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jtzl

@ jtzl @lemmy.zip

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  • How do I find obscure sub-lemmies?

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  • Ah thanks.

    And, yeah, thank you. I'm hopeful a smaller user base will be a feature, not a bug.

  • (Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy?

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  • Interesting. I'm 46, and sometimes I feel like a frog in boiling water online. I can ignore things I don't like, generally, but I feel like the www I love/d has been replaced by a maze of ads.

    I was thinking about how the www up until, say, Covid was selecting for and encouraging a libertarian bias, but nowadays -- now that the technical capabilities exist! -- there are many moves towards conformity.

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  • Oh sorry.

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  • Interesting. I never noticed that, but I may have just been oblivious to it. And I def think there were involuntarily celibate dudes decades ago, but -- and again, this is merely my perspective, so it could be informed by confirmation bias -- it seems like identities that were previously considered undesirable have grown significantly in popularity over the last decade.

  • I am super nervous, so close to jumping to GrapheneOS.

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  • Noted, thank you for the tip.

    And all customer service interactions have become annoying! In my book, it's just businesses acting entitled, which irks me.

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  • I just gleaned that from your blog. Sadly, there was no comments section, so I'll comment here.

    I just read the post about "good" vs "evil," and I agree. I'm also reminded of a book I once read by Nietzsche.

    Those sorts of labels are eagerly assigned by politicians but usually misstate and distort reality. I would much prefer to see more people thinking more critically and, perhaps as a consequence, showing more doubt.

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  • Ohhhhh you just reminded me of Slashdot / "news for nerds." I never got into that. I like/d Slashdot.org, which was excerpts of online chats (most of which clearly came from IRC).

    It's interesting cuz I'm for progress. I even think (so-called) AI has a lot of utility, but no matter how ya slice it, ya gotta get stuff back into your very non-digital brain

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  • D'acc. Je vais lire. Et maintenant j'éxpecte que vous êtes Canadien.

  • do you miss anything from windows?

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  • The shameless integration of free code a la Bind.

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  • I loved IRC so I have looked at Discord, but it seems like yet another company trying to own the commons.

    Do you like it for specific features, or is it like "go there cuz ppl are there?"

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  • Awww yeah! Slashdot.org!

    Back then web search was terrible tho. I thought Google was such a major improvement in like 2000ish. I did not foresee it becoming a monopolist. Naive, I see now.

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  • May the record show I would have gladly read your comment. Nevertheless, I have never heard of Meshtastic -- will have to look that one up.

    As for the web becoming a husk connected by ads, I think about this a lot. Tbh it seems like an awful lot of work to degrade civilization -- I write about this in my blog often, obviously.😜

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  • Interesting. May I please have the link to your blog? If there are specific must-read posts, please point me that direction.

  • International partners to train drone AI models using Ukrainian battlefield data

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  • Is it "The Matrix?"

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  • Interesting -- thank you for your thoughtful response. I think a lot of the "Dunbar number." This guy Dunbar hypothesized a number of around 180 that was basically the max number of social connections primates had (or something). Circa late-90s, I had fewer friends online than IRL. However, as that behavior has become normalized, the prospect of having "online friends" has been normalized, thus removing pressure to like "go out and do something." Moreover, back to Dunbar's number, it has been completely normalized to have many isolated interactions, leading to a general disincentive to form new connections, as it seems like additional effort without clear upside.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • What caused the latency in that case?

  • Do you think there should be an actual seahorse emoji?

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  • I would not have guessed a comment in this thread would make me think but here we are...

    I have a relative or two who reply with emojis, and it grates on my nerves. I think people often use emojis in place of full thoughts, and I seriously dislike that behavior. Further, a couple times you think it's a shortcut, but before you know it, that becomes the full thought. Frightening.

  • Sheep in Human Clothing [The Jenkins]

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  • How many times a year do you wash your jeans?

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  • I love that you ask "per year." Tell me your clothes are dirty without saying your clothes are dirty.😜