“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Frank Wilhoit
These liberals you speak of? They're not liberals at all.
I watch a lot of electronics project videos, and I'm always surprised by the amount of flux people use. I think when I learned we had flux core solder for the most part, though we did sparingly use a tiny dot of flux here and there (especially when fixing bridges).
A ton of the videos just soak the entire PCB in flux, and I don't get it. Did I learn learn the wrong way? Did techniques change?
@rose they just don't know, or don't have a needle applicator, or plan to do the whole thing. I'll do the smallest little dot or line on harder projects and that's almost always fine, and I soldered new work professionally as my first job. It "shouldn't" be necessary for fresh work since your stuff shouldn't be oxidized, but depending on technique and the part it's great to have on hand. They gotta wipe it off too, to avoid corrosion.
Unfortunately "use flux" is often more than anyone gets told
seriously this show is great. I have no idea what those being critical were talking about.
Maybe they were mad that it's a self reflective and self critical take from China or they are just racist.
The show/book is one of the most honest reflections on modern China I've seen, the production quality is great, and the fictional world centers China and Chinese culture from what reads to me as a fairly loving place.
@rose those are the parts i liked about the book, what i hated was the depressing underlying assumption and ending. the “oh yeah it’s the universal nature of intelligent life to destroy everything” i don’t like these kinds of stories
"decentralization" was always just a tech buzzword. from an engineering perspective what is wanted is redundancy. From a user experience perspective what is wanted is freedom of association.
so, idc if something has "decentralization" on the feature list. Does it have good redundancy? Does it offer freedom of association? How much are those valued by those making/providing the service?
LB: why do we even have the masto-admin announce list if Discord is just going to be used as the sole notification source for upcoming security updates?
I hate that the label frames the use of the feature as only being for a Trigger Warning. Then we all get in debates over if something needs a trigger warning, and the answer to that is always "depends on place and context."
But the feature has so many others uses that I love:
Subject/body: posting in a folded subject/body (like this post) can be really nice and format the message as an at a glance invite to learn more
Spoilers: sometimes you don't want to spoil the show, and this can help with that
jokes/punch-lines: you can hide punch lines for comedic effect
thread labels: creates a top level label for posts in a branching thread to help add context
and a lot more. The cultural question of when and how to use trigger warnings are general warnings over content are good to have, but when it becomes trying to nail down a static policy it turns into something I'm not interested in because it ignores all of the other uses for having such a field.
(this is apropos of nothing, I just wanted ramble)
@rose some mobile apps eschew the words “content warning” in favor of visual UI cues that indicate a folding field or title line like in an email
I think this is a good solution to combat the assumption that some people have that “CW are just for NSFW content”, and also remind users that you can also use it as a subject field
getting really tired of the response to bigots, where they film some clip of queer people acting non-puritanical in some way, by liberals being that queers need to "think of the optics".
bigots will make "the optics" negative no matter what happens, including just lying
optics policing to ensure that queers are remanded to only puritanical public expression is just as bad as what the bigots are doing
we should stop using the term "self host". It encourages making services that are only used individually. Not everyone can host their own services, and those capable of hosting should figure out ways to share services with others.