and we’ve been trying for decades to reform our system for a better voting system. first past the post elections force strategic voting. that’s the kind of elections we get. the only place where vote shares matter is for distributing public campaign finance funds.

it rewards it in my view. it conditions us to be selfish

I think a Tribe Called Quests Excursions. Someone else mentioned that it’s a shame losing all memories of a piece of music because we as a species associate music with our most precious memories. Here’s the thing: Excursions is timeless and woven throughout my life. I’ve relistened to it so many times and got more from it as I’ve matured. I wonder how revolutionary and fresh it would feel to hear it today with my adult understanding of the world

Funny, that’s what I hate about Nano. The key binds seem completely random to me and the programs solution to this is to display a cheatsheet on the screen

I’ve really appreciated the work the admin team has done to document issues with how the Lemmy World instance is being run. I’ve been thinking lately about how when you look at how the world operates what you see a lot of is tribes. We all align ourselves into tribes according to convenience, upbringing, and environmental needs (which could be argued to be an factor of convenience). Part of being human is staying up to date on the news that impacts your tribe (who might include your family, school, local community, work, or other online communities) including what other tribes are doing. For the Lemmy federation the two biggest places to keep a journalistic sort of eye on are Lemmy.ml (where the developers of Lemmy operate) and Lemmy.World (where the majority of Lemmy’s population operates) because what those two instances do will have substantial impacts on any instance participating in the federation.

I’ve seen some people complaining about our slrpnk admins being who documents this but the fact of the matter is, someone has to, and who’s more likely to do it than someone with the most invested (via time, emotional labor, and material resources) in the overall topology of the federated system. It was probably always going to need to be admins doing it because they’re who’s put in the time and has the technical expertise to really dig into this stuff, and I applaud our admins for stepping up to the plate. It is also my observation that I don’t think they could have realistically handled it any better than they did. They’re not being trollish, they’re not being JAQoffs, they’re asking relevant, data informed, questions about how instances are to be run so that people can figure out if maintaining their main instance is right for them.

Now for the bummer thoughts I have from observing all this. First. The bummer that is the way Lemmy.World as an institution has handled all this. Having interacted with Ruud in the past before his instances got so big, I can’t help but say he got lost in the excitement of seeing his little hobby project to host part of the fediverse to donate to something he loved and is now stretched too thin without recognizing the harm that being stretched too thin is doing to both his users and to users who interact tangentially. The fediverse works best when individual instances stay small. That may have costs early on when you join finding interesting people to follow, but it also means that every admin staff and every instance can maintain their own unique moderation stance and every individuals philosophical views on proper online moderation can be met, even if that means doing it on one’s own. The .world ecosystem indicates a view of online moderation that devalues the worth of staying small and emphasizes the importance of market capture.

The .world ecosystem, unfortunately, cannot ever be one of the best run sets of instances on the fediverse because it doesn’t put the emphasis on giving people incentives to be their best selves, but instead in setting up a low barrier to entry into the fediverse. I think there is value in this to get people started exploring mastodon, misskey, Lemmy, or mbin, but I think in this current moment, that low barrier to entry is starting to do harm that ripples across the fediverse due to .world’s sheer scale. The moderators cannot possibly avoid getting overwhelmed simply because there’s too much to moderate. They can’t spend time making reasonable decisions because they feel pressure to always be taking action lest they fall behind on how much moderator action is genuinely required.

If Lemmy.World is to be a good instance in the long term, I think they need to move away from fully open registration, and to put restrictions on community creations until they can get their scale nailed down better. There are other instances out there and if new people want to join the threadiverse, it doesn’t need to be via Lemmy.World

Did not know there was a BtB about Vince McMahon. I’ll have to check that out

Iirc Macho Man Randy Savage was also instrumental to unionization efforts and the company turned him heel for it. The result? Everyone loved Macho Man Randy Savage as a heel more than they ever loved him as a face. There’s something extremely relatable to all of us about a guy who tries to speak up about injustice but doesn’t get the traction and has to go back to making the magic our companies don’t deserve

The lesson of the Luddites is to fight the industrialist who wants to take away the pleasures of being human in the name of enriching said industrialist. Time and effort saving mechanisms should benefit the laborer, and no one else. That their movement has been labeled as being resistant to human progress or uninformed of the benefits of industrialization tells on our society’s propaganda mechanisms and our failure to teach our own history

Ever since college I’ve always worn a cheap watch on my wrist least for the same reason my grandpa stopped keeping a pocket watch: its more convenient to check on your wrist for the time than your pocket.

Granted we’re getting way off topic here since except for a few years its ways been a digital watch. Asserting analog watches are more numerous in models when digital watches are more numerous in sales, therefore reading an analog clock is a useful skill is odd to me. When I was wearing an analog watch for my allergies it was a flieger because the mental tax of making the hands turn into a singular time was a frustration.

