TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Seanut Putter Jandwich 1 day ago:
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on I designed and made a thing! 5 days ago:
I never would have thought to print them at an angle like that, but thinking it through, I bet relative to other obvious-ish options, it a) improved part strength (particularly along the axes where you most need strength), b) saved a bit of material, c) improved bed adhesion. Smart move in general. I’ll have to keep that approach in mind for my own prints.
- Comment on How to fix my pants so I don't look like I have a boner when I sit down? 6 days ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever worn a pair of pants that didn’t do that. That’s just something pants do. To the point that nobody is going to see that and think you’ve got a boner. (Unless you do, of course, but even then probably only if you’re in a position that wouldn’t ordinarily produce that wrinkle/bulge or your boner is visible in a different spot than that wrinkle/bulge or something.) I wouldn’t worry about it. Even if you do some fancy tailoring to address it, I think what you’ll end up with will look worse than it would if you did nothing.
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 1 week ago:
He finally flipped it inside out last year.
- Comment on Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22) 1 week ago:
Blockchain BS? Really?
- Comment on Heat setting magnets is bad. 1 week ago:
The way I’ve embedded magnets in prints in the past was to:
- Design a magnet-shaped (plus like 0.2mm of clearance) cavity into the print, but leave it completely “closed off” to where it’s “inside” the print.
- But only “closed off” by like 2 or 3 layers (I was printing at 0.2mm layer height for this particular print).
- Use “pause at layer” functionality in my slicer (I used Cura at the time) to pause just before the first layer that would “close off” that cavity.
- Start the print and when it pauses, drop the magnet into the cavity.
Yes, I was a bit nervous about the magnet potentially jumping up and sticking to some ferromagnetic metal that’s part of the print head, but that didn’t happen in my case. YMMV, I guess.
I guess theoretically it could also be the case that the heat from printing could weaken the magnet, but again, that wasn’t an issue in my case.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 2 weeks ago:
Then make the “one true frontpage” for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it’s good, it’ll be used. If not, it won’t.
But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
as it gets better
Bold assumption.
- Comment on Dinner is ready 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely not too weird a question!
There are plenty of introverted Americans who hate how extraverted it is here. And the U.S. definitely isn’t “superior” to Germany in that way (or any other particular way.)
Also, there’s a difference between introversion, shyness, social anxiety, an avoidant and/or schizoid and/or schizotypal personality type, an avoidant attachment style, hikikomori/shutins, autism, and plenty of other sorts of socially-averse sorts of temperments. Some are “problems”, some aren’t. Given the way you’re talking about yourself, it sounds like what you’re experiencing is something you’d like to change about yourself. I do think it’s worth introspecting a bit (see what I did there?) and seeing to what extent your desire to change is internalized shame put on you by others and to what extent changing your presentation in the world would lead to a truer expression of your true self. But assuming the latter is the case…
Practice. Even if Germany is a pretty introverted place (and that’s valid – there are definitely differences regionally with regard to how introverted or extraverted the culture is) there are definitely places/events/gatherings/etc that are more expressions of extraversion than others. Immerse yourself in such events. Baby steps are fine. Start with contexts that are just a little bit more extraverted than you are if you like. And move on to more and more extraverted sorts of contexts. Also, I’d try to focus on events centered around things you hold a genuine interest in. (I, for instance, have enjoyed a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That activity, even though it’s engaged in with others, feels much less overwhelming to me given that everyone’s focused on a common activity rather than just on “each other.”)
One more word about this. Try to avoid “masking.” That is, don’t invent a facade of extraversion to show people. It’s very cliche to say it, but: “be yourself.” I think probably ultimately if you end up “pretending to be extraverted” rather than engaging in socialization in a way you genuinely enjoy, it’s likely to do you more harm than good with regard to your goals.
Good luck!
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s weird, we can be weird together.
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 2 weeks ago:
Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 3 weeks ago:
zen meditation… trying to illicit vivid imagery in the mind… it sounded like a whole lot of junk mind flailing.
See, but, this is exactly the kind of attitude I’m trying to address in my comment. People judging other people’s meditation practices. You didn’t specifically go so far (at least not explicitly) as to call it “not meditation”, but you’re still judging the practice without really understanding it. (Not that I think you should be judging it even if you did understand it.)
The practice you’re describing might have been something called “kasiṇa”. And it’s known to “illicit vivid imagery.” There are multiple kinds of kasina practices, but they originate from the Pali Canon itself in works such as the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga^[ The Fire Kasina Meditation Site ]^[ Wikipedia page on Kammaṭṭhāna ].
