floquant

@floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We did it Patrick! Teens’ mental health and development is saved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Cuba okay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “okay”. By my definition, they haven’t been doing ok since the cold war as they’ve been bullied non-stop since then. It may be on the news again now, but it never stopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the five eyes have been a thing for a long time. Not sure what this is really news aside from the publicity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No explanation? You might want to get checked for daltonism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I get some support rn please⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not disputing that you know your body or that it is healing for you, I’m just trying to say that something can be healing in a sense and hurtful in another, at the same time. I am also someone that naturally tends to fast sometimes, but there are pretty well defined limits that go well beyond individual variances. If you’re planning to go for 7 days, please for the love of God at least drink water, or the nervous system reset you’ll get won’t be of the good kind. Your neurons and heart won’t work without water, no matter how strong you are. It contains no nutrients and costs either nothing or next to nothing, and I can guarantee you that being dehydrated is not a factor in the benefits you get from fasting, if not for “feeling high” in the delirious sense.

  Again, the basic biological need that I’m ignoring is not eating. I know my body more than you or anyone else. I can easily eat 20,000+ in one week consistently. And I probably do. Not that I’m counting. I’m not expecting many if any people to support me on this or understand.

  Everyone who participates in a thread like this is here to understand and support you, so I will say again what both me and others have said, underlining that I am listening to what you’re saying and that my only interest is your well-being: Your idea that not eating or drinking for 7 days is a biological need is not healthy and you should not pursue it. I say this because you’re picking a fight against nature and setting yourself up to lose. I am not saying it is completely physically impossible, but you must realize how that is well beyond human operating ranges, beyond knowing your body - and if you don’t, please, listen to us. Literally every lifeform needs to eat, none need to not eat.

  You know fasting is good for you, and doing a hard, good thing for 7 days is good for you, but the union of the two is not a good one. The goals you already achieved are significant and you should be proud of them - I know I am! But this is just pushing yourself unreasonably hard, and I don’t think there’s a good outcome for this scenario. In my view what you need to work on is breaking them in a way that doesn’t make you feel like you undid your progress, rather than going longer and longer stretches of time.

  I hope you will take the advice of talking to someone qualified about all of this, I believe the understanding and support you need are more than what internet comments can provide. I see someone that is very brave in many ways and I really think you’ll be able to reach your ultimate goals of mental and physical well-being, but don’t try to do it alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I get some support rn please⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t think going 7 days without food or water is a healthy goal frankly, no matter how much self-determination that might demonstrate. I think you are setting biologically unreasonable goals for yourself, which will likely lead to either harming yourself or to breaking the fast in “a bad way” that will make you feel guilty and ashamed again, or both. Your body and your brain (or soul if you prefer, it’s true either way) need nutrition to function properly. Don’t try to bury your hunger until the point you break and consume a ton of calories while on your phone to try and avoid the guilt*. Maybe you could try fasting for a bit while it still makes you feel good about yourself and how you relate to others (because it’s great that you’re doing that!) but before you reach a point where your body semi-autonomously seeks the first available calories, eat one single fruit. Buy a peach or whatever for cents and take a minute to bite into it and taste it, appreciate the good molecules that it’s giving you. Maybe from there you can move to a small salad or some boiled green leaf vegetables, something that won’t make you gain weight and that you can feel good about eating. Food does not need to be something that makes your body worse or that costs a lot of money. It will take time and likely some external help, but I’m sure you can make it and that soon you’'ll be ending meals with a smile while losing weight, and saving money too :)

  Please hear us: There is no emphasis on the can die, you will end up in a bad place in one way or another if you ignore your basic biological needs. You have noble goals in your self-love and your family, and I admire your resolve in your fasts so far, I really do. But as others have said, never eating again is not the way to go about it :)

  *: don’t take this in a preachy way, I know the mechanism all too well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connected cars can be hacked, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only drug dealers and child predators have a need for an untracked car /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit are URLs esoteric knowledge now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great example for the moral justifications of piracy. The bytes for the maps are on your hard drive, why the fuck should I not be allowed to play on them? When someone playing a pirated copy has a better experience than someone on a bought licensed copy something’s not right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sassy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI might be able to generate a picture of a scallop that looks sassy, but never picture of an actual sassy scallop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depends what you're on.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idiot fruit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atmospheric Slapping Tournament⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good band name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack isn’t just known for “platforming and monetizing Nazis” now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to puke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been on a steady decline for at least 5 years now imo, ever since they introduced “fuel efficient paths” it kept choosing small roads with lots of stopping and starting at intersections instead of the bigger roadways where you can hold a constant speed… how that is more fuel efficient beats me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they’re working on their own firmware behind the scenes, or at least enough reverse engineering efforts to regain some autonomy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An open source repairable printer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a world of homebrew 3D printers and CNC machines, it’s kinda weird there never was a similar option for a regular printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s better to be on a server that is encrypted but not E2E if the admin is someone that is well intentioned and abides by the sudo oath, than on a corporate “E2E” platform where they manage your keys themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roast me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  am dumb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roast me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  30 days later? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first 628Ah grid-scale battery enters operation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1592.36 Vh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We hadn’t discovered The Funk yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason to pick that over netcat though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but this type of machine learning and diffusion models used in image genAI are almost completely disjoint

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started playing Jak II again (emulated), for the nostalgia. It’s pretty much as great as I remember it but the inverted x-axis on the camera is making me go nuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are locks and keys mass produced?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Side question: does anyone know if manufacturers rely on entropy to get the required randomness or if they “enforce” patterns by selecting and directing pins?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are locks and keys mass produced?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right tools and skills, which is an important part. Just buying the appropriate pick won’t magically make you able to open a disc detainer lock, but sure, wafer pins locks can literally be opened by randomly sticking a paperclip in it and using a tensioner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GDPR should give you the right, but I’m not sure if they have a button you can click or if you need to email them about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can’t come soon enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks ChatGPT for helping convince my partner youre not a threat to anyone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Source: ChatGPT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The exact same thing happened with Instagram years ago.