Me. Not therapy nor medications (because I interrupted them thanks to the unemployment), but my biological programming.

I didn’t know that site until you mentioned it. Thanks for letting me know about its existence. It’s a cool example of Streisand effect in practice. (Not /s)

Sometimes I ask myself the same question when I share things just to be faced with my own feelings of purposelessness. I mean, the purpose should be sharing it to other people that’d be interested in the content, but the Dead Internet Theory has long been far from a mere theory. The insane amounts of bots and spam led people to rely on some kind of “web of trust”, “web ring”, etc. It was needed because it’s never possible to know beforehand if a new profile will be spam/bot. And it seems good to find only what (should) fit our interests, following only people that you know whom produces good content. However, this behavior has a big downside, it rules out potentially interesting content from unknown people, which leads to the impossibility of hear and being heard, which leads to segregation, which leads to digital echo chambers. So, in such a web, friendless people, for example, inevitably fall into oblivion as they watch their content being filtered out because spam and bots needs to be filtered out.

Yeah, global climate, carbon dioxide levels and even biodiversity are in a better spot nowadays than they were before, huh? That’s pretty cool! /s

I’m from another instance, but here’s what I noticed: due to federation, fediverse content shows up on Google’s search results.

My instance doesn’t seem to have Google indexation by itself, but my comments and posts appear through other instances, often instances that I never heard of.

Similar thing happens with Mastodon: while the Mastodon instance I’m in has Google indexation, my posts also appear through other Mastodon instances as well, and you guessed it: they’re often instances that I never heard of, too.

So, even if your instance lemm.ee didn’t set up Google indexation (or if they even prohibit it via robots.txt), lemm.ee content will still be found by Google through other instances that federate with lemm.ee.

So the solution is to rip off souls from the non-existence aether, bring them to this ever-bizarre world in order to condemn them, like Sisyphus, to a lifetime pushing of a social boulder which is fated to always go downhill? (In other words, why the unborn should sustain the faults of an unsustainable society that weren’t their faults to begin with?)

What if the system is contained within a vacuum chamber?

Interesting possibility, either.

Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge

One could defend itself alleging that they had the app in order to prevent themselves from being blackmailed and/or extorted by robbers which could try to access the phone contents in order to extract information from banking apps, photos, social networks and personal information.

Defending oneself from malicious actors (such as robbers) shouldn’t be a crime.

Considering “top” as meant to be “most used”, I’d say:

• Voyager, which I’m using right now, a Lemmy client.
• Tusky: a Mastodon client.
• Mull: Firefox fork.
• Firefox (yeah, I have two Firefox installations)
• Sketchbook: a drawing app, I even paid for the additional features.
• Google translate: when I don’t remember how to say something specific in English, or when I want to experiment with multiple languages, especially Latin (and Google translate is the only translator app to have Latin support)
• Noto (I was previously using Notesnook): text editor with folder capabilities. I use it to write poetry, free from distractions
• Acode: source code text editor. I use it to create Node.js snippets which I run with…
• Termux: a kind of a “Linux emulator”, it emulates a terminal environment within Android with additional programs compiled to arm architecture. One of those programs is Node.js (both the REPL, the runtime and the npm package manager)

I left YouTube a long time ago for a couple reasons. But besides the content creators you mentioned, I also used to follow:

• ElectroBOOM: Mehdi talks about electrical engineer in a practical, humorous way. He has a segment called “Rectifiy” where he debunks internet videos, particularly these fake “Free energy” internet videos.
• The Action Lab: didactic experimentations with physics.
• Computerphille: interviews with teachers and specialist from several scientific and engineering fields, especially IT-related fields.
• 3Blue1Brown (IIRC): mathematician.
• Tom Scott, back when he produced videos: I guess everyone knows about him.
• Technology Connections: often focuses on household appliances (refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, lamps, etc) but also explains applied scientific knowledge and also photography.

If I remember other content creators, I’ll update my comment. It has been a long time since I abandoned YouTube.

Some alternative , nerdy interpretations follow:

• sh: it just works. You don’t need bash, zsh, fish, tcsh or anything else, just running sh will provide a shell environment.
• sh: IT just works. Similar to the previous interpretation, but also stating that IT (Information Technology, which is meant to mean the IT department) just works with sh.

I’ll certainly be out of this world long before I ever stopped to think about my retirement. That’s my retirement plan.

Where does OpenIndiana fit?

This remembers me something that happened here in Brazil. Some years ago, a Brazilian priest attached himself to a thousand helium balloons. He flew a long distance until he disappeared. After some months, his body was found on the ocean.

Brazilian here. I wasn’t aware of this thing until I saw this thread (to be fair, I’m more aware of USA things than things from within the country where I live).

It’s a rarely situation where I completely agree with a “Brazil bans something” headline. It’s a right thing to do, IMHO (well, no photo should be used without photographed’s consent whatsoever, be them children or adults, but alright, it’s indeed a priority to guarantee children’s safety, so… maybe we Brazilian adults could wait our turn to have our privacy respected in the future as well?)

There’s a slight technicality I should point out, however: there’s no way for “ANPD” (“Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados”, or National Data Protection Authority) to check whether Xwitter is complying with such policy. I mean, how could Brazil confirm that Xwitter really stopped using photos from Brazilian children? Technically, Xwitter could say “yeah, Brazil, we’re complying, look, here’s the checkbox forcefully turned off for every photo containing Brazilian children”, while they’d be secretly using mirrored content from their CDNs located within other countries to train their xAI, outside the reaches of Brazilian eyes and jurisdiction… It’d not be surprising, coming from big tech companies who seek profit.

Perhaps if Brazil decided to do this effort alongside with other nations, it’d be way more effective. But Brazil seems to be struggling with diplomatic relationships because of its involvement with BRICS, so the seemingly lonely effort may be a consequence of an isolated diplomacy landscape.

In summary, IMHO, Brazil did the right thing, although through somewhat weak means.

It reminds me of how the right-wing politicians are trying to privatize Correios (the Brazilian Postal Service) here in Brazil. They alleged a similar thing: financial losses, inefficiency, and so on. While Correios doesn’t offer a really wonderful service, it’s really doubtable if a private company would improve it (spoiler: it won’t).

I’m not a joking person and I feel similar situations. Maybe I’m the extreme opposite, my (almost) complete lack of lightheartedness leads me to face echo chambers, both IRL and in the cyberspace. I do some memes and I say/post some funny things but my essence is imbued with non-conformist thoughts.

Do the options “Written Sci-fi” and “Written Fantasy” also apply for writers, not consumers?

Because I once wrote both a sci-fi and fantasy story, so I’d check those.

This remembers me of the possibility of him buying TikTok and renaming it to “X Vídeos”. What are the odds of such a tragicomedy to happen?