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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • I don’t consider them hacks. They’re tooling and intended use. Even if most people don’t know them. They were designed deliberately.

    Using keyboard input is not a clever misuse of unintended functionality. It’s intended design.

    I hack websites through browser extensions. Adblocker, css inject, platform extensions. But even that is only hacking in the context of the original content. As a product it’s its intended purpose. So I wouldn’t call it life hack.


    Mouse gestures, keyboard key combinations, alt access, alt keypad character input, YouTube Sponsorblock, adblock, search bookmarks are - I guess - my most used.




  • I never feel bored. The closest, I guess, is feeling lost and not motivated for anything or stressed and jumpy between things.

    In those cases or more when I don’t “have anything to do” in general, I open Lemmy, or YouTube, or watch anime or some series, read manga, or watch documentaries. Depending on motivation and mood I open games or do open source or personal project work. Sometimes open specific news or test websites, or my RSS feed accumulator. Or do whatever else is open to do.














  • You can accept people as people without accepting their positions, claims, or views.

    You can be mindful of when to engage in comments or not.

    You can shift your mindset from arguing with a random stranger/bigot to defusing their talking points, or not letting them stand when you feel they should not.

    People are more than one thing. You don’t have to like everyone. And you certainly don’t have to like all their aspects like the limited view one can see from their online profile or comment.

    I don’t think Lemmy is fundamentally different from Reddit either, in terms of how people behave, and how it will develop with more users. You just have more choice regarding choice of instances and communities, and blocking.

    If you want to become more accepting of other peoples view points, be