Badabinski

joined 2 years ago
[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I think the OP clearly doesn't like that they have this reaction (as someone else pointed out, and as you acknowledged). I think I understand why you might think this came from a lack of empathy. You like kids, what could be wrong with them acting like kids do? Sure, they're loud, but it's not that big of a deal! This person must have no empathy, because if they did, they'd be fine with it. People with no empathy are psychopaths, so OP must be a psychopath.

I think you're already starting to see what's wrong with that line of reasoning, which I really appreciate. Just to restate it here, the OP probably doesn't hate children, they just have problems with overstimulation (possibly misophonia or autism spectrum stuff). Not everyone has experienced overstimulation, but I can assure you that at best, it makes you reaaally cranky. Feelings of rage aren't surprising to me. If the OP wants, there are coping strategies and things they can do to help themselves in certain circumstances, but they're not wrong or bad. Their brain just works differently from other folks, and this is one of the effects of that.

It's not society's job to fix this (because kids have the right to be kids, and kids are kinda loud sometimes, even if you're trying to teach them to be mindful of their volume), but I think that it's generally good to try and show some empathy, or at least ask questions in good faith if you don't understand well enough to empathize.

I'd implore you to communicate with a bit more intent. Calling someone a psychopath is a pretty serious thing to do! Did you intend to hurt someone's feelings that much? Or were you just confused and a bit angry, and came to that conclusion in haste? There's a person on the other side of this conversation who has feelings, and they're asking here for help. They're trying to improve themselves, and I don't think you'd want to say that type of thing to someone who's just trying to live a better life.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been incredibly happy with Kagi. All of the listicles and blogspam get shunted off into their own sections. Kagi also seems to do a pretty good job at finding "deep" results. Like, when I want to find out more information about some home automation gizmo, Kagi does a good job of finding some random blog post where someone has torn the gizmo apart and analyzed every strength and weakness it has. I still prefer Google for looking up restaurants and stuff, but I hardly use it anymore. I don't at all regret the $10 a month I pay to use Kagi.

Edit: I also like that Kagi lets you define rules. Occasionally I'll be forced to go to Reddit to get some information (I really try to go elsewhere first). I deleted my account, so I go to new Reddit by default (which I hate). I don't want to add an extension to redirect to old Reddit, but I can just replace the www with old automagically for all Reddit search results. Works great.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm convinced that Orson Scott Card suffered a traumatic head injury at some point. I don't know how you could go from writing something as beautiful and intimate as Ender's Game to shit like Hidden Empire, which is creepy right wing Christian disaster porn (from what I can remember of that trainwreck).

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago

As much as I despise Oracle and the lawn mower man known as Larry Ellison, I don't think this is a problem. Oracle also had a lot to do with btrfs, and while that filesystem has problems, they're not the sort of problems usually associated with Oracle (i.e. rapacious capitalistic practices like patent trolling and suing the fuck out of everyone all the time always). Oracle won't own XFS, it's owned by every single person who has ever contributed to that codebase.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if we could find/contact/contract a developer with an accessibility focus. I'm planning on leaving some moderately significant donations in a few days (damn settling periods and bank holidays making that slow), and maybe there could be a community fundraising effort to get an accessibility expert in to submit some PRs. I made a big fuss out of accessibility on Reddit in the lead up to the protest, and it feels hypocritical of me to not keep pushing for it now. Not sure if Ernest would be interested in that or not, but it seems like it might be a good idea.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's accessibility like for Lemmy/kbin? I wonder if we could get an early start on accessibility with kbin, since it has a much younger codebase.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm really glad you're working on this. @hariette is making Artemis for Lemmy and kbin, and soon the world will have another app for Lemmy. More apps == more better, IMO. Your app is looking great!

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon all speak the same underlying protocol -- ActivityPub. I've found that the best way to think of it is to compare it to email. If I send you an email from my gmail account to your outlook account, it just works (well, mostly, email is a bit of a mess lol) even though the two email clients look vastly different from each other. ActivityPub (and federated protocols in general) are like email, but for twitter/reddit.

There are some different message types (it wouldn't make sense to present twitter-like content in the context of a threaded forum like Reddit), and not all instance types support all the different message types. I'm using kbin (via kbin.social) and I can see Mastodon content, but I'm not sure if Lemmy has that ability.

Not sure if that was helpful, and I hope that others come and fact check me, but that's my understanding of it.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

He can definitely speak with a lot of vitriol :/ It's why I stopped watching his videos. I'm glad he's pushing for right-to-repair stuff, but I just couldn't handle the anger and negativity.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While I'm glad that furries have a nice space where they can (hopefully) not be harassed, I decided I could use a bit less furry porn in my life. On kbin (on mobile, in the PWA), you can block a domain by searching for it (I think it was yiffit.net, but I can't remember), then click the kbin logo at the top right, then scroll down to where you see /d/yiffit.net, then click the little block icon. I'm sure Lemmy has the same capability, but I don't know how to do it. With that, the new feed has a lot less porn lol.

EDIT: it was yiffit.net, not furryit.net

EDIT: well, that wasn't very effective. It took 1 page to find more lol. It gives me... somewhat fond memories of browsing /r/all, sorted by new.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I've heard good things about Ender 3 printers and their clones if you're willing to tinker. AFAIK, the experience right out of the box isn't great, but they can be modded and upgraded over time and can be fairly capable.

That being said, those might still be too expensive depending on your geo. I seem to recall reading about reprap projects designed to be built as cheaply as possible using harvested components from things like old scanners and shit.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait, there's people making money off of this shit‽ Like, my therapist and I work on mindfulness, but for me that just means being present in my body (not escaping into books/games/videos), considering my wants and needs, and listening to my emotions (even when they're unpleasant). Is there some other definition? I like talking to people about it, but I'll have to be more specific about what I mean in the future if there's someone out there selling something.

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