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• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has marked me. Personally, I value kindness, strategy, knowledge/learning, and humor.
• Something that has marked me is capitalism and its consistent threat of leaving me so poor that my quality of life goes to shit. I want to both be good enough at something so that I can eat food tomorrow but also change this fucked up system to something more humane.
• Especially important has been Mary Midgley’s The Ethical Primate and its view on empathy, as well as it’s view of models, theories, and metaphors as not that different to each other (similar to another comment here).
• In terms of evaluating models/theories/metaphors, I love Maxwell’s view of validity. Validity happens when there are no validity threats that you think are important enough. Validity threats are the answers to the question “How can I be wrong?”
• I also think a lot about Piketty’s view that proposals must always consider both the current relations of power as well as the ideological and institutional content of any proposal.
• In terms of an epistemological stance, not only has Mary Midgley changed my view, but so did my high school texts on epistemology. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the texts, but I do remember the ideas. Specifically, the idea of groups of knower’s and how those are many and are constantly learning and forgetting.
• There’s also Carol Dweck’s growth mindset. This one is not so automatic for me, but I strive to internalize it.
• I also think a lot about Sen’s view of capabilities as freedom. I love it. I want that. If seen through Welzel’s human empowerment process, it not only gives you a basic set of tools, but it also lays a map of the world currently regardingcapabilitieas, values, and what to do to change the world with the most impact.
• I also like Epstein’s Range. I wonder if I’m justifying not being a superhuman of sorts right now, but it gives me reasons to try different things and not just stick with one thing.

I’ll leave it at that. Maybe some of this resonates with you. Let me know if it does! Also let me know if it totally doesn’t. That’s fine too :)

I meant the Build Your Dreams Chinese company. I fixed it :)

BYD the Chinese car company?

Thanks for the recommendation! It makes a lot of sense

I’m glad this is happening.

My gf’s father has a 2013 Apple computer that’s absurdly slow. His only reason not to switch to a libre system is email. He tried Thunderbird and found it ugly and barely intuitive. I was hoping something like this UI rebuilding would happen, because he is still willing to wait to see how options change over time.

M1 incompatibility with an old program he uses stops him from getting a Mac. He doesn’t even consider Windows because he dislikes it… Thunderbird’s ugly interface stops him from getting a libre desktop system. I’m hoping Thunderbird delivers their new polished and intuitive interface before his old program gets replaced by something he can use in an M1.

I’m out of the loop regarding Raspberry Pi, Mastodon, and the community. What happened?

I see how your point talks about an apparent contradiction: privacy yes, but privacy no. Thanks for pointing that out, because it’s important to have these conversations.

It could be that Lemmy users dislike states that serve the interests of capital rather than that of, for example, the common good. If you believe the US serves the interests of capital and that China serves the interest of the common good, the contradiction I see that you point out (privacy yes; privacy no) gets resolved. Privacy enthusiasm becomes a response to capitalist data-mining.

Please be aware that I am not idealizing the Chinese state. I am explaining a possible reasoning.

Elections of all kinds. I’ve used pen and paper as well as a silly script to choose as a group what to eat, what movie to watch, what book to read, and who to elect as president of a club. The issue is it takes time to do it, and every bit of friction makes it more likely someone will object to a new and different electoral system, even if it is better.

So a good Majority Judgment webapp or something like that would be used for fast elections of all kind.

Bonus points if it’s FLOSS, so that it gets more legitimacy.

Fast and easy Majority Judgment voting (Balinski et all.), where I can choose the judgments, and at any moment add, remove, or disable more voting options or voters.

I wonder if there’s a relevant B Corporation.

I hope you manage to have your basic needs met and have valuable goals met. However, this place is not for advertising your venture. In fact, this is one of the worst places to advertise, because it’s filled with people who are incredibly critical of the profit motive. Even if you’re somehow not motivated by profit, you are acting like a company that is, so please delete your post and adapt to our community or leave.

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know where I could find the Linux kernel developer’s blog post you’re referring to?

Are you talking about having good search engines in things like private communities in Lemmy or chat rooms in Matrix and things like that?

Maybe changing your title’s “extract” to “deduce” or something like that will avoid this confusion, so that it’s more likely that you get the answer that you’re looking for :)

In general, I watch the very last couple of games because that’s usually when lots of people around me are excited about it and watching it.

With this year’s one, I’m so grossed out by its ecological and social insanity that I don’t really want to.

Unless I’m missing something, I believe both WebP and AVIF have lossless compression as options. Of course, choosing that results on heavier files, but at least there’s the option.

Thanks for the recommendation. I didn’t know such little reduction in quality meant so much savings with JPGs and PNGs!

Yeah. Avif gave me some nasty artifacts on some pictures that I wanted to save long term. Not using it anytime soon… or at least until those issues are fixed.

Why do you dislike WebP? I can see that it isn’t widely used, so if longevity is my goal JPGs and PNGs are a better bet. But am I missing something about WebP?

The Snowden leaks show that the government programs rely on unencrypted data and data that companies are forced to give. Neither method relies on exploits of memory unsafety.

Memory safety refers to the software that is used internally.

