Yeah, they seem to be fairly good at bringing together lots of different sources of information and putting it together. They don’t seem to deal with differences between how things were done and how they are done now, so it can give you bad advice sometimes, but at the same time it can be useful for getting started and figuring out what to try.

A failed starter motor on the feeling engine? You try to start up a feeling and nothing happens. No joy, no excitement, and not even real sadness, just a numb feeling of nothingness.

True, but when my $1400 Mazda 2 Neo hatchback is sailing past a broken down $140000 off road beast I do admit to a little chuckle. I’ve taken my mini beast down some clearly stupid paths and it has yet to let me down. I’ve also never crashed into a roo or gotten myself stuck in a way I couldn’t fix because it is only 1300kg tare weight so I can literally push the car out of a ditch if needed and I couldn’t possibly do that with one of the urban tanks.

If you want a real mind bender consider intersex people. They are also a minority, smaller than trans as a group, but also have a lot of discrimination and ambiguity from the binary view of sex and gender. Some intersex people have indeterminate genitals, others have mixed features, and some rare few have something close to both sets of organs. They may have a gender which aligns with one or the other general gender presentations, they also may not. It is really a full range of possible outcomes.

They also have some major historical, and current, bigotry around how they are seen and interacted with. Many people with indeterminate genitals are operated on by surgeons based in the surgeons best guess for the sex of the child, not based even on genetic details like karyotype, XX or XY. Sometimes the parents are told that their child had a small abnormality and it needed medical correction, but this is just to make the child fit typical sex norms, not for medical necessity. The surgeries can be very harmful to the child and may lead to difficulties later in life, especially around puberty, where they end up having been “corrected” to a sex which does not align with their gender identity.

Past all the horror, what is the sexual preference of someone who dates an intersex person? This is where externally applied and rigid categories fail. If a cis man is interested in an intersex person who has male genitalia but presents and identifies as female is this straight attraction? The woman here is clearly a woman in all ways bar genitals, so a casual or even in depth check without going under clothes will not identify any difference from female. The woman identifies as a woman, the man sees her as a woman, and she behaves as a woman in all ways bar sex and toileting. Straight doesn’t really have to exclude this relationship, but also it may be a bad rigid category, it may be better to say the man is on the straight end and likes fem people. It also may be best to not look for a single word or term and just describe things, saying this guy likes fem people but isn’t repulsed by typically male genitals.

I think the language here is hard because we are trying to fit messy reality into boxes. Fascism relies on this simple categorisation of people to form boxes for control and regulation of people. We don’t actually have to do this. We can just describe the world we find and use labels loosely to act as a shorthand, not a prescription. Someone could be described based on their behaviours but not have that result in a demand for consistency. As you say, no need to yuck someone else’s yum, but I think also no need to define their yum into a tiny box because it is convenient, let them yum without labels and allow yourself the same.

No worries, have a good one!

Every time I see this I feel so sad. IRC was definitely not perfect, the security was crap and the user experience was awkward, but it was possible to have a fully open source self hosted stack. Discord is not a viable alternative in my mind.

Element/Matrix is a bit dodgy to me, with a lot of questionable stuff around original funding and development not to mention the amount of clearly illegal and immoral stuff on it, but at least you can run your own server in theory. I don’t know what the solution is, but it needs to have a lot of people on it to work so it needs to be easy and quick to get set up on, and ideally without the kind of verification stuff discord has.

Boom!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vjbdWdnaI

Exactly what you wanted for Google Nest devices, a simple drop in replacement PCB. Very cool!

My view on this is that in all news there is editorial. If you choose not to report on the latest goings on in Ghana you are changing what information will get to your readers. Reporting is inherently done with a perspective, even if it is only in the sense of choosing what to report on.

The key issue for climate change is that things are changing due to human activity. There are lots of ancillary issues, for example how exactly things are changing or who is responsible for causing the situation. These are all valid parts of the overall story of climate change and each one adds to the knowledge of your readers. Adding another story of a bushfire does provide more context to your readers, but at some point diminishing returns starts to rear its ugly head.

If you only focus on the harms and never talk about solutions you are in fact biasing the information given to your readers. Recognising that you have not been providing a full context for your readers and then changing your reporting practises to fix that seems like good journalism to me.

We should absolutely be talking about the harms of climate change. This information is vital to actually making changes in who we vote for and what policies we support. But if we have no information about solutions we can’t make informed decisions about whether a new technology is viable or vapourware, or whether a financial mechanism is useful or extractive. We need good information covering the causes and solutions so we can make good choices.

Yeah, the Google tie in has made Matter a non-option for me too. I have ZigBee and WiFi devices, but nothing Matter for this very reason.

I have to say the argument here is nutty.

They are saying that because the games are distributed with encryption and the emulators play decrypted games they are therefore primarily used to bypass the encryption. If that process was moved out of the emulator into a separate app then their argument would fall apart.

So it isn’t that the emulator can play the game at all. It isn’t that it can play decrypted games. It isn’t even that a pirated game can be played on the emulator without checking the licence. It is specifically that the emulator can take the prod.keys file and use that to decrypt the game.

By that logic if someone takes Suyu and moves the decryption logic to a separate app and makes a Suyu which only plays decrypted games then there would be no case for the DMCA takedowns on the emulator.

Is my understanding flawed here? If that is accurate, why have developers not done so? You could even have Suyu call the decryption program which is installed separately and presumably not fall afoul of this legal issue? I mean, the logic seems really limited to actually facilitating the piracy, not to emulating the operation of the console.

I think wallets are a bad system we are all taught to use. Trying to use the system harder doesn’t fix the problem, it just increases the stress. Instead I recommend trying what I have done.

I have a belt with some bags attached. They are Molle bags because they are useful, but anything would do. My car/house keys have a clip and my wallet, first aid kit, power bank, and other everyday items have pouches they live in. In order to leave the house I must, by definition, have my belt with all my stuff.

I think of it like a safety interlock. If you literally cannot run the blender with the lid off you cannot put your hand in while it is running. It is a type of passive safety and allows you to spend no mental energy trying to remember things, the reminder is built in to the system not your mind.

Thanks for that, someone else already informed me of the handy libredirect extension and posted the link as you did, but yes, helpful, I appreciate it.

Thanks for that, it works very well, have a good one!

The pace with which you are knocking out issues is fantastic! Well done, makes me want a Fairphone 6.

Wow, thanks for that, I’ve not actually used xcancel before, very handy.

Disappointed to only see this on X, not on the fediverse. I have blockers which completely break X and Meta so I simply can’t see these things, though I would love to. Is there an alternative place for these updates?

Well done! I’m at 1021 weeks and the first was the hardest by far. The second was easier, and every week since was easier still. You have done the hardest part, it does get easier from here, and it will become normal to not smoke.

Also the data on a cartridge is read using addresses just like memory, whereas on a disc you use tracks and then do a long sequential read. If you want one byte of data from a specific place you have to read much more than one byte from a disc, but from an addressed system you may be able to read an individual address then move on.

Also if you have 600mb to work with you tend to be a little less frugal thab if you have only a few megs to work with like on a GBA.

I would strongly recommend There Is No Antimemetics Division. Such a good one shot, fairly short, and absolutely mind blowing.

Yeah, I think the big issue comes down to the unreasonable extraction of wealth by the owner class. We should have a massive median wage, something up around 2-3 times as much at the low end. People should not be struggling because if in the 70s they were able to afford a home, raise a family, and go on holiday occasionally and our productivity is many times more than that our wages should provide a much higher standard of living. Instead we are working longer hours, have double incomes, and are still sinking into debt. All that productivity has gone into the back pocket of the owner class, not workers.