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soulifix

@ soulifix @lemmy.world

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  • Crappy band removes guitarist from photo when he can no longer perform due to healh reasons

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  • God, Retire already! You're not in the 80s anymore!

    At least some bands from the 80s realized this, which is why they've spent some of their albums on experiencing new sound. Iron Maiden has done it, which is why they're still awesome, they aren't relying on their old reigns because they're a talented band that can evolve.

    Motley Crue, can't do that. They're a one-era trick playing pony.

  • Infuriating Password Policies

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  • Places like Flickr can go fuck themselves because they want 12-character password limits. 12! Some people can barely even remember a 6 string password much less one that's 12.

    Why 12? "SECURITY!" they'd spam. I've found it more secure to have a mix of special characters, lowercase/uppercase and numbers than the longer string of a password. Just means you're going to increase the volume of people having to reset their passwords now and then because you required them to make it 12 characters long.

    I don't understand why people would like 12 characters...

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    Do you think that Climate Change is exaggerated and at best would cause food and water shortages, mass immigration and small conflicts or will it lead to human extinction?

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  • VT, my old homestate, was slammed with a flood. It is one of the worst floods in that state's history since 1927. It is due to climate change.

    To deny the effects of climate change, would be like being slapped in the face very hard and being unfazed by it. Then wondering why hours later, what transpired.

  • I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy

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  • I feel like with Lemmy, it's harkening back to a period of the internet where you can approach it and put it down for later. It's not yet constructed in a way like all of the other social media platforms, that want to keep you invested, even if you know what to expect. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter .etc all remind me of the days in the old internet, where you had web portals. These web portals were from MSN, Yahoo and AOL primarily.

    They all had things there, to keep you attracted to them. They had their search engines, they had games, they had news, they had weather and many more things. All to keep you in one place and to keep you from venturing out to other places unless you used their search engines before Google became the juggernaut of that.

    Social Media today, is designed now, to be like them. Except it's worse because they've got algorithms in place that they extract the data from, i.e you, to pitch to you things that you may be particularly interested in just to keep you invested.

    For all of the numbers those social media platforms have, they sure do say a lot of nothing.

  • I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.

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  • For the most part, yes. But I have noted lately that I do get some snarky people coming in with dishonest and bad faith responses. They're at least not as rampant as it would've been on Reddit. It's discouraging and demoralizing when you've got, what feels like, 100 people downvoting you to hell and 50 of them are swiping at you before deleting their accounts and doing it again because they're of the tribal mindset and you've somehow offended a part of the hive.

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    What is the worst advice you've ever heard?

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  • Yeah I'm finding that piece of advice is worthless. I say, just look over your shoulder once in a while, but never not go looking at all. Some of the best people I've dated was because I just simply glanced over, but I can't say any of them we're 'the right ones' because they happened to be because I wasn't looking.

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    What is the worst advice you've ever heard?

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  • Any of them that's vague but of course it's dependent on context.

    The 'be yourself' one bothers me the most. There's parts of myself that I don't like, why would I want to get cozy with it?

    Oh and especially "do what makes you happy". I'm sorry but I deal with suicide on a semi-regular basis and what if one day I decide I want to go and I feel that is what will make me happy in that mindframe. Would that be okay? No it wouldn't.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?

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  • Microsoft hilariously butchered the introduction of Edge, which showed a logo that was strikingly similar to IE. They've sworn up and down that Edge wasn't like IE. But Edge, behaved similarly to IE. It took Microsoft a few years to finally give Edge it's own identity and more or less, better functionality.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?

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  • Nowadays, Google just gives you results. Relevance may vary.

    DuckDuckGo can give you more accurate results, but feels thin.

    And search engines like Bing and Google, try too hard on being swiss army knives that do everything. From calculating to weather to showing movies from local theaters. Anything they do to keep you glued to them.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?

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  • I remembered for audio projects, the .WMA format was the bane of everyone's existence.

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    What habits do you have to protect your privacy?

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  • I create multiple e-mails. One is for social, random accounts. One is to be responsible for more sensitive things like bills and payments.

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  • I felt like I caused a bad chain reaction in my IRL family. My sister was in a heated family court case against her ex-spouse and the custody battles for her son aka my nephew. I worked and voiced against her in the whole case which cast a black cloud of judgment over me by everyone else. She was just, doing every possible thing wrong in the whole case. Blaming her ex-spouse's daughter in baseless claims, fruitlessly attacking her ex-spouse for unrelated incidents. She was just not painting a good picture of a mother who cared about her children, it was just "I was in what I felt was a bad marriage and I want to make my ex husband pay!" rhetoric.

