boydster

The ringing in my ears is my own personal sensation. There are many others with a ringing of their own, but this one is mine and it undoubtedly is as unique as my fingerprint.

Yeah, bee allergies are serious

Hang on, that’s an organism. An orgasm is a membrane bound compartment found within cells.

“The maybe possibility” is literally “the possibility” wtf are you on about

Edit: you misunderstand how to use the word “maybe.” Something that “could maybe happen” is something that might possibly happen. In other words, it “may be” a thing that happens. Maybe.

Hamwise Gamgee over here

The glowing sun projects its rays, consciousness reflects the age.

I don’t think he knows about second sleep, Pip

Step 1 to learning more about that subject involves travel and the juice is suddenly no longer worth the squeeze.

This position is wild to me. Kids go to school every day, where there is a library that has interlibrary loans as an option. The barrier you are suggesting is mostly imaginary. Libraries today offer ebooks, too, no travel required, and a higher barrier to entry (and thus, higher barrier to spreading misinformation), than the internet.

I’m honestly frustrated you would outright say I’m arguing in bad faith and I don’t know where that accusation comes from. “Libraries are hard” is a really bad argument, you are pretending there is a larger barrier than there is and asserting it prohibits information transfer without any evidence to demonstrate it. You can ask the internet anything and have some search engine or LLM tell you why yoy are right, and that isn’t exactly useful feedback.

Here’s a bad faith argument: you seem to want the ease of asking a search bar for an answer without doing any of the work to understand the context of the response provided or its accuracy.

Here’s a better faith one: people will use the tools available to them to the best they learn and feel inclined to do, and in both the past and the present paradigms, lots of people choose the lazy means of information consumption (what the paper/radio/TV says) than the more intellectually intensive (actual research or deferment to subject matter expert recommendation). Catering to that dynamic has been a net detriment to all society to the benefit of people selling impressions for the particularly “engaging” content being offered. I think we need to find a way to incentivize content creation and dispersion differently than what we’re doing right now.

…then you knew what to ask for follow-up literature to review, yeah? That’s part of learning, and exactly what I’m talking about. Learning how to critically evaluate information and seek further enriching content to gain a better understanding of the thing you are researching is a crucial skill.

Edit: ok, downvote me, but are you doing that because you don’t like that you grew to learn critical thinking, or are you doing it because you didn’t learn critical thinking? You knew the encyclopedia was wrong. How? Because of the dearth of knowledge available to you? Lol

The encyclopedia could at least be expected to represent the best consensus opinion and facts about a particular subject though, whereas the internet requires an entirely different skillset to evaluate, and the encyclopedia article provides the context to ask a librarian for help finding more in-depth and also reliable information to expand your knowledge.

I expected the internet to be a Library of Alexandria as much as the next person, democratizing access to information and making society really embrace intellectualism. And the good stuff is absolutely there to be found, but there’s a lot of bs here on the internet too and intellectualism has been shown to be not as engaging as its counterpart recently. And engagement drives the dollars. Encyclopedias didn’t engage in anti-intellectualism, nor did librarians. So while I get your point, I think it’s not considering the noise factor.

Edit: grammar

A lot of our knowledge today will also be wrong in 30 or 40 years, that’s how knowledge accumulation works over time in a healthy civilization (ok now that I’ve typed it, I can already hear and accept the criticism that we might not be living in a healthy civilization right now, but I think the point remains). Learning how to find information is an important part of the educational process, imho.

Edit: also, as pointed out before I even commented, we had libraries.

Books. We had books. We still have them and they are great.

Oh dang, I must have missed it. Is there a reader’s digest version I can check out regarding the drama?

Edit: I think I found it - https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Is there a compelling reason one might consider switching away from Organic Maps and move to CoMaps?

There’s a near-endless supply of great mythology and legend to read and explore from all sorts of cultures dating back as far as the dawn of writing. I’ve had a lot of fun reading and comparing tales from various times and places, taking time to also note where in history the stories were being written down and what else was happening. Strong recommendation for anyone wanting a unique view on the history of societies and the stories they held (or still hold) dear.

I don’t have an answer for you, but a dev for that DigitalDiary app posted earlier today looking for feature input and saying they are going to open source it in the next 2 months or something like that. I don’t have a link to the post, sorry, but I just thought it might be helpful to know about

Another idea: dokuwiki, to document your process setting up various service for future reference

PiHole, PiVPN, maybe a reverse proxy like nginx proxy manager to make connecting to your various web management portals you have an easy way to map it to a human readable url

Palantir has also found new customers along the way, including an array of government departments, from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to NHS England, as well as banks, other tech firms, insurance providers, Wendy’s and a resurgent NATO.

What’s going on at Wendy’s?

Graboids! Watch out!