U de Recife

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.

… 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.

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.

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

http://emojidick.com/

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

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

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

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.

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).

I want to celebrate two things. 1. Your awareness of the potential dangers looming over the fediverse. 2. Your proactive attitude curtailing the problem at its root. From one human to another, thank you!

How do you remove that? That being an almost endless pool of workers.

(Not antagonizing: just curious)

I’m techie by gift, not by trade. I’m an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I’m here. I’m loving the fediverse. And I’m kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

Lemmy, currently. This comment proves my point.

Vorta (Borg GUI). It’s simple to use.

Howl’s Moving Castle. I had an obsession with it at the time.

Any BBC production of Jane Austen’s novels.

I’m already exploring it. I just happen to travel on spaceship earth.

Now that you mentioned, I remember seeing that Reddit’s alien balloons image.

Yours is waaaay cuter! I hope we get to see it more on lemmy.

Arch Linux. Because… it’s rock n’ rolling!

Sewing and knitting. Also relaxing.