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Gabriel
@gabriel@mstdn.starnix.network
mastodon 4.6.0-alpha.5+chuckyaI'm fascinated and inspired by the free and open web and have really enjoyed my time on the Fediverse. I'm passionate about #decentralization and censorship resistance, and like to put what I learn to practice.
Over the last few years, my gears have shifted to an intense (natural) #WeightLoss mission. I'm down over 300lbs from 570. Being so large was very difficult and I've learned a lot getting to this point.
Trying to become a decent programmer.
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Fedi boosts don't pay the bills but they do make a living.
Boring dystopia
The pattern of fungible digital infrastructure really is quite interesting.
By that I mean relays in Nostr & #DeltaChat and transport neutrality like #Mitra Mini & Manyverse.
Funko pops as a communist plot to turn the masses against the treasures of capitalism.
Now I understand why it's so revolutionary....
I think "job creation engine" is a stretch considering the whole proposition is based off "we're going to eliminate so many jobs!"
Part of me thinks it's all just a misguided, desperate plea that machines will make things less messed up than the status quo.
In defense of techno-utopians, the bar is pretty low.
Illuminati agents (the staff) keeping me from enlightenment (the sushi buffet)
At least he's living his best life
People are talking about Hantavirus as if it's the next big virus scare.
Looking back, what did you learn from the covid years?
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Posting my old pfp and another photo for context/reference of where I started.
It's funny to see brands dunking on Sony
I had no idea RS masses were a thing
The medical establishment will continue to lose patients and trust to shameless frauds and grifters until access improves. The best thing the healthcare institutions could do to actually protect patients and defund health misinformation would be to work on bottlenecks to care.
The e-celeb shilling fake cancer cures isn't competing with the best of the system, they're competing with what the plebs actually have to work with. When the GP gates testing behind "maybe it's just stress" the supplement salesman offers many different options to try.
But I'm sure policing niche health topics on the Internet is all that's needed to solve everything. It's definitely the alt-health blogs that people barely read moving the needle and not people's actual experiences with the system.
Age verification going too far?
Retreating to shitposting on the fedi
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116760263030804683
It's actually sad to see the EU take half-measures on the one thing they kinda do okay with: consumer protections.
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Video games providers must treat consumers fairly.
Under EU consumer law consumers must be informed about the duration and conditions of a video game’s lifespan.
If the supply is stopped earlier than the contract states, players should be reimbursed.
We will work with consumer authorities and organisations to raise awareness about these rights and their active application.
🎮 https://link.europa.eu/r3XhyM
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@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co my perception of the NoName brand regularly oscillates between it being dystopian and kinda cute.
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The list the government uses to track cyberbullying of MPs
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Thank you @AidanTTIerian 355 to ~270 alone is a huge QoL boost I've noticed. I'm already in the best shape of the last decade, but I'm excited to reach the low 200s as I continue.
I also think it's important you brought up the lifestyle constraints. When I started out I had a lot less going on and that definitely made getting the ball rolling a lot easier. I've lately been tackling the fact that pushing forward gets much harder when 'real life' imposes limitations.
But I have also learned that a lot of the challenge is easier to deal with when you take some of the pressure off, it's the behaviors, preparation and patterns that matter, rather than the day-to-day fluctuations.
The best answer to "would you still love me if I was a worm?"
What's unprecedented here is that even bootlickers are out of a job
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I'll admit I struggle to understand the psychology of authoritarian right people in Anglosphere nations basically licking the boot when it comes to internet censorship.
Like if you had your way, you wouldn't be able to speak at all, ruled by people who still hate you. The EU seems to have a similar vein of people where they crack down on any dissent in the name of 'protecting democracy' that keeps whittling away from such moves.
But principled (and rational) libertarianism seems to be a rarity if not outright contradiction these days so I can understand the confusion a bit.
This is what they took from you
The government of Canada has recognized that the mental health of men & boys has been deteriorating at a rapid pace, and they want YOUR INPUT on how to fix it.
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@wjmaggos@liberal.city
The piece raises a few important points that I've been ruminating on lately. This part was my favorite:
This is the entire game. This is how "don't tread on me" becomes "Meta should be allowed to do whatever it wants." This is how the rights of the lone hacker working in their garage become indistinguishable from the rights of a multinational with a market cap larger than most countries' GDP.
I've become disillusioned about how it seems that libertarianism as a whole was always a psyop to use individual liberty as a cover for establishing new rackets. Alchemise the real pains of the public (distrust of institutions, loss of freedom, etc) into highly profitable schemes and lobbying.
I would still consider myself a "cyberlibertarian" generally, but I am a lot more critical of things I used to take at face value.
Before reading the post I was expecting a screed decrying freedom-minded people as selfish and was relieved to see a thoughtful assessment of where thing actually went wrong. I'm definitely not in perfect alignment with the author, but I think it's a fantastic contribution to the overall discussion.
Even if the fedi is doomed to fail I think it has immense value in being a demonstration of what even a moderately different paradigm would be like in practice. It is genuinely important for people to be able to experience things themselves to grasp the benefits rather than just be told what's best for them.
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@cjd@pkteerium.xyz every parent and teacher I talk to IRL reports that kids are still suffering greatly from 2020/21 when we let "scientists, experts, and teachers" decide things. I'm in a big city where to not be "covid cautious" was to be a near total paraih. The parents themselves are already calling kids who aren't even in HS a "lost generation".
This is all to say that the "experts" have a lot of things to work on before we start handing them more power again.
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@Saorsa ahh! I should catch up on those! I can't say I blame him, things are in a pretty weird state all things considered.
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Thank you @graf, you were definitely one of the people I had in mind when recording this video because I remember the encouragement you gave when I was still just starting out.
I'll keep fat burning in preparation for the inevitable day of the rake, that comes for us all. 😅
Inverse class jealousy pattern
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@Saorsa
you'll end up forgoing self-hosting entirely and finding Christ.
Why are these mutually exclusive? 🤔