Urist

Urist , 3 months ago to Technology in YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated

Spoiler: They don't. They are also not letting the absence of facts hinder them from claiming stuff to be true. Subsequently they worry about why their comments are being moderated.

Urist , 3 months ago to Technology in YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated

Yeah, they donated their spare time to give you a decentralized platform where you could criticize them because they want to stifle "freedom of discussion"... That the lemmy.ml instance is heavily moderated on stuff like imperialist propaganda is a non-issue for freedom of expression due to the nature of federation. The devs do not even want their instance (lemmy.ml) to be the biggest, but actively promote joining other instances.

You confuse your right to express your opinions with the privilege of someone else providing you a platform for you to express them on. The devs provide the former without obligating themselves to be the ones to give you the latter.

Urist , 3 months ago to Privacy in Mullvad ads on local subway

Infinite growth on finite resources is such a bad idea on so many levels.

Urist , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Are gun designs open source?

The US might prove true if you include gun nuts toppling their own government by voting for fascist scum.

Urist , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Are gun designs open source?

Who do you even need to fight bro? If I was say getting mugged I would give them all my valuables save a 10 % tip that I could give them when I was allowed to run the hell away from there. Do not be a stupid macho idiot. Be a smart coward without neither a wallet, gun nor a fatal wound.

Jokes aside, the main uptick is the smaller chance of someone less mentally stable than you with less to lose also having a gun.

Urist , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Are gun designs open source?

You obviously need a gun with the same caliber bullet to stop an incoming gun shot. Have you not even read Newton's laws of motion?

Urist , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

That GPU is
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Urist , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in This totally happened

Chill out. They may be German or something where shit like that is concatenated into one word.

Urist , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in classic opsec mistake

Also, why the fuck should they not have access to ps3, books and such. Prison is about taking away one's freedom, not about putting people in psychological or physical distress. In Norway we want convicts to be in a better state when they come out than when they got incarcerated (though Breivik will most likely never come out). Who wants to live next to a person who have been 20 years in solitary, I mean come on.

Urist , 5 months ago to Technology in How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

Personal recommendations are not really advertisements.

Urist , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in After 1.5 years of learning selfhosting, this is where I'm at

Torrents are assumed illegal and discussion of it likewise by confused parent comment.

Urist , 5 months ago to Technology in Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

Socialized people work with them on instinct, others can't do that.

This is a valid point. Some on the autism spectrum, for example, have difficulties due to lack of this instinct.

And my point was that boundaries are never that clearly defined.

This is also true, but not so much a problem. Everyone is bound to overstep at some point. However, that is most likely going to yield a negative response from the other person, and it is actually somewhat their responsibility to express this plainly. Where jerks and unaware people diverge in action is how they respond to being made aware. Say sorry and not push further and you are in the clear.

I will admit there is a little bit of a problem with a supreme narrative based on personal experience if applied indiscriminately in every context. However, as long as it is confined to one's own body, it is perfectly fine since everyone should have their bodily autonomy respected and thus their experience is the supreme narrative in this instance always.

There are training one can do if one lacks social intuitition and basic rules like do not touch at spots other than briefly on shoulders etc. without consent. I have lots of sympathy for all those who struggle socially, but do not see laxing on demanding respect for others as being helpful in any way. I would also speak up if someone ridiculed a nice person for being just awkward, but that is not the issue discussed here.

Urist , 5 months ago to Technology in Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

Incel is an abbreviation of involuntary celibate. It is 100 % a self proclaimed title from the word "involuntary". I am merely categorizing those that label themselves as such to be often having a distorted view on sex and women. None of this was a philosophical debate on the existence of evil and my point was clearly defined: Timid, kind people should be a little bolder. Everyone should be mindful of other people's boundaries.

Urist , 5 months ago to Technology in Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

In my experience the technology related fields are greater perpetrators than the base sciences. Though there is still an image problem for things like math (the not tech, engingeering or finance version) and a problem with people outside the field having sxcist expectations about those in it, I genuinely think the environment itself to be very inclusive.

Urist , 5 months ago to Technology in Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

Just like there are lots of jerks and incels, there are lots of really nice shy guys that would make the world a better place by opening up a little more. Being brave at making contact is totally acceptable, and probably good for you, if you do it in a respectful manner. Actual nice guys should drown out the jerks that are self proclaimed nice guys by treating women, men and themselves with respect.