SavvyWolf @ savvywolf @pawb.social

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I have a "professional" email with my real name and one with my "online" name. They used to both be on gmail but now they are on Protonmail.

I also have some domain names I own which I can set up with Protonmail as the provider... Kinda tempted to move everything over to my domain so that I can switch providers if I need to without having to update things.

So, there's a number of furry works that don't have humans at all, but I don't think that's what you're asking (and isn't really that weird even for people outwith the furry sphere).

I'm a white person who, to be honest, isn't really that knowledgable about many cultures. I'd personally love to see media exploring african mythology. It would certainly be more interesting than all those reskins of greek mythology.

There's, sady, a group of people that want to deminish and erase history of non-white races who would almost certainly complain that you're being too "woke" or whatever. I'd ignore them, and focus on building your world with the respect and dignity that it deserves.

Just avoid having black people (and other marginalised groups) be used to fill up a "diversity quota". That kind of thing is obvious and just generally feels lazy.

Also, re: The score card thing.

Don't worry to much about karma; that's just a Reddit thing and is part of toxic social media culture. We don't do that here.

Unless you are getting mass downvoted, I guess. In which case, try to figure out why or something.

I disagree with this - on the web client crossposts are only shown once if you are subscribed to multiple communities. It's useful if the same community is in multiple instances, or if there's both a general and specific category that the content makes sense for.

I do think Lemmy could do with improving the UI though, and have communities that span multiple instances.

Don't ask about the baloonganor.

I think an ideal government should do the following:

• Provide essential services to citizens for free, such as education, public transport and healthcare.
• Implement legislation that ensures everyone is free to express themselves however they want if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
• Implement legislation that protects individuals from hostile people and companies.
• Encourage economic growth through healthy competition between companies.
• A strong justice system that is transparent, fair and ammendable.
• Defence of the country's borders and interests.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking on my part - I'm sure a lot of this will fall apart when you start asking how we'd implement them or how we'd fund them.

As a kid, I used to borrow my sister's games and play them (which I think annoyed her because I always got further than she did...) and it got to the point where they "de facto" became mine and are now somewhere in my games collection.

I guess I feel guilty about it, but haven't really spoken to her about it.

If you're serious about sticking to the terminal, it's probably worth learning a terminal text editor like emacs or vim. Once you get the hang of them, you can be much more productive compared to something like nano.

I think it's also worth learning about job control and/or terminal multiplexers, but I've yet to fully understand them myself.

The question is, would these people be predators if people didn't bait them into it? If they are doing this for "content" or some sense of moral judgement, then they have an incentive to push people into these things more than they originally would.

I can imagine the following scenario being common (to the point at which I wouldn't be surprised if there is a tutorial for it somewhere):

• Find someone online who has serious mental health problems or cognitive impairment.
• Emotionally manipulate them into saying or doing something nasty that they wouldn't otherwise do.
• Invite them somewhere public and humiliate then online for content.
• Congratulations! Not only have you managed to ruin someone's life, you've done it in a way that you get to feel morally superior as well.

Target some marginalised group as well, and you can also justify hatred towards them and show everyone that your group is better!

So they're doing the equivalent of VSCode(ium)'s extensions, but installing them automatically and not giving you the option to use alternatives?

Blegh.

I'd probably be boring and try to use it to improve the lives of marginalised and impoverished people. Getting hospital waiting times down, improving access to mental health support, give people loans to get on their feet. That sort of thing.

Maybe I could also make a video sharing site to complete with Youtube and force them to make some improvements to remain competitive. But I'm not sure 6 billion will go far enough on that front.

More communities dedicated to individual games. That's what I mostly used Reddit for.

A full set of red pieces are placed on the board on random squares.

"We're the harem inspectors."

The terms of service explicitly say that art remains copyright of the artist. Where are you reading that suggests that they've granted themselves extra rights?

I guess you could interpret "are the property of Cara and/or the individual artist" to mean "are the property of either Cara and/or the individual artist at Cara's discretion", but that's such a stretch that I can't see a judge accepting it.

I'm not American and so am not in touch with American politics, but I have an American friend who doesn't seem to be bothered by it. I assume he knows better than me, so I'm trying not to worry about it.

But if I were to worry about it, I can see the whole Trump situation leading to another civil war for you guys...

Tos: https://blog.cara.app/terms

The closest thing I can find is the following:

The Cara Site and all works of art (“Art”) and/or other user generated content (including without limitation commentary, images, third-party links, and similar content and/or works) (collectively the “Art And Other User Generated Content”), text, data, and other materials contained in the Cara Site are copyrighted unless otherwise noted and are the property of Cara and/or the individual artist who created any individual piece of Art And Other User Generated Content (the “Artist”). No such materials may be copied, reproduced, republished, modified or used in any way except as provided in these Terms and Conditions.

Which doesn't actually grant any copyright; it just explicitly states that the artist remains the copyright holder.

There seems to be a weird hateboner on Instagram for Cara, for unsurprising reasons.

I like being in control of my computer.

Windows and Android have this attitude where they decide how you want to use your device and block customisation. And the fact that they feel entitled to be able to change how your device looks and feels without warning or permission is something that's deeply uncomfortable to me. There's also this feeling of not knowing what my device is actually doing, and how much of my data it is actually collecting.

With Windows, there's also a lot of small papercuts that make it annoying to use (and that my Windows friends don't seem to understand):

• Lack of middle click paste.
• Lack of the ability to drag windows using "alt".
• You can't turn off the window previews in the task bar.
• You can't disconnect from a wired network connection from the connections list.
• Sometimes the computer just restarts on its own for fun.
• Finding settings is a pain because they keep adding new settings menus.
• Whatever garbage the start menu is doing nowadays.
• Installing software and drivers is a pain.
• The attitude that you have to download (or buy!) third party software for core features that should be included in the OS.
• It doesn't support my keyboard layout, and the editor for making new layouts is terrible.
• The bitlocker password entry doesn't respect your keyboard layout. Or clear the entry when you get it wrong.
• Windows licenses are a pain to manage.
• Managing the bootloader just sucks.
• The registry just kinda sucks compared to dconf and/or text config files.
• Font rendering is ugly, imo.
• I don't care about edge, fuck off with that shit.
• I can't change the volume by using the scroll wheel.
• Launching a pinned app on the task bar causes all the other pinned apps to shift around so I misclick.
• Device letters are not stable if you add or remove devices.
• It just resets settings sometimes, because why not?
• It can't be installed to a partition that isn't the first partition on the disk. This is not mentioned anywhere, nor is the error useful.
• It's just bad for developing on, due to lack of tooling.

... Whew I ranted for a while there, didn't I? Yeah, I dual boot Windows for the games that either don't run under protonwine or the devs want to add a rootkit to.

DeviantArt has been declining over the past few years due to controversial design changes and, more recently, a push for genAI garbage.

A lot of artists I've seen have recently been going to https://cara.app/ , although it's relatively new and it's unclear if it will last.

If you want something ActivityPub, you can also consider finding/hosting a PixelFed instance.

Their dms, most likely.