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@ early_riser @lemmy.world

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  • Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?

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  • Attempted is the key word. The characters eventually got too detailed for me to distinguish. As I mentioned in another thread I tried finding braille resources for L2 learners but there don't seem to be any. Ironically if everything was in Pinyin I could probably do it, but moving to a new writing system when you already have one that you've used for millennia is a nearly impossible ask. Plenty of people have tried with English.

  • Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?

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  • While it's true a language is tightly linked to the culture of its speakers by definition, a language's speakers aren't just their leaders. Russian represents centuries of cultural wealth, not just the misadventures of the last hundred or so years. It's not the language's fault that Putin invaded Ukraine. If you love learning languages for their own sake, do it. I made the same choice when attempting to learn Mandarin during the Hong Kong protests.

  • What are your best tips for looking busy at work, while actually doing something you enjoy?

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  • Find something you enjoy that you can spin as work-related. I learned about sqlite as a potential way to store the lexicon for one of my constructed languages and it ended up becoming relevant at work.

    I've had similar luck with playing with raspberry pis and generic Linux stuff. I'm not just setting up a self hosted forum, I'm learning about reverse proxies.

  • Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

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  • News was always political, but I agree, it's exhausting, and it was exhausting back then.

    As for the memes, do you really think "It's over 9000" was any more comprehensible. I spent way too much time overthinking why that meme was funny, like "Oh, it's because the power levels grow exponentially over the course of the show and 9000 is such a ridiculously low number when it's all said and done." But nah I think it was just random. Then I started laughing at it cuz hehe funny reference. And what even was YouTube Poop, I mean it was the funniest stuff ever wrought by man (HI BILLY MAYES HERE WITH LOTSA SPAGHETTI FOR DINNER!), but don't kid yourself, nonsense was the whole point. Let the young'uns have their 67's.

    Some of it's legit though. YouTube is enshittifying, it's the natural course of things when you have investors to please. That's also why games are crap now. But there were lowest common denominator adult video games as far back as the Atari 2600, so that's nothing new. Not saying its OK, just that nothing has changed and is unlikely to change in the future. Look for the good stuff that is out there. I'm having fun with Megabonk.

    I also agree short form content can be straight up harmful. I just found out the other day you can turn off YouTube history which stops the algorithm from feeding you anything. On mobile you just get a blank search bar. It'll still bring up shorts when searching but if you scroll five or six shorts deep it'll just give you a blank screen that says "recommendations have been turned off." I turned it off because I realized I'd get up from my desk at work to go to the bathroom but spend a whole minute looking for a recommended video to listen to before actually leaving the room.

  • What are some funny WiFi network names you've run into?

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  • I feel like that's asking for trouble. You can explain away "FBI surveillance van" because an ounce of common sense will tell you a government agency isn't likely to be so sloppy. But I could see a creepy Airbnb host who's just smart enough to be dangerous doing exactly this.

  • What are some funny WiFi network names you've run into?

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  • I always want to do it burns when IP or 8 Hz WAN IP but we regularly have guests so I opted for something mundane.

  • calcium and potassium

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  • thanks I hate it

  • What's if instead of a dead internet we end up with a dark forest internet

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  • YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

  • What's if instead of a dead internet we end up with a dark forest internet

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  • I have made a concerted effort over the last two or three years to de-urbanize my online activity. One thing I've noticed is that even small communities are affected by AI. Crawlers and spambots can cause a small site with limited resources to crumple under the weight of nonhuman traffic, a DDoS attack more or less. This makes it hard to self host a community.

    While the fediverse helps to some degree it still suffers from copying the format of big social media sites. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone and Mastodon a Twitter clone, so the cultures of these communities mimic those of the big sites they emulate.

  • Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.

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  • I attempted to learn Mandarin in 2019, at first with Duolingo with an aim to find more robust resources along the way. I had to stop because I couldn't distinguish among the characters. I've looked for resources for learning Mandarin in braille but can't find any.

    I really enjoyed what I did learn though. It's such a laconic language, and I've nabbed some grammar here and there for one of my conlangs.

  • what's the dumbest thing you've done online?

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  • Social media, including Lemmy. It just feeds my misery but at the same time its addictive

  • If you automated 95% of your job, but still had to report to an office/cubicle, what would you do with your (40hrs)time?

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  • My job has a fair amount of down time. I'll use it to study for career certifications or work on personal projects that are work-adjacent.

  • There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?

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  • A bot I am not

    flesh and blood I have got.

    A repost this may be

    but not one by me.

  • There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?

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  • Superhot maybe?

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  • Turn of the millennium aesthetics were awesome. I’d love a translucent neon orange smartphone so durable it cracks the tile when you drop it.

  • Why isint lemmy more popular?

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  • This right here encapsulates exactly what my biggest complaint with this platform is. A news post about a controversial topic in a completely unrelated community. I'm literally on my knees, guys. I just want to talk about drawing fantasy maps and developing conlangs. Worst part is that worldbuilding/conworlding is a perfectly acceptable way to articulate your worldview, and you might even get people to listen to you if you're creative about it, but nah that's not blunt enough.

    And yeah, it could have been posted in error, but given what I previously described about !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world, it very well may be on purpose.

  • If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ?

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  • Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

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  • No it's scope is more limited vs Obsidian. Logseq is primarily an outliner whereas Obsidian is anything you can express in Markdown

  • Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

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  • As a blind person with ADHD they’re invaluable. I’ll forget where I put something mere minutes after setting it down and can’t see where it is.

  • Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

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  • Love Obsidian. I’ve been using it to study for IT certs and organize my worldbuilding ideas. Been looking for a FOSS alternative that won’t enshittify. Hasn’t happened with Obsidian yet but they do paywall useful features like accessing an existing vault on mobile from a file share.