UdeRecife

joined 1 year ago
[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I find useful not to think both myself or others as smart/not smart, but wise or wiser. Being smart is not always wise. Playing dumb may be wise at times. Wisdom goes way beyond smartness, as it's a mixture of kindness, experience, sensibility, and virtue.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 11 points 1 year ago

... without checking it. If that's your understanding, you're correct.

On the affirmative, ALWAYS check whatever advice you hear/read on the internet. Be ultra careful with your health and safety.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When you're about to face a high risk, high reward situation, you should willfully, willingly start to hyperventilate, as this helps your brain ...

NEVER take any stranger's advice on the internet as credible without checking it with a specialist. This is especially true when said advice relates to your health and/or safety.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

From the top of my head, I would name Okular. No other FOSS pdf reader is as complete and easy to use.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 4 points 1 year ago

http://emojidick.com/

Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, please don't take this as an attack. It's just that I'm so tired of that lame joke.

I tried to present this as an observation. When filing a bug report (which I tried to emulate here), you have to take into account the distro, as it may influence the behavior of the software in question. Namely here Firefox.

Now, does that make you laugh? Good, laugh about it. But please think about it in this context. You are laughing about a personal choice. Prejudice is taking hold of your mind. You're turning someone's choice into a strawman, easy to be laughed at just because.

It's a bit like attacking vegans. Now it's not about this or that person and their choice. They're evened out, ridiculed, just because it's memetic to do so. The same with Arch users, so it seems.

I don't use Arch btw. There's no btw because I don't care about that. This just reminds me of how certain groups always have to hear the same old tired jokes about them, just because, individually, everyone telling those jokes feels it's so clever to do so.

Sorry. I think we can do better than this here at Lemmy. Again, this is not an attack. Perhaps just a reminder.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I too have this issue, and I use a similar solution.

Case in point, for those asking for examples: exporting Reveal.js slides to PDF. Never works on Firefox (my browser of choice). Solution? Any chrome based browser.

OS: Linux, Arch (updated).

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At first I thought it was a minor thing. But it's still down. Any news?

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Binary solo: ‎ 0000001 00000011 000000111 0000001111

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 59 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really want to thank you for the levelheadedness you're bringing in.

Perhaps that's a learned behaviour from other networks where drama=engagement=upvotes. I don't know. But reading your comment filled me with gratitude.

It's reassuring to see these technicalities being taken for what they are. Different people have different needs. Understanding that makes respecting those needs something simple and natural. Each to their own, right?

tl; dr?

Thank you for your levelheadedness.

[–] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the thing, right? Those giant networks' admins surely know how inflated their userbase is. They surely know that a lot of the activity is bot faked/manipulated.

But since the end goal of those networks is generate traffic to sell something (ads, user data), they never purge the bots. They need fake engagement. They might even promote it. The human user is just being used (Cf. Stallman's use of this term).

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