luciole (he/him) @ luciole @beehaw.org

Doesn't know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.

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Creation and destruction is all just transformation though I guess. It takes some stuff and makes it into other stuff. Understanding a specific transformation as creation or destruction depends on your point of view. If the input that is lost is noteworthy then we’ll see the destruction. If the newly produced output is noteworthy then we’ll see the creation. It’s two sides of the same coin.

I don’t catch how you correlate destruction and passion though. Would you like to elaborate?

Cucumber, Terror of House Cats.

(Do not scare your feline friends with veggies. It’s mean.)

This feels like some kind of reverse Dunning Kruger backflip fallacy.

• Dumb people are confident despite their ineptitude.
• I lack all form of confidence.
• Therefore, I am quite smart.

I love Slowdive! I just gave it a first superficial listen (while working) and I liked it. It feels... comfortable, in a way? Some might see it as a weakness, but I’m welcoming some cozy music I can sink into.

Can’t decide if this is a huge bike or a tiny car.

Good analogy! More recently, the same kind of thing is happening with facial recognition software.

Similarly but with JRPGs. It's not about not wanting any sort of adult content in my RPG, it's about not wanting the weird objectification/sexualization of women or worst, girls some JRPG titles feature.

It's a thing that comes back to my mind once in a while. They have that power of fascination.

One of these days I'll give Algorithmic Beauty of Plants a careful read and code all the way through it.

The ways fungi participate at connecting together lifeforms into a network is so fascinating. The web page tells about a book coming in 2013 (!) but I'm not finding anything about it unfortunately.

I have a mini in some drawer, didn't realize this thing could be modified! I listen music from my phone but I still use the good old way of building a collection of files on PC and transferring them to the device. Reviving my mini sounds sort of cool...

I agree with you. It’s hard to foster a community free of the snark and the contrarianism that poisons other platforms. The moderators are doing their damn best here to do that, I’m still hopeful and I’m trying to become better as well.

It’s unfortunate that this kind of attitude just keeps seeping back from every other place though. I’ve been thinking about affordance lately. For example car drivers will go fast on a large road no matter the speed limit. To slow down trafic, narrowing the road will be more efficient than any warning sign.

Lemmy is built very much like Reddit and I wonder if some of the design decisions both platforms share lead to similar behaviour simply through affordance. A Lemmy/Reddit thread is a bit like a political debate. There’s this thing that happens where a user will reply to another not in the aim of discussing with the recipient but of scoring popularity points with the audience. The recipient of the reply receives little empathy, as the author is mainly looking "at the camera", hoping to rake in the (up)votes.

I don’t think Lemmy or Beehaw for that matter is doomed in any way to devolve into a mini Reddit though. It’s just good to stay aware that tools are never really neutral.

Never played Roblox myself, but my son had a big phase and still plays from time to time. Back then we’d get him Roblox figurines once in a while. They can be disassembled/mixed and they come with codes for virtual items as well.

Politicians are terrified at the idea of seeing house prices decrease and losing the home owners’ votes, but when prices are driven up with all sorts of dubious tactics nobody bats an eye.

The housing market in Canada is plagued with speculation and fraud. Very few realtors face any kind of scrutiny or repercussion. The whole system is organized for people to engage in bidding wars while being kept in the dark about the actual "auction" going on. The realtors stimulate the bidding to rake in bigger commissions. Very few repercussions take place as they’re more or less autoregulated.

There are two realtors currently facing scrutiny, one of which was also starring in a reality TV show about making big bucks selling properties. It does look like they’re mainly being punished for not being secretive enough about it, rather than for the act of it.

It's unfortunate that Ubisoft Quebec will not be able to try and shake things up with an unusual setting and a more challenging game play. From what's described in the article, it sounded like a welcome iteration over the open-world formula.

The summary’s second sentence should read "The man reportedly made disparaging remarks before opening fire with a handgun". The article is quite short too, so it might be better to just go ahead and read it.

It took me a moment too. At first I agreed, then he headed straight into Leopards Eating People's Faces Party territory.

It’s mesmerizing. I wonder about its perfume. Is it very strong? Or subtle? I wish I had more words to talk about smell.

I didn’t know about Qobuz, nice suggestion! DRM free files <3

I end up buying on 7digital sometimes when the artist isn’t on Bandcamp. No DRM.

I’m sad that the workers blame each other rather than the corporate giants hiring them for getting paid less and less.

I wish clickworkers were more visible. They’re an essential part of today’s new technologies, they’re clearly kept in precarious conditions and I bet most users don’t even know they exist, seeing only the tech gurus at the top of the pyramid.