That’s as meditation as meditation gets. If you’re going to call that “junk mind flailing”, the Buddha would like a word.
Now, I don’t know for sure kasina was what you’re describing. But it’s also beside the point. I don’t think meditators really have a leg to stand on to claim that even something like sitting quietly, eyes closed, and playing the whole original Star Wars trilogy in their head from memory is “bad meditation” or “not meditation” just because they judgmentally can’t imagine it “exercising” a “muscle”/“mental skill”/etc. (Daniel Ingram, one of the co-authors of the fire kasina site I cited earlier and a huge advocate for fire kasina as a practice, talks about using fire kasina to conjure vivid images of dragons from Lord of the Rings, kinda just because he’s a geek (and I mean that endearingly) and it’s fun. Though he’s also strongly of the opinion that kasina can lead to insight.) “Meditation” is not the sort of term that a lot of people tend to try to gatekeep, and I think that’s basically never a good thing.
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 3 weeks ago:
No, meditation is not like drugs.
You’ve been doing the wrong meditation. ;)
Seriously, though, I kindof bristle any time I hear anyone say that “meditation is” some particular thing. What meditation is is extremely broad and varied to the point that it nearly defies definition.
Sure many buddhist jhana practitioners will say that the purpose of jhanas is insight, but what if I develop my jhana skills and never seek insight? Is that really not meditation?
Or, if I sit quietly and learn to contact my subconscious and/or Jungian archetypes. Or if I make up my own idiosyncratic form of practice specifically in order to try to become a hungry ghost in the next life, is that really not meditation?
(Mind you, it’s valid to accept a particular strict definition of meditation within a specific context. If I was at a vipassana retreat doing white skeleton meditation, that’d probably be kindof assholeish. And if the teacher was like “no, correct meditation is such-and-such,” I wouldn’t be like “nuh-uh my ass is meditation, man”. This situation is pretty different. If OP has found a way to “meditate” that’s “better than drugs” rather than “training the mind to be calm, patient, observant and focused”, that hardly makes it invalid or “not meditation.” Any more so than if they say “nice to meet you” rather than “hey, what’s up”, that makes it “not a greeting.”)
- Comment on O no 3 weeks ago:
The internet has reached its peak with this meme.
- Comment on Becoming a Subversive, 4 weeks ago:
The only thing more subversive than silly hats is signing your Lemmy posts.
TootSweet
- Comment on There is no Tomorrow, only more Today 4 weeks ago:
There’s no more today, there’s only now.
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 4 weeks ago:
ChatGPT
Arm yourself with knowledge
Bruh
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 4 weeks ago:
My favorite book ever. “Hackers” by Steven Levy. It really does a good job of giving you a sense of the early days of software development and the background behind/before the Free Software movement.
- Comment on Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask 4 weeks ago:
Wait, they can detect your pulse via a video? How? Variation in flushing during systolic vs diastolic phases of the heartbeat? Unconscious synchronization of affect/verbalization/whatever with one’s own heartbeat? Given the following, I think it must be closer to the former:
The analysis of the transmission of light through the skin and underlying blood vessels has long been indispensable in medicine, for example in pulse oximeters. Its digital cousin, so-called remote photoplethysmography (rPPP), is an emerging method in telehealthcare, which uses webcams to estimate vital signs. But rPPP can, in theory, also be used in deepfake detectors.
In recent years, such experimental rPPP-based deepfake detectors have proven good at distinguishing between real and deepfaked videos.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 5 weeks ago:
Reddit: “Nobody gets to secretly experiment on Reddit users with AI-generated comments but us!”
- Comment on does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng? 1 month ago:
Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 month ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.
- Comment on Zoom is down for many – here's what we know about the video calling platform's outage 1 month ago:
4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.
- Comment on Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source” 1 month ago:
I really can’t overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement’s past, Kuhn and the SFC are it’s future, and I can’t imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 1 month ago:
Why wasn’t I told that was an option sooner?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
I hate agreeing with a CEO.
- Comment on Stuck 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 1 month ago:
But the title of the article is “Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict President Trump’s Death”. And it’s rated “false”. If The Simpsons did predict his death, just not as indicated by the specific image mentioned in the article, surely that would be mentioned and the overall rating would be something like “mixture” rather than “false”.
I suppose unless The Simpsons predicted his death in an episode released after that Snopes article was written. In which case, fair point.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 1 month ago:
