Ya like jazz?
wiggles fingers jazzily
Do jazz shitposting communities exist? I don’t have the time to create one, but I’d love to see some.
you are one of us now…
To make things more confusing, I program, I use linux, and I talk about all of these stuff, but I am not a programmer :p .
If you program you’re a programmer. No need to do it professionally to call yourself that.
Healthcare gang represent!
In the early days, it was laborwave and esoteric websites, the programmer humor seems relatively new to me
Fuck openai
openaiclosedaiA corporate going down in history for the abuse of word open despite being anything but
The FLOSS community should have the right to revoke usage of the word “open” from for profit companies like that.
Isnt that how all social media sites start out. Starts with nerd culture and eventually other people come in later?
Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day when I joined the Instagram in the first month of launch there were only professional photographers posting some great stuff, it was fun until celebs and general public started using it.
Oh, so it’s celebs. How to keep 'em out?
If the response from The City of San Diego to Tom Cruise visiting is any indication, they seem to be allergic to people experiencing homelessness. Invite more people experiencing homelessness to keep them out?
/mild s
Those darn celebrities, always ruining people’s fun on social media.
I wonder when one of them is going to show up on Lemmy…
Honestly, this schtick is so tired and played out. I don’t believe you are who you claim to be, and even if you are, so fucking what? Big fucking deal. Its honestly pathetic if you really are her constantly going “hey look, it’s me!”. And if you’re not her, why are you running around the internet cosplaying it?
You seem mentally ill and everyone needs to stop enabling your delusions.
!usernamechecksout@lemmy.zip I hope you are not the real one ;-)
Of course I am.
Would esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress (and producer) Margot Robbie ever lie to you on the internet?
Some would say that acting is the grandest lie.
So normies are the original enshittifiers, then corporations come in. I knew it, I should have stayed a shut-in.
“Eternal September”
That’s how pixelfed is right now (Fediverse Instagram replacement)
Starts with nerd culture
In a nutshell, this is the perfect social media for me!
That’s how social media was invented. I remember when computers were things that only geeks and nerds were into. And then Neverending September happened, and suddenly normies were everywhere on the internet. We create something new to congregate, and they just invite themselves in after we make it popular. MySpace, Facebook, Reddit…even IRC and Geocities were taken over by them. We eventually took back Usenet at least, but only because it stopped being free for most people.
I use usenet for media only. Are there still communities active via usenet?
I’m not a programmer either, but I am a Linux and open source user so I can at least wade through the waters, lol
Same here. I count the days until it’s discovered that I’m just a normie who agrees with the ideology of open source, and am hanged for my crimes of not knowing what a “cron” is, thinking stdout has to do with diseases, or wanting to play video games with 0 troubleshooting haha.
Political science? Hmm, switch to all communities and sort for new. Have fun.
That’s how I browse (all & scaled or all & new) and I’m a CS nerd. To make the experience less annoying I’ve blocked a bunch of communities mainly because they’re not interesting to me (there’s a lot of anime and/or porn communities, fucking hell), but it’s generally a nice experience – I can run into all kinds of things that I hadn’t heard of before. I haven’t even gotten traumatized yet! Shame the only way to filter the feed is to block communities, but eh
What am I doing wrong? I never get any anime content nor porn.
If the instance your account is on decides to defederate with the instances those are on, you will never see the posts.
You can check what your instance blocks here:
https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
Haha, the appeal of political science to me is less about arguing with strangers about the news and more talking about broader philosophies and theories and then applying them to what we are seeing in the world. I feel like I can have a more nuanced conversation about the prisoner’s dilemma with regards to x topic, or applying philosophies like American Pragmatism to solving problems.
Talking about the news without using some of the tools political scientists use has so many emotional trip wires that it can feel like I’m just keeping up with the Kardashians. That said sometimes I just can’t help but keep up with the Kardashians.
Is American Pragmatism a thing? If you explain it to me, will I feel better about myself?
“You can philosophize over how many fairies fit on a toadstool all day, but if it won’t help anything, what’s the point?”
If you’re talking politics, you need to take a step back and ask how useful your questions are. It may be tempting to try solving a conflict that has a long history by finding out “who started it”, but if the answer would yield no progress in the peace process, it would be a better use of time and energy to focus on other discussions.
