emptyother

emptyother, 3 months ago

The way I see it, explaining others also helps me understand it better. If its so basic (or too advanced) that I get nothing out of explaining, then I leave it to better suited people to help them instead. Being on these kindsa forums, its supposed to be enjoyable for both the teacher and the student. I don’t see any shame in dropping it as soon as it turns frustrating.

emptyother, 3 months ago

High life? Nah, go low-life/high-tech instead and replace both the screen and your chair with VR glasses. Saves a lot on apartment maintenance too!

emptyother, 3 months ago

You think the first was any good?! I’m just there for the cgi and the cool bio-drones.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Ha! No. If it ain’t got touch and an app, gen A don’t even understand why we bother.

emptyother, 3 months ago

“Turning it off” today just turns modern tech to standby mode. Those who has learned the long-press to get up a reboot menu magic are chosen as the families new tech guru.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Jeg ser ikke for meg at andre organisasjoner skal få dekorere så fritt som Pride organisasjoner gjør.

Det skal ikke være opptil organisasjoner. Dette er ikke reklame-boards. Dekorasjon av offentlige plasser som dette er opp til nærmiljøet. Akkurat som gatefester og tema-dager. Teaterfestivalen (eller noe, husker ikke nøyaktig) i Porsgrunn hadde noen “trafikkfarlige” tegninger rett på vegen når jeg var der for noen år siden også.

Jeg er ikke skeiv selv, men jeg vil ha regnbuefarger overalt til den dagen hvor folk slutter å bli banket opp for å ha på seg regnbue-armband. Og vil påstå at det er farligere å gå med regnbuefarger på seg enn det er å putte regnbuefarger på et par gater, selv her i Norge. Og det er ikke bare innvandrere, det er også nordmenn som klikker i vinkel når de ser litt farger.

emptyother, 3 months ago

man får inntrykk av at motstanden er større nå enn for 8-10 år siden.

Bare et inntrykk. De som fortsatt er motstandere er blitt høylytte og farlige nå som de ikke lenger får den lokale støtten de gjorde før. De finner likesinnede på nett og tror derfor de fortsatt er i den rette.

Men uansett hva lgbt folk velger som ikon, så vil de bli utsatt for hets for det fra disse folkene. For oss straighte å henge opp pride flags er å fordele risikoen. Motstanderne kan ikke slå ned alle, så vi gjør vårt beste for å normalisere symbolet slik at de som faktisk er skeive er tryggere inntil kulturen med å hate skeive er helt død og folk som er ute etter en unnskyldning for å lage bråk er alle låst vekk eller fikset. At folk føler seg trygge nå til å dekorere seg med mer spesifikke flagg basert på hva slags skeiv de er, er et veldig godt tegn på at vi er lengre enn vi var. At flaggene og støtten bak det hjalp ihvertfall litt.

be Oslo pride legge fram statistikk på hvor mange homohatere som er konvertert på grunn av regnbuegaten,

Det er vel bedre å sjekke politi-statistikken på hvor mange pride-flagg hærverkere som er tatt. Folk som ville ha brukt den aggressionen til å skade skeive er isteden blitt arrestert for å stå å spinne merker i pride-flagg gater. Det er en vinn.

emptyother, 3 months ago

I would assume most pet owners eventually just gives up. Its work enough keeping cats and dogs away from ones face.

emptyother, 3 months ago

… And their danger to cats? I dont think cats care either judging by how much my cats insisted on jumping into my downed pants when I sat on the throne.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Chooh2 becoming a reality?

emptyother, 3 months ago

From the TTRPG and computer game Cyberpunk 2077. Biofuel made from high-sugar wheat.

emptyother, 3 months ago

The custom color product trend goes in waves. From one default, to multiple bright colors, to a few selected and much more muted colors, back to a single white color, then they exitedly advertise black and white as two “choices”. Or variations of that.

emptyother, 3 months ago

The color stage is the best one. Thats when the consumer-part of a product is “done” and they dont really know what to add except advertise more. The muted colors are when they have turned corporate and are trying to get into B2B deals, and consumers dont really matter as much any more. Then return to a mono-color when they try to trim anything unecessary to earn more money without getting more customers. And two-color choice when they need to convince investors that they “are still fresh and not out of ideas”.

besides, the third party skin and case industry is thriving

By thriving you mean the 3rdparties are only selling customization thingies for the most popular-selling products. Usually products that has gone so far into shittification that they are halfway filled with advertisement and B2B deals. Yay, I can put a red shell on my handheld advertising platform…

emptyother, 3 months ago

How do you reliably turn pages that fast without accidentally grabbing two pages and skipping? Im impressed!

emptyother, 3 months ago

You send in one of those 30-days requests to have all your data purged from Google, probably.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Can’t say I didn’t expect that.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Oh you’re wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I’m so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

emptyother, 3 months ago

If you haven’t, and you enjoy scifi/cyberpunk fiction, you should read Cory’s book “Radicalized”. Four short stories, all of them damn relevant to today.

The first story, “Unauthorized bread”, is my fav. Hackers versus the coldness of corpos and shitty landlords.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Its a good and direct word. I could guess what it meant before I even heard his definition of the word: Things that are willingly made shittier.

“Un-userfriendli-fication” would never catch on.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Human nature. Voting with ones wallet will never work as long as advertising, as we know it, exists. We can’t really blame the average person to do what an average person does.

emptyother, 3 months ago

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.”

Platforms that over time is made shittier to serve the business before the user. What definition are you using?

emptyother, 3 months ago

Reminds me about that post about wishing humans had a dedicated sound for warning each other about bees.

Theres no single word that can clearly communicate the entire reason, context, and meaning. If we want to tell the reason for the shittyness, then we say that in a full sentence.

Though most people would understand from context if I just said “Bees!” instead of spending an entire sentence telling them where the bees are and why they should run.

emptyother, 3 months ago

No, im saying that if you want to say what exactly is shittified, you say whats shittified. Theres no way to make a single word contain a full definition without relying on some common knowledge. In this case saying enshittification, then both you and I have both read that blogpost and knows what the full meaning is. While someone who hasn’t can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context. You can’t really find a better single word than that.

Also I’ve rarely heard “shit” used for its actual meaning. It is common knowledge that shitty doesn’t literally mean “covered in poo”. Its pretty clear what it means. And it has never been a shocking word in the 40 years I’ve lived. Probably back in the 50s or something they could use it for shock value.

emptyother, 3 months ago

Its still a perfectly good word even if not everyone is a 100% on the same page with what it means. There isnt any better word that could be used. If we stopped making up words just because a few uncultured wordsmiths might mistake part of its meaning, we wouldnt have new words at all. Enshittification has the important part down; things are getting done shittier with intention.