A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
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My own blog is so not worried with deadline or algorithm (not a single ads, and no desire to make a cent out of it, nor to promote anything) that it has no thematic and zero publishing schedule. I just checked, the last published post is from April 1st (isn't that funny). Some drafts have been waiting to be published... when and if I feel like it which may very well never happen.
I used to publish a lot more many years ago, on other blogs and on social media, for a relatively larger audience, but then one day I realized that was a rat race (one that was driving my nuts) and that was not what I wanted to do with the time I had left to live on this planet. So, I stopped using all my social media accounts and blogs without giving any explanation to anyone. I just left. A few years later, under another name, I opened this tiny blog that I don't really promote, on which I seldom publish and that, rather unsurprisingly, barely gets any reader.
The interesting thing is that I kinda like this blog, and the handful emails (no comment form on that blog) I may get in a year from a rare lost reader, a lot. I enjoy these exchanges.
It reminds me of the good old snail mail, people my age (soon to be 60) and older may remember. How we used to write to people all over the world and waited sometimes for weeks if not months (people were already busy back then), to get a reply. And how a discussion could last for years. Heck, with my best friend we wrote each other for decades. Plural... Even when we happened to live in the same country and city.
A bit like we used to play chess before the Internet, through mail. It was slow and a school of patience.
One more reason to prefer LibreOffice
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Has not been social for a while, imho. I left Twitter some 7 years ago (or more? Can't remember) because of that feeling.... I joined it when it was first introduced and it was so much different, so much nicer and sincere. Not perfect but really great.
There is still that around here, just we lack more active users and we would also gain a lot by being less.... obsessed with politics. Imho, at least.
As for sharing hobbies: irl gathering are still ok-ish. Alas, oftentimes such event will be wrecked by some asshole trying to turn it into something they can boast about on their social media.
Blogs are still a thing, even though it seems almost impossible to get younger people to read outside of their favorite social media platform, blogs are there, very much alive if slower, and they're as much about sharing passions and hobbies as they ever were when they were trendy.
While the most obvious way to keep control remains: to not use those, or to stop using them.
The moment they will notice a significant enough bleeding of users leaving their platform/services, they will have to change the way they behave.
Indeed.
Like the saying goes, 'hell is paved with good intentions'... It just so happens that in recent years we've drastically sped up that paving business, turning it into a speedway ;)
Like already mentioned, we're all part of the system.The re is no such things as 'they' are the evil we should get rid of, we're the good guys.
More or less intensely, all of us are contributing the worst parts of that world we like to blame... while some of us do also contribute to its best parts.
JavaScript, that once promised to be so useful, has become the tool of choice for the wonderful surveillance dystopia we live in...
A year ago, I tried for a few months to use the Web without any JavaScript running. If it was fine on a few selected (and, unsurprisingly, privacy respecting websites) it was... close to impossible everywhere else, including state/government/public services websites. That's the first thing I would want to change if we were to take back some control/privacy: official/public services should not rely on privacy invasive tools.
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I’ve been procrastinating on meditating and yoga for years but this may finally prompt me to train my mind to keep comtrol with the experience.
I don't do 'official' yoga/meditation but I have my own version of those, including the long walks I mentioned, and it helps. And not just with tinnitus. With my whole life.
Regarding visiting multiple doctors it’s something I haven’t thought of and is a great idea!
Not even considering the possibility that one of them may be incompetent, it's always a good idea to get multiple opinions. Doctors are people and like all of us they may not know everything about the issue at stake.
To give you an idea how it matters: had I only listened to the first eye doctor I consulted (a years long practitioner of mine), I would have lost my eyesight some 10 years ago. Becoming legally blind (I had already scheduled a formation to learn to read Braille). I did not become blind (not yet) for a single reason: I decided to get another advice. Thx to a a first doctor that mentioned some experimental type of thingy that was going at some place I had never heard of, and then took on herself to ask the doctors doing that experiment to meet me, and thx to them considering I could be good candidate, almost 10 years later I still see. To me, it is not just a daily miracle (it is, even though I'm a non-believer, it is the miracle of people being able to do scientific research and experiment), it's also an acute reminder that one should never settle with a single opinion ;)
And btw, the first doctor was not an incompetent one. She was just not aware of the latest things that were going on.
I also talked with my psych earlier via phone and she said that the meds she gave me are safe and that she never heard of something like this so I guess it may not be entirely related to them but I don’t take her full word for it.
