

Oh no, I used to love tvtropes but it’s been a long time, what’s happening to it? Has it enshittified?
I’m new to the fediverse and still learning how things work here. I apologize if I break the rules or etiquette of communities and instances. Please don’t assume malice or disregard, I’ll try my best to be respectful but there’s like a lot to learn and keep track of.
I like Emacs, GNU, free knowledge (free as in freedom), Lisp/Scheme programming, and software (and hardware, and everything) that is designed for autonomy, licenses aren’t enough. I’m ditching Linux as soon as Hurd becomes viable as a daily driver.


Oh no, I used to love tvtropes but it’s been a long time, what’s happening to it? Has it enshittified?
yeah but I panicked and it didn’t occur to me you can still plug an external keyboard on a laptop. And to be honest, I don’t think I ever thought of that before. So if there was data, I would have lost it.
I once encrypted my disk with a passphrase that contained a mere ‘j’. I generated it on bitwarden, then pasted it. The problem was the j key wasn’t working on my keyboard and I had no way to enter the passphrase on boot. Luckily the disk was empty since this was a fresh install, so I just reinstalled it with a different passphrase. But this could have been catastrophic since I didn’t have a spare keyboard.


Hey, not trying to agree or disagree with you, I genuinely don’t know who this person is and have absolutely no stakes in this fight. But I think you touched on something interesting and I’d like to offer some food for thought, not as a good thing that should be accepted, just something to take into consideration.
I grew up worshipping Lady Gaga, she was a huge factor for me coming out of the closet. Like she was a crucial part of my history because she did the “love the gays” thing around the same time I realized I was gay. Like this may sound stupid and probably is, but I genuinely felt deep affection, admiration and gratitude for her.
Then I found out she might be a zionist. The only source I found was Israeli propaganda, but she never denied it or addressed the genocide in any way. By that time I wasn’t even paying attention to her or listening to her songs, she was basically a fond memory to me, and it still devastated me.
It took me months to realize that I didn’t give a single fuck about the majority of the MCU cast (and hollywood, and most of everything that comes from the US) being full of confirmed zionists and zionist propaganda and I was still watching it, because I never cared about those people the way I cared about Lady Gaga.
You may call this hypocrisy and you’re probably right, but what I’m trying to say is people aren’t always rational enough to notice it. I still feel deeply hurt by Lady Gaga’s silence, even as an adult who’s well aware of how pathetic it makes me. My parassocial bond with her was formed when I was a vulnerable teenager going through a lot of bullshit and I didn’t have anything better to get attached to and draw hope from. So even now I still feel a lot more disappointed about her silence than others’ vocal support for genocide, even knowing it makes no sense. Because I never gave a fuck about them, so there’s no parassocial feeling of betrayal or disappointment.
Idk, there’s that saying about not bringing flowers all the time and as much as I hate it, it may be on to something. At this point I’m convinced most popular sayings have at least some tiny truth behind them. Again, not defending any of this, just saying it’s a real factor and shouldn’t be too surprising when you see it.


There’s a bot that crossposts reddit posts here, I forgot it’s name because I blocked it. I’ll check my blocked list and post it here, brb.
edit: it’s this bot: @[email protected]
Omg they blindfolded the poor thing like a hostage ☹️
Also:

I don’t think it’s physically possible for heads without legs to walk even if they’re very obedient.
I once heard of something called anarcho-monarchism, so nothing would surprise me at this point.
Bro stop, it’s literally my career because it was the only thing that felt easy to me (I tried a bunch of stuff before), like it’s a lot easier and cheaper to learn on your own than most crafts and imo it should be even easier. I don’t take this as offense, I take it as a compliment that we are one of the few careers where people still have enough power over their tools to genuinely improve them and enough solidarity to put in the effort of making it more and more accessible to others, be it by making simpler tools, or writing tutorials and guides for free, or taking the time to answer even the noobiest questions. I want to see more and more comments like this.


I’m baffled I just downvoted a comment saying “intellectual property is bullshit”. There’s a first time for everything I guess. And yes it is bullshit but gosh, what a weird place to take that stance.
Sometimes I catch myself opening nano inside emacs’ term. I literally forget I’m using emacs and just do it on instinct. I once also opened emacs inside emacs’ term and I just stared at the screen in disbelief.


Bic pens and lighters.
You got me there buddy I’m dying 😂🤦🏾♂️
Latveria, I want to be dr. Doom’s manservant

I can fix him 🥺


lol no I was joking, but I did subscribe to this guy specifically because I was curious about the concept, like I read the comments and I can’t tell if people are role playing or they actually think it’s a real guy (and as I said, it might actually be and I was the actual fool).


Difference is people in the US are generally not defending negative US history or actions
Yeah, I won’t even waste my time arguing, I just ask that you understand that it’s possible for people to disagree with this, as absurd as it may sound to you. I don’t think you’re acting on bad faith but you have no idea how absurd this claim sounds to me, if you want to assume bad faith that’s your problem.
But the point of my comment is: I can block lemmy.world if it bothers me enough, or I can not block it if it doesn’t bother me enough. And I don’t need to make a whole rant about it. That’s immature as fuck.


I’m curious, what problem do you think this would solve that regular blocking doesn’t? I mean, I’m an emacs zealot user, I genuinely think everything that could be done through a plain text file should be done through a plain text file, lol, but other than some tiny convenience when creating new accounts, what do you think this could achieve?
I stopped using it some time ago but I remember it took a few clicks in the gui to get it to talk like this. There was even a specific setting to make it use more emojis. And it definitely brings up stuff from previous conversations, it did it all the time. I don’t know a lot about LLMs and I have no clue what those gui settings do behind the scenes, but chatgpt can definitely talk like this without the user specifically prompting for it.