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grrgyle , 1 month ago

Damn that stings, but honestly your "failure" is more than I've accomplished even in my successes. Like I just wanted to make a roguelike game, but managed to make a bad roguelike engine that no one uses, not even myself. And I'm still calling that a win.

I know you weren't trying to solicit advice, but have you thought of getting other people involved in running the radio station? Then you can participate when you have the energy, and take a step back when you don't?

Also I have plenty of podcasts, essayists, and newsletter writers that I like, who have a very inconsistent cadence, and it's fine. It's a happy surprise when I see they're back online.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

You're great

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Just start. I made another email a few years ago and just started using it for new accounts, moving others over when I thought of it...

Slowly but surely my Gmail has become a ghost town that receives mostly just spam, and the odd password reset link for accounts I haven't bothered updating.

Sure it's not a 100% but it's a lot, and it's a little bit less of myself getting to google

grrgyle , 1 month ago

You can also forward emails from your old Gmail to your new email as a bridge to ensure you don't miss anything.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Damn now I want to make a third, super-secret email address that I re-forward to. Darn that blasted nosey goog

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Rofl me too twins

grrgyle , 1 month ago

All those years of using nautilus have made me weak

grrgyle , 1 month ago

That's a really nice memory, thanks for sharing

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Early two-thousands

grrgyle , 1 month ago

There's also the question of ought we be pursuing a satisfying and fulfilling life, above other objectives?

I mean I am, but I don't think that's the only way to be

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I'd say "changed" or "interpreted" over "warped," but yeah those words in particular are poor containers.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?

God I would love that. But as simple as the UI is, it would be some real work.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

What do you think the hardest challenge would be?

I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. Hardest to start would be learning enough of the problem space to identify p problems, but that's just what's in front of me

grrgyle , 1 month ago

You're a cat.

I'm a cat.

We're different cats.

We are not the same, cat.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

On that note, both my parents were physically abused as kids, but never laid a hand on me or my siblings. Like most parents, they weren't great at parenting, but I am thankful I never had to be really afraid of my parents.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Great use of the trolley problem. Given the number of people in thought experiment, it's more likely that we'd be tied to the tracks than not

Good comic.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I just remembered what this reminded me. This ethical test for a situation or system, that I was taught as the Veil of Ignorance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

Or in this case, would you still design a trolley system that runs people over if you didn't know which person you'd end up as?

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Hey the whale's just doing what it's always done, it's these agitators who are raising their voices, behaving like animals

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Tea gang, what what.

But I think it's pretty much the same thing. I've overdrive tea and woken up in the middle of the night plenty of times.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

That's brain defrag time, buddy! Helps you think straight

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Am I the only one who doesn't want to go on vacation? I'll take the time off work, but I'd rather potter around my place, maybe go for some nice walks

grrgyle , 1 month ago

That's me! But I'm a really slow reader, and have many other interests, so that number would be between 0-1 every time lol.

[•••] and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive

Maybe so, but if you like going elsewhere then maybe it's worth it for you. The main reason I don't travel is because it sounds like the opposite of fun to me, personally.

But I spend plenty on my introvert shit. Like just recently spent almost 100 EUR on these fancy recycled notebooks for my partner and I, because I spend so much of my time writing workbooks, navel gazing diary entries, filling out bespoke agendas rofl; all that stuff.

But that's me and my happy place.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Pedantry: it putter not potter.

I thought the same, but they're actually interchangeable depending on where you are, so I interchange them for fun.

I think it's a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We're way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.

Perhaps at the level of statistics, but I have the opportunity to travel (now, for the first time in my life), but no desire. There's just so much to do locally, you know?

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I love near a metropolitan city, so I feel like the world kind of comes to me. And each passing year my small town becomes more and more diverse, along with my work and friend groups.

Obviously not the same as going somewhere with different history and culture, but I feel like my cup is full. Like, I'm good for pleasures. 👍🏻

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Yeah the itinerary thing sounds so awful, especially if it involves traveling from place to place to place. But I guess some people really like it that way...