    In the end, she lost. She not only lost custody of her son, but got to serve 10 days in jail as an example set by the judge of the court room. Similar circumstances almost repeated themselves years later when she stupidly had sex with former ex-spouse to try and win custody and alimony for their daughter aka my niece. She lost that case too and I stood my own ground.

    I felt bad all around for the entirety of both cases. It didn't need to happen. It shouldn't have happened. If only she wasn't a dumbfuck with the outdated, feminist mindset of "MAN BAD!" which is ultimately what costed her both cases. So now, niece and nephew are just out there enduring the trials of being motherless and who knows what their futures will be when the day comes that they will reflect on this.

  • Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share

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  • Now to add to the distro wars as to 'which distro is better than which', we're gonna have 'what is real linux and what isn't real linux' on top of that eternal debate? Lovely...

  • In your opinion, how would the perfect online social media platform be like?

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  • It'd have no karma system, so there'd be nobody to say or do things to artificially inflate votes.

    There'd be subcommunities but they'd be decentralized from eachother so that there is no overlap. There'd be a central hub for you to navigate with that'll take you to where you want to go.

    There would be a focus on privacy for sensitive communities. Like for example, if there's a mental health or depression community, any outside view would be blurred and you'd be unable to interact with the community unless you're registered and proved a set of credentials so that you're not there just to gather ammo on some people or risk being problematic for the sake of the community.

    There wouldn't be a thing like on Reddit where, if you delete something, you can see it again through archives. Once it's deleted, it's gone, out of sight and out of mind.

    And unlike Reddit, I'd prevent the abuse of alt accounts by actually installing verification systems through registering. It's amazing how ignorant they've been on their registration system.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?

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  • They're only as strong as long as there's persistence. But, that doesn't mean that when it is used, it won't have an affect. People have been getting arrested and charged for alluring people to kill themselves online. Whereas, back then, it felt like quite an uphill battle because everyone would've just told you to block the person or close the IM window.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?

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  • There also used to be a huge stigma with being infamous online. Like, you were seen as an actual loser if your only claim to fame was online and not anything worthwhile in real life. That's such an interesting turn of events where by the mid to late 2000s, people were getting crazy popular online and actually earning revenue for it through YouTube and it has built up since with the likes of Twitch, OnlyFans .etc

  • Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?

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  • If they've nothing to hide, then why are they so dodgy when things like lolicon are discussed? Their actions speak louder than their words ever could.

    There is an age old practice from olden days of the internet. If you don't want your nudes out there, if you don't want your name out there, if you don't want anything of you out there - you don't put it out there. Because once it's out there, you won't ever know who'll see it much less, have it. I always assume, that as soon as I upload a picture of myself somewhere on social media, someone would've had to have right clicked and saved it already. For what purpose? Who knows, could be a matter of some sick personal collector of people they particularly are fascinated with to potential murderers who're only lacking my location but should they find me out in the open, they'll know what I look like and probably kill me. And anything in between.

    But so many people on Facebook, complain about how it is that they make new accounts and suddenly are presented with familiar faces to re-add as friends. Whether or not it's a new e-mail to even a new location, Facebook knows you so well by now, that they'll pitch you all of whom you've had, even if you don't want them. That defeats the point of wanting a refreshing restart on your life when all you've got is reminders.

    Black markets also exist that circulate your data. Why would one think that one day, they're seeing a bunch of transactions that they didn't authorize all of a sudden? Well, somewhere at somepoint, someone did seize your credit card or bank info and now is running hogwild on it.

    They're not worried yet because it hasn't happened to them, but boy do the tables turn once people are affected by these experiences.

  • You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey

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  • I take the opportunity to really tell these guys how I feel about this kind of shit popping up. You want some honesty and how you "value" feedback? Okay, here you go.

  • Is therapy worthwhile?

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  • Therapy is kind of like college. You go into it, to try and know what you'd like to do. Only in therapy's case, you're going into therapy to narrow down exactly what you think is wrong with you and finding that confirmation on whether or not you truly have something.

    Talking to online friends and close ones are limited because they cannot give you medical advice. They're there to weather your mental storms until you do manage to get to a therapist that can at least gauge the forecast.

    And if I had to give one tip about therapy, try to make a series of bullet points and prioritize what you want to figure out the most from top to bottom. Things like "Why is it do I randomly snap or cry around people?" are things you probably should have on the top to talk about, as opposed to "why do I randomly make mayo sandwiches every other hour?" being the very bottom.