The orange guy is the Kool-Aid Man of Overton’s windows.

I believe adopting Photon as the default UI could make Lemmy far more appealing to the average Reddit user.

How are you supporting that belief? Any data? Any A/B testing?

I don’t want to sound too harsh, but you have sort of marked yourself as a representative of “average OG ex-redditor” or “average joe”. Actually, you refer to “average” quite a lot. But honestly, without any supporting evidence, it’s just words to make the proposal more appealing or relevant. If we remove all this cruft (which might be supported by anecdotal study, but that should barely count, if even), what arguments are here that actually remain?

Don’t get me wrong, if you said that you like “something like Photon” more than the current default UI, then great! It is awesome that other alternatives exist and when people find them, it’s great to share the review. (It’s how I have discovered so much of great software!) But then again, it’s all subjective, right? In your proposal, you seem to tend to state lot of these subjective opinions as if they were objective, which to me makes the proposal just far less convincing.

RTFB

Along with other things said here, people tend to “forget” that there’s a real person on the other end.

I vaguely recall Nicholas Christakis talking about a study they made, where they created a bot which would simply remind people of the fact that there’s a real person on the other end, and they found that it would help. (That study was done in some university platform and is centuries old in internet time, though. I think he spoke about it about 6 years ago on podcast with Sam Harris.)

I don’t have experience with Twitter or Mastodon but it reminds me of time when I quit drinking.

When I quit drinking and tried to stay around people I used to drink with, I realized really fast how pointless this “engagement” (really just two people speaking past each other, and feeling like they have deep conversation) is. It’s almost insulting what a waste of effort such an “engagement” can be.

You don’t know that houses can’t move. Absence of a proof does not imply impossibility.

Sounds ridiculous (esp. for windows / houses) but I think it actually shows where Occam’s Razor comes to the rescue: When deciding what to believe, you should consider how many assumptions either model of the world would have to include in order to explain your observations.

Turns you don’t need to look for indisputable mathematically rigorous proofs, you just need to find the best model.

Skeleton:

• When the hero comes into the tomb, I want it to be dead first, no faffing about with boss fight (which they always win) BS.
• I like the musical nature of their bones.
• I already am one, sort of…

Think of it as you and your dog working on shifts.

When your dog works, you don’t have to, but now it’s your turn.

2 down, 14 more to go. Nice.

Right? We are going to do all of the basic 16 terminal colors, right?

…and 20G that needs to be replicated to tons of nodes if it should be really decentralized.

16-28 bytes seems extremely understated, I think it could easily be off by orders of magnitude.

Yes. I mean no, ehm, I mean “yes, I use the subscription feed”.

Pro tip: subscribe to @DinksterDaily to keep it organized. Thank me later.

having the purpose explained helps

But does it? I suppose it could be the opposite as well, right? It seems like there is some inherent hazard connected to the motivation of answering a “why” question. It can open Pandora’s box of misalignment.

I mean, what if I’m against malls? Then I could decide I want nothing to do with this button. (Or even purposefully sabotage it in some way.)

It’s hard to overstate how permanent and omnipresent this hazard is: Even if there was an objective truth about good vs. evil and it was accessible to any conscious being just by exploration and thinking, there still would be this hazard because one cannot know how close to this truth the other one is.

A crazy thought: Maybe that’s why we have all these kinds of weird social phenomena, from interpersonal struggles, mental illness to social structures like family, state, religion… all this inability of people to really pull together has something to do with nature managing this constant hazard of misalignment. It must be chaotic is because it’s evolution: the only strategy that works long-term is to have all kinds of strategies present all the time. Maybe it’s actually adaptive for society as a whole – that’s why trying to fix broken people and societies is such a steep uphill battle.

“Why” is scary.

Feeling justified to troll arrogant people is arrogant.

that’s some serious good-ass news good ass-news

IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.

Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…

Emperor Tickles

I always thought there’s exactly 0 counterfeit/fake items at amazon, so … 0 times million … phew…

/s

Speaking about security codes, a little story about a tiny hotel I’ve been in.

When we arrived, there was no reception, the agreement was that once we arrived we would call the receptionist/owner. So we did, and turned out the rooms were prepared in advance, and they would just need to give us code to unlock the main door, code to unlock our room door and some basic instructions – all of that could be done over the phone. Fine.

So they gave us the code, it was, say, 1234, and our room was 33. So we opened the main door – worked fine, went to the lobby and tried to open our room. The code 1234 did not work. So we called back and after some checking they apologized and told us that the correct code was–you guessed it—1233.

Luckily there was also a proper metal key in the room–only one though (we were a group of 6), so if we wanted to actually protect our valuables we had to share the metal key.

(Overall, the hotel was great, and all, the owners were nice, all was fine – it’s just that they were apparently not exactly security nerds… 🤓 )

The building, used by several hundred employees, had a security systems with 4-digit codes. I’ve been part of group of people who liked to work late times, and the building would lock at midnight – the box by the door would start beeping and you would need to unlock it within a minute or so, or “proper alarm” would ensue.

However, to unlock the alarm you did not need your card – all you needed to do was to enter any valid code. Guess what was the chance that, say, 1234 was someone’s valid code? Yes.

We’ve been all using some poor guy’s code 1234, and after several years, when he left the company we just guessed some other obvious code (4321) and kept using that.

By the way, after entering the code to the box by the door, it would shortly display name of the person whom the code “belonged” to. One of our colleagues took it as a personal secret project to slowly go through all 10000 possible codes and collect the names of the people, just for the kick of it.

(By the way, I don’t work for that company anymore, and more importantly, the company does not use that building anymore, so don’t get any ideas! 🙃 )