I like to exist in place for my vacations, but my partner is one of those who need to go elsewhere every now and then. I look forward to her stories, but am thankful I don't have to share in them haha

grrgyle , 1 month ago

That's what I always thought. Or thought it was just what we called stat days since I never got vacation until I got into software. Now that I'm around people in a higher income bracket I discovered we get more than 2 or 3 days off?? And folks are going places like far away, for long periods of time.

I still have not adjusted from this middle class culture shock

grrgyle , 1 month ago

What can't be true?

I do realise there are experiences I'm missing out on. I miss out on plenty of experiences other than traveling, though.

It would be neat to go somewhere I'm a visible minority, though. I don't get a lot of that life, except maybe at weddings, big cultural events, etc.

Anyway my wife is a traveller. She gets that wanderlust from time to time, so it's only inevitable that she take me on one her trips one of these days.

The airport sounds like the worst part tbh so much indignity

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I think it means salad wraps, salad bowls, salad mores
...

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Comes up in politics or ethics discussions a lot. Or at least it used to when I was in school. Things like gay rights, women's rights, right to die, etc etc

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Made sense to me, even knowing the original meaning of the phrase. Good splainer though

grrgyle , 1 month ago

we need to pick the side that will do the least harm. There is no way to be neutral with FPTP voting.

I don't think you need to actually "pick a side," in the sense like they're the team you support and root for. Vote for the best candidate available to you, yes; but don't stop complaining about the paltriness of your choice. Don't stop agitating for an end to an ongoing genocide that is being supported by your best-of-two-bad-choices rep.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Awards are just bespoke emoji. You can still react to a comment with a picture or emoji if you want.

IMO your comment, actually expressing explicit and specific approval, is worth more than, like... a picture of a little whale with money coming out of its blowhole, or whatever.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Nice

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Haha Lanny. Here I go, checking my Lanny stance on the photoverse hahaha

I'm just having fun, obvious autocorrect mixup

grrgyle , 1 month ago

You've got me there,

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Your username makes me happy

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I think it's cute, but haven't heard a single good thing about it. I also thought the "cyber truck" was beautiful so obviously I have some wires crossed compared to most folks

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Bittersweet memories... I'll always associate this game with being down and out.

There was a jobs centre where I would go to search for jobs, print resumes, apply online, etc. Anyway, this was one of the games I played while in between interviews, or waiting for the men's shelter to open.

This game along with Ricochet HD got me through the wringer without needing drugs or alcohol as a pillow, so I'm thankful they were there when I needed them.

Anyway that's my needlessly wrought story of how lofi windows games saved me lol

grrgyle , 1 month ago

Conservatives and liberal chuds also use it because they see us saying it, not realising that it's a call-out of viscous authoritarianism, and not necessarily a critique of communism let alone socialism.

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I think it works as intended now, but it's just that the intended audience has changed. We all work for advertisers now.

At least if you follow the mainstream web experience. Luckily there are still nice places like this! :)

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I've been using kagi for a couple months and it's great. The AI shit is pretty prominent, but optional, so your experience will vary depending on your tolerance for that stuff. Also it's not free lol.

For my purposes I find it worth the money

grrgyle , 1 month ago

I think they just hang out

grrgyle , 2 months ago

Omg stop what are you guys thinking

grrgyle , 2 months ago

Is the board paid? I thought it was a volunteer position, where you meet based on a certain cadence and vote on enterprise matters.

I'm also quite wary of corp/venture/capitalist influence on masto/fedi/décentralisation.

grrgyle , 2 months ago

So the employees who are employed by donations, or all contributors? Not trying to throw a wrench in your suggestion, just wondering what this would look like for masto

grrgyle , 2 months ago

Same. That's the biggest thing I'm seeing from orgs all over: using AI as a kind of "appeal to authority" to justify shitty behavior that they've been wanting to do all along. If they didn't want to act like this then they would double-check, adjust, or correct the results.

The AI gives them a headless authority to point to, saying in a way, that they were just following orders

grrgyle , 2 months ago

Wow every single account of Zuckerberg comes off as him sounding like some kind of sociopathic alien

grrgyle , 2 months ago

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