The only think I dislike about sneaking this into every page of my personal websites is the sinking feeling that I’ll be helping OpenAI claw back market share from Anthropic. I wish someone would disclose an equivalent for chatgpt, and gemini.
tinfoil hat on: discord is a company based in the USA, the USA administration saw those teenagers in Nepal supposedly organise a revolt/revolution over discord, sees the inhabitants of Minneapolis organizing against ICE on Signal, and wants to preemptively know which of their citizens are using discord with which accounts in case any of them start organizing on discord.
I have the same preference for personal projects, but when I was working on a corporate team it was really useful to have the “run configs” for intellij checked in so that each new team member didn’t need to set them up by themselves. Some of the setup needed to get the python debugger properly connected to the project could get quite gnarly.
I agree with the many others who say you’re more than ready to start learning rust. I would add that if you’ve brushed up against manual memory management in C, then you might find the following a great introduction to rust and the borrow-checker: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
As usual for discussions about starting to learn rust, I would also recommend the “special”/experimental version of The Book maintained by Brown University: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/title-page.html . It has little interactive quizzes that help check your understanding, and some fancy diagrams in the sections on pointers and the borrow-checker.
I wonder if the “language training” has anything to do with it.
I suspect the Software Heritage Foundation knows about Soft 98 already and has backed up their stuff, though I haven’t personally checked.
In case you omitted the following out of ignorance and not by deliberate choice:
podman unshare can be used to (mostly) painlessly access the files created by rootless podman.
Garfield has no solutions
He readily admitted as much when I asked him on mastodon about how to approach the subject with friends and family who are using the “it is what it is” rationalization. Then mentioned cult deprogramming research as something he’s not as well versed in as he would like.
Make of that what you will/want
Someone is working on something related: https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/
The rest of their blog is pretty great, too!
I hope, say in a few years, that I’ll be able to make light-hearted jokes about the “piefed v lemmy” flame wars and people will either not care to learn about it or smile knowingly and then change the subject anyways.
Thankfully the birds are often content to do most of the talking
I think Ada already said it better than I will, but yeah there’s a few too many simplifications and short-circuits (in reasoning/logic) in what you have written. If society stopped claiming people “should” be this or that just because of some physical characteristics they were born with, the “conflict” you outline ceases to exist. Trans people (and “non-conforming” people in general) could fulfill whatever roles and stereotypes they resonate with, and still fit in just fine.
Plus, the stereotypes some of us resonate with simply do not neatly map onto society’s stereotypes of men and women. Some people who have outwardly transitioned may seem to be moulding themselves into society’s “traditional” gender norms, sure. Putting aside those who do so out of self preservation or fear of persecution, I would argue it’s just happenstance (in other words, pure luck) that who they want to be in life lines up so neatly with these existing delineations. It doesn’t conflict with the push to stop expecting and demanding people fit other people’s schemas.
I don’t know that stereotypes are necessarily harmful, not do I think that the point of equality is to get rid of them. Rather, they should have no bearing on our worth, and we should not be reducing people to the various stereotypes we know of. We are infinitely more complex and varied beings than any stereotypes that anyone has ever conceived.
Myself, I prefer to think of stereotypes as archetypes, like in storytelling. They are shortcuts that evoke certain character traits. They cannot describe the totality of a person, only facets. Thus, we should be careful to not expect people to fit “inside” them; therein lies the/a root of a lot of harm. If that is too difficult, better to do away with thinking in terms of stereotypes than demean those who don’t fit them.
I love how genuine their expressions are in the photos where they’re smiling. Such a cool feeling of connection to people from 130 years ago.
I get random friend requests from accounts in discord servers that I haven’t even viewed, let alone interacted in, for years - most have some sort of “live/laugh/love” bio blurb. Maybe I’m just an antisocial hermit at this point, but I ignore every single one.
In comparison, Steam seems a lot more genuine. You can always try suggesting discord for voice chat if you’re leery of installing an unknown program just for talking to that user.
Congratulations! As a simple user on another “local” instance, I’m glad y’all are still around and as healthy as ever.
I’m surprised that’s what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.
I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don’t exactly know which parts.
I’ll va être temps d’apprendre à faire du ssh -{L,R} !
It’s absurd how comforting it is to read your post, OP, and all these other’s comments. One could think it would be depressing to realize so many others are in a similar state, and yet I mainly feel relieved at not being alone in such an experience.
Or scimitars, maybe