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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • words to live by 🙏

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  • Ah yes, concise is not my strength. I avoided getting into the etymology of 'meta' and how it comes from an ancient librarian dealing with untitled manuscripts... So thought I was doing well!

  • words to live by 🙏

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  • When I heard it used back in the days if collectible card games, it seemed like it was describing the abstract 'game' rather than a particular game between two players. So a particular card (or weapon or ship) can be good within a game, depending on your opponent or play style. But sometimes a card or strategy is found by the community to be highly effective so in the 'metagame' it comes to dominate.

    New cards would come out and change the meta. Even if you don't buy then or use them, knowing that they exist and are effective changes how other players build decks and so you might need to change your play style to adapt to the new metagame.

  • India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

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  • They might ban it, but if its diy there's little they can do to actually enforce it. People can 3d print guns or make bombs because you can't control basic tech. Making a mobile device is harder because the carriers could try and detect unofficial access. But even having a device that's only for wifi is better than allowing the goverrment to constantly monitor everything their citizens do and say online.

  • Finding people who vibe with you is so hard

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  • Meeting other people's friends groups (as you described meeting your partner's friends) is a great way to shortcut that awkwardness. Its not just that someone else has done the hard work of filtering folks out, but that people are just on better form when with friends. Part of the problem of making friends in random social events is most people are either a bit awkward or putting on a social 'mask', which makes it harder to actually identify the people you'd like once you got past that.

    My wife social circle has a bunch of people who entered as someone's partner for a whole, but stayed friends with us after they broke up (even if there was a delicate period post-split where we hung out with them both, but never together).

  • India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

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  • We really need to come up with some DIYable devices. A future where most nation states insist in this sort of backdoor feels distressingly inevitable at this stage...

  • What Android Keyboards support/ have AMOLED mode?

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  • Thanks! I'd seen the key borders setting but thought it'd change the edge of each key, not the entire key. That looks great now!

    So far, really enjoying the keyboard. The predicitive typing seems better than SwiftKey, which got kinda shitty in the last year (I assume because it changed to some amazing ai powered nonsnense).

  • What Android Keyboards support/ have AMOLED mode?

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  • Installed futo and its seems good, but I can't see how to get amoled themes. The dark theme is charcoal grey, and even "Amoled Purple" isn't pure black.

  • What Android Keyboards support/ have AMOLED mode?

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  • SwiftKey has high contrast B&W themes that are amoled black (if that's what you mean?) Downside, it's owned by Microsoft and almost certainly recording everything I type to train their ai. But everytime I try out an alternative something drags me back...

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    A Retired Police Officer Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme. It Earned Him 37 Days in Jail.

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  • Glad that you're a human! The worst part about the rise in bot posts is that it creates an atmosphere of distrust. The fact that you've commented, and hopefully don't delete your account in a few hours, is very reassuring.

    I still think someone going to jail for posting a meme is beyond mildlyinfuriating. But that's a matter of opinion.

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    A Retired Police Officer Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme. It Earned Him 37 Days in Jail.

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  • This is more than mildlyinfuriating. Also, this new account has posted ten times in its first hour. Mostly politics.

    Given what we've seen in the last few weeks about the scale of paid actors using social media to increase tensions and divisions, I'm getting very sick of this kinda behaviour.

    I fucking hate CK and the way the American right is using this story to push their agenda. But that doesn't mean I want to see bots trying using that to reaction to push our buttons.

  • Whats going on in YSK?

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  • https://lemmy.world/post/39499201 https://lemmy.world/post/39490841 https://lemmy.world/post/39379258 https://lemmy.world/post/39401080 https://lemmy.world/post/39443812 https://lemmy.world/post/39251915 https://lemmy.world/post/39294224 https://lemmy.world/post/38937776 https://lemmy.world/post/38770260

    Just looking at the last 20 posts (including this one), these 9 are all links to ragebait news stories from accounts that are now deleted and have similar random usernames. Of the remaining 11, one is a weird downvoted post from a deleted account, 2 are politics posts but from active users. Just over a quarter of the posts are actually about interesting/useful information.

