As someone from the first generation that grew up with phones and social networks in school, it will absolutely have a disastrous effect.

I can compare myself to people few years above me, who only got phones, social networks and short form content later in the life, and the effect is huge. I have been trying for years to get rid of PC addiction, I don’t even watch shows or use social networks other than Lemmy, but it’s still hard for me to do any kind of project because I simply don’t have the attention span and frustration tolerance.

I also spent up to 17y.o just playing games and not having any other hobbies. I did catch up on ot later, but since I never really had to spend time alone while working on something frustrating, without constant dopamine, I quickly drop projects and need someone else to work on it with me to keep me interrested. It sucks, and even after years of trying to work on it, I still haven’t even started most of what I’d want to do.

I’m lucky I didn’t have AI and at least learned to program and make games, I’m already pretty socially anxious, but it’s not that bad. If I also had AI during all this, that would summarize or write every text I read/write longer than a paragraph, I can only imagine how worse off I’d be. It’s extremely teryfiing.

And no, it’s not ADHD, meds don’t help, I had a therapy for a few years. It has pretty much the same symptoms, but it’s extremely multiplied by the computer and short-form content. It’s basically a “learned ADHD” as in not biological but phsychological, and it sucks. It is only anecdotal, but I believe that a lot of people with adhd are simply in the similar situation as I am, engineered by corporations to only be able to pay attention to their content en masse.

Nice, didn’t know about that one. Looks good!

How does IronFox compare to LibreWolf?

Am dumb, missed the “for android” part.

Thank you, that makes perfect sense. It’s easy to fall from the outside into the trap of judging it by the “smarter than you club” label, and forgetting that probably isn’t the point for most members, and the club part is the important one.

I don’t get why something like Mesa even exists. Like, what even is the moment where pulling out your Mensa card is a good idea?

Assuming you are inteligent, you should know that flashing a card from a gatekept “clever people” club will probably not impress many people, just like you should recognize that the test you did doesn’t mean shit and IQ is not a good way how to measure people.

As far as I know monero didn’t really have that issue, of being a pyarmid scheme, while also being privacy-respecting way more than Bitcoin.

Which is also why it’s starting to get banned in Europe. As far as I know, most brokers don’t even sell it.

This is the principle behind the rotor ships. It really is just a rotating cylinder.

It’s more of a time for a Mexican Joker anyway.

Shadowrun kind of does the same. It’s not really super-advanced, since it’s cyberpunk, but it’s cyberpunk with magic. And it’s my favorite setting, it’s such a cool idea.

Isn’t this actually illeagal in the EU?

I think I know who killed him.

By 11, he was programming on his own—a skill he used to playfully torment his friends. One remembers Balaji’s idea of a middle-school prank: writing code that deleted a friend’s Skyrim save file.

I use Pixel with GrapheneOS as my phone, and I just have a separate profile that only has WhatsApp installed and nothing else. Since the profiles are completely separated, it doesn’t have access to anything else I do on the phone and it’s not running in the background (the profiles are basically sandboxed fresh slates, and switching it can be set-up to behave in a same way as basically turning off the phone as far as the profile is concerned).

When the bridge asks me to log in again or refresh a session, I simply switch to the second profile for a minute and re-log in. I’ve heard iIt might be possible to set up an emulator and leave it running on the server, but that felt like too much effort.

I see a few people who don’t want to switch due to the hassle it would take with changing email addresses, presumably because they use one of the @proton.me email domains. Get your own email domain! It’s super cheap (if you choose one of the new TLDs, it can be as low as few dollars a year), the setup isn’t really hard - you just change a few DNS values, and that’s basically it - you can use whatever email you want that ends with your domain. It might take a while to slowly replace all your @proton.me emails with your domain one, but if you’re not in a hurry and change any old mail you see during your day-to-day activities, you’ll eventually be done with it, and you can set up mail forwarding to your domain for mail that arrives to your old @proton.me address.

And if you ever need to move to a different provider, you just change the DNS records again to a new provider, and your email will start coming to the new one immediately.

What would be a good alternative? I refuse to support this. Thankfully, I have my own domain, so anything where I can use it would be great, and moving shouldn’t be that hard. Bonus points if I can use wildcards, or at least have a few emails, like spam@mydomain and other.

Oh, and it has to support “+” emails, such as [email protected]

Isn’t the OpenAI one they offer the same one as the one provided at https://chatgpt.com/ without login? So probably something not as impactful.

Or do they share their unlimited subscription?

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

“Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”

That reminds me of something. Standup, Kaban, Retrospective! It’s Agile!

That’s only for the 200$ one, and if you use it constantly, no?

lol, I love it. I’m thinking about paying for DeepSeek even though I hate AI bullshit, just to spite all the panicking AI tech scammers. This has seriously made my week, the amount of copium they are inhaling is insanely funny :D

If there’s anyone here who works at Meta, I’ve heard they have an internal system to report and escalate such cases of unreasonable bans.

Yeah, that’s my experience as well. In addition to being lazy with updating, so if some kind of supply chain attack happens, I usually sorts itself out before I get to updating :D

But I did limit my browser extensions, after I a cause with Nano Defender taught me a lesson - it was a mildly popular anit-anti-adblock killer that worked where other adblocks were detected, but the developer sold the extension to a company that turned it into a info-stealer malware and pushed an update through chrome store, which got accepted and propagated, and some of my social network sessions got compromised. So, I just stick to more popular projects where something like this shouldn’t happen, and don’t use random extensions.