megane-kun @ megane_kun @lemm.ee

Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.

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I've bounced around several clients (mobile) and frontends (web) especially when I first started. I've eventually settled on Voyager (mobile) and Alexandrite (web frontend).

Voyager has a lot of neat features that makes browsing Lemmy on mobile smooth and an overall nice experience. It's got swipe gestures (configurable, but mine has long swipe left to upvote, long swipe left to save, short swipe right to downvote, and long swipe right to reply). There's also a feature to tag a user, and to keep track of votes (in aggregate, so I wouldn't know if I give a user an upvote in one thread, and a downvote in another, yielding a net zero, or I just haven't given that user a vote at all). Still a nice set of features. There might be more that I have yet to discover and use.

Alexandrite, on the other hand, presents a really good desktop experience. There's an option to have the posts (on my feed, or a community) on the left side of the screen and the post I'm reading on the right, which is great if I am just scanning a my feed, deciding if I want to take a closer look at a post. I end up mostly just using this mode most of the time.

Both Voyager and Alexandrite allow me to switch between my Lemmy accounts easily, which is a great plus if you're having a handful of accounts (for different purposes, like one main, another for NSFW, etc).

IMO, the clients (for mobile) have a lot of competition going on, and I wouldn't be surprised if I find a different one I'd like better. Just keep an eye out for those, I guess?

In most urbanized areas, even in suburbs, you can buy daily necessities (food, personal hygiene, medicine, etc) in just a short walk. If in a subdivision, like in a suburb, there would be some houses with an attached corner store. Failing to find what you need there, a convenience store would be a bit further (either still inside the subdivision, or just out the gate).

If you need to do your groceries, you can use public transport to the market. Even within subdivisions (with some exceptions, like those for the wealthy), there usually would be some form of public transport that could take you to the main highway, and from there, to the market.

That's just one that immediately came to mind upon reading the prompt. Not sure if there are others, but it's the most striking to me, and one that I've taken for granted until hearing about the US' suburbs.

Nothing will get done.

Well, not exactly. My clones could probably make a decent guess on what to do, but they'd procrastinate on it and do something else given what's available to them. Before long, everyone starves to death.

If Google decides to go full rogue and ignore W3C specs entirely and make up a bunch of their own shit, that devs then start to use because why not since the majority of their userbase use a chromium based browser, then Firefox can easily be taken out.

Which is basically the ending of the first browser wars, as far as I can remember. Internet Explorer had a little bit less market share than Google Chrome has nowadays, but still an overwhelming majority. Moreover, Internet Explorer had these IE-only tags and features, which further reinforced such things.

But here we are. Yes, Google Chrome and Google has an overwhelming majority right now, but so was IE (thanks to Microsoft's practices) back then. Google Chrome came at the right time with what people actually wanted at that time, and so was able to gain the upper hand, and eventually a chokehold.

My response though is more about "keeping things alive for its users", at least until such a breakthrough happens (maybe Servo has it?) or more pessimistically, until internet browsers fade away into obscurity (or perhaps just like IRC clients, it's still a thing, right?)

I really hope that the forks coordinate for this to happen, soon, if not yesterday.

Maybe a group that keeps track what is to be done if Firefox development stops or if Mozilla folds or somehow abandons Firefox. Things such as:

• how to take over development from Mozilla
• the minimum that needs to be done to keep up to the standards
• the minimum that needs to be done to keep the (base) browser on par in performance with Chromium (and the others, such as Servo)
• coordinate developers and other people involved in the project
• manage donations and funding

Maybe I'm imagining some sort of a cooperative formed by Firefox forks with the main aim of keeping Firefox alive despite of (or after) Mozilla.

• Publish prematurely in an attempt to take advantage of the momentum.
• Notice that there are grammatical, spelling, and typographical mistakes.
• Edit, attempt to explain the edits, while also introducing more mistakes.

Rinse and repeat.

It's okay if there are patch notes, right? Right??

As I am right now? Hell no!

But there'd be a question gnawing at the back of my head: "If I am the chosen one, why?!" I'd probably hold on to that question as I try to do what I can to save the world. There must be a reason, right? There must be something that I can do.

Moreover, if it's known to everyone (or at least to the ones that are powerful enough to make a difference), I'd leverage that fact to have them do something. Like, "Yeah, the Chosen One needs you to be his companion" or some cheesy shit like that. And in that case, I'd probably end up more as someone inspiring (or pushing) others to save the world rather than the actual person saving the world (not that I believe any one person can, tbh).

