sab

@sab@kbin.social

Quite possibly a luddite.

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sab ,

There's so many weird societal constructs about how men are supposed to behave. I have never encountered any of that shit with my friends, but that's probably partly due to a selection process where I have no interest befriending people who display toxic masculinity traits.

If you genuinely think men obsess over disgusting shit and talk about who they want to fuck all the time, maybe take a moment to reconsider a) who you're hanging out with or b) the cultural impulses you allow to shape your perception of the world.

I think the main reason men act this way is that they're trying to fit into an image of masculinity that has been imposed on them, in part through tweets such as this one.

sab ,

I am not talking about people enjoying things that I don't personally enjoy, I was talking about an instinct that men (allegedly) have to share quote disgusting stuff with each other.

This post doesn't seem to me to be about sharing a weird common interest with your friends. There's nothing (inherently) toxic nor gendered about having weird hobbies.

The post is about seeing something disgusting and immediately sharing it with all your friends who will also be disgusted, and portrays this as if it's just a completely normal thing for men to do. And while I can kind of understand where the assumption that men behave like that comes from, I have never experienced anything like that with any of my friends, and I'm pretty sure I never will. So it seems like a bit of a misrepresentation.

sab ,

I could have been clearer - it kind of has to be read in context of how I personally interpreted the original post. So no worries at all obviously. :)

sab ,

Yeah, happens to me all the time as well. People specifically ask me not to commit acts of genocide in a specific population, and I just accidentally bomb them anyway a few hours later.

It's truly tragic, but there's really nothing I can do about it, and I honestly wish people would stop bitching about it.

sab ,

Yeah, the zoomers I know who make an effort with regards to fashion all dress in a very fun way. I dig it.

If I'm upset by it it's just because young people are not wearing the same clothes as me and more, implying that I'm getting old. It stings a little.

sab ,

One difference being that Twitter is not (technically) dead - Nintendo Is removing support for a service that continues to exist, presumably because they don't want to be associated with it.

sab ,

Not that there's any chance of it happening, but this would be an ideal use of the shared Mastodon/Pixelfed API. All the social media functionality, none of the being associated with any particular service provider.

sab ,

Thanks! Thank god Twitter is so dead set on killing itself it doesn't even need people or companies to make even the simplest moral decisions to leave it.

sab ,

Honestly, I think this might be on to something. RFK jr was not always a lunatic - before he went insane he did some truly great things in his career. He then gradually made a turn for the worse, ending up as the mentally insane candidate we know today. It honestly explains his political platform pretty well.

It also reminds me of that great infowars interview with a Sanders supporter (correctly?) observing that they have worms in their brains.

sab ,

50/50 leftists and Russian troll farms or worse, by any charitable outside evaluation.

sab ,

As a leftist, I find them annoying because they make me look like an idiot by association.

sab ,

I think zoomers are young enough not to have the generational memory of how creepy mustaches are, so suddenly they're cool again. I'm afraid it'll last until the zoomers are old enough to be the creepy ones.

sab ,

Full beards are great. I can go a week without any maintenance and still look presentable. Any other style of facial hair is just too much effort.

sab ,

I've been curious about trying out mbin, and this seems like a good instance to do it on. So I absolutely like option 2 the best.

That said, I tried to sign up earlier today, and never received the registration email. Tried to sign up with an old Gmail account. Might be worth looking into. :)

sab ,

Garlic bread is not a thing in Italy at all. Italians eat white bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Garlic bread is an American dish, popular among Italian Americans as a substitute as they couldn't get olive oil in the US.

sab ,

The Simpsons gig is of course beautifully referenced to in Banksy's couch gag.

sab ,

Clearly Mike needs to stop being absurd.

sab ,

It's not very newsworthy perhaps, but seems relevant for a union community.

