andioop

joined 1 year ago
[–] andioop@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Queer nonwhite woman, I really really hope I am just overreacting. Nothing bad happened to me personally at all during the first Trump presidency, and I hope that privilege and/or good luck holds out.

And even still, that is just my selfish emotional reaction which is entirely controlled by what happens to me? and not at all by the fate of more at-risk people. Even if I make out well, that does not mean other people will continue to have their rights respected. I really hope that we're all overreacting, because being wrong and annoying online is so much better than being right and having things go very poorly for us in reality.

Although I understand how negativity and doom and gloom online, even justified doom and gloom, can get to you. I, as a member of several demographics likely to be affected, would also like to stop hearing about this all the time. It is certainly not helping me cope or do anything productive about the situation. Especially when it invades spaces that were very topic-focused and that you did not expect to be dooming and glooming about world events. I've had that happen to me and it was very very frustrating. In an ideal world I'd care and be mad and fight against whatever injustice is happening, but in reality I often have no more capacity to care because there are so many issues to be outraged about and to care about and causes to fight for that you get burnt out, spread too thin, too much negativity. I pick and choose my battles and close my ears to other ones, and I've decided that is ultimately okay because I need to do this so I have enough capacity to fight any battles at all.

I do take the strategy of trying to keep to topic-focused places. I never explore All and on most instances I'll also avoid Local, because even without politics there is probably some depressing meme about how the world sucks that's on Hot. Instead I keep to my topic-focused communities. I curate my online experience so I can avoid that kind of thing. (And if these kinds of memes make you laugh or otherwise feel better, then more power to you! This is aimed at people who it makes feel worse, like myself.) And if depressing world news starts to invade places not designated for world news (even if only in comment sections and not the general posts)… at this point, I'd just say screw it and go to places way more likely to be free of this. Hello new recipe, hello webpage for learning a new programming language; goodbye social media in general. (Yes, I recognize that replying on Lemmy is not exactly avoiding social media. I took a calculated risk by going on programming.dev, a topic-focused instance I deemed less likely than other social media to have this. You see how it turned out, especially given I chose to click on this post at all, let alone read the comments and reply. But even still I would bet programming.dev has less doom and gloom about world news than more general purpose instances of comparable size.)

I get people need spaces to feel their feelings about world events, to talk them out, to bring them up when relevant. People also need spaces free of this kind of talk and those are increasingly getting harder to find as more people feel hopeless and need to express it somewhere and oh look, this community does not have rules against it… I empathize a lot with the person you replied to, as someone who is also trying to avoid that kind of doom and gloom content. I know perfectly well that both people like and unlike me are having an awful time and often in ways that I cannot do anything to stop (in the sense that, say, donating to a domestic abuse charity and volunteering helps victims but it also does not stop that specific victim in that specific place from suffering RIGHT NOW—you can often do something to help in some small way, but your individual power is indeed limited), I do not need constant reminders to ruin my day, thank you very much.

I usually try to feel my feelings and then look for what I can do about a situation, but this one had me too overwhelmed with the feelings to remember my second step of doing something about it, so I thought I might mention at least one thing people can do about it that I found (I guess this paragraph is less specifically directed at anyone in the above chain and more at others reading the thread). Volunteering with charities or organizations meant to help certain affected demographics such as people of color, women, and queer people, is a nice way to gain back some sense of control, and is supposed to make you feel good, but I understand not everyone has the time or capacity to do that. Donating to causes can also help if you have the money but not the time. A quick online search for what you can do given x situation might be helpful.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'll be the idiot who doesn't get the joke.

I recognize that programmers often start counting at 0.

I'm not sure how this connects to 0 being lonely, since that means it's getting used. Even if the programmers are lonely, I still do not get it. Can someone explain?

[–] andioop@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I'm genuinely not sure how submitting your resume you put effort into instead of whatever optimized-for-AI-recruitment-slop this outputs will damage companies that don't use AI recruiting tools, could you elaborate?

[–] andioop@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

OP should try the !opensource@programming.dev community instead.

Also, just for fun, it is technically programming, just not the computer kind ;)

Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically the radio and the television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or season-long schedule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_programming

Radio programming is the process of organising a schedule of radio content for commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting by radio stations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_programming

So I guess social media post programming is the process of organizing a schedule of post content.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Edited post with goal, I suppose I'm just looking for information aimed at new people

[–] andioop@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Edited post with goal, I suppose I'm looking for learning resources.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Aside from proper backups (I have cloud and local) I've actually been doing this for a while albeit in a pretty rudimentary fashion. I'm pretty happy with my existing categorization. I am looking to make it more robust than a copy on an external hard drive + YouTube for big videos/a cloud storage service, especially since I have hit the point where I need to get myself some more storage.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by andioop@programming.dev to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
 

I did try to read the sidebar resources on https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/. They're pretty overwhelming, and seem aimed at people who come in knowing all the terminology already. Is there somewhere you suggest newbies start to learn all this stuff in the first place other than those sidebar resources, or should I just suck it up and truck through the sidebar?

EDIT: At the very least, my goal is to have a 3-2-1 backup of important family photos/videos and documents, as well as my own personal documents that I deem important. I will be adding files to this system at least every 3 months that I would like incorporated into the backup. I would like to validate that everything copied over and that the files are the same when I do that, and that nothing has gotten corrupted. I want to back things up from both a Mac and a Windows (which will become a Linux soon, but I want to back up my files on the Windows machine before I try to switch to Linux in case I bungle it), if that has any impact. I do have a plan for this already, so I suppose what I really want is learning resources that don't expect me to be a computer expert with 100TB of stuff already hoarded.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And “w”esley “s”o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who’s intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

[–] andioop@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I really like this extension of the "thin-skinned" idiom/metaphor

[–] andioop@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have a Windows for gaming, going to switch to Linux once I can get a good deal on an external hard drive to back it up. Can confirm I'm making the switch because of the enshittification.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An organization that can admit its mistakes, stand behind its employees, and offer a way to try to fix their mistakes? Now this is a great PR move.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andioop@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Local dummy here (slightly more technical than the average user, likely far less than most people in this community) considering switching over. Checked the sidebar for any beginner's resources and looked at a few of the top posts and saw mostly Linux news and stuff meant for people already using the OS.

For my specific case, I use a Mac as my daily driver and (heresy) I am happy, but I also have a Windows computer that I am thinking of switching over to Linux. I use it to play games my Mac can't, and to run !BOINC@sopuli.xyz (I do not run the community but the thing the community is about) and/or Folding at Home whenever I'm not using it to game. Some of them are Steam games, some indies not on Steam, some emulated. Little to no multiplayer games, and absolutely no multiplayer that has anticheat. I have tried running some of the Windows-exclusive games with WINE and they worked but ran extremely slowly, however that was done on my Mac so it may not represent the results of running WINE on Linux.

 

I read something about once-reliable sites that would tell you the best [tech thing] now not giving legit reviews, being paid to say good things about certain companies, and I do not remember where I read that or which sites, so I figured I'd bypass the issue and ask people here. I'm pretty new to anything near the level of complexity and technical details that I see on datahoarder communities. I know about the 321 backup rule and that's it. This is me trying to find something to hold copy 3 of my data.

 

Not the creator, just stumbled across this and thought FOSS on Beehaw might like it

 
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