Allero
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- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 6 days ago:
They also try to promote a positive image of “work-life blend” in order to try and spark people’s enthusiasm for working pretty much 24/7.
As in, “work-life balance is a bad concept because it makes work look evil. Let’s put work into all aspects of life, make you live and breathe work, then you won’t think about it”
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 1 week ago:
Everyone is attractive to someone, not necessarily by the looks, but by the spirit, character, and a personal charm.
The problem is dating apps and how they shaped our dating sphere overall.
Aside from intentionally picking mediocre partners with algorithms so you could never find a date and stay there forever, generating profits, the very structure of dating apps is super wrong.
What do you see on most of them? A big photo and a tiny bit of text, which for most people ends up very generic. But looks is only one small part of the picture, and one that doesn’t ultimately decide the fate of relationships for most people. It is exactly that text part that matters, and it cannot be a one-liner.
To get to know someone, you have to talk, interact, and this very interaction is what breathes life into relationships and makes a date an actual date, and not just an evening stroll.
I am certain you know something that will be interesting, amusing, funny to someone, that some people out there would love you as a partner. But, for the love of God, do not look for that someone on dating apps. You’re wasting your time and confidence in a loop designed to have you do just that.
Oh and - it is great that you don’t have several dates a week. This fucks up so bad with the very idea of romance. Relationships are not bargaining chips and not scores to make track of. When you “date” like you choose your new jacket, all the magic and butterflies are gone.
You’re good, don’t screw yourself up and you’ll be golden. Speaking as someone with mid looks and personality and a lot of social awkwardness, while being in healthy long relationships with adorable partner.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 1 week ago:
App that mimics wireless debugging device and allows you to access ADB functionality locally. Widely used to perform actions that are normally unavailable on non-rooted devices. Some apps rely on functionality provided by Shizuku - for example, Canta, which allows you to delete any app, including undeletable pre-installed ones.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Bought a 19-year-old secondhand Brother printer 2 years ago, still working flawlessly, and everything (drum, toner, etc.) is available when needed.
- Comment on psycho killer 2 weeks ago:
Heard of that claim before, but didn’t find studies to back it up, so didn’t include it here. Won’t be surprised if it is true, though
- Comment on tag yourself 2 weeks ago:
Damn I use the “obsessive compulsive” scheme and I really do have OCD
How do you know?!
- Comment on psycho killer 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR The most prominent correlation is between pedophilia and CSA victimhood. Survivors are more likely to develop pedophilic tendencies, though most still don’t. The rest is unclear.
- Comment on psycho killer 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Bring justice to chomos!
- Comment on psycho killer 2 weeks ago:
There’s actually more to it!
Popular culture tends to equate the terms “pedophile” and “child molester”, even though most pedophiles never sexually abuse any children.
By spreading the hate for all pedophiles, not only do we spread hate for people that never chose to be like that, we also contribute to their social isolation and inability to gain professional help, while at the same time reinforcing the “pedophile = predator” pattern.
Therapy for pedophilia is available, and it works. We need nonjudgmental ways to direct such people to get help, not panic and outcry.
- Comment on psycho killer 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, no, we can’t. Pedophilia appears fairly randomly, and there are many factors of risk, of which genetics has not been indicated.
The good news is, pedophile does not equal child molester! Most pedophiles never abuse children, and by expanding anonymous therapy options, we can ensure even less of them cross the line.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 weeks ago:
Test successful!
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 3 weeks ago:
Ah, fair enough
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 3 weeks ago:
Who is the “few” in this context, if I may ask? Nonbinaries?
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 3 weeks ago:
Which is why they should not have any more power (including economic power) than anyone else.
Billionaires should cease to exist, not necessarily by being dead, but by being stripped of their hoarded riches.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
It does not exist because it doesn’t make too much sense in the long run. Besides, people who want to dominate others would rather join right, as there are more slaves to work with.
Doesn’t mean it cannot exist, and it temporarily existed in many revolutionary societies as a result of radical offset.
I’m not saying that this “many dominating few” kind of thing should exist. Neither do I want for the few to dominate many.
I prefer neutrality, and that comes with equality. This is true center, and the only meaningful way to go.