When seen in relation to what has happened over at Boeing it's a decent reminder of the role of unions not only in ensuring worker's rights, but also in guaranteeing quality and safety for consumers.

sab ,

Very educational, thanks for sharing!

sab ,

Space lasers, no less.

sab ,

It's frustrating as fuck, I'm sure a lot of people have genuinely good intentions and just lack the knowledge to recognize what is valid criticism of the state of Israel and what is antisemitic garbage. The lines are increasingly blurred, which only serves to undermine criticism, endanger Jews, and promote Netanyahu's genocidal agenda.

Now, more than ever, it's important not to spread antisemitism, and to call it out, downvote, and report it when you see it. That shit never belonged anywhere in the past, and it sure as hell doesn't belong anywhere today.

IDF sources: Gaza aid workers killed because 'officers on the ground do what they want' ( www.haaretz.com )

The IDF and defense ministry claimed that the aid workers' killing resulted from poor coordination. Israeli army sources later refuted their claims, saying the incident has 'no connection to coordination' and was caused by the fact that 'every commander sets the rules for himself'...

sab ,

As genocide per definition requires internt, the argument that "whoops, it was an accident!" might actually hold up in court.

Of course it is not an accident, and central authorities (Netanyahu and his fascists) know exactly what they're doing. But this is what they're betting on, and time will tell if it works out for them.

The genocide convention and the state of Israel were brothers in birth, both being responses to the atrocities of the Holocaust. This time around they will be reunited as enemies.

sab ,

That's @potus, for those on platforms that can view microblogs and that are not defederated from Threads.

Remember that comments are not federated to/from threads yet. If I understood correctly, likes are federated.

sab ,

Nope, and it doesn't seem to be on the agenda either. Kbin/Mbin is still the only platform(s) to try to bridge the two.

sab ,

I was always terrible at picking up on hints, but even when I did get the hint I was generally either not interested in pursuing something, too cowardly to pursue it, or I had a preference to go about things a bit slower.

Sometimes women can be attractive and hint a lot, but once you've burned yourself once or twice you realize it's better to take things slow than to risk getting involved with someone more crazy than you can handle.

Amongst people I am closer to and actually like I am absolutely oblivious at times, but I would much rather err on the side of friendship.

sab ,

I think we always assume our own communications are super clear, and we blame other people when they don't understand. That goes for flirting, but also everything else involving two or more people trying to communicate.

/kbin another quick update ( kbin.social )

Good morning, last week we managed to address pressing issues related to infrastructure. Thank you once again for your assistance, Piotr. I will continue work in this area, but it will be less invasive and cumbersome. I have restored the test environments and am slowly getting back into coding....

sab ,

More global moderators is great news! Good luck to anyone on the team! :)

sab ,

Well, the ones that federate with Meta will still be federated with those who don't. So it's really no different from what the Fediverse is already: Fragmented by design.

sab , (edited )

I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. The point that Wikipedia might eventually become corrupted is made moot by the permissive licensing of the information there. The main challenge of the Wiki format is with fact checking and ensuring quality, which is only made more complicated by having a federated platform.

ActivityPub is great for creating the social web. The added benefit of ActivityPub for non-social services is not obvious to me at all.

That said, it's a cool proof of concept, and I'm sure it can be useful for certain types of federated content management - I just don't see how it could ever make sense as a Wikipedia alternative.

sab ,

Then again, why would a fan page want to open for contributions from outside of that fan page? Why would the Star Wars wiki federate edits with the Startrek wiki? On which page of the wiki would this make sense?

I just don't get it.

sab , (edited )

In addition to what's already mentioned in the comments, shout out to Inkscape. I guess it's similar to LibreOffice Draw, but I prefer the user experience of Inkscape. Probably more for single-page PDFs.

sab ,

They're also not holding anyone hostage. I can see how people are tired of the whole "if you don't like it, fork it" argument, but Kbin, mbin, and Piefed are all perfectly viable and interoperable alternatives that are available already.

sab ,

Unless, of course, one blocks them. It's not perfect of course, but I think federation brings about an unique opportunity to decide how many fools one is willing to suffer. And the tools will only get better with time. :)

sab ,

It's funny how statistical proximity to death is the main problem with one candidate, and the only redeeming feature of the other.