I’ve used it as an economic philosophy as well. Instead of looking at capitalism and socialism as ideologies to guide thought, look at them as tools to an end. Identify your goals for society (more educated populace, lower infant mortality, greater freedom of the press, etc.) and then look at what different perspectives bring for solutions. Sometimes you may find letting a free market take it’s course is an answer. Sometimes you may find deep regulation or nationalization is the answer.
When this philosophy is applied to something more personal like religion, it would ask “is the religion that you are in helping you or hindering you?” If someone’s religion gives them immense guilt and depression, it would be worth it to consider something else. If an alcoholic finds peace in a Mormon Temple, then it might just be what they need. It’s a pretty chill philosophy when it comes to religion.
Thank you, that’s an excellent read! This reminds me of the “expected value of perfect information” - sometimes it is worthwhile to answer a question, and sometimes it isn’t. Every once in a while I find myself in an engineering call discussing a minor problem, and I run the numbers to see if the change we are discussing is even worth talking about. One time the combined salaries of the people on the call had already outpaced the cost savings of the change over the next 10 years. We quickly stopped that discussion lol
Recently the only news about politics I don’t find disgusting is done by political scientists. You you recommend a book on the topic for beginners?
A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.
About the study of politics, like Plato, etc, but all in one for beginners
Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.
You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.
Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.
Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.
After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.
I’ve read a good part of Communist manifesto and found it interesting. The fascist Manifesto is very similar to it. I found very weird that communists are against fascists, given that their manifestos are so similar.
Depends on what you’re wanting to focus on, but a great start would be Rules for Rulers by Arnold Meltsner, Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner, CIA: legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner, confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins are some that I started early.
CGP Grey did a great job synthesizing Rules for Rulers on YouTube as well.
Also a big think video Why Sociopaths Rise to Power
Also Veritasium has a great video on game theory
Hope that helps!
Economic hit man I read already and it’s good. Another nice one that I’ve read was “Silk roads” from Peter Frankopan
Lmao.
Try talking soil science with gardeners and permaculture geeks.
Bring on the political science and jazz posts! Would love to see them around.
Not a programmer either, nurse in a psychiatric hospital. But I am interested in FOSS and web 3.0.
nurse in a psychiatric hospital
Not trying to tell you how to run your life, but maybe you should try to spend you leisure time away from work related environments.
Working in a psychiatric hospital and spending your free time in another
political science and jazz
Theodor Adorno, is that you?
Hell yea I love a good wiki deep dive
I am actually writing an analysis of the music industry and counter culture responses with regards to AI and the future of music! I’m calling it musical humanism. 🎷 🎺 🎸
I would LOVE to read that
I still don’t understand the Linux memes.
- Meme about how hard it is to maintain a Linux machine.
- Meme about how Windows is the worst for your machine.
- Meme about how gullable new Linux users are to bad advice from experiwnced Linux users.
It’s like squirting lemon in your eye is the point, and if you don’t do it you’re one of them. Maybe I’m just not bitter enough in life to get it.
Edit: Oh…
- Meme about Linux dominating a niche developer thing that most developers wouldn’t notice, let alone the end user.
Agreed
Seems 99% of posts on Lemmy, regardless of content, will have some goblin schilling Linux. I don’t have anything against Linux but I will never adopt it, mostly because WHY? What the fuck is the benefit of Linux?
Rant incoming, so ignore if you’re just here for the memes.
The Linux community as a whole seems to still be delusional about the real world outside power users, and it hasn’t changed much in the last 25 years from everything I’ve seen. Distros have come and gone, some better than others, but the community as a whole is still living in a fantasy world about the “year of the Linux desktop”. And it’s the reason quite frankly that Linux in it’s current form will never be a daily driver for the average user. Even though it would actually work for probably 30-40% of the population that just uses a web browser without any issue out of the box, as soon as they have an issue, the community would be impossible to find actual useful help from for these users. There are enough toxic Linux users to anyone that doesn’t know the basics. It’s almost as toxic as the League of Legends community with some distros. That leaves a permanent bad taste for all of Linux for the average user that comes across just one of these posts. Not to mention little to no support from places like Geek Squad, which is where the real average users take their systems. Even checking online themselves is heading out of average user territory in the first place.
