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Libb

@ Libb @piefed.social

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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.

  • The Chemist’s War

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  • Interesting, to say the least. Would you happen to have any source about that mass poisoning?

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • The sad thing is that it is not just a US thing. Most Western countries I can think of, for the last 40 years or so, have managed to ruin their educative systems, making sure younger generations become less and less capable when not plain dumber.

    Here in France, I would vote for any party pledging to make it its priority to reform back our educative system to, say, its pre-80s state and promising to keep at bay those assholes (and their moronic ideas) who are still ruining it with each of their new reforms.

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

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    • I know that I know nothing.
    • Perfection is killing you.
    • A book a day keeps the haters away (ok, I made this one up. Still, quite a good advice and a real fine way to spend one's time)

  • I enjoyed colouring this! (Book: Urban Colouring by Urban Anna)

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  • Books in a book store, and urban sketching? Thx <3

  • Should the EU create its own alternative to B Corporation (certification)?

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  • Isn't there already enough labels?

    And like you said: who will bear the cost of that nth label?

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.

    It’s logically straightforward.

    Not any more than saying 'if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death'. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.

    In your situation, saying "if reading is like a drug" doesn't magically turns reading into an actual drug (the 'if' part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.

  • Need a solid daily driver browser that’s good for most things

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  • I'm using Waterfox: privacy respecting and AI-free fork of Firefox.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • That I understand (I can read ;)), what I don't understand is how you manage to come to such an odd conclusion. Based on what?

  • This is from the Alexander Romance. Alexander the Great’s mother was legendarily impregnated by a wizard in the form of a dragon.

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  • Reminds me of the beginning scene in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981), when victorious Uther Pendragon takes his rival's appearance (thx to Merlin using some of his 'dragon breath' magic) so he can have sex with his wife, Ygraine, and conceive (soon to be king) Arthur.

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    I ghosted my girlfriend and now she doesn’t wanna talk to me.

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  • Play silly games, win silly...

    Maybe you owe her a sincere apology (and a nice date/diner/something) to make up for being... not the smartest person for a few days ;)

  • Any way to make iOS more private?

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  • Don't put anything personal in it. That's what I sued to do using my iPhone and what I still do now, using an Android.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • A person who reads a lot might become something like a meth-head. Crippled and diseased.

    Would you care to elaborate on that? Seen from the outside it sounds quite... nonsensical but I may very well be too much of a reader myself to still be able to understand too complex notions. Or maybe I'm already dead?

  • Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine?

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    • Qwant is ok. It' snow my default, I used to use the US Kagi (which I loved but being US...).
    • Vivaldi is a fine browser highly customizable (it's my chromium-based choice), and they're not pushing AI at all.
    • Waterfox (a privacy-respecting , non-AI fork of Firefox) is my default browser. IT works great and its fully compatible with uBo.

  • Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to phase out GitHub repos

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  • Good question. For a similar reason people keep using corporate-owned social media, I suppose?

  • What is something about how people view or use technology that needs to die?

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  • Working in a store with a self-service printing center, I can tell you it’s a lack of wanting to learn, or even read. Instructions are spelled out on the copiers, but many of my customers will demand someone to help them before even looking at the device because they claim they are too old and not tech-minded enough to do it themselves. Actual excuses to not even trying.

    Well, I do believe and hopefully you will believe me too when I tell you I regularly meet young people that can't be bothered to learn much either. Does that mean all young people are lazy as fuck and unwilling to learn shit? Certainly not.

    Laziness (like stubbornness, like all vices and like all qualities) is not an age thing. It's a choice and a way of life.

    It’s the way some persons chose to relate to the world around them in a mostly (self-)destructive manner. Real sad I will agree with you, but there is nothing new and it certainly not age-related.

    Those 'old people' you regularly stumble upon at your workplace were young people themselves a few years ago, maybe even your age, and I'm willing to bet a whole penny that they were as lazy when they were young. Exactly like those young people I regularly meet nowadays will still be lazy once they get old.

    Those persons we talk about, some of your older customers and those of my young people, are (probably) lazy but that should not mean all person their age are the same. And that makes a huge difference.

    BTW, you did not answer my previous question: do you think old people not wanting to use whatever new app or service is more of an issue than younger people not be willing to not use same app or service?

    Edit: there is one thing that I think I need to add: getting old (you most likely are still young) you get slower and things become harder to do, your body gets tired quicker and even your brains start to feel... somewhat less agile. It slows and one can fight against it (nearing my 60s I started learning Russian this year, and plan on brushing up on my Latin too... probably need to relearn it from scratch to be honest as I have not used it for decades), but this aging is happening and, well, it's impossible to completely avoid it and to magically stay young. You will experience that too yourself, hopefully not in a self-destructive way.

  • How do YOU personally determine if someone is a good or bad person?

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  • I don't judge persons (because I'm not in their head), I look at their actions.

    Also, I tend to steer away from the 'good' vs 'bad' (persons, thoughts, sexuality, religion, and so on) that were and still way too often used to hurt people one doesn't like or agree with.

  • 20 February 1989

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  • :)

  • How did you feel when you turned 18? Did you do anything special?

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  • Nothing special. I was just one year older. I never was much into birthday and I'm now many, many years older than 18 ;)

    My parents are throwing me a huge party, my dad’s idea, of course, and it’s nonnegotiable

    It probably is negotiable but it may happen the stakes are too high. Hard to say without any context.

    I threw my dad out of my first home the day he came to visit. Right after he started behaving like he used to when I was living under his own roof, I asked him to stop. He did not. I explained him I was not living at his place anymore and he was my guest and he should stop now unless he wanted me to show him the door. He persisted. I grabbed him by the seat of his pant and drove him out, shutting the door on him. It was not nice and it did not end in the most respectful way but it was still a negotiation ;)