I doubt Trump would get to enjoy a third term even if he managed to open for it.

sab ,

Super Mario. It's been milked for what it's worth and more, but whenever there's a new Mario game you just know it's going to be good.

sab ,

Piefed has keyword filtering by default, as well as a lot of other neat features.

It's very much based around subscribing to communities, so you won't see random things that are trending in random communities on the front page. For better or for worse I guess. I like it a lot, but I use it in combination with kbin where I'm more likely to stumble across random things (like this thread). :)

sab ,

It's convenient that the gavel is used both for auctions and for courtrooms. Both situations apparently boil down to giving it to the highest bidder.

sab ,

I'm currently experimenting with Seppo for my website, which is... not ready yet. So maybe not the greatest suggestion. But development is happening fast, and I like it for a couple of reasons.

  1. It's incredibly easy to install. Just upload a file, set permissions, and open it in the browser. I'm somewhat incompetent, so I appreciate that even though deploying WordPress is obviously not very difficult either.
  2. Content is stored in basic XML files, making it easy to access with just basic PHP and an XSLT stylesheet. Basically it easy to incorporate posts into your site however you want it.
  3. It federates with ActivityPub, so people can follow your blog directly and get the content directly into their feeds.
  4. It's lightweight - very little bullshit.

Basic functionality such as editing and deleting posts does not work yet, so it's absolutely not ready for primetime. But it's a project worth following, especially for those of us with an interest in the social web.

Edit: I guess this would be more if you wanted to create a basic website yourself, and add a tool for content management to it. I read the post a bit too quickly - if you're not interested in writing some code there are much better options to go for out there. Seppo I think is nice for those who actively want to tinker a bit. :)

sab ,

You cannot view microblog posts from Lemmy, so the only way you'll see anything from Threads is if a user from there responds to content posted to Lemmy or similar sites. Possibly also if they choose to tag a community in their post, but that seems unlikely for anything else than testing purposes.

Same as Mastodon users, really.

sab ,

I was listening to BBC World Report this morning. They made quick mention of it along with some other things happening in the conflict, then went on to introduce their "expert" who would illuminate the situation.

Their so called expert was an employee of some Israeli institute of security or whatever, and he talked on for ages with minimal push-back about how the israeli army is doing everything by the book and how "Gaza is safe for civilians, and if it's not it's the fault of Hamas".

That was all the coverage they did.

What a fucking joke.

sab ,

One could almost be tricked into believing that the world is a little bit more complicated than what some simplistic tropes of good and evil would have us believe.

sab ,

I think these people are more typically from troll farms than genuinely pro-Palestine, but some of theme probably are that stupid as well. I guess it's a mixed bag.

sab ,

Israel/US relations were at an all-time low under Biden already before the attack, and there's every indication he's using every back channel he has to make Netanyahu slow down his genocide. Sometimes diplomatic solutions are more efficient than a public Circus.

sab ,

Yeah, US cutting its unconditional support to Israel was overdue decades ago. Howevers, as long as the rest of the political landscape doesn't follow, Biden acting unilaterally and publicly just amounts to political suicide with no gain for anyone.

sab ,

People are making this weird fucking arguments like "Biden is so fucking senile he couldn't even immediately drop the years of the Obama presidency" or whatever.

Like what the fuck, I couldn't drop the year of any single thing in my life without thinking about it long and hard, and I'm 30 with no sign of dementia. It's just not how I remember things, and I feel like most people don't.

sab ,

But person, woman, man, camera, TV!!

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement ( www.anildash.com )

[…] being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have...

sab ,

One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?

sab ,

I think a lot of the "conflict" was based on people expecting the threadiverse to be user owned Reddit, without understanding how the Fediverse operates. As people start understanding the nature of how this place works, one would expect them to also calm down a bit about different communities having different moderation strategies.

Then again, it's the internet. Some people are not exactly keen to understand.

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