U de Recife

I find useful not to think both myself or others as smart/not smart, but wise or wiser. Being smart is not always wise. Playing dumb may be wise at times. Wisdom goes way beyond smartness, as it’s a mixture of kindness, experience, sensibility, and virtue.

… without checking it. If that’s your understanding, you’re correct.

On the affirmative, ALWAYS check whatever advice you hear/read on the internet. Be ultra careful with your health and safety.

When you’re about to face a high risk, high reward situation, you should willfully, willingly start to hyperventilate, as this helps your brain …

NEVER take any stranger’s advice on the internet as credible without checking it with a specialist. This is especially true when said advice relates to your health and/or safety.

From the top of my head, I would name Okular. No other FOSS pdf reader is as complete and easy to use.

http://emojidick.com/

Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.

This is not the first time I see one of these. The format: X says something. Z puts X’s something into question. X supposedly owns Z by revealing how awesome they are.

Why this got me triggered?

Maybe the format. No problem here. Someone else likes this and this is why it gets posted and upvoted. No surprise there.

Maybe the content. In making aesthetics, judgments, we’re mostly guided by affections. Trying to own an aesthetic discussion with degrees or prizes is… well, an aesthetic.

Because we all know instances of very knowledgeable people making questionable aesthetic judgements. What makes their judgement questionable is OUR relation to the object in question.

It’s this personal relation to the object that structures the whole jugement. This, as people correctly say, it’s… subjective.

So, here the proof is like that at many levels. First the level of the meme. You like this format? If yes, you move to the next level. Then the movie itself. If you loved it, you love to hear others praising it to the skies. Finally, the so-called credentials presented here. You consider an Emmy a great award? If feel it is, than you feel vindicated, feeling this is a great argument.

It is not. It’s a subjective display of affections masquerading as an argument.

At first I thought it was a minor thing. But it’s still down. Any news?

Binary solo: ‎ 0000001 00000011 000000111 0000001111

It’s crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.

I really want to thank you for the levelheadedness you’re bringing in.

Perhaps that’s a learned behaviour from other networks where drama=engagement=upvotes. I don’t know. But reading your comment filled me with gratitude.

It’s reassuring to see these technicalities being taken for what they are. Different people have different needs. Understanding that makes respecting those needs something simple and natural. Each to their own, right?

tl; dr?

Thank you for your levelheadedness.

That’s the thing, right? Those giant networks’ admins surely know how inflated their userbase is. They surely know that a lot of the activity is bot faked/manipulated.

But since the end goal of those networks is generate traffic to sell something (ads, user data), they never purge the bots. They need fake engagement. They might even promote it. The human user is just being used (Cf. Stallman’s use of this term).

I want to celebrate two things. 1. Your awareness of the potential dangers looming over the fediverse. 2. Your proactive attitude curtailing the problem at its root. From one human to another, thank you!

Long press the enter/return button (round, with an left point arrow). It’ll show you the emoji and clipboard buttons. 💡

Alternatively, you can turn on the dedicated emoji button on OpenBoard’s preferences.

You can also long press the comma button. There you’ll find the preferences and emoji buttons.

I’m so thrilled right now! I’m already typing this reply on OpenBoard and I’m loving it.

Gboard was also a big hurdle to my need to degoogle my phone. But not anymore!

Thank you so much. You’ve brighten my day. I’m both happy for knowing this and for finding about it on the fediverse.

I’m techie by gift, not by trade. I’m an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I’m here. I’m loving the fediverse. And I’m kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

Curate your feed. Block unwanted communities. My lemmy feed has no memes.

Lemmy, currently. This comment proves my point.

These are just a few of the new things I’ve added/discovered recently thanks to Lemmy:

• Consent-O-Matic plugin, a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design;
• DeArrow plugin, an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube;
• “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux, which always makes me laugh;
• If you’re using zsh, it has tetris built-in as a feature. To activate it, you run autoload -Uz tetriscurses, then run tetriscurses. A whole afternoon goes away;
• whateveritworks searxng instance. It’s part of a collection of speedy and reliable self-hosted instances of popular FOSS projects, like Piped, Nitter and Hyperpipe. I’m again having fun searching the web.

These are the ones that I can come up with from the top of my head. Try them out. If you heard of them from me, know you are actually learning them from Lemmy.

Does I find better help here? Definitely!

Thanks to fellow lemmings, for the past 2 weeks I have discovered a lot new solutions/apps/plugins! My workflow has improved a lot. So much so that now I spend more and more time on Lemmy, looking for new things. My productivity is almost down to zero. I’m loving it.

Awesome! Thanks a ton. Much better than the instance I was using. 🤩