tomenzgg
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- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 day ago:
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
For those who enjoy in-depth write-ups, Christine Webber has looked at how decentralized BlueSky is really, before: social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Technically, yes, if you squint; but, practically, no. It was designed with a prioritization of passing the information/data around to avoid any lack of missing anything (so you get a closer experience to the connectedness of Twitter than Mastodon) which means every instance hosts, basically, the entire world. Naturally, there’s only going to be a few entities that can store and afford to store the entirety of the data of the network. There’s no such thing as a small instance, in their protocol.
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 1 week ago:
Haha; as someone who went to school in Massachusetts (twice), I can’t protest.
Honestly, – looking back – being so close to Vermont and not taking advantage of the food there more was downright criminal of my past self…
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, that’s because it never was cheese to begin with: American (as in the type) “cheese” has always been a means of repurposing leftover cheese (and using supplementary ingredients like milk and milk protein and emulsifiers to bind things together). It legally can’t be called cheese because it’s always been a “cheese product”, not cheese. That doesn’t (inherently) mean it’s any less real food, though (which I feel is what most people hear when they hear, “It can’t legally be called cheese”).
Also, (as a cheese lover) yes: it does taste like ass and is repulsive. Entirely agreed.
- Comment on Is it? 2 weeks ago:
As someone who can no longer eat gluten, yes.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Mmm, I get what you mean. So often, I find myself in conversations (not ours but in general) that have certain presumptions that have been addressed by movements such as these that I feel like there’s this gap in knowledge that shouldn’t really exist but…
I think your point’s a fair argument, though; I’d certainly prefer that, at the very least.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Yeah; that’s totally fair. Mostly, I just want to get it more known; whenever Mobile Linux come up, people namedrop Purism, the Pinephone, maybe UBPorts and the general conclusion is that the spec.s, alone, of what’s available are pretty much a non-starter.
There’s definitely aspects of this phone that some people wouldn’t go for but I’d rather sales be limited by not-the-right-choice than just no one knew it existed; especially when any progress can get sent upstream and improve future projects, as well.
- Comment on Birds of peace 2 weeks ago:
The strength with which I was rooting for that pigeon; but I already knew, the moment I started the video.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
You may have come across it already but Hardcoded may be in the realm you’re thinking? store.steampowered.com/app/2693710/HARDCODED/
It’s still in development but they’ve done a ton of work on it too, already, be pretty flashed out game and its development hasn’t slowed any over the years.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
We are more comfortable with porn than ever
Are we? No-Nut November has only recently dipped in the general consciousness and goon is currently tending as a pejorative. I think we’re comfortable with pushing the boundaries and with nodding and winking towards it but outright normalization has a fierce backlash.
But part of what the sex. lib. movement was about was both normalization and healthy interaction with sex, not just sexual content being prevalent. There’s plenty of unhealthy ideas and performances that the mainstream porn industry perpetuates, much of it relying on satisfying a normative and patriarchal outlook; feminist porn, for example, was/is a much more sex. lib. approach to porn (from giving women more active participation in the sex portrayed (rather than just the receptive of it) to also having the performers express their emotions more (even if minimally) and how the sex they were having made them feel).
These goals are much more in line with the emotional experience OP was describing, where it’s not just sexual content but a more healthy engagement with that sexual content as well, such as experiencing emotions and attachment. That’s part of why OP’s descriptions reminded me of it.
Mainstream porn, driven by capitalism (which isn’t to say all of us aren’t in some degree, even indie creators; sadly, that’s just the reality, right now), doesn’t care about these things.
And sex. lib. has a distinct history and activism, much of intertwined with gay liberation and…I think most people don’t know that or, like, the battles that were fought for information about safe sex, etc. I mean, it’s not unique (most people aren’t aware about disability history, for example, or events like the Capital Crawl) but it’s still deeply unfortunate.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
I’m probably going to spam this around a bit, since most people don’t seem to know about it, but a reminder that FuriLabs has a (GNU+)Linux phone with decent spec.s and the ability to run Android app.s (from what I’ve heard) pretty decently: furilabs.com
Biggest drawback is it’s based on Halium. Usual growing pains of a new product/company apply but apparently the company is pretty responsive and their dev.s have worked with customers to get things like calling working with the carrier and bands of their country where it hasn’t worked before so improvements move pretty quickly.
Collection of different experiences I’ve variously seen online over the last year or so:
- clehaxze.tw/…/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-ph…
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
- www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/…/furilabs_flx1/
- www.reddit.com/r/…/flx1_linux_phone_display_out/
- www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/
I don’t own one, myself, so I can’t give any personal experience but I’ve seen it around for a few years now but most people don’t seem to even know about it. Maybe there’s a reason for that? But none I’ve ever seen anyone say.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Not directly to your point but your overall experience just reminds me: we really lose something when the sexual liberation movement were largely erased. People so often dismiss it because we’re conditioned to dismiss taking sex seriously (outside of a very narrow and specific context) but there’s a lot we lose from that.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 weeks ago:
Not homeopathy but I once saw a video where someone tried to use quantum physics to justify manifesting. Grifters gonna grift.
- Comment on human geography 2 weeks ago:
Michigander?
- Comment on human geography 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s better than my “All Hollows Eve Eve”, by far.
- Comment on This ancient tribe was able to master the technique 3 weeks ago:
If you work on your flexibility (slowly and carefully), it can be easier. But okay of it will always depend on the dimensions the person is born with.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 weeks ago:
I dunno; I thought he was pretty convincing. I mean, the man had a Bat Card and everything.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 4 weeks ago:
Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 5 weeks ago:
So much of their arguments really on that; “clearly the Constitution says nothing explicitly on this issue (or alternatively, the constitution wasn’t microscopically specific this was a case it had in mind so, really, who are we to allow it to apply to this scenario?); as an originalist, I just presume that there was no intent rather than assuming anyone in the project of writing a founding document has any interest in it working fairly or well.”
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Yeah; that’s totally fair.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Keep in mind it’s the same company that tweeted a dog whistle to Gamer gate and had a few insensitive transphobic faux pas: polygon.com/…/gog-twitter-wontbeerased-hashtag/.
I could believe the latter ones were potentially accidental but I don’t know how tweeting the exact starting date of Gamer gate with the phrase “R.I.P games journalism” can be anything but intentional.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 5 weeks ago:
Is…is that not what everyone’s doing‽
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 month ago:
I mean…under the right director, she could pull it off. Wooden acting is perfect for an emotionally stunted character; I’d boycott the film but I could see it working.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.
That’s how my great-grandpa got his first job, truck driving; might’ve been the first time he drove in general, automatic or stick.
- Comment on what timeline is this 1 month ago:
what timeline is this
A bad one.
- Comment on fafo 1 month ago:
When you drive a car, you don’t suddenly feel like you have wheels.
Not the kinda cars I drive, man.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 1 month ago:
We have some peaches and I’ve been putting them in some grilled cheeses I’ve been making with maple-leaf–smoked Gouda I also got this week and it’s been pretty incredible.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 month ago:
had wheels a bicycle
I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle is a tad short…
- Comment on I am gorge 2 months ago:
Damn it, I was just about to post it!
So good.
