freebee @ freebee @sh.itjust.works

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It starts with something silly like an avatar or profile pic next to every comment. If you'ld have had a flag or a dogpic or so next to your name/comment, I wouldn't have read your comment in the same relatively neutral way. I dislike the persona stuff, it's why I prefer forums. Lemmy is a collection of forums to me. I profoundly distrust persona cult stuff, like influencers etc. Sure, I'll encounter same people here I'm sure, but frankly: I'm mostly unaware, usernames barely register in my mind.

The part about social media I dislike is the real connection between Irl and online, and the "profile"-focus, for now both is no issue for me on lemmy.

I very specifically bought a steam deck because it can double as a Linux desktop. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Cool game! Thanks for namedropping it here

To distinguish in their minds between people possessing free will and such, and people who don't (yet). The first, the adult, is only a victim of their own poor life choices (in this individual responsibility-guilt view on society), their shitty life situation is supposedly their own fault. While children are 'victims'. Thus advocating for equal chances rather than actual equality (which would involve shit like hard capping inheritance etc).

If fuel was subsidised, it could be because it gets hit twice: general rising (import) prices + subsidies cut, while some other products might only feel the general rising prices.

Well we do have the 'index' mechanism: all paychecks and wellfare adjust magically and automatically when stuff in shops gets more expensive. There's worse places to live, I guess.

Track record.

They'll try to dominate the way the protocols evolve. Try to push more and more crap into it because they're too big to ignore. Insert becoming ad, bot, corporate friendlier stuff. Fediverse doesn't need meta. It's nice and cosy and rather friendly here, I'ld like it to stay that way. It's like Google dominates some "open source" and pushes browsers towards more and more DRM friendly etc. We don't need that.

I agree. Defederate.

Excel has it too if you store it in onedrive or a sharepoint library with versioning enabled

Sure, it's mostly BBC and mostly science.

My all time favorite podcast is Elements. It's from 2014-2016, but still worth the listen! Every episode explores an element or a group of similar elements on the periodic table. Physics and chemistry is often very theoretical and weird and hard to understand (for me), but in this podcast it gets very applied and business oriented: which industry uses this stuff, why, how ...? It was my gateway-podcast into the BBC really.

• The documentary podcast: I often don't listen, it very much depends on the subject
• witness history
• Discovery: same, depends on subject
• The food chain
• 50 things that made the modern economy
• Unexpected elements
• Hidden brain (shankar vedantam)
• Radiolab (WNYC studios)
• The climate question
• Sliced bread

One that doesn't really fit the others but i liked very much: death in ice valley.

And then a few in german and dutch language, mostly politics/society, i'm just gonna assume you don't understand dutch or german ;)

Care to share some of yours?

It does still happen. Even in new projects. It happened in Britain on their big COVID19.xls sheet

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

I god damn hate that they started messing around in notepad.

I use it for temporary notes. Suddenly it's got tabs, and everything I close it and open it again shit is still there. It was a feature to me that I didn't have to actively decide to remove stuff written. They messed with my workflow now I'm piling up tabs with shit in yet another location.

I want to revert to the oldest notepad I can find.

True, but unless still using .xls instead of .xlsx chances of reaching the row limit on a sheet became rather small, even for very large companies. Many issues with the everything in excel hell, but the row limit isn't a main one (anymore).

Could be they don't.

You need to update the app if you don't do that automatically.

Haha great! I got into cautionary tales because of 'more or less', searched for Tim harford because I liked he's presenting!

You might like some episodes of cautionary tales with Tim harford. Quite a few are about engineering oopsies with big consequences.

• the infinite monkey cage
• cautionary tales
• crowdscience

The fact that 1 single person gets to decide arbitrarily who is or isn't allowed to voice bullshit 'facts' on a worldwide medium that is copy-pasted by every newsagency and newspaper as if it is a main and legit source of actual news is just very very wrong.