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 4 weeks ago:
Post text elaborates on it. Standard Save page option commonly fails to preserve JavaScript elements.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
In terms of ethics, adopting is beautiful. But there’s that one ugly factor that comes to make it so much worse: demographics.
If people come to adopt children instead of having their own, we won’t have enough new people to drive the economy (I know, I know, economists suck, but they’re right on that one). No one will be there to produce goods and services for ageing population falling out of workforce.
Children that aren’t going to get adopted will still be alive and join the ranks of adults. Children that weren’t born will not.
I wish there could be a good way to have both, though.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty more examples of this.
Say, the political spectrum. We take fulll equality as radical left and full inequality as radical right. But actually, right is about the few having all the economic means and power, so, the opposite is many holding these means and power, and those from few not having them. So, basically, society turning billionaires into slaves, not equals, or imprisoning/exiling/otherwise oppressing them.
This is what happens through many revolutions - world can be way more left than “radical left”. But ultimately, after everything is settled, this does not make too much political sense (and neither does the current right-leaning system), so people settle for equality for everyone. As a neutral point, not something radical.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 4 weeks ago:
Lack of jobs is not a problem; the system that makes us work BS jobs or die is.
AI replacing some of the workforce is a good thing; businesses firing people they don’t need anymore and state leaving them without a safety net is the core issue.
Being against a new wave of automation is just being a luddite. Yet, as religion generally supports the capitalist mode of production and conservative policy, it cannot offer a way out and just blames tools for societal shortcomings.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 4 weeks ago:
Vigilantes are pretty much always odd in applying their “justice”.
Which is why we have police, y’know
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 weeks ago:
These are all good options! In person testing is certainly on my list, and I like the ideas with WIP versions (especially for larger submissions) and commentary.
I also think of more presentation format submissions where I could ask quick questions to see if the person actually understands what is written. Sort of a small defense.
On technical means, I welcome different forms of AI poisoning in tasks: these don’t always work, but they can catch the least attentive.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 weeks ago:
LLM boom has certainly affected education - complicating things for honest students and at the same time empowering cheaters.
Having studied both pre- and post-boom, I can say the amount of times I was offered to use LLMs overall and ChatGPT/Gemini specifically to generate answers as a student has gone through the roof.
And as a soon-to-be educator (I currently pursue PhD and aspire to teach others), I collect ideas on how to combat it, as it tanks the quality of education so much it may as well be nonexistent. But in any case, students that genuinely complete their assignments should not be harshly affected.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 weeks ago:
Every English class at my uni has huge, like 10-page essays (can you even call them essays at this point?) where we cover scientific developments in our field we discovered in that month.
Everything is handwritten because “there were students who used LLMs, and they need to be sure at least some effort is put into admission”. Like, just to spite on LLM users and all of us just in case.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 weeks ago:
As someone who studied without laptop through an entire bachelor’s degree - it is a valid option, and I still often make handwritten notes of study materials.
When you write things down by hand, you process information for longer and use more parts of your brain to do so, which genuinely helps to memorize study materials.
It also allows for more focus. Personally, I found that when I moved, eventually, to using laptop in my studies, it has reduced my attention span and added unnecessary distractions. When all you have at your fingertips is paper and a pen, there is nowhere to get astray.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
I still don’t quite get why planes are somehow the exception - likely because something about engineering and use of real planes makes inverted Y preferable? I don’t find the inversion intuitive in any context.
Up is up, down is down, and I see no other reason why it should be complicated further for some cases. I just piloted a spaceplane in Space Engineers after piloting a dragon in World of Warcraft and both games just have up on up and down on down. To me, this is how it should be, or at least there should always be an option to make it so.
For any casual play, it just adds to a consistent and predictable experience.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
I’m just completely unable to learn inverted Y.
Any game that doesn’t have an option to make it regular is unplayable for me. Oh, and sadly IRL radio controlled planes are too. I tried two, and both got smacked into the ground and needed repairs.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s an interesting way
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
It it would be a lever behind, X axis would be inverted too.
Y inversion is just terrible and has no good explanation in relation to non-piloting games (and even there most people would be better off with regular Y)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
You’re a monster
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 weeks ago:
Flying games should have an option to choose regular or inverted.
If you’re into piloting, got a joystick or something - sure, inverted is your choice.
Otherwise it’s just unnecessarily confusing.