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- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
But they did, I made a friendly comment, I was even self-deprecating about it, mostly to be funny, and they accused me of having prejudices. I don’t take well to being called prejudiced, I’m not. Then they randomly brought up racism, that was a weird exchange.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
No. OK, you’re not being a rational person here so goodbye.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
Well mine was a tongue in cheek comment too, and I thought quite friendly, and then you decided to call me prejudiced. The main point I was picking up on was mindless internet scrolling which is something I do when I’m unhealthily managing my boredom, it’s a warning sign for me, maybe it’s not for you, but I thought I would share my perspective, as I did in a non-judgemental way. Masturbation is perfectly fine, it can be healthy, it can be not, when combined with mindless internet scrolling it didn’t sound healthy to me but that’s just me. I don’t get fishing either but I wouldn’t judge someone for it, just like I didn’t judge you, but you responded like I did judge you, it’s like we’re on Reddit or something.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
Why, do you know me from somewhere? The key word there is “seems”; if you truly get fulfilment from mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation then go for it. That’s just not my experience. When you posted that here did you not expect other people to share their own perspectives?
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation
That part seems more like succumbing to boredom than combatting it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty myself.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about blocking ads for me, that’s a happy side-effect, it’s about owning your computing and taking the necessary protection against tracking. Before “ad blockers” existed I spent a lot of time manually configuring my browser to block websites from connecting me to unnecessary, potentially intrusive third party servers, after all it’s my browser and my internet connection. Now uBlock Origin does that for me, it’s not an ad blocker, it’s a wide spectrum content blocker and the user should have the final say on what they connect to. I think we should stop calling them ad blockers.
- Comment on Which instance should i choose when i share a link? 5 weeks ago:
The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535
No that link opens in your instance for me like a vanilla hyperlink, I’ve used several instances all with Lemmy’s default web front end and that’s always been the behaviour in my experience, maybe some apps do it differently? If it did it automatically wouldn’t the software have to have hard-coded knowledge of every other instance to know whether to handle it as a Lemmy link or somewhere else on the web?
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
Free as in freedom. But also free as in cost for most PC use cases. Red Hat and SUSE are mostly selling enterprise services.
- Comment on Which instance should i choose when i share a link? 5 weeks ago:
That’s useful thanks for sharing.
It feels like there should be something like that built into Lemmy and I was a bit surprised there isn’t, just like how you can link to a community for example with !fediverse@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What’s “on read”?
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 month ago:
It just means that the decision comes down to the instance owner not the software developer, which I think is right. Everyone should be able to decide what their computer does, that’s important to hold on to.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t be a free software licence by the FSF definition (rule zero). Of interest the FSF rejects the original JSON licence because it contains the clause “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” Since Mastodon uses AGPL, it wouldn’t be compatible.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 month ago:
That’s a really misleading headline; a Mastodon instance has done this, Mastodon as a whole can’t do this because it’s free software, it can be used for any purpose.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System 3 months ago:
No data I’m afraid but it just doesn’t ring true to me, unless there are vast regional differences. It sticks out to me as much as if you’d said that Bing is the largest search engine; I’ve barely heard of Apple email but almost everyone I know uses Gmail except me.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System 3 months ago:
Are you saying Apple is a larger email provider than Google? I’d find that very surprising.
- Comment on Do you have a favorite Game and Watch game? 4 months ago:
Bomb Sweeper. I’ve not actually played much Game & Watch since back in the day, so this is mostly from childhood memory and I have no idea how well it stands up but that was my favourite at the time. It’s a multi-screen but the top screen was mostly cosmetic, you had to navigate some kind of maze on the bottom screen. I’ve still got it, I should dig it out some time.