Broken glass or porcelain, but specifically the idea that splinter sized shards could get missed, end up in my fingers or toes, I could somehow completely miss that they did, and then they’d just randomly cause intense sharp pinpricks of pain randomly for the rest of my life.

Like full on panic attack from a dropped glass breaking near me.

Like, I know how to deal with it, but still. Just put on your shoes, some gloves, carefully sweep up what you can, vaccuum with something that doesn’t blast air everywhere, then wipe a damp paper towel over the area to get any stragglers. If I’m extra paranoid I’ll let it dry then sweep and vacuum again.

I think it comes from some weird and intense growing pains I had like that growing up, plus repeated times in school I ended up getting nearly invisible stinging papercuts on my fingers.

Yep, and be prepared to take a (minor) paycut and/or not work on something “shiny and impressive” in exchange for a better working environment.

Profound larceny sounds like some fun fae shit. Like stealing someone’s ability to desire material things, or their ability to speak the letter H.

Don’t miss this gem that’s been overshadowed by all the other shit they pulled recently:

Asking for a NSFW post to be appropriately tagged is the same as censoring it from all of lemmy.

This is the most blatant concern trolling I’ve seen in ages, bravo.

When called out on this, OP made the following thread mischaracterizing artist signatures in images as advertising and trying to get a rule made on the comics community to force all users to remove attribution. https://lemmus.org/post/21226925

In the comments they state that they refuse to consistently link the source, even though they are able to, until the rule they suggested is put into place: https://lemmus.org/comment/17161116

Notably, this all exploded after that community’s mod suggested a “no bots” rule and created a “two posts per user per day” rule that OP is blatantly violating.

OP is upset that they don’t get to use other peoples spaces for free exactly as they want to. They have a post in powertrippingbastards recently that amounts to this as well. Now they’re just continuing the tantrum elsewhere because they didn’t get the response they wanted.

Beep, a suggestion: Make the space you want to see on lemmy. Create a comm and set the rules you want on it. You want all posts to have what you consider advertising stripped out? Go for it.

“NonAdComics”, “BeepsMemes”, etc. The fediverse is still small enough to carve out your own space.

Totally a slow reaction to all the right wing stuff like info wars that was being debanked a number of years ago.

Wikileaks? What was that?

Except data centers have already been attacked in this war.

I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can’t remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.

My experience is that they’re still around in lesser numbers. You just need to know where to look. Personally it seems to me like most have moved into videogames and game lore spaces. Pretty sure a lot of kids call them alternate reality games now. Half a dozen new ones come out from the slowly dying garry’s mod map community every year. Also other games have used these sorts of puzzles too, like noita, elite dangerous, and risk of rain 2 that had its most recent dlc page on steam initially drop with no fanfare and entirely ciphered. Really cool stuff. Due to the connection with games it also crosses over with cheap jumpscare horror stuff like slenderman and five nights at freddys, so a lot of people consider it juvenile now, like the incredibly obvious hidden text in this comment.

Great callout!

I participate in the techtakes community on awful.systems, which is devoted to laughing at tech bro “takes”. HN posts and comments are almost too easy as targets for derision and are common topics for meta-discussion of the reprehensible opinions.

I was just trying to have a light touch here. Start with the facts. We can talk about the literal cults spun off from it later.

The site’s one of the clearest windows into the myriad and shockingly widespread ghoulish opinions that seem to fester in places that consider themselves important to the tech industry or attract people who think they are.

I really should start keeping a tally on shit like “how many times have I seen eugenics suggested on HN this month”.

Mostly, escaping my mother and allowing me to begin to build healthy boundaries with her.

I grew up with parents who are both near assuredly ADHD, my mother has severe narcisistic tendencies, and my father means well but was fairly absent (overworks himself and is forgetful of plans).

They also had a ton of marital friction and issues that I ended up caught up in the middle of. I’m honestly shocked they didn’t divorce, but they do seem to finally work now as a couple.

Anyway, benefits to me (mostly escaping trauma):

Being able to choose how I spend my time, without my mother constantly trying to steer it to uses she considered “productive”, without constant judgement of my hobbies as somehow being some net negative against my future life prospects. I don’t have to justify every choice and action I make that doesn’t match up to my mother’s messed up idea of how my life should work or what she (incorrectly) thinks would make me more organized/responsible/whatever the fuck.

I’ve been able to actually take the time and figure out what works for me instead of hopping on whatever harebrained fad idea my mother has that has been further filtered through her own issues and her family’s massive anxiety about appearances.

I’m allowed to give up on a course of action when I realize it’s a lost cause, rather than beat my head into paste and continue grinding my neck stump against the same wall.

And I can’t overstate the weight off my shoulder from just not having to deal with the constant judgement, and the constant comparison to people in my age range who she hardly fucking knew but somehow felt qualified to tell me precisely how they were successful (she was wrong most of the time because I already knew these kids better than her, but that didn’t stop her).

I have a space that’s mine. I don’t need to worry about what I leave out, or how it appears to people who don’t have to live in it. I don’t need to worry about someone kicking in a door because I dared not to engage in a screaming match.

While I can’t help myself from memorizing footfalls, I don’t have to arrange myself and my space when I hear someone upset, bracing for impact.

Non-trauma benefits: I can do whatever I want with my space, and unless I invite someone into it I’m the only one effected or judging it.

I can organize in ways that make sense for me.

I can invite people over for any reason at all, even just to hang out with no real plan or goal.

If I can’t find something, or something is messy, I can’t (correctly or not) hide behind it being someone else’s fault or problem.

If I decide I don’t like something, I can change it.

I can leave a project half done and not have to move it out of the way so it won’t get messed with.

Heads up, Hacker News is a social media site like here or reddit, it’s not a news outlet. It’s run by Y Combinator, a huge venture capital firm in the SF Bay area, and the users tend to be tech bros or aspiring ones. Many attach their user accounts to their github and professional identity. I think there’s only one admin and they tend to be heavy handed.

presumably had initially been intended to include him

Fun fact: In one of the many leaks of Nintendo internal files in the past decade, early source code and the model was found for Luigi in SM64. His inclusion was abandoned very early on in development.

Firefox at home, IronFox on mobile, and Edge at work (not really my choice, but works fine).

I’ve seen some links posted to sites that somehow manage to show comment history even for accounts with it hidden as well. Apparently the feature is pretty half baked.

And with how small lemmy still is, it has a noticable effect for the better.

Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.

Thanks for laying it out for me!

I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.

Edit: I am very wrong.

Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.