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lennivelkant @ lennivelkant @discuss.tchncs.de Posts 0Comments 545Joined 1 yr. ago
I'm in your boat often enough. Sometimes a post assumes familiarity with a context and it may be hard to figure out the intent or sincerity without that familiarity.
That is a reasonable proposition. Have you considered, however, that those are the people that make the money off it? I'm not too confident they'd do something about them until they become a competitor to an even bigger fish.
It's not projection, just regular hypocrisy. Almost boring, these days.
I think you did good, I took no offense. I often get insecure about "Are they joking? I'll give a serious reply in case they're not, or in case someone else thinks they might be serious" myself, so I'm usually more concerned with the question "Is this clear enough as a joke?" than with blaming other people for not getting that.
I have an irrational aversion to suffixing my posts with tone markers like "(joke)" that I probably should do something about. It would certainly help with that confusion.
Either way, offering a serious take as a safety measure is a good thing, and I appreciate that you took the time.
May life be as kind to you as you are to others!
Re: your username
Filesystem check yourself before you filesystem wreck yourself
You are completely right.
I was trying to make a joke, piggybacking off the other guy's joke, but I can see that was poorly communicated.
Why not make a podcast about gatekeeping and use this as your first example? There, you've got an objective.
Yes... absolutely.... I'm very lucky that I don't need to deal with Outlook...
muttered curses about a slew of boot problems and wondering if just reinstalling it would be easier
Pageant Predator?
For sure. There are many kinds of toxicity. Toxic gasses may affect you differently than inhaling silica dust, biological neurotoxins or rigid gender norms.
I imagine there are a lot of conservatives that aren't actually so concerned about racism / sexism / LGBT issues as about financial ones. They fear that empowering the "leftists" will lead to them losing all the luxuries they enjoy, a flame Conservative pundits are all too happy to fan. Particularly when they believe they have a chance to become one of those rich people the leftists are actually targeting, they're worried about "lazy" people (obviously not working hard enough) coming for their hard-earned wealth. So even if they might disagree with the GOP's stance on the social issues, they're concerned about the "collateral damage" the progressives might do their own lives, and since that affects them much more tangibly than reports of social issues, they're naturally biased to worry about their own wellbeing first.
Religion obviously plays a role in enabling that mindset by justifying supremacy (I'm a better person, so I deserve better) and inequality (God gives us each what we deserve), giving an explanation for things we don't understand (God's plan) and a goal (be a pious Christian and go to heaven), relieving of guilt (just ask God to forgive you and that's that) and a fear of death (I'll go to heaven anyway). It also provides a mechanism for Power to steer people (The preacher I trust tells me it's God's will) and direct their anger and attention away from the people exploiting them (Those damn
<insert relevant slur>
are the devil's agents and working against the good and pious people like myself).Better access to education, teaching critical thinking and scepticism, helping people realise the lies they're fed - and particularly the fact that none of us are immune to deception and propaganda, no matter how smart - could help both these problems.
My hope - yes, I'm naive and optimistic, let me have this - is that it'll gradually shift the Overton Window to the left.
Radical political change has a risk of emboldening "They're going too far!" rhetorics, swaying those who prefer the familiar over uncertain promises of improvement to help swing it back. We're in a certain bubble here in that we'd like to see significant changes ASAP, but don't have an accurate idea of how many people agree with us on that.
The same mechanism that enabled a gradual slide to the right needs to be stalled and reversed, improving things little by little. I would guess voter enfranchisement would have to be an early priority, along with education and media bias (though censorship is a bad precedent to set, and I'm not sure if there's a better way to tackle that)
I don't have all the answers. It's far easier to point out flaws than come up with sustainable and lasting improvements as an amateur. This is why I think having discussions on such things is important: Collectively, we may come up with more ideas, show up errors in them and maybe develop better solutions.
I find myself repeating some version this sentiment every now end then: There are good reasons to hate (whoever the conversation is about), but this ain't one. We don't need to grasp at straws when there are solid branches.
Why would you want backwards compatibility? To play games you already own and like instead of buying new ones? Now now, don't be ridiculous.
Sarcasm aside, I do wonder how technically challenging it is to keep your system backwards-compatible. I understand console games are written for specific hardware specs, but I'd assume newer hardware still understands the old instructions. It could be an OS question, but again, I'd assume they would develop the newer version on top of their old, so I don't know why it wouldn't support the old features anymore.
I don't want to cynically claim that it's only done for profit reasons, and I'm certainly out of my depth on the topic of developing an entire console system, so I want to assume there's something I just don't know about, but I'm curious what that might be.
27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they're essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they're not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.
How far off am I?
Mind, I'm far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.
I believe Robustness was the term I learned years ago: the ability of a system to gracefully handle user error, make it easy to recover from or fix, clearly communicate what was wrong etc.
Of course, nothing is ever perfect and humans are very creative at fucking up, and a lot of companies don't seem to take UX too seriously. Particularly when the devs get tunnel vision and forget about user error being a thing....
I used to sneer at the kids in my class that used it. Must have been fairly shortly after it launched, something like fourteen to fifteen years ago. I'm still grappling with a certain inertia when it comes to switching away from something I have relied on for so long, but I'm coming around to the idea of giving DDG a try at least (irrational as it is, I've been reluctant to even try - I suspect out of fear of liking it and having to change).
Past Me would be exasperated that Present Me is even toying with the idea. But then, Past Me had a lot of stupid takes anyway.
Honestly, I was never a fan of his music (his voice specifically), but I hella respect his grit.