I learned, though, from this that how you present time changes how you perceive time. Kids who grow up with digital representations of time consider “the current moment” in a much narrower and instantaneous scope than people who grew up thinking of time as being a spectrum on a dial

its not in their standardized tests and that’s the only thing that determines funding. Its a nightmare …

Those aliens also display a core experience that we have anxiety about: being colonized. Interestingly, Stargate, a franchise partially created by the US Air Force very accidentally portrays what interacting with alien species who didn’t establish a system of colonization might look like. There are multiple cultures humanity encounters in that franchise who don’t have weapons but have farming implements we can’t even imagine. That franchise shows a universe where Humanity leaves earth and discovers we’re a bunch of violent weirdos who don’t fit in with the rest of the universe. There’s some other colonial powers we encounter, of course, when Earth needs to be the good guys. But like… Think about that. We might be so steeped in a system that’s been inflicted on us that our first contact with a non-earthbound culture might see that culture being like “so the workers produce all the value, and you beat them up? Why? This doesn’t make any sense. Shouldn’t they be rewarded for the value they provide?”

Having read all the context and the “debunking,” no, I don’t think that person is delusional. I think they’re just more sensative to how certain patterns of actions can be hurtful to marginalized groups than awesomekling is, and that awesomekling has showed a consistent pattern of associating with, and empowering, bad folks, and for not taking it seriously when people say “associating with bad folks makes the project less inclusive, and makes people less willing to contribute.” The justification he provides basically boils down to “Well you don’t contribute so I don’t have to listen to” when part of why people aren’t contributing is that they make first contributions and he offhandedly dismisses them. It’s interesting to me that “trans people exist” is a political agenda but “we refuse to acknowlege your pronouns and will change them with moderator powers on our discord” isn’t.

I disagree that people trying to make the language of technology more inclusive are doing nothing but causing trouble. They’re trying to make our communities more open to more contributors, and by slamming the doors in their faces we prevent them from continuing forward. And here’s the thing: I’ve seen this play out before. Really big, really successful, projects see consistent long term contributions and develop and grow over time. Projects that are harmful to marginalized groups get niche appeal but not mass adoption. Also whether or not he supports right-wing politics, I find it hard to take it seriously that someone who’s so “wholesome” is “just” a misogynist or a transphobe. Those are serious allegations, and ones that I haven’t seen well addressed, and ones I don’t care to associate myself with until awesomekling shows up and puts in the work to make it clear marginalized people are welcome working on his codebase. As of right now? It seems he’s perfectly willing to accept money and code from people who show consistent patterns of abuse.

As a left-aligned person, myself, I ALSO think we need to stop excusing hate, but I think that looks somewhat different.

https://cmdr-nova.online/2024/07/03/serenityos-and-ladybird/

Weird fascist tech bro likes weird fascist tech bro platform

Its KISS to the point of being too simple

Oh absolutely. I loved Artix when I was working with it. Helped me fall in love with doas and OpenRC. But also if you’ve got a computer you wanna get working, it gives you WAY too many choices to make. Its mainly for if you’re using something and you just have a frustrating from some tool or another because Artix seriously let’s you customize aspects of the OS that no other sane distro gives you access to. This has some consequences:

1. Until you have a working system its very futzy
2. Once you have a working system all other systems feel… Wrong. They didn’t make the right decisions. You know this because you dove deep into every conceivable make able decision and if they didn’t choose what you chose, then you already know it won’t be quite right for you.

Basically… If you have to ask if Artix is right for you, that means it isn’t. I kinda only recommend Artix to people who have already customized the shit out of Arch or Debian and still have complaints. Its by far my favorite distro, and it simply isn’t one I’m running right now because Antix is fine enough for my needs and I don’t want to be without a laptop for an entire weekend while I get every single thing lines up.

Again. This sounds like I hate Artix. I don’t. I fucking love it. Everyone who loves Linux should give it a try some time just to see how esoteric and weird a distro can get when they want to. It’s truly beautiful and pure.

I think the bottom line is if they didn’t like Mint they’re not gonna like Ubuntu. Any criticism I can level at mint I can level even harder at Ubuntu. Before anyone can say anything for sure though it’d be important to know what they didn’t like about Mint and what it is that’s drawing them to Ubuntu.

As far as would I recommend Ubuntu? Honestly, no. I don’t recommend it to anyone. Its not easier to use than Mint if you want an easy to use Linux distro. Its basically no better than Windows if you’re issue with Windows was philosophical. From a technical standpoint I find it to be about the worst distro there is.

The list of distros I find myself recommending to people is as follows:

• Mint (for noobs)
• MX (for experienced users who don’t wanna Futz with stuff)
• Antix (for constrained systems)
• Arch (for experienced users who do wanna Futz with stuff)
• Debian (for people who are on a futzing with stuff spectrum between MX and Arch, regardless of experience level)
• Artix (for sickos who love the Futz, live for the futz, and found Arch to not be futzy enough)

Welcome to realizing the Memes are all bullshit and its just a solid distro that’s worth using for the simpleness. Just go use your computer like the average user is and roll with it

We put that second lightswitch in so that you could turn the lights on and off

Sorry to be dragging a comment out of the aether as I read into Hyprland controversies, but its absolutely wild this guy was rude across the span of an entire week about a pretty typical issue request, and then later down the road was like “it was one bad comment I might have been having a bad day” and its like… Dude it was 7 days