  • Whats going on in YSK?

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  • Whats going on in YSK?

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  • Yeah, I know what you mean. Asking people to join and then not be able post seems a bit shit. Same with the light moderation in most communities, when there's a comparatively low level of posts, do we really want to be removing posts for being "off topic"?

    But I also think that can backfire. I'm pretty close to leaving YSK and mildlyinfuriating because it feels that half the posts are just variations on politics. The tagine of "YSK" is a place for all the things to make your life easier. Looking back through the last 20 posts >75% are to do with politics, bad people and their misdeeds. I hate Boris Johnson, and people should be told he's a corrupt ass hole, but we have communities for politics which is where that belongs.

    Ragebait is always going to do well, it's how our brains are wired. So if we don't want all communities to end up being mostly "this is bad, you should be angry and sad" then we need stricter moderation. It's a mistake to think more posts = more content. If most of the main communities of lemmy are overrun by these kinds of posts, the only new users it's going to attract are people who want that, and the problem snowballs.

  • It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down

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  • It's not weird to think about the other paths you could have gone down. But I would avoiding feeling too much regret. If something genuinely seems interesting to you, make it part of your current life, even just as a hobby or side project. Remembering that we are more than just our current selves is important for not getting swallowed by the grind.

    If it's feeling envy about the better life some alternate you has, try to keep in mind that nothing is simple. Although other choices might seem appealing in abstract, maybe they'd also lead to more problems. Sure, you could have been a doctor, but maybe the stress would have driven you to burnout and opiate addiction (69% of doctors misuse prescription substances).

    I'd also say, that as I get older, I feel like I hit different "Save Points" that prevent to much regret. I chose to study philosophy instead of law, which means I'm a lot less rich than I might have been, but I would trade my weird, chilled friends from uni for the bunch of competitive over achievers I would have been "friends" with if I'd gone down that route. I met my spouse during a stressful period in my life, completing a degree for a profession I no longer work in. I could see that whole period of study as a complete waste of time, but if I'd never met the person I married the my life would be incomparably poorer.

  • DAE name their characters by their official name?

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  • I like games where I name the main character, often the main character has a title or nickname that npcs use as well (the Dragonborn, the Avatar) but if I know they have a name in the story then it's feels a bit weird to change it. So, Link is Link. But when I player Chrono Trigger for the first time recently I had (somehow) not heard much about it, so I renamed Crono (also it's a horrible misspelling and kinda dull name, so happy to change it).

  • why are they pushing kpop demon hunters so badly? Who makes money off this new group?

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  • Wow, that site is unhinged. Also, that article feels like it's been heavily rewritten by AI, if not pure ai slop. Normally I enjoy crazy paranoid rants about demonic symbolism on cereal boxes, or whatever, but that article was shallow and vacuous.

  • Whats going on in YSK?

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  • Not sure, but I wonder if it's seen as an "easy" community to post in? There's not a strict sense of what's appropriate, and a lot of posts are just a link to an article, with "YSK" + a rewording of the article headline as the title.

    It's also one of the bigger communities, so posting a random article about a storm or laptops will get a decent amount of upvotes in a few hours.

    Given that it mostly seems to be new accounts, I wonder if it'd be worth requiring a minimum age of a week or two before users can create a post?

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    How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? Manipulate them into thinking it was their idea

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  • This account new and suddenly posting a suspicious amount in short time. Possible bot.

  • The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.

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  • I probably agree, but I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean that people who are in a disadvantaged group in a society are more sensitive to language that is biased against their group? So women notice (and can be offended) by phrases like "you throw like a girl" while men might not care, or even notice, that it's sexist.

    Or do you mean people in disadvantaged groups are, in general better at detecting bias in language? So, poor people are better at spotting politic bias in reporting?