grrgyle

grrgyle , 18 hours ago

No you have to run them through an elaborate model first, then it's totally legit to use someone else's literal words as if they were your own

grrgyle , 4 minutes ago

I was actually describing a piece of software, which is not considered a human being, and can in fact be treated differently without any legal or philosophical confusion

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Not American, but a furby surrounded by Biden's team would still be preferable to Trump to most people, so I'm not sure this changes much. Americans around here seemed to mostly be in the "hold your nose and vote for Biden" camp anyway. Not sure how representative that is.

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Time to grab your board (web navigator) and surf (follow hyperlinks) the web (more commonly, the graphical "internet"). Totally rippin the gnar, my gender indeterminate dudes (check out wikipedia). Yeaaaahhh (yes, emphatically)!!!

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Can't read a book at the office? Working through a book whenever the queue was empty was one of the few pleasures of working retail/call centre

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Condolences. I've taken to going to the coffee shop to meet my friend. Yeah it's not free, but it's cheap. For games, that's a bit of a blindspot for me since I only play good games these days.

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Plus, voicing your opinions helps a lot to filter people (I'm struggling a lot with this though).

This is massive. "Filtering" is the perfect way to put it. If you don't risk saying something potentially disagreeable, then no one will ever know who you are.

That goes for both repulsive and inclusive ideologies, I guess, but I definitely prefer the latter (this is an example of one of your "filtering" statements - now spectators to this conversation know I value inclusivity).

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Hmm that is a very good description of how I use social media. Fill up unstructured downtime, or to bridge a gap between two other activities (god forbid I go thirty whole minutes without stimulation lol)

Then sometimes just hours and I come out of it feeling like total trash

grrgyle , 2 days ago

I started reading books and mags while pooping. I like it. Highly recommended.

Just got to have system to make sure you don't do anything unhygienic to your reading material. I make sure to set it down before I touch myself. I touch myself.

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Back in my day it was a desktop vs coffee table laptop debate.

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Here's your content, open up!

a picture of a long haired cat with its mouth wide open looking at the camera

It's my cat yawning, but it looks like he's screaming at me (which he does do around 17h, his supper time).

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Lemmy hopescrolling!!

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Genuine question, because I don't have a confidant that I can comfortably ask this to, is that the general opinion of people with disabilities?

grrgyle , 2 days ago

Thanks for the links. I will read them. I'll admit that my first reaction is to assume that speaking directly is rude, but I'm ready to do some unlearning.

grrgyle , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

This resource is dropping woke bombs left and right (I'm into it). Extremely rich text.

... societal interpretations of and responses to specific differences from the normed body are what signify a dis/ability.

Not to glom onto this one pat definition, but it's one of the many paragraphs that jumped out at me.

I still haven't got to any part that is specifically challenging using "polite" language when speaking to disabled people about their disabilities. But with your question about why I might consider the term disabled a slur, and these links, I think I'm getting there...

EDIT: uhhhh nvm, the paragraph literally after the one I quoted goes into it, very specifically.

Some advocate for People-first language (a person living with disability), while many disability activists advocate for identity-first language (a disabled person).

grrgyle , 1 day ago

Hail and well meh-t!

grrgyle , 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

I mean it's getting more academic for sure, but I think I get you - that's one of them there intersections you were talking about (neoliberalism x ableism, maybe (to name just 2 anyway)).

EDIT thank you, that was fire. A cogent and succinct breakdown of offense vis a vis harm.

I don't feel like I learned anything, because what I learned seems obvious (now), but if I think about my previous statements in this thread about rudeness they feel like they were made by someone else, so I guess this reading is doing something!

grrgyle , 3 days ago

Thanks for the link. I'd heard the expression in this context before, but never knew where it originated

grrgyle , 4 days ago

I would say "thousands" is not really "niche" but yeah, I love small communities. It's how I started on the internet, and it's finally where I'm back at now

grrgyle , 6 days ago

I didn't loathe it.

grrgyle , 6 days ago

Even then, only if the process is fun. Like collecting the thingamajigs (it's been a while) in Crackdown. I remember just moving around in that game being fun

grrgyle , 8 days ago

Only just finished the first entry, and this is still the case by the end of that book at least. The main character does have a kind of "raw power" that goes beyond what others have innately, which is a bit exceptional-ising.

It's hard to pin down, but the tone is more community oriented, and less about this one Special.

grrgyle , 8 days ago

I got caught up on that one too. I think it could be argued that CEO is a job, and landlord is a title. Neither of those necessarily implies work.

But there might be some things that these people do which could be considered work.

