[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago

Okay, that's fucked going after the researchers. On the other paw, if we get catpeople out of this I may still forgive them :3

(Of course that demand is BS, though. Bleh!)

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 34 points 8 months ago

YES. Hero sib ^.^ 🎡

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Okay, so, Idunno if it's more Sway or Wayland or just getting away from something wrong with my X/herbstluftwm setup but wow everything feels kinda great over here πŸ˜…

It's taken a while to get everything set up how I like but multiple games behave well here and not on X (which is very strange considering I expected more problems with the "new" thingle especially regarding gaming) and also my system feels snappier in general. Nobody told me the switch was gonna be like getting a hardware upgrade but wheee!

Of course, fiddling with things is something I love about Linux so it's kindof a win-win even with the added work of having to switch over because gush gush Swayland is kinda wonderful πŸ˜…

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I've just been holding this in for a couple days and can't find anycritter(s) else to gush at πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

They like to make a show like everyone on Earth is just like they are so how dare we exist differently but it's clearly just them being hateful. Idunno how bigots manage to still think they're clever and totally not insecure whilst making self-contradictory statements and raging over nonsense and trivia for hours at a time, often in spaces where they're not even welcome.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

Hi, woke garbage here. Very trans. Enby too. Just sitting here existing at you. Existing so hard, it probably hurts you just knowing about it. I hope it does, 'cause you're a prick and you deserve it ^.^

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 43 points 11 months ago

Just mention them once, sixty or so will be by promptly to "help" you "understand."

...Then the rest drop by to see how much of a mess they can make of the relatively calm and sensible clusterfuck already present, because every question or comment absolutely must be met with a raucous cacophony of condescending crap.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 55 points 11 months ago

I freaking hate this game, when can we play something else :(

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 62 points 11 months ago

Another version (extra cold, I think!):

Did you hear about the mansplainer who fell into a hole?

It was a well, actually.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 62 points 11 months ago

"We need more power! What can you give me?"
"Uhhh... if we get all of the shuttles and EVA suits out pushing I guess that'll technically be more power?"
"How much faster will we go?"
"Literally not at all, due to warp mechanics you told me not to mention again. Might make you feel better, though."

Great post, thanks πŸ˜…

America Also Bad!

Seems like they usually leave out the "also" because apparently two things can't be bad at the same time. Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where only one thing is bad? I expect it'd be simpler, at least.

What a bunch of pricks.

I hesitate to blame them all. In GN's video, some of the clips show LMG people seeming (to me? Somehow I don't see anyone else pointing this out???) anxious to terrified of Linus. In one of the WAN Show clips there's this meek, near-mumbled kind of "Uhm... Linus sir maybe if you'd, um... just tested it properly that could've been maybe better I guess? <.< v.v;" sort of thing, and the person who grabbed the wrong card barely squeaked out a response at all, but Linus just never seems to give a damn about anything except making the quickest possible bucks.

I don't know what's keeping everyone else there but I think at least some of those people are just trying to get by without incurring some kind of wrath as Linus himself repeatedly makes (or causes) a mess then arrogantly doubles, triples, quadruples down on it (or has someone else do so, or maybe other arrogant pricks are involved?) up to a point of "Okay, I messed up and I'll own that now everyone forget about it" after which business-as-usual resumes until the next mess. It seems like no one else has time to learn from any mistakes (or "mistakes") and those who do (presumably a hierarchy-related privilege) are unwilling or incapable.

Now, they may in fact be a bunch of pricks. I just feel like some of those people (such as the one suggesting that testing the water block correctly might made sense (before potentially killing a startup unfairly)) try to help but have no power to inhibit Linus's pompous profit-driven pissheadery.

Mention them even once and all of them show up spouting memes and essays and shit :-\ Some of their words sound great and even like that's a place for me but somehow none of their attitudes do. Maybe at least they'll help tilt the place a bit more toward actually-left (always good, as far as I'm concerned) if they truly are leftish but also hopefully they aren't going to make every thread a mess of them all showing up and loudly sniffing each other's emissions.

One must have no mind at all to take that place seriously at this point. No consistency, no fairness, no honesty, no integrity. One never knows what to expect nor from where to expect it.

Hell, they don't seem to know what they're doing. Their admins fight over who does what to whom and apparently they close subs then threaten themselves demanding that they reopen them. This didn't have to be a big mess but it was forced to be one anyway and there's no sense in trusting it to get any better.

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Geology MOOCs? (kbin.social)

Are there geology MOOCs anywhere? Every time I go looking I find at most like three but one's in Chinese (which I don't know nearly well enough to take a course in), one's some advanced thing, and the other... I don't even remember.

Anyway, is there anywhere I could possibly peek into a course like... Rocks an' Whatnot 101 maybe? Dirt Stuff for People with Clean Hands, maybe? :'D I can't promise I won't end up disinterested or get bored or distracted and quit, but I want such courses to be a thing anyway.

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So, some part(s) of Freenet has/had (this one has not been there in a while) a "web of trust" system that allowed a user to take part in a sort of graph-based collective filtering framework. It works something like this:

  1. You choose who you trust to produce valid content (not spam or attacks on the network, that sort of thing). Others do the same.
  2. You choose how much you trust others' trust values. This then combines with your own trust values to establish a sort of total trust value. If you don't know Bob but your friend does, you can probably assume Bob isn't going to be a problem with some level of confidence

Seeing the (vastly overblown, considering the nature of federation) controversy involving Beehaw and various comments about moderation tools and users wanting more of less exposure to various kinds of content, this one thought that perhaps a web of trust sort of thing, or some related concepts could be useful. Such a system could possibly be used to allow groups of users with similar preferences to implement their own filtering preferences in a way that moves the effort from moderators making general rules and judgments and users all having to make their own judgments (including vulnerable ones who need to be protected from certain content or they will, at best, leave): Riikka needn't browse m/HatefulPricks (just contriving a mag; maybe that doesn't exist :P ) looking for people to block before they go after her if someone whose judgment she's flagged as trusted has already encountered those people.

[Please pretend there's another interesting idea here. Riikka forgot what else she wanted to say :( ]

Maybe it's useless here, or maybe some components or related ideas could help. Seems like at least it could be worth a try applying to filtering undesirable (or simply harmful, as is/was the intent of Freenet's WoT) content. Even just having a handful of guardians (or maybe some sort of service identity like a "No Bigots" user that some actual user(s) use only to mark bigots, another for cat haters, something like that?) could maybe help. If someone gets hacked or somehow goes bad, just untrust their trust list and bam, fixed. Everything's still there, just hidden. Of course, for it to really reduce mod workload (particularly somewhere like Beehaw) there would have to be some work involved on many sides of the implementation. Maybe some kind of concept of user age or other validating factors, some default configuration (so brand new users aren't exposed to a bunch of garbage no one else sees) or "go subscribe to the 'no garbage' filter list!" as a recommended step in account creation, and of course people would still have to be there to spot and mark unwanted content.

Just an idea (and a crapload of yapping... sorry (sortof)!) Thoughts?

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