd make one long for nature's cold dispassionate cruelty.

But to worship nature as something to preserve simply unto itself and not out of factors for how it would impact human beings, or at least not consider it a canvas for us is a bit lazy when our very existence is defined by molding it to our preferred shape and image for ourselves.

An insufferance of compromise with the forces of nature.

Which is what led to y'know - civilization?

stresses you out and you feel like you caj'tcdo anything about it,

Huh? I've never said anything of the sort. This is just an idea that's been bouncing around my head. I don't actually feel strongly about this at all. Plus I can and do do things about it lol as do we all every day.

and that usually turns into extractive, oppressive thought.

I'm sorry to hear that but I can't say I've ever experienced anything of the sort.

think your problems lie elsewhere, and nature is your scapegoat.

I don't have any problems at all really, this is just a discussion, and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

You refer to your body as a meat flesh prison but that's an incredibly shallow way of perceiving the greatest vessel for existence that we know of.

Eh, it's become okay after some modifications to fix nature's fuck ups, but ofc I'm not downplaying the various interesting complexities and their evolutionary journey throughout time of the human body, it's complex stuff, and we don't even know it all yet. But that also doesn't mean there aren't issues with them either that could be fixed, they are in fact already being fixed everyday.

It is the way for the Cosmos to know itself. It's typical human hubris to dismiss it as "flesh prison" while actually it's the vehicle of our freedom.

Eh, I think that is hubris. I'm not sure the cosmos desires to know itself, and I think our meat bodies are prisons we will one day escape in better, more well suited shells just like we did with our environment.

In many ways, we already do cheat death and agony daily thanks to man-made wonders and that's just directly, ignoring the decreased risk we have from the start thanks to our civilizations and whatnot.

I love my body - but I would not do so without the man-made components that make it whole, before that, existence was pain, so I'm not so sure about this "marvel of engineering", seems more like something interesting that was bound to happen given geological time scales, like a donut shaped cloud, or something.

I'm just a random on the internet so i don't pretendente i am right abt you, another random on the internet, but i just don't think it's an healthy outlook and you should challenge it

I don't think there's anything unhealthy about it but yes, clearly I am willing to challenge it because I wouldn't make a post if I didn't want to hear any counterarguments.

Maybe this is weird but given solid enough reasons it would be intellectually dishonest for me to maintain the same views even if someone roasted me while at it, in fact in many ways my current beliefs were forged through the fire of debate in that vein.

I constantly challenge myself in this way, to if not change my own mind, at least sharpen my own viewpoints and make them specific and get to the core of things and understand my ideas and myself better. I steelman even the worst of takes just to see where I stand.

Sadly the quality of arguments made this far ITT has been absolutely terrible, yours being probably one of the best ones so far in that you at least seem coherent unlike the other people who either cannot read, are responding to a strawman in their head instead of what was written and/or complain about having to engage with an unpopular opinion on /c/UnpopularOpinions or resort to truly psychotic levels of intellectual laziness by responding with ad-hominem sometimes followed by some variation of "that's just like, your opinion man".

The only thing I've really learned is that debate classes, critical thinking including critiques of ideas in art and literature and basic civics should be fucking mandatory in school alongside reading or else democracy can't survive the onslaught of an electorate of retards.

But someone mentioned it also happening on Voyager? So it seems that it happens on both, and doesn't happen on Jerboa

I was referring to HRT. In this case I mean I'm trans and I have no gonads after sex reassignment surgery. My sex hormones (which is what people usually refer to in "teenage hormones" because they increase during puberty) come from estrogen patches externally at a dose calibrated to roughly match the mid-late follicular phase in a cis woman, so my levels are around 600pmol/L of Estrogen and 0.4nmol/L of Testosterone (14.42ng/DL in USA units)

At the time I was referencing in the comment a few years back I still had my natal gonads but my testosterone production was completely suppressed at the production sites via a GNRH blocker (commonly known as a "puberty blockers") and my T levels were the same as now as a result and my E levels were around the same level.

Hope that explains it well enough. And no I'm afraid I haven't read the short story in question.

Never happened to me on Jerboa!

Another way to do this is sudo su -c 'this is my command'

E.g. change a fan setting on a ThinkPad with:

sudo su -c 'echo "level full-speed" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan'

So to run a shell you could do all sorts of tricks like:

sudo su -c '/bin/bash -i' and such.

Never know when it comes in handy.

EDIT: Damn, downvoted, any reason why? It works on my machine with a locked root user or one without a PW and I made sure to test it before posting, but I'd love an explanation of why it wouldn't work if that's the reason for the downvote. Was just hoping it would be useful to somebody :/

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