We shouldn’t conflate the Jewish people and the Israeli state/Zionists. That benefits Israel

That’s a great line, and captures a lot of the complex feelings I have around this

Thanks for your service o7

I had heard about the online discourse in this area, but I’m glad to hear that something has come of that movement.

Fucking hell, that must have been terrifying

This is hilarious. I’m deeply sad that I don’t think my irl friends would appreciate this joke, because I want to share it with everyone.

(I am personally irked by vibe coding because some assholes in my life have been real smug about how much better of a programmer they are than me due to vibe coding. )

One of the key motifs of conservative ideology is zero-sum thinking: they seem to think that if someone else is gaining something, it must mean that someone else (possibly them) are losing.

I recently used Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) as a static site generator. I found it easy to use. I personally used Gitlab pages, because I didn’t feel confident hosting on my home internet (didn’t want to inadvertently cause issues for my housemates when I’m still learning this stuff).

The nice thing about static sites is that it’s pretty easy to find free or extremely cheap hosting for them.

Shall I list off the crimes and systemic injustices perpetrated by atheists, or secular systems? Because the capacity to do great evil is not a trait exclusive to the religious.

I don’t deny that religious systems often facilitate the grave injustices that you list, but to lay equal blame across all religions and religious people is foolish because it fails to get at the true problem. People abusing their power would be a problem even if there were no religious people in the world at all.

Why do you care? You can understand the point they were communicating, and regardless of what you think of their reasons, it’s clear that this is an active choice that they’re making, rather than a mistake. If it bothers you, why engage at all?

I didn’t finish this article because I’m procrastinating before a minor deadline, but I read enough to realise that my prior bias against no-code software was excessively strong and largely based in gatekeepy ideals; I am a weirdo who loves to tinker, and I earnestly believe that many of the people who don’t consider themselves techy could find joy in this path if not for platform capitalism, bullshit laws around software, and IT education that creates a class of obedient users.

However, it’s unrealistic to hope that it’s possible to “convert” everyone to this path, or even the majority of people. It’s useful to remind myself that my goal of facilitating more tinkerers and builders in the world is that I think that’s a route towards greater empowerment and freedom in interfacing with our tech-heavy world, and that the template that feels most natural to me is not the only route to tech empowerment

I got it laughably wrong

Ooh, I like the typeface used for headings on this site

I remember way back when I was still intimidated by the command line, I was having issues with a video, and the only info I could find was on using ffmpeg to do some conversions directly. I laugh at the memory of me being nonplussed at trying to launch ffmpeg and expecting a GUI to pop up.

I am glad that I spent some time getting to know ffmpeg directly. There’s been a few times where knowing that it was ffmpeg under the hood helped me.

At least the backdoor is open-source /s

That reminds me of the kind of thing I do when I get off topic and forget what I was saying. I’ll say “what were we talking about before this?”, and given that my conversation partner has a decent chance of also being ADHD, we often end up remembering the thing that was a few topics back, and then tracing forward from there.

It helps to retrace your steps in the conversation, I’ve found. It can also be helpful for helping me to remember the broader shape of my argument, if these topics being strung together is actually getting at a larger point

Eh, that’s a lot of work. It’s no wonder why there’s such a large “Malware as a Service” industry nowadays

Some people I know have found it helpful to treat their medication as effectively having the requirement of “take with or after food” because of this problem. If you find that you keep slipping up and forgetting, this might be a strategy to try.

Alternatively, if you’re someone who benefits from setting alarms, you could try using that as a safety net. For example, If I took my medication and started my day at 8am, I’d probably set my alarm for 4pm — much later than that, and I’d be at risk of headaches or fatigue. The ideal time gap will probably vary person to person though.

Apologies for the unsolicited advice when you were likely just trying to relate to others. In any case, hard relate.

Mood.

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