I recently used Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) as a static site generator. I found it easy to use. I personally used Gitlab pages, because I didn’t feel confident hosting on my home internet (didn’t want to inadvertently cause issues for my housemates when I’m still learning this stuff).
The nice thing about static sites is that it’s pretty easy to find free or extremely cheap hosting for them.
Nowhere in OP’s comment do they suggest that their country has no racism. Perhaps you would do well to go back and carefully reread what they actually wrote.
Anti-vaxxers often do a lot of reading, ime. The stuff they read is often bullshit written by scammers or other people who drank the Kool-aid, but I think the “research” they do is a big part of the anti-vaxx culture. My view is that many who are drawn into conspiracy theories end up there due to a diminished sense of agency, and that the “research” is key to them feeling more in control — it gives them a false sense of understanding in which they can take all their bad feelings about how the world is, and construct a worldview in which they feel more oriented.
It reminds me a lot of the line “antisemitism is the socialism of fools”, though I feel like this is more like “anti-vax is the antiauthoritarianism of fools”. It’s frustrating because in some ways, they’re so close to understanding the ways in which the world is super fucked up, but they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and hide in a fortress of ignorance instead.
The OP concerns Hollow Knight — the screenshot is of a post that’s 10 years old
I agree. It can be easy to feel disheartened by a shitty comment (or many), and sometimes the bad outnumbers the good. However, it is useful to try to mentally filter out the mass of negativity because many of those are quick, lazy comments that say more about the commenter than the topic at hand.
Even though the sample of comments that you include in your comment are all short comments, I’d be inclined to view those with more weight, because it’s just a part of reality that it’s far easier to be negative and harmful than to be sincere and enthusiastic. There’s more effort and care into those short comments than someone just being negative
That reminds me of a line I like from a friend who is a GP: “We’re responsible for a patient’s healthcare, not their health”. I found the distinction interesting, because I hadn’t considered it before.
Why do you care? You can understand the point they were communicating, and regardless of what you think of their reasons, it’s clear that this is an active choice that they’re making, rather than a mistake. If it bothers you, why engage at all?
Recently I joked to less techy friends that in the patch of the internet I most often lurk, there are two “genders”: anarchist, trans, cat girls, and libertarian techbros. This seems similar to the joke that was made about Arch.
I run arch btw. I am neither trans, nor a catgirl, but there is no question about where I belong — I have the programming socks, after all. Besides, anarchist trans catgirls throw the best parties
Side note, but I really like when nerds call other people nerds as a term of endearment. It has the same energy as reclaiming a slur, albeit to a much smaller degree because “nerd” isn’t a slur
I could reply to the same person that you are, but I felt it was much funnier if I reply to your comment and say that I love how I can feel your incredulous exasperation, and that I relate.
This is a fairly trite comment, and it is very echo-chambery, in the sense that you’re the preacher, I’m the choir. However, as you point out, LLMs and Generative AI make the phrase “echo chamber” far more literal. I feel like it’s funny to engage in parallel conversation with you, while ignoring the pro-AI oddball you’re replying to.
Seconding that massgrave is legit. I remember that I was nervous when I first installed Windows through this method, but I used it for years, across multiple different devices and never had any problems
Expressing admiration at other people’s achievements is good, but you don’t need to diminish your own through comparison. Writing is a bloody difficult endeavour, regardless of the specific context. OP has mentioned that in their view, it’s easier to write lots when you’re basing it off of an established work, but even beyond that, different styles of writing have different objectives.
Completing the draft of a book in a year is an impressive achievement that you should feel proud of, and I think we should use our shared understanding of how difficult it is to make something to build up ourselves and other creators.
This really made me smile, because it made me think of some of my most cherished friendships.
For much of my life, I felt it necessary to dampen my authentic self, because I felt like I would inevitably be “too much” for people. Nowadays, I privileged to know people who match my energy and then some
When I argue with zealots, I find it useful to think of it sort of like my target audience isn’t the zealot, but the people around them. I first adopted this way of thinking in response to pushing back against transphobic disinformation online, because there are so many normal people who don’t have the context necessary to evaluate misguided (or hatefully disinformative) statements, so hearing people push back on that can be pretty powerful, in my experience.
I think this approach can be especially impactful around AI discussions because I’ve seen so many people whose intuition is giving them bad vibes around AI, but because they’re not confident around technology, they push those bad vibes down and assume that there must be something that they’re missing. It links into the wider problem of how big tech has conditioned people to be mere passive consumers of tech. I wish I could do more to help people to feel more empowered to tinker, but for now, I will have to content myself with being part of the anti-bullshit brigade
It’s definitely necessary to pick your battles wisely when attempting this, so as to not waste energy when there’s so much nonsense going around, but I’ve found it worthwhile. It helps that there are people like Ed Zitron and Cory Doctorow, who write compellingly on these topics — if there are people who are interested, it’s good to have stuff I can link people to
I sometimes forget that I’m painting and get paint on my face.
I also do a lot of staring into the distance, though it’s usually a more frowny kind of focus than dreamy.
I also have ADHD. Both of these are my ADHD
Eh, that’s a lot of work. It’s no wonder why there’s such a large “Malware as a Service” industry nowadays
I’m a big fan of fishnet stockings — ones that require a suspender belt, not hold-ups (Ideally a good suspender belt has 6 (ideally metal clips). The reason for this is that if you put your underwear on over the suspender belt, it makes it way more easier to go to the toilet because you don’t have to disrupt your stockings at all (and pulling tights up and down always contributes to ladders and tears, in my experience, especially with fishnets).
Another perk is that it makes it easier to cycle through damaged fishnets. You can get away with some holes in fishnet tights[1] or stockings (and depending on how punk one’s aesthetic is, some damage may improve the vibe ), but eventually they’ll get too torn up and need to be disposed of. With stockings, if one of them gets damaged, I can just throw that one away. If I start with a few pairs of the same stockings, they seem to last longer than the equivalent number of pairs of tights.
[1]: Though actually, if you think about it, damaging fishnet tights actually causes there to be fewer holes. Philosoraptor.jpeg
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Whilst I understand the sentiment, I gotta respect someone who is unashamedly embracing their id and chasing that dopamine rush
I bought this game on a whim after reading that the devs had said they’d rather people pirate it than have it spoiled for them. I don’t usually buy games full price, so this was a rare thing for me, but I have no regrets; it was one of my favourite games of that year.
I just love how ripe for thematic analysis it is. For example, I’m a woman who has read a bunch of feminist and queer theory, and some of my interpretations of the themes were drastically different to a friend’s. I found it really cool that I didn’t necessarily disagree with their takes, nor they mine, but we both resonated with the game is strong but different ways
This is hilarious. I’m deeply sad that I don’t think my irl friends would appreciate this joke, because I want to share it with everyone.
(I am personally irked by vibe coding because some assholes in my life have been real smug about how much better of a programmer they are than me due to vibe coding. )