Petty and minor, huh?

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Formatting

incredible defense → non-credible defense → ncd

For those people like me thinking “WTF is a worry stone?”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_stone

Worry stones are smooth, polished gemstones, usually in the shape of an oval with a thumb-sized indentation, used for relaxation or anxiety relief.

Something one would fidget with when worried, I suppose.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/evacuate#Verb

2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.“The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.”

Hence: “Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 on board evacuated” → “[A] passenger plane catches fire at a South Korean airport. All 176 people on board [were] evacuated [from the plane]. ”

Note that in the linked Wiktionary entry, there is an attested usage from 1943. It isn't exactly youth slang. It is, however, the sense with the most recent attested usage among all of those listed.

Full-blown Musk off, huh?

They're out and out being Proud Boys™, good for them, I guess? Bad for everyone deemed undesirable, of course.

I used to ask people to tell me if they need healing, but I found it easier to just keep track of it all myself so that I can plan when to switch roles from buff to heal.

Combat encounters usually have me bringing out a calculator and a sheet of paper where everyone's hp is being tracked.

I reacted to a comment to a meme about parents having the power and the right to withhold what their children's privileges relating to some trauma I've got.

The comment I replied to went:

We take away what each kid values the most. Works well. If they complain or don’t stop whatever got them in trouble we start adding days.

In hindsight, taking the context, it's kinda reasonable, but I was triggered by the “what each kid values the most” remembering a painful part of my childhood, which lead me to be way less open to my mother.

I commented:

Wouldn't that end up with a kid who values nothing, not even their own life?

My mom used a similar technique to get me to do what she wants me to do, and I ended up, well, the way I am right now. I hide a lot of things from her, and if necessary, only pretend to show interest in things I don't give a damn about just to have a semblance of a personality. Worse, even if I‌ die right after this comment, I wouldn't mind one bit.

Admittedly, that last part is totally unnecessary.

That response became my most controversial and downvoted for understandable reasons.

Saglit lang! Sino po sila? (A moment please! Who are they?)

Lol! Yes!! That's exactly it! I never really thought much about it until this post. It's one of those things people just do, without thinking much about it.

some cultures need visitors to declare themselves human when knocking at your door.

I didn't think that much about it until this post. People here, me included, basically call out "(I'm a) human!" while knocking on the door.

That last paragraph of yours just made things click for me.

I've been wondering what kind of government will potentially do this. While it's a pretty good idea in general, I don't think any government will be able to shoulder the costs while earning the ire of the companies (media companies, etc.).

I mean, yeah, I also dislike having to restrict access, but I've just accepted it as a fact that such an institution must face. The decision on those restrictions would fall on the library/archives institution, so long as they are not running afoul of laws. So, I guess in the US, it'd be on the Library of Congress or in the case of the UK, the British Library.

Of course, it doesn't do a thing to address your concerns, which as far as I am concerned, is very valid. And this is why I think piracy should exist, to keep such institutions honest. Sure, the national library here won't allow me to research xyz, but other sources exists.

In a more philosophical POV, such institutions existing along with other entities (pirates, or what have you) allows for a check, and provides future historians a means of verifying information.

To be clear, I also fundamentally disagree on the concept of restricting access to information. And I think a lot of librarians and archivists agree with both of us. But for such an institution with such a service to exist, restricting access might be an evil they're forced to accept.

I guess, to be honest, I don't think such an institution will be allowed to exist, even with such restrictions in place.

EDIT: Typos and minor changes.

This would have been the job of the national archives and/or the national library.

Where I live, the government has a law stipulating that one copy every published material has to be submitted to the national library. I suppose a similar law exists for a lot of other countries, and extending this law to non-print media (like movies and TV shows) shouldn't be controversial.

Regarding material deemed harmful and/or illegal, I think it should still be collected, but access would be restricted. If need be, access could be restricted to "premises-only" like what is done in a lot of university libraries.

Having this online library of material doesn't have to mean that pirates have to be stamped out. I think this works best with the pirates keeping the government-sponsored media library honest.

However, what I think would be more plausible is an offline library of all the media that country has produced, with limited off-premises access afforded to researchers and others. That much, I think, would be allowed by the real powers that be.

I'm glad it somehow helped you IRL. Best of luck to you!