And you should not. Get another opinion. I'm not saying those meds are responsible (no idea about that) but they could be. And that possibility alone warrants itself a visit to a different doctor, if not two. Se my previous remark.
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Disclaimer: (classical) music lover, here. With a lifelong allergy to noise. Suffering from constant loudtinnitus for the last 20 years or so.
Sorry you got that. It's a sad shit.
Mine appeared one night, out of the blue and never went away. The next day I got an appointment to have my ears tested and the doctor told me I got tinnitus plus I was starting to lose my hearing (which slowly got worse as the years went... now to the point that I'm really considering I should be using hearing aids).
I’m unable to cope with and this adds to the burden.
I was unable to, at first.
Don't fight it. To me at least, it was making it so much worse as I was only thinking about that stupid noise, it was everywhere I looked, so to speak.
Nowadays, I'm able to barely think about it.. It's there, I can hear it, like right now I just heard them, but I can also ignore them like I will ignore the roaring traffic noise coming from the street through the windows. Not all the time though. And it shows, when I'm overwhelmed by that sad noise, my spouse instantly notices it as I suddenly look... exhausted and very much unhappy.
You might want to check with doctors (plural) what you can do but what helped me the most was to learn to consider that ugly noise part of myself... Accepting it for what it is: one more limit I have to learn to live with.
Like me getting older each year (nearing my 60s) and not being able to have all night long intense fu..., sorry, not being that physically able to provide long lasting efforts, anymore. Like me knowing for a fact I will be immensely lucky if I manage to reach 70 years old, because I've already been incredibly lucky for the past 20 years or so to be alive, as I should not be.
The level of noise constantly comes and goes. It mostly depend how stressed I am but it's not just that (it would be too simple).
To this day, my spouse is impressed how 'easily' I learned to live with those two whistles constantly blowing their uninspired single note and loud music directly into my ears ... but the real secret is that I did not learn to control them. I just capitulated to their invasion of my personal space. The only thing I did is to study those noises (as there is a narrow range of variations between loud as fuck and just loud) and teach myself to be fine with them being there.
One thing that often helps me a lot when it's too loud to ignore it is to go out for a (long) walk, without any music/podcast... nothing in the ears. Just me listening around to nothing but random outside noise... Birds singing are great for that, plus they're great to watch too, and I will often try to walk wherever I know I might hear them, even though there are quiet a few whose cute voice I can't hear that well anymore.
Herbal infusions can also help, or even a good tea. And just having a calm chat with my spouse talking about mindless things (we would avoid talking politics or anything stinky like that).
It seems odd to me for the thought of using it to refer to persons of a people without gender didn’t occur to Le Guin even while she was writing passages debating the biases of using the generic „he“ and its alternatives.
I consider her a real acute author. So, based on nothing but my intuition (I want that to be perfectly clear) I would rather question my own expectations and my own reading of her text than doubt she did not put in some serious reflection in it.
I mean, I would really not be surprised to learn she decided it was just not fit for the purpose she had in mind. Also, I insist on that aspect of the question, and that would need to be verified, but I doubt there were that many examples of such usage at that time and since she did not write the book for 2026 readers but for her contemporaries...
(non English speaking, here)
- I doubt many English speaking people had any idea back then that 'they' could be singular. Had they, I doubt that many 'singular' they proponents would have needed to fight so hard to make it accepted, you know.
- Maybe She she just decided they was not right for the way she wanted to write.
The references accompanying the quote from Wikipedia, at last the Oxford dictionary one make it rather clear it's a much more recent acceptation to use it as a 'personal singular':
2009–Used with reference to a person whose sense of personal identity does not correspond to conventional sex and gender distinctions, and who has typically asked to be referred to as they (rather than as he or she). (...)In the 21st century, other th– pronouns (and the possessive adjective their) are sometimes used to refer to a named individual, so as to avoid revealing or making an assumption about that person's gender;
Only mentioning a 'generic reference', aka mentioning an individual as a generic representative of some larger group (ie, a student) dating back from 1450...
So are the USA, to anyone watching what's going on.
You should have a conversation with yourself if you let guns lying around for your dog to play with ;)
More seriously, even if it was free ticket or if I was getting paid to go there I would not go to the USA. Even for work, I refused to go there and did all I had to do through calls and videos.
