Sunsofold @ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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IP laws are meant to protect creators, but are backdoored by corporate personhood. Remove corporate personhood and the world of IP law immediately becomes less toxic.

If you're wanting to use software that's most easily available on different distros, why not just use Distrobox? If you are just wanting to change the UI, why not just switch DEs? If you really need to be able to randomly switch away from/to system level differences, what are you doing? What would necessitate that?

"Yes" ¹

1. Lastname, Me (2023). Part 3. In A Book of Things I Wrote Just to Cite Them (37th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 1–100). story, Me Publishing.

Dog needs more walks.

If it's in your 'private wine cellar,' either you already paid for it or it was gifted, still free-ish. If your wife is making you pay to 're-taste the honeymoon wine,' you might have other problems.

Then I can't get in, much less sit at a table.

Peanuts are a commonly lethal allergy to something that, while not unavoidable, is surprisingly prevalent. I have heard it's awful.

I think of them like food content warnings for non-lethal allergies, like lactose intolerance. It's a kindness to have a warning that helps people avoid shitting their pants. However, we all need to recognize that it is just that, a kindness. There is an inherent risk when someone says 'hey, taste this.' If you have a high sensitivity, you have a responsibility for self-care through self-denial. If you were uncertain if a food contained something to which you had an extreme sensitivity, you'd say 'no, thank you.' Same holds true for the whole world of media. You can hope for kindness, and put in the effort give it to others where you will, but don't trust that it will always be given to you because it is an extra effort.

Haven't used it but I've heard of cryptomator.

Freedombox but with more modern and popular apps? I was just thinking about this kind of thing.

It'd need a bit of reinforcement, but maybe a lazy Susan?

Yeah. I'm hoping to go mostly self-hosted.

HR is the bane of all forms of success, both for companies and people.

I think I understand your meaning. However, if everyone is insane because they are blind to reality, does it matter that educated people are too? And if those who study deeply on something don't actually shrink their baseline awareness, (learning mechanical engineering doesn't make you less able to comprehend text, grow a garden, ride a bike, etc.) even if they only reduce their blindness in a narrow area, they are less blind/insane than the average person who is blind to most/all of the same things as the expert but also blind to the things the expert has studied.

Now, there is an effect where someone may see how much more sane the expert is and expect that the experts narrow knowledge will make them also saner in some other area where they are just as blind as anyone else. This is a big problem in our world because you get people who think they know how to run the world because they know how to write a few lines of code. The trick is, this is a blindness shared by almost all people, not just experts. The expert in chemistry isn't more likely to mismanage a school than the average person, but both are more likely to fail than an expert in education.

It's not $5. There's a tap in all our pockets, pipelessly connected to the Heidelberg Tun of free wine that comes in all colours, types, and flavors.

I have a similar one but these days I'm wanting something smaller. The spring slide on this style means the minimum size is rather large.

Clearly made by a junior. Any senior developer knows users are a bunch of animals.

Same dev that made Iron Lung (now a movie) and Music Machine.

TIL is not a place for jokes.

Two things

One, I'm guessing English is not your first language so you may not be aware that 'concentrate' has a primary meaning of 'thinking carefully' while what you seem like you are describing is 'specialization,' meaning 'studying narrowly, but deeply.' You seem to be claiming that over-specialization (studying narrowly and deeply, to the exclusion of relevant information) is bad. They are related but subtly different and part of the negative response may be due to a linguistic barrier.

And two,

You still call this sliver "the world"... and on this sliver is all your reasoning based.

By this definition, everyone is insane. It is definitionally impossible for anyone to fully comprehend the totality of the world. Everyone is focused on their tiny slice. Even people who spread their awareness across many areas can't comprehend all of it at once. You, yourself, are limited to the things you have had the chance to learn in your life. Everyone 'concentrates' their attention, or 'specializes' on certain subjects. Sometimes it is on the atomic structure of distant stars. Sometimes it is on the care of their loved ones. The limitation is universal, and not isolated to particular kinds of study.