Here’s an analogy. Imagine I sit in a park, and have a squad of friends who go out to listen to other people’s conversations. They may write down and pass me what they hear or they may simply tell me what they remember. That doesn’t matter. What matters is what I do afterwards.

Let’s say I want to write down what they said. I could write it down with a permanent marker on the palm of my hand. If I make a mistake, I’ll have to cross it and waste precious space.

Imagine I learn I could use pencil and paper, or a computer. Mistakes would stop costing me dearly. I would also have more space.

This change from ‘permanent marker on a hand’ to ‘paper and pencil’ or ‘computer’ is the equivalent to the NSA recommending memory safety. This doesn’t change the fact that my squad is out there spying on people. It just changes how I deal with the evidence they hand me over.

wtf is this shit

I’m sure it’s funny but I genuinely don’t get it(?)

Search for “loss meme”

Ironically, he may be a great source of knowledge for social scientists to determine how to fix a social problem.

Good point. I understand you’re saying it’s better to use Ubuntu than more locked-down and less libre alternatives. Fortunately, I daily-drive a GNU/Linux distro that I believe is less invasive than other alternatives.

I don’t get it.

Echo chambers are responsible for polarization if we define them broadly as groups that orient themselves towards similar values by listening to each other and not to other groups. This happens with friend groups over dinner, family reunions, and (for those who are religious) at religious events.

However, if we define it as necessarily something that happens in social media, I disagree with the notion that those echo chambers are responsible for radicalization. Notice I said “radicalization” rather than ‘polarization’.

Before, you’d simply gather around with your friends or family and discuss how the world is becoming more progressive. If your family happens to have regressive values, you’d complain about marginalized groups no longer being as marginalized. “Oh, the gays, they want to destroy the country by normalizing homosexuality”. The impulse to retain the values of a marginalized group (such as religious and racist zealots) motivates further cloistering and clustering.

Now, social media amplifies polemical voices that fiddle with your insecurities. If you’re a shy teenage girl, this might mean that you’re exposed to messages about how you’re ugly and poor. But if you’re not, it can be about anything. An effective technique is showing you your political enemy doing something threatening. “Democrats steal the election”, " Republicans burn a library because of LGBT books". This makes you want to engage with the content and watch more ads from the social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube). As a result, you spend more time reading about or watching videos about this threat (the insecurity-fiddling threat) and radicalize. These are the flat-earth YouTube rabbit holes. Or the toxic-masculinity red pill ideology rabbit holes. Or the fucked up terrorist rabbit holes. Or the hyper-religious and anti-democratic zealot rabbit holes. Or the racist rabbit holes. There are plenty. You can tell me which ones I’m missing. You probably know what I am talking about.

In other words, it’s not echo chambers that worry me. It is algorithmic manipulation to maximize engagement. That is a source of big trouble for the world. That is what we will have to deal with if we, as a world, pretend to live democratically.

If you’re not too anxious, reading Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman and applying it. If you’re too anxious, reading The Happiness Trap and applying it. Those are both books on proven ways to deal with many mental health issues.

Oh wow, the browser-OS comparison seems big! Do you have a favorite browser? Or are they all equally bad? I hope browser security and size can change for the better in the future!

Get paid

wut

I agree that Electron is a bottleneck. That’s something they’ll have to deal with. However, there’s a small difference between what this post is saying and what you’re saying: “24x - 1400x fafster depending on what you’re measuring” is quite different to “[the changes are] not really helpful”. Regardless, I’m glad to see that they’re embracing Rust in some way, distancing themselves from javascript. I hope the SDK will be good enough for a bustling ecosystem of efficient clients (and servers!). I’m also glad that people like you and I are making it clear that we value the reduction of sludge, we value efficiency and therefore inclusion for everyone, including those who have devices that aren’t that powerful.

Let’s evaluate your analogy’s internal logic. Take this website. If we average all the reported speeds of slugs, we end up with 0.004925727 m/s.

That is, we add up all the speeds 0.013+0.000023+0.0028+0.013+0.0024+0.00086+0.013+0.0024+0.0018+0.0034+0.0015 = 0.054183 and divide them by 11: 0.004925727.

Now multiply that by 1000: 4.925 m/s, which is 17.73 km/h. That’s double the speed at which I run, but it’s slow compared to car or train speeds.

The upper bound is 13 m/s (0.013 m/s * 1000) or 47 km/h, a respectable increase. That’s as fast as the speed limit in my neighborhood.

The lower bound is a meager 0.023 m/s. That’s 0.082 km/h, a pathetic result.

Your analogy’s internal logic is valid.

It will affect the client. The Rust-SDK, the Sliding Sync, and the progressive loading will all improve it.

I tried finding the GitHub issue that asks for Signal to stop relying on phone numbers. I can’t find it. Do you [whoever is reading this] know where the issue is at?

Interesting question. It both spurs discussion and shows you’ve thought about this topic. What do you think? :)

Ooh. You saw a problem. You solved it.

How do you define what is political? This could help people know what to do :)

Interesting question. What do you think, @tomasz@lemmy.ml?

Interesting question. What do you think, @tomasz@lemmy.ml?

As in feeling comfortable with others noticing the parts that you’d like to show of yourself? As in being able to share with the recurrent experience of being heard? What do you mean?

This one