PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 20 hours ago:
What is your argument that that phase of boyhood is nature rather than nurture?
Kids that age are typically emulating their older peers, and things they’ve seen at school, in media, at home, in public, etc. if anything, I think that the behaviour difference we observe between adolescent boys and girls suggests that kids absorb gender roles very early. Even from before they can walk, the typical common toy selection differs greatly; girls get toys that teach them about working with people and caring, but get toys that teach them about manual labour(?!?!). Even if you don’t do that with your children, at school and daycare they’re surrounded by kids who are raised like that.
When my son was a preschooler, he loved to wear dresses, but as he approached school age he would wear them less and less, and completely stopped since he started school. I don’t think he grew out of it and we didn’t tell him to stop, but he learned that lesson from his peers.
All the abilities that set humans apart from other animals are social in nature, humans evolved to help each other (at least in small groups)
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 2 days ago:
I agree with everything you said except that I think too much nurture is attributed to nature. I don’t think it’s human nature, i think this is the nature of our culture. To say it is glad nature is, imo, unnecessarily fatalistic.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 days ago:
Rock tumbler
Image - Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 2 days ago:
When you hate women, men are the natural alternative.
You’d think they’d be a lot more supportive of trans women, given this.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 2 days ago:
Prosthetic leg. C’mon, it’s right there!
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
Oh never mind, you’re a girl.
I thought you were a furry femboy - Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
What is I like and share?
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 2 days ago:
I did a better job explaining my position in another comment, the problem is one of culture. We live in a culture that pressures people to use AI in this bad way, and pressures the creators of AI to court bad people as customers, and throw away their ethics. If we weren’t in a rat race, I feel like a lot of the problems would go away.
But we live in the culture that we live in, and at some point you simply cannot practically view the technology in isolation.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 3 days ago:
I think that the problem, in both cases, is culture.
It’s not that either of those are bad, or bad for people; it’s bad for people of this culture or people of this society. It’s how the two intersect that is the problem.
It could be a tool that lifts up the worker or creative, but instead it’s a tool to devalue the creative and extract power and wealth.
It highlights that people with power get a different set of rules and laws than the rest of us, and they’re using that to further entrench and enrich themselves. - Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 3 days ago:
I think it kinda depends on the context. If someone is just making a tool for themselves and they slap on MIT or GPL3 just because who cares someone else can have it, then sure. Who cares if it’s trash if the stakes are so low that they’re scraping the ground and the user base is expected to be single digits.
But when you care about the reputation of your project, or if your project requires people trust it, then yeah for sure it’s not appropriate to vibe/slop it.
I have ethical concerns about the realities of how this tech is used, mainly in what it’s doing to the economic and power dynamics in society. But I don’t have a problem with the tech itself. That said, I have to admit that it may not be realistic to separate the tech from its inevitable impact. Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds, and all that.
- Comment on reconnected with a childhood friend and he's coming over at 10pm 5 days ago:
Well I was born around a hospital in 1:28pm
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 1 week ago:
Well that leaves me with mixed feelings.
Thread itself doesn’t need Internet connectivity, but thread seems to almost always be paired with matter, which does (during provisioning).
I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.
- Comment on Netbird is king. 1 week ago:
It seems similar in purpose to pangolin, how do they differ?
- Comment on Rate limiting 1 week ago:
Can you explain a bit more about the setup?
Like would just using a VPS with pangolin secure tunnel work? Or does it have to be a vpn for some other reason?
Asking because maybe the question really boils down to the VPS provider with the best data transfer rates
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 1 week ago:
If you’re just starting to build out, what about using thread instead of zigbee or zwave?
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 2 weeks ago:
If you’re getting a VPS I’d generally recommend getting pangolin. It’s basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.
It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don’t, etc.
It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.
Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that’s fine on the web (especially if you’re using an sso), some native apps don’t like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven’t gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 2 weeks ago:
I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it.
Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead - Comment on Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe. 2 weeks ago:
An addendum to 4:
We could be one of the first, so life is unusually sparse during this period of time.The universe is old, but it takes a lot to build up the components needed for life as we know it. The first two generations of stars wouldn’t have created the exotic materials in quantitie we needed to seed a world with the requirements for life.
And life couldn’t have realistically happened much faster in a 3rd generation system than it did in our system.
There are some very old 3rd Gen stars, but it’s less common and iirc they’re not close to us.Tldr
This is early phases, life is going to get more common over the next few billion years. - Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, I’ve always wondered how their sizes compare, this is a great visual representation. So clear.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 3 weeks ago:
Are you 10?
You’re clearly not supposed to answer OP’s question honestly. No context is needed.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 3 weeks ago:
Linoceros
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 3 weeks ago:
Oh get over yourself
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 3 weeks ago:
Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.
Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.
I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s my name, but I have to congratulate you on the excellent pedantry!
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that just because they use non-magnetic metals for implants?
- Comment on A Knight of Seven Kingdoms goes so hard 4 weeks ago:
Everyone knows more limbs means more capable, and above them all is zero limbs.
- Comment on Makes ya think 4 weeks ago:
I don’t like this.
Plz delete
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 4 weeks ago:
Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell
I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???
- Comment on What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage? 4 weeks ago:
Store a lot of things you never access
Hope that helps 😌
- Comment on A Knight of Seven Kingdoms goes so hard 4 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of dragons. You sure they’re not wyverns?