The other main issue is that there are productivity mainstays on Windows that don’t have a true Linux version. There are Linux alternatives but they quite frankly aren’t the same, and the average user doesn’t want to have to deal learning something new or with file format differences and not being able to just do what they already do.
My mother for instance several years ago tried to switch to a Chromebook when she needed a new laptop. She only uses a web browser and Microsoft Word through Google Drive and Gmail. Seems like a Chromebook would be a good fit for an ultra portable and lightweight system with WiFi 90% of the time. She is definitely able to search the internet well and find answers on her own, she is better than the average user due to learning from me breaking things constantly as I grew up. So even her handling of the situation would be more than many users. This was before the stripped down online versions of Office apps existed, so you had Google Docs, and the Linux alternatives like OpenOffice, which did not seamlessly support DOC/DOCX files for users who primarily work with those and need to have those types to send. Even now though the web version of Office is stripped down, some of that stuff just isn’t available without the full software. Google Docs was essentially not compatible with regular Word documents at the time, everything had to be converted to Google’s format and then exported back to a DOC, and constantly having to remember to save files as an alternate format just to send them off to others for further edits or distribution from their systems was a lot of unnecessary work, easily forgotten that just wasted time. Not to mention getting her head around the idea of cloud storage vs local storage if there was no WiFi available for some reason. Google Drive on Windows has a nice visual indicator of backed up stuff, and it’s all stored locally by default as well. It just works for the average user. This is something that Apple does extremely well with their walled garden. They hide the magic and user is never the wiser because it just works for them without getting in the way, you just HAVE to use their system for that experience.
Those are the issues the average person already knows how to do with Windows and even OSX with the current applications they use daily. Switching to Linux is not just changing the look of the computer and the engine under the hood, there are other usability changes as well. Individually they aren’t a big deal, but adding them all up, the average user just ends up deciding another Windows system is easier or trying OSX instead to go with their iPhone. Unless the user has someone they know personally that is willing to help those users with every tiny issue, without complaint, or they are savvy enough to handle a good internet search for specific error information and find a community willing to be just as helpful, avoiding the toxic users, they’re just going to decide it’s bad generally and stop using it, probably forever.
Linux must be objectively better than Windows in major ways to get the average person to jump ship and learn something new, dealing with all the small issues and differences they’ll come across.
I think the main issue is too much fragmentation within Linux. There’s the whole choosing the distro, choosing a desktop environment (or window manager), figuring out how to use the packages for your distro, etc. Then you have issues like some software being too outdated for your distro or not packaged at all so you look into Flatpak but it’s a whole other system on your computer to have to keep track of and maintain or the software you need is not there either so you have to compile from source. There also comes the issue of getting help when something breaks. There’s hundreds of different little bits in every single distro that makes it a pain in the ass to fix sometimes unless you’re using one of the few large distros where the guides actually work.
I really don’t think Linux will become truly mainstream for the every day user until there is a proper “default” experience like what Windows and MacOS provide. Sure some people will say use this distro and this desktop environment and it’d just work but that forces the common person to trust the other person online and that common person has to make a choice. If their first experience on Linux is bad, they’ll just throw it off altogether and go back to Windows or MacOS. Everyone has a different first experience with Linux.
I’m not saying strip Linux of all configurability. I’m saying there needs to be a focus on a standard Linux distro with a standardized desktop environment and standardized overall user experience. If the user wants to change any of it, they’re free to do so like anyone can with Linux right now. Also, the user should be able to manage the system entirely through a simple GUI. If the user has to for any reason go into a terminal, Linux has failed at being usable by the common person.
I say this as a person who uses Arch (btw) on my laptops and desktop and Debian 12 and Proxmox 8 for my servers and RHEL 8 at work. I really love Linux but I just can’t in good faith recommend it to a person who wants to just use their damn computer unless they’re willing to put up with the massive fragmentation and lack of support in the community.
Tl;dr Linux doesn’t have a “default” experience like Windows or MacOS so a common user will struggle to even get started or look for help/advice
I’ll have you know that I wrote a semi-functional webpage in HTML when I was in college 😎
