Hi. I'm vegan. BTW I use Arch.
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She will always inspire me, here or not, to fight for justice and what my conscience tells me is right. I have a great deal to say and a great deal to fight for. When it gets tough, she will be there to keep me standing.
Thank you, Ruth, for being such a fully self-actualised individual. You have shown the way. I am forever grateful.
A giant has fallen.
- I've noticed DDG's quality slowly improve, while Google's slowly decrease. But Google is still on top.
- When I really want to search for something, I'm using a mix of Google, Yandex, DDG, and sometimes another weird one like Dogpile.com
The times they are a-changin', but slowly, over time.
It's quite ironic now that when I want to do some Internet searching, I will use search engines - NOT (just) Google.
If I want to 'use google', I use Google. They're definitely not a pure search engine anymore, for better or for worse. What they offer is nice very often, but sometimes all I want is the ability to do some deep searching and nothing be withheld from me. Google increasingly censors and filters out information for an increasing number of their own reasons, none of which I ever asked for. That's not why I fell in love with the Internet.
Google is now fundamentally out of sync with the soul of the Internet at the core level. Thankfully, the Internet is bigger than it.
Jobs was one of a kind.
It's a shame any airing of concerns about capitalism per se trigger people so much. We need to air our concerns about the world in order to discuss and hopefully solve them together.
Your reply helped do that. I'm immediately convinced. OF course, socialism is just as much a machine too. So it's not the system, the problem is scale and 'overpopulation' relative to our evolutionary adaptation. Something for me to think about.
I appreciate the correction.
> I may start my own private practice, where I’m my own boss and where I can focus on medication management – and not the kinds of psychotherapy that I’m most worried are ethically incompatible with being a public figure.
This is why privacy is important - to maintain boundaries between different parts of your life, like work and personal.
We are all complex human beings and we deserve to be 3-dimensional, not 1-dimensional.
Capitalism prefers that humans be one-dimensional cogs in its machine. That we be specialised. One type of personality or field of expertise only. If not, you're paid less, you're respected less, you're listened to less. And it's only because people know more about you than they did before.
It is a real shame what has happened here. But even more, it is a shame that humans treat each other in 1-dimensional ways. We dehumanise and objectify one another, in transactional and very non-personal ways. But we're all persons, who deserve to feel, operate, and be treated as such. There is much about capitalism and trade that is problematic.
I wish Scott well in his endeavours.
Doesn't that reveal part of the problem of 'security by obscurity'?
Indeed, how many people publicly disavowing 'security by obscurity' do so to secretly benefit from the methodology?
Local stories are simple. That makes them more reliable. If it's newsworthy, then national, followed by international journalists will pick up on it and it becomes something big.
I don't want to give unnecessary details but I've been the subject of news stories multiple times, which always started in my humble local media. One time it led to a massive career opportunity that benefited me for ten years. The other time, I got significant international media attention which hugely boosted a charitable donation drive.
Each time, journalists at the national level picked up my local story and landed me attention at that level. So, yeah...something's wrong with this study or at least how it's been communicated by NeimenLab.
Also, local journalism is important. Let's not undermine that bastion of independence, free speech, and resistance to political censorship, fake news, or media corruption, shall we?
(megachurch pastor conmen)
I really try to support everything that exists, especially non-Chrome.
And yet, I am not excited to download Otter Browser. Its website and SourceForge (i.e. the very fact they're using Sourceforge) do not inspire confidence that they're not modern and up-to-date enough to actually be safe to even use (browser attack surface is massive). Am I wrong in translating this first impression to a judgement on safety?
I've already helped out and contributed a bit. Recommend to start Github issues for any gripes right away.
Not sure if he offers a non-grid list mode though. But he's open to new ideas.
Cmd + Shift + 6 takes a 'screenshot' of your touch bar!
(But let it be said that the touch bar should be deprecated. I want my Fn keys back.)
To add to this marvellous shortcut I will now be using very frequently:
Right click on the file in finder, then hold the Option key and you'll see the copy command change from "Copy [file]" to "Copy [file] as Pathname".
Make your Cmd-Tab do everything you've ever wanted it to do that it currently can't:
How much of the higher rates are caused by physical health issues due to genetics, rather than social policy issues as has been said in the media (at least the media that I watch)?
Since March I've been taking 5000 IU of vitamin D every day regardless of my skin colour.
This seems like major news and if I were in the health system or in a position of power I would personally not be waiting for larger trials before rolling out vitamin D right now. This is because I don't want people to die. (Do our politicians have the same goal?) Vitamin D is already known to be safe if not taken at too high a dose.
Sometimes solutions to health problems are simple, and it's beautiful.
Opening ONLYOFFICE and using it for one minute, to me it's immediately better than LibreOffice. This is the first FOSS Office I may actually desire to use when I have to do some document writing.
It has a better default font, a much nicer, comfortable-feeling and inviting-to-use interface, and it saves to a more useful format like DOCX by default.
LibreOffice puzzles me as to why they choose such bad-looking defaults when the options are there to make it better.
My perspective is one that matters in FOSS. This is not just about advanced technical things with power users. It's about casual users too. It's about Linux having something actually comparable to MS Word. It's about the entire FOSS ecosystem.
If LibreOffice want their software to be used more, then they need to make it actually look and feel good - out of the box - and not just as a configurable option.
I mean this with the greatest respect. I'm a FOSS advocate. Part of furthering FOSS should be that it looks and feels nice, and not just that it's FOSS with a GPL license.
It's the journey we find exciting - the difference from A to B.
I remember the intoxicating experience of using Spotify for the first time in October 2008, using IP address account tricks to access it from outside the UK. This was despite being a winamp- (or actually foobar2000)-loving music pirate.
Now, I don't think of it at all. I've arrived at destination B. What now? Well, there's desktop Linux on phones. That's fun and new, if you care about freedom, things being in the hands of the user, tinkering, and customisation. I'd go there, it needs some help.