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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Unfortunately OP is right.

    Here’s some alternatives that use the same base as Mozilla, and maybe they might pick up the shards soon: Waterfox, LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser

    Considering Manifest V3 in Chromium and how the browser kit is forcing quite a few things on us there’s also a solid chance people will independently rework the chromium base into a new web browser toolkit soon, but we’ll have to see. Either way, next few years will undoubtedly bring a lot of change to the browser landscape.


  • I made course for 11th and 12th graders together with a friend when I at university. It was only one week long and the topic was neural networks (we hit the timing right, it was 3 years before the AI hype started).

    I did that experiment where you give the students 5 random places and amount of time out of a week. You say that is the movement profile of a fictional person and the students have to find out why those places matter.

    Makes them learn the importance of information and how linking data can be an insane tool for understanding as something. But it also teaches how easy it is to gather information from small data points and self aware you should be about your digital footprint.







    • nothing. I have autism. There’s nothing wrong with me, but I’m obviously a little bit different like other people, which in itself is neither good nor bad.

    • because we need a descriptor and that’s just what my friends use; we know what we mean with it and what we don’t.

    Also I’m gonna take those questions at face value, but I’m just gonna note the first question is a bit out out of left field, as no one implied that something’s wrong with that.

    But I don’t wanna assume you are an asshole, so I’m gonna take it as a misunderstanding.


  • As a German I have a solution:

    If we see a Nazi, we punch them. And with see, I mean specific symbols, clothing or other specific identifiers.

    If I’m on a trump really, I should be able to punch the people in KKK outfits, the ones with swastikas, and the ones with old flags representing nationalism. And I should also be able to call the rest of them out.

    I like this solution. It’s a pretty straightforward one.


  • As long as it still exists, use it for good I guess.

    We can’t change the system in a day, but we can use the tricks that racists use to nudge it in the proper direction.

    And if they don’t like it, sure they can go ahead and remove those tricks. Only makes our system more fair and straightforward, which is a good thing.


  • Let’s go through examples:

    “He’s retarded” - that’s a slur, unless it’s ironic.

    “That was retarded” - not a slur, cause it’s kinda taking a dig at an action, not a person.

    “I’m retarded” - technically a slur but almost always used with a hint of irony, therefore usually not a slur.

    That’s how I use the word with my friends. And I have autism, so technically 100 years ago I would have been the resident retard ;)







  • While I don’t think emulation is a bad way in every case, in most cases it’s a huge risk and probably only helpful to a very small degree. This stuff can get very complex and I’m neither a scientist studying psychology nor a therapist, and for that matter I think those are the people that should brain storm a proper way to treat those people.

    And we can start by calling them what they are in the first place. Sick in the brain. Mentally ill. And then we can start treating them properly.

    And if they still commit crimes, then we can all say we tried our best and we prioritize our short term safety again over long term reduction and they will go to prison for (at least) a while.

    But yeah, finding a better systematic way to prevent sexual crimes should be our priority over the satisfaction of identifying and shaming people with bad thoughts.