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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.

  • What do the few books I read tell about me? (German)

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  • They tell me that you may want to start visiting used bookstore more ;)

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  • Having an open discussion is one thing. Being bombarded with half-digested rhetoric by a bunch of people not willing at all to confront ideas but merely looking forward to hate on you is a a rather different thing.

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  • Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?

    There are a lot of that around here, a lot more of it on some specific instances (servers). The great thing is that:

    1. it's easy to filter them out (blocking users, keywords or even entire instances when/if required)
    2. if some instances are literally ruined by that, not all of them are concerned.

    I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from.

    And one can get that on Lemmy/Piefed/the fediverse (it's the only reason I created an account and decided to stay), provided one learns to filter what I call the noise (aka, all the crap you noticed)

    Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.

    I could not say but keep in mind that a lot of the content will be ignored and that there are a lot less users, like a lot than on other social media or on reddit. My own French speaking community has a real tiny user base and most topic related to France will barely get any comment or reaction: we're not enough ;)

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  • It's an amazing tool. And I would love to see for much more younger people give it a chance.

    If you want to give it a chance, the only things I would advice you to keep in mind are:

    1. be ok with spending enough time using it... in slow motion. New habits take time and practice before they become natural, even more as far as writing goes.
    2. Keep it as simple as you can. You don't need to make it bulletproof/perfect before you start using it, quite the opposite. It's an organic system that will grow and change at your pace, don't force it into any preconceived direction because someone told you you should do it like that, or because it's trendy. Don't worry about categories or tags, or even about devising the ultimate numbering and indexing system. It's wasted time. The system is devised for evolving naturally (one of the reasons I don't fancy many of the digital apps: too rigid in their way) without ever needing to rebuild everything from scratch. To give you an idea, in my own system co-exist multiple numbering systems that I used and abandoned along the years, without any issue. My index(es) also changed a few times. But I never had to rewrite a single index card. Ever. Really, it's amazingly efficient provided you don't try to make it be the 'ultimate' and perfect system.

  • How would you reorganize the ways we interact with the internet to make the world a better place?

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  • My web would be a lot more focused on static content, aka text content and a less centralized one too. Making for a much leaner web (less resources wasted to load useless crap) while at the same time making for a much slower web to... consume as reading takes time, which also means the necessity to carefully pick what one will read instead of doom scrolling and also spend more time/attention reading each pick, one can't just glance at a block of text).

    Hopefully, a Web less self-centered, with less fomo/anxiety/hate/anger/stupidity/numbness. With more attention and awareness to the other(s).

  • Europe is ditching US tech — what does this mean for researchers?

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  • For any US-refugee still hesitating to jump continent... A lot of Europe also comes with

    • Great (and affordable) food, no obligation anymore to eat that over-processed shit so many shops in the US dare call food.
    • Great (and affordable) healthcare,
    • Decent housing,
    • Much better (and affordable) public transit.
    • Not all as great as they once used to be, we can still offer you quite a few great schools to educate your kids, a lot of them not being that expensive either.
    • Also, no matter where in the EU, quite a few Europeans will happily speak English with you, at least if you show you're not too afraid yourself to start learning our own native languages ;)

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  • I don't, sir. It's a gift from my late dad.

    More seriously, I'm half-expecting some stupid shit like that to happen. To have some sort of control on who is allowed to use pen and paper... Unsurprisingly, this would happen at the same time people are considering the very notion of educating children has an obsolete and useless thing, since we now have AI to do everything for us, why even bother sending kids to school to learn to read and write?

  • Do you like scrollbars that instantly jump to the destination when clicked?

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  • also, should it be chunky and easy to click?

    Should a doorknob be easy to use?Should you pant zipper be easy to use?

    Scrollbar used to be easy to use on computers, at one time. Then, designers took over the UI. Now, they're only about look. Usability? who gives a crap about that, right?

    Probably the same designers, or from the same schools, that decided it was a great design to have rounded windows on rectangular screens, I imagine. But who am I to criticize professional designers...

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  • You're right, save that search is nothing without a great index and it happens I have made one... If you want to know how an analog index works search for more info on what is a Zettelkasten, as my own 'system' is very close to that. Using that index I can find any book I've read (and my notes about it), any notion I've ever written about (be it a book or mere vague ideas),and I can find them in a matter of an instant. No matter how old it is, how short or how... flimsy it can be compared to other and much thicker parts of my notes and research.

    Edit: https://zettelkasten.de/overview/ (it's in English). To get a glimpse of a 100% analog version (like mine), check Luhmann's work (the one who formalized the idea, an idea people had been using centuries before he formalized it): https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/nachlass/zettelkasten (this one is in German).

    At my humble level, my system has become my second brain as well as a precious companion allowing for deeper conversations with... a better/smarter version of myself.

    I tried digital mind you, I started using a computer in the very early 80s and must have tried a lot of those digital tools (even contributing money and suggestions to a bunch of of them), but as far as I'm concerned nothing beats pen and index cards and the most essential part linking them all: indexes (plural, as I use two different ones).

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  • Changes it a lot, imho. (edit: we're all Calvin, here)

  • What did it feel like when you first moved out of your family’s home?

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  • Liberating.

    That was many, many decades ago. Never looked back.

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  • Your thoughts are yours. Your notes should be too.

    100%. And one of the two reasons I take all my personal notes using pen and paper. 100 % the analog way, as there is...

    • no AI,
    • no tracking,
    • no ads,
    • no subscriptions,
    • no user account required,
    • No (forced) updates & no upgrades,
    • no bugs,
    • Also, no matter how hard they might want to, there will be no law to make it so that paper now has to check my age when I'm using it, or for my wooden pencil to report everything I write down.

  • I am extremely fatigued with the constant negativity

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  • I don’t know what to do. What would you suggest doing? Thank you.

    Re-learn there is something else than FOMO that makes your live worth living. How? 1) turn off news and social media. 2) Don't turn them back on, even when it irks so bad.

  • Rare Book Search: A Woman's World by Park Jong-hwa

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  • Probably obvious but: used bookstores?

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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.

  • Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses

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  • 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.

  • Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to control what happens to their personal data

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  • 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.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    An audit for AI?

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Book sharing or maybe just a silly idea? Also, I'm not sure where this belongs, if this belongs anywhere

    social.vivaldi.net /@Lbb89/115644609170370202
  • Single Purpose Devices @lemmy.world
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    Notebook & pen(cil)