<RANT MODE ON> Why would anyone want to go there? USA despise the rest of the world, they don't even appreciate those who were supposed to be their close friends (hi from the EU, guys). That's fine with me, but then I'll go spend my time and money elsewhere, with people who don't consider it's OK for them to spit in my face or put a gun against my head, and then tell me I should be thankful.
The USA is now a sinking country, with too much remaining power for his, and for our own good. Alas for the many good and great people that do live there and that I do miss spending time with. At least, as US citizens they're still allowed to freely travel abroad, at least for now, to come and say hi... That is, if they're are not too frightened (I'm not) by the perspective of most EU capitals being nuked by Putin, like his latest video/propaganda/love letter not so subtly hinted at... Which is, btw, another amazing achievement of that POTUS sad clown. To those US people too frightened to come say hi in Europe, afraid of being vaporized by a Russian nuke, I would happily have instead suggested they go visit their other close friends in Taiwan, but I've heard the mood is somehow not much better over there...once again, thx to the unique genius of the king of the deal. Maybe they would be more warmly welcomed in Iran or in many of the Middle East countries? Don't quote me on that, though.
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you do not find people for long-term friendship. You meet people and sometimes it turns into friendship. Looking after t is like looking to only buy a winning lottery ticket: doesn't work like that ;)
So, you need to have some common interest to share with other people and spend time doing just that... expecting nothing, but the joy of sharing some common interest.
We can’t even pretend to guess technology from even 1000 years in the future, let alone 100,000 years. This is just a creative writing prompt with basically no constraints or rules.
100% but we should also consider 'my' (I certainly do not own it in any way) take on the prompt as another valid way to (try to) answer the OP question.
More than likely, we will not even realize we got handed over some tech wonder gizmo thingy... which we will agree doesn't make for a great story. So, we would need either ... to not be who we are (which kinda invalidates the question), or to be offered a much less advanced tech, something we could realize is worth something. Suffice to observe how UFO theories have always been flirting with our very own most advanced tech, barely a couple steps in front of it (some more joyfully wandering around than others, too), while discarding their previous 'advanced' tech/theories the moment our own reached a similar level. Something that, btw, makes for a perfect business model as one can easily write the same book/documentary, over and over again just changing a few words/gizmo/witnesses here and there. Not saying that's what our UFO experts are doing, obviously not.
That being said, I quite like your humanoids bears with their bronze swords :)
Thx a lot, I 'll reach to them.
But it’s five euros (!!) to test it for a month?! Do you know how much it costs to run a project like this?
I’m not affiliated with the project / the Devs at all, but I really think 5€/month is close enough to a free trial…
You're more than welcome to think whatever you want and throw away money however you fancy. As long as I'll have to put in any kind of effort to earn said 5 euros I will consider them not free.
And, no, that doesn't mean I won't be spending money with them (you should read my whole comment before jumping to any conclusion, or feeling entitled to tell me how I must spend my money), just that I don't think this is the best effing trial there could be to invite people to test a products that is free everywhere else. And that I more unlikely to test it in those conditions. I had a similar discussion with Kagi a few years ago... Kagi, once again please read my entire comment, I was effing happily paying for as a user.
Are you one of the devs? If so, you should
- Make it more obvious there is a free trial.
- Reconsider the free trial plan, imho. Personally, I will never decide in a couple hour if I might want to use any new tool. This takes time even more so changing something as intimate as a search engine. Heck, it took me quite a few months of intensive testing and consideration before I decided to move away from MS Word to LibreOffice Writer, after 25 years using it ;)
Just so you know: I was a very satisfied paid user of Kagi... but that happened only after I was able to try them for more than a few days and to take my time to actually explore those many features I was thrilled about. Something I can't and refuse to rush in a few hours. I think Kagi was offering 100 or maybe 300 searches for free, I can't recall the number, but even that was not enough and I had to contact them.
I really enjoyed using their engine and, as a EU-citizen, I would more than wish to give yours a chance too.
I believe one of the best things the privacy community can do, is help our friends and families unplug too!
100%. at least help them realize it's still an option in quite a few circumstances and the 'drawbacks' aren't that bad, if there are any.
Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?
Privacy @programming.dev An audit for AI?
Books @lemmy.ml Book sharing or maybe just a silly idea? Also, I'm not sure where this belongs, if this belongs anywhere
Single Purpose Devices @lemmy.world Notebook & pen(cil)
Probably obvious but: used bookstores?