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Cake day: December 23rd, 2020

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  • When I spend time reading about culture in other countries, especially Japan and South Korea, but also China, it sometimes sounds intolerable to me. Not because I think it can be said to be overall worse than the one I’m in, it’s just bad in ways that I am not acclimated to and would struggle to tolerate. I grew up in the United States, and I have developed spiritual/psychological callouses that let me operate here. Maybe another analogy would be microbiome and immune response.

    Anyway, I’m sure the reality is different. These are just the way I make sense of what I hear. After all, people do travel and manage to thrive in many places.







  • Bilb!@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldThis community isn't your personal adviser
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    11 days ago

    Too many people are ignorant of this.

    I have a belief (not based in law, just my personal feeling) that once you post something in a conversation in a public forum, you no longer have any natural right to control it. By posting it in a conversation on the public internet, you have, in a practical sense, waved any right to control it. That is a part of a conversation that belongs to the public, and you gave your comment away freely. It is public record. You cannot demand that it be forgotten or erased any more than I can demand that something I said to my friends yesterday be forgotten and erased.

    If I hosted a forum, I would make it clear that this is the policy, and I would not allow people to delete comments that they posted. Edits would be allowed, but the history would be available. Deletions would only ever happen if I was legally compelled.

    This all gets complicated if someone posts private information about a third party. I would rapidly delete such posts and ban such users. The third party never consented to anything, so it’s not the same.










  • Bilb!@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    25 days ago

    Yeah, I hear you. There’s really no practical difference between saying 174cm and 17.4dm I think from the American perspective where 6ft is a sort of benchmark for adult male height, so psychologically that 6 looms large. CMs obviously work fine, but I’m trained to see the bigger 17 as a sort of benchmark/goal. None of that is healthy or rational, though.

    Maybe it’s easier to say “Oh, they’re 17dm” or “15dm” and get a general sense for the height of a person. When you need to get precise, it’s not useful.


  • I get that. I wouldn’t publish the code anywhere until an alpha is more or less ready and pretty well tested, and yes, I understand the importance of making sure it behaves in an expected, performant and pro-social manner with the existing compatible fediverse apps.

    I’m not too worried about it, but thanks for your genuine concern about my reputation. ;) Since I’m the one writing the code, I’m more worried about the quality of that, if anything.