Calling someone “smooth-brained” always felt backwards.

Like, I understand that brains are supposed to be wrinkly and there’s an actual disorder where the brain doesn’t have those wrinkles, which leads to developmental delays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissencephaly

But it still sounds to me like you’re just calling them “smooth” as in “cool”.

Nah, I did understand it like that.

I posted that comment, because people generally wildly underestimate how common depression is. Because of that and because they don’t know how to deal with depression, they will look for other “explanations”, like yeah, sure, my kid’s just lazy. And that even despite these other “explanations” being extremely toxic and worsening depression.

So, this basic fact, that depression is among the most common disorders, would be part of my rebuttal. In hopes that she can accept that and help you work through it, like an adult should, rather than this silly game of peek-a-boo, where she hopes for it to not exist, so long as she doesn’t believe in depression. That is not helping anyone.

Major depressive disorder affected approximately 163 million people in 2017 (2% of the global population). The percentage of people who are affected at one point in their life varies from 7% in Japan to 21% in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder#Epidemiology

More Bs means it’s softer, so more graphite will get onto your paper when you draw a line, which makes it darker.

More Hs means it’s harder, so less graphite. The advantage is that it doesn’t get used up as quickly and you can draw finer lines, although the latter is kind of a given either way, since you’re using a mechanical pencil.

It might genuinely taste different to you, and not just be a matter of preferences. There’s gene variations that alter the taste: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50387126

Personally, I also found that it’s something you have to get used to. I used to barely eat greens and wouldn’t feel terribly great, if I did.
Then, earlier this year, I spent a month eating lots of greens. I’m guessing my gut microbiome adjusted, because yeah, now I can eat a whole salad bowl for a meal and if I don’t have greens at home for a few days, I will start to feel unwell.

I mean, Firefox Reader View is probably the closest you will get…

Yeah, I also use the Lemmy webpage on my phone. In particular, I want to be able to come back to posts later, when more of a discussion has unfolded, which is where browser tabs work really well.

LibreOffice Draw works decently well for this.

Hmm, well no, but don’t you still risk being banned or at least being hidden away by the Algorithm™, if such scandalous thing as a nipple is to be seen?

I’m not sure now, if she actually said this is why she’s on PeerTube. Could also be that other social media platforms pissed her off and then she found a new home on the fediverse.

…just remembered, she recently posted a video, where she’s unboxing a Mastodon plush and figured, maybe she says something there, and yeah: Apparently, she got banned from Instagram a whole bunch of times, so now she’s self-hosting Masto and then evidentally also PeerTube.

https://peertube.doesstuff.social/w/qskCWUnsmJZLZ9ZP4KCiph

Yeah, Lety does some NSFW-adjacent videos, which YouTube is too stuck up for.

Most of the stuff posted to video.thepolarbear.co.uk is.

The guy who hosts the PeerTube instance, Hamish, is hardline anti-big-tech, I believe. Whereas Chris Were and Drew / uoou are mostly just tired of YouTube commenters. Well, and there’s some other folks, who occasionally post there, where I don’t know, whether they post to YouTube, too.

I have a big collection of Creative Commons songs. And I wrote a little web music player to stream from my home-server, which I use for listening when I’m working from home, since I didn’t want to install a music player on my work laptop…

Fuck Microsoft

Add computer science and you have a programmer.

I mean, while this definitely does happen in reality, in particular if you count data scientists towards programmers, I feel like I need to point out that neither knowing computer science, nor maths, makes you a good programmer.

In fact, if you tell me someone is a computer science professor, I will assume that they are a bad programmer, because programming takes practice, which is not something they’ll have time for.

Yeah, although it doesn’t mean that, say, the top 10 pop songs aren’t blander today than they were 50 years ago.

I’ve heard it argued that Spotify pushes songs to be blander, for example, because:

• they don’t typically get played back as part of an album anymore, so they’re more samey in that they all have to work as a single,
• you don’t want to be the song that stands out, where the user presses Skip, because Spotify will rank those lower, and
• lots of folks now consume music as background noise, so the intricacies of a guitar solo, which would’ve hit like a truck for active listeners, are often just drowned out by traffic noise or may just be too much to take in while you’re learning for school or whatever.

Having said all that, there is the flipside that the top 10 pop songs are less relevant than ever. You’ve got practically an infinite supply of songs to choose from, so you kind of just have to find the good stuff.
That is work, I admit, so I can understand a certain level of frustration, but yeah, it is also something to be excited about, that there is such a huge selection to choose from.

I always just do ss -ltnp | grep <port-number>, which filters well enough for my purposes and is a bit easier to remember…

To give a quick highlight, because this case is often politicized and misrepresented:

The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, purchased hot coffee from a McDonald’s restaurant, accidentally spilled it in her lap, and suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. […]

Liebeck’s attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald’s coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

So, the lawsuit never demanded McDonald’s to put a warning that you’re not supposed to spill hot coffee on yourself. It argued that it’s an unnecessary safety hazard, because the coffee was served at hazardous temperatures.
No matter how many warnings you put down, it can happen that someone spills coffee on themselves and they shouldn’t need to be hospitalized from that.

I find it annoying, because the hype means that if you’re not building a solution that involves AI in some way, you practically can’t get funding. Many vital projects are being cancelled due to a lack of funding and tons of bullshit projects get spun up, where they just slap AI onto a problem for which the current generation of AI is entirely ill-suited.

Basically, if you don’t care for building useful stuff, if you’re an opportunistic scammer, then the hype is fucking excellent. If you do care, then prepare for pain.

I guess, those don’t work for hidden/minimized windows.

Perhaps worth considering a bspwm-like workflow. Rather than minimizing windows, you put them onto another workspace. Just absolves you from dealing with the whole concept of minimized windows…