By this I mean, organize around some single person for leadership, or in other contexts focus on a popular figure. Even societies that tend to be described as more collectively-organized/oriented tend to do this....
Maybe I don’t really understand what the Foundation does (or what the ED’s role is), but this seems like a very odd choice, even by GNOME standards....
Late-identified #ActuallyAutistic people, I'd love to hear what your meltdowns look like.
I feel like much of my time is spent with disregulated body sensations. I often feel an urge to DO something but I get so twisted up in executive function indecision-making + ableist shame/judgement about looking "wrong," and with 5 decades of "moving with the sole purpose of not being noticed," that I only melt down on the inside.
@seanwithwords@actuallyautistic
I am still really unsure how autistic meltdowns and shutdowns differ from tantrums or just plain meltdowns.
So there are events in childhood, teenage years and even as adult I remember, maybe a dozen or so. But maybe they were just tantrums, or related to RSD or trauma or maybe just human reaction. Some are odd in intensity or unreasonable, but maybe because I am autistic. Don't know if it qualifies that as autistic meltdown.
But I learned not everybody has it.
Steam in-home streaming might help you out for the odd game that is only works in Windows for you. You have a Windows machine with the game installed/setup, and that gets streamed to the computer of your choice over your LAN. A few of my buddies use it to play computer games on their TVs when they don’t feel like sitting at their desk.
We have a puritanical idea burned into our society that you have to suffer to live, that you have to work your fingers to the bone to deserve even the most basic necessities of life, and can’t imagine a non-capitalist society where we just provide everything people need to live and not force people to do bullshit busywork just to prove they “deserve” the basics of life.
For ages, we’ve been talking about automation, and how it can free us from the drudgery of menial, dangerous, and repetitive work, freeing us to have more time to live our lives enjoyably and pursue our desires instead or having to spend a third of our lives working. But the problem is that people think that if you don’t work, then you don’t deserve to live, or be happy, or have any kind of enjoyment in your life at all. It’s completely at odds with the kind of society we’ve actually built.
We have so many empty homes in the US that we could give every single homeless person in the country a home, for free, and still have loads left over. But instead we’d rather let them die on the streets because they haven’t “proved” they deserve a life.
We produce so much food that we could just give every single person in this country all the food they’d need to survive, and still not have shortages. But we’d rather throw away 50% of the food we produce because it’s kinda not pretty, or it sits on store shelves until expiration date, and gets chucked in the garbage.
We have Conservatives that talk about how all life is sacred, and we must protect it at all cost, going to far as to value the life of a fetus over the life of a parent. But once that child is born? Fuck them. Can’t afford healthcare? Can’t afford housing? Well then the parent shouldn’t have gotten pregnant. Oh, we have ways to take care of that beforehand? Sorry, no, cant have that either. Let’s make birth control, family planning, healthcare, housing, education, etc. impossible to access. And now that you have an impoverished family? Better get tugging on those bootstraps, because helping you would be unethical and antithetical to our Rugged Individualist ideal.
So many people in this country are absolutely terrified of the idea that someone else, somewhere, might possibly get something they “don’t deserve” and will go out of their way to make people suffer because of it.
So say Amazon replaces all of their warehouse workers with robots. Those are objectively horrifying jobs that we have years of evidence to prove. People suffer and die in those warehouses. So getting people out of them is a good thing. But what then? You’ve “freed” them, but to do what? Maybe they live in an area where that Amazon job was the best paying one, and moving or finding other work or going to school, etc. just simply aren’t options.
The robots aren’t the problem. Our society is the problem. And it’s completely and utterly broken. Until captialism is destroyed, there won’t be a meaningful solution to this.
The quality of reddit has seriously gone downhill. It feels like being on Facebook or something, the comments are cringrworthy and just plain odd and the posts aren’t great either.
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Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services...