So like if you were to hypothetically divorce these from
money, you could say that, I dunno: reading tech articles and going to conferences and talking about how your co-workers are implementing the tech, is work; or fixing up a house, or keeping tabs on a block of houses and making sure they're actually maintained, is work.

Maybe it is a stretch.. I do think there are "bullshit jobs" which would not exist (certainly not in the current form) without capitalism. Like there would be no demand for them outside of accruing capital for people who don't need it

grrgyle , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

You put it more succinctly than I could haha.

I would go further and say that anything that people point to as a positive thing that an individual landlord might do like (like, ohh but they go around to this old widow's house to check on her and fix things around the house) are good work, but have nothing to do with extracting rents. You could do that and just let people live on their patches unmolested.

PS Damn it I did it again. I just went on and on ... I'm going to my partner's family reunion tonight and I'm really nervous about it. Apparently they're kind of bullies, I'm going to get eaten alive lol

grrgyle , 8 days ago

I mean I agree that what your saying does not sound like a satisfying life at all, but also I really did not interpret the op to mean this

grrgyle , 8 days ago

Thanks, that actually did give me a much needed boost. I hope you have a great weekend!

grrgyle , 7 days ago

The parts that are work are the job, but extracting rents for owning something is not work. I realise it's not a clean break, but the idea is landlords usually get a lot more value than they put in.

Whereas most of us work jobs that take more value from our labour than they'd ever actually pay us for.

grrgyle , 6 days ago

Thanks again for this. And it actually was fine. Everyone was perfectly lovely and made me feel included.

grrgyle , 9 days ago

Did they mean "and be doing so insinuate" I wonder? Initiate makes some sense too, just odd phrasing.

Anyway! I'm getting sidetracked lol! Haven't even watched the video yet. Thanks for sharing the quote

grrgyle , 9 days ago

You don't write your grocery list on a bit of paper stuck to the fridge...? I thought that was downright universal

grrgyle , 9 days ago

Yeah that's relatable. It's so easy to pick apart someone else's words when you're just passively observing, but when it's you in the moment...

grrgyle , 8 days ago

Nooo don't kiss me with your big long lips mister g man get away 😚 oooo oh nnnooo

grrgyle , 10 days ago

I agree with your parenthetical, but Wikipedia actually agrees on your main point: Wikipedia itself is not a source of truth.

grrgyle , 10 days ago

I think we all had that first moment where copilot generates a good snippet, and we were blown away. But having used it for a while now, I find most of what it suggests feels like jokes.

Like it does save some typing / time spent checking docs, but you have to be very careful to check its work.

I've definitely seen a lot more impressively voluminous, yet flawed pull requests, since my employer started pushing for everyone to use it.

I foresee a real reckoning of unmaintainable codebases in a couple years.

grrgyle , 10 days ago

Rofl came here to comment on this one. They did not want to miss a single market segment

grrgyle , 10 days ago

I would like to put forward that tea is ace

grrgyle , 10 days ago

Hmm... like herbal vs black tea?

grrgyle , 11 days ago

I know right? Also iirc there was some discord alternative, but I can't quite remember the name... it's just as well, the company owning it probably shut it down. It's not like it's some free protocol that can be used by anyone, sigh 😞

grrgyle , 11 days ago

Darn you beat me to it haha

grrgyle , 10 days ago

Ugh too many people. My book club and local dev group are on Discord, also a few old co-workers, and then various communities like rainwave, ocremix diaspora, gamedev stuff...

I wish it was still interoperable with IRC. It's come to really grate on me.

grrgyle , 10 days ago

Shootout to doomworld. I think that software is Discourse. Anyway they've always had a vibrant communities

grrgyle , 10 days ago

Yeah a thread is more like a close conversation. If you comment in a thread you're going to be heard front and centre. It keeps non-sequiters down and it's good etiquette to at least acknowledge the points raised above.

Tree based is more like splintered conversations around a party, where people drift in and out of side convos. This lends itself to a more anonymous, transient communication style.

Ideal for a quick little session on your phone, really

grrgyle , 12 days ago

Well you've convinced me. I always thought copyleft sounded cool, but never thought of it in this way of more/less free

grrgyle , 13 days ago

When you move fast and break things, but then have to pay to fix the things you broke 🥺

grrgyle , 14 days ago

Don't make it look hot

grrgyle , 14 days ago

Honest mistake, but you're probably thinking of a superintendent. They are usually an employee of the landlord, and do things like collect the landlord's rents and sometimes fix appliances, etc.

grrgyle , 14 days ago

I grew up in a community co-op! It was so great

grrgyle , 16 days ago

That just sounds like the divine right of kings with extra steps