I didn’t even know co-op power companies were common, it seems like an odd (but good) service to be provided by a co-op. I wonder if there’s any in the UK
There’s no built in crypto anything except for the odd ad on the homepage to buy crypto. Which, sure, is kinda lame, but they don’t mine crypto in the background or anything like that.
And oddly, the funny hats and gold guys have been relatively progressive lately. Definitely a shit history, but certainly better than their modern suits and jets competition
Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why::Shikhar Sachdev wanted to reveal what made the process so draining—so he spent 11 hours filling applications. Now he has tips for both job seekers and hiring managers.
Bad candidate experiences suck and Workday is the absolute worst.
In my most recent round of job hunting about six months ago, I had a pretty decent rate of getting a screening call with a recruiter at the company. Maybe around a quarter of applications got me there.
Despite my pretty decent odds of getting a call, it was never worth applying to a company with Workday.
I don’t want to sign up to their shitty candidate portal with another set of login credentials I have to manage.
I don’t want to repeat what I wrote on my CV, because their parsing is abysmal.
I don’t want to have to use a desktop because it doesn’t because feel like working on mobile that day.
I’ve had friends refer me for positions at the companies they work at. I’ve had talent acquisition reach out on LinkedIn, who’ve been professional, friendly and knowledgeable about the role and their company. But in both cases, if they ultimately needed me to create a profile in Workday I’ve told them I’m not interested.
Given how good ATS’ have become about highlighting potential good fit candidates to recruiters - there is no reason candidates should have to input anything other than their CV, basic contact info / screening questions and a cover letter (depending on role). And it should all work smoothly using a mobile device.
I don't really understand why you're comparing these two things? One is a group of people refraining from consumption of certain goods for personal reasons - health, ethics, climate impact, whatever. The other is a group of people consuming arguably more goods than they (we tbh) deserve since we're not willing or able to pay for it for one reason or another.
A better analogy would be comparing piracy to... I don't know, a veg-eater of whatever type who still enjoys the taste of bacon and resorts to stealing it because it's better to hurt the meat industry than to pay? It's a product that person really doesn't really need and absolutely would have never paid for, yet the person still wants it and obtains it in a way that hurts the industry.
(The analogy doesn't hold up since stealing physical goods has a different impact than distributing digital copies, but it's the best I've got off the cuff)
E: okay, after reading your other comments, I'm both confident this didn't address the point you wanted and confident I don't really understand your deal well enough to do so. Both of these groups have some members who have a problem with industry practices and others who are into their chosen lifestyle for other reasons. It seems like you've made some odd decisions about which groups are most prevalent among each and are framing your premise around that, and I don't think we're going to see eye-to-eye on it when the premise is Like This.
Or are you trying to say veganism should be more widely accepted because "DRM is wrong" is roughly equivalent to "animal suffering is wrong" re: "industry bad"?
You did leave out the lack of legal access being a motivator for piracy.
Deserving is also an odd differentiation because people need to eat, and they have needs about participating in society. Maybe a movie pirate doesn't need to access that particular movie but when their access is hampered in general, their ability to engage in discourse with their peers is hampered.
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion::CNBC obtained never-before-seen body camera footage that shows how investigators linked Jimmy Zhong to the Silk Road hack
An odd part of this story is that he hired a PI to figure out who stole Bitcoin from him. The PI figured out who it likely was and told Jimmy, he refused to believe it because he was friends with the thief.
He just wanted to feel loved and have friends but they were all only there for the money and stuff he bought for them.
Aisle crossing credit, and having moderates on side boosts the odds funding bills can go through without the loons from the far right getting their shit all over it
If you consider the last one as New Super Mario Bros U, then sure, we are over a decade. However, Mario Maker, and especially Mario Maker 2, are so wonderful and repayable, that I feel no need for a new 2D Mario game. I get that a game like Wonder is going to have “curated” levels, and things can work more cleanly, but the volume of quality levels in the Mario Maker series is enormous. Anyway, I just find it odd to see your comment, which seems to ignore these titles.
After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content...
Even if it’s not anywhere as famous as Silicon Graphics machines, this workstation from the 80s has something that others don’t have; a game exclusive to it, that fully takes advantage of the so impressive graphics that it could display! Check it out at the link here!...
Nice writeup. I remember seeing an odd looking computer that definitely came with a backpack in the window of a local computer store growing up… unfortunately my memory is a bit to hazy to recall the logo and I was definitely never able to play with it (I asked).
Social media tends to jump on details as fast as they come out, which is not great given the so called “fog of war.”
Remember when Reddit ‘found’ the Boston marathon bomber?
No one is going to sue some random internet commenter for libel, and the random person doesn’t have an institutional reputation at stake if they back a story that turns out to be false later on.
In theory, large media orgs do have to worry about those things, though standards have slipped a lot recently.
So even without intentionally lying, social media isn’t the most reliable place for information. There are exceptions (the lab leak theory was widely embraced online when mainstream press was presenting it as an open and shut case initially, for example). But the odds are generally not in social media’s favor about any early information on a topic, whether things like school shootings (very often there’s reports of multiple gunmen when there’s actually just one) or world events.
Also, technically I don’t think anyone is saying it’s Hamas. It’s being attributed to a different group.
I don’t believe in setting bars people are demonstrably unable to reach. You’re basically asking people to start a civil war to protect strangers they’ll never meet, knowing the outcome of such a war is far from certain. Even if you win, the damage to your country could be catastrophic, and the odds of ending up with new leaders who are at least as bad as the old ones are pretty high.
Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood?
By this I mean, organize around some single person for leadership, or in other contexts focus on a popular figure. Even societies that tend to be described as more collectively-organized/oriented tend to do this....
GNOME Foundation names "professional shaman" as new executive director (foundation.gnome.org)
Maybe I don’t really understand what the Foundation does (or what the ED’s role is), but this seems like a very odd choice, even by GNOME standards....
Think anyone would notice? (startrek.website)
Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?
Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.
those ppl... (feddit.de)
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The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th (www.eff.org)
Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services...
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
School board member blames "Holy Spirit" for making her share a Nazi meme (boingboing.net)
Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why (www.wired.com)
Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why::Shikhar Sachdev wanted to reveal what made the process so draining—so he spent 11 hours filling applications. Now he has tips for both job seekers and hiring managers.
Glazed Salmon Burger w/ Fresh Pico & Guac (lemmy.world)
This might sound weird, but why is vegetarianism invalid while "piracy" isn't?
I’ve had a certain debate a few times where you might say we argue over the “semantics” of the meat industry....
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion (www.cnbc.com)
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion::CNBC obtained never-before-seen body camera footage that shows how investigators linked Jimmy Zhong to the Silk Road hack
Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter (foundation.mozilla.org)
Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter distills what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just plain creepy in the world of consumer tech....
House speakership up in air as resistance to Jim Jordan hardens (www.bbc.com)
Despite intense lobbying behind the scenes, 20 Republicans refused to back the right-wing Ohio congressman....
Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Review Thread - (92/100 OpenCritic)
Game Information...
What are your thoughts on fiber through the city?
After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content...
A Marvelous Footnote in Tech History – the Mindset Computer and the Vyper Game (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Even if it’s not anywhere as famous as Silicon Graphics machines, this workstation from the 80s has something that others don’t have; a game exclusive to it, that fully takes advantage of the so impressive graphics that it could display! Check it out at the link here!...
Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it is how difficult it is to observe and monitor employees (www.cnbc.com)
Gaza hospital bombed: Health Ministry says death toll in Gaza City hospital blast caused by Israel strike rises to at least 500 (6abc.com)
Updated: Israel denies involvement in deadly Gaza hospital blast, says explosion caused by Islamic Jihad
Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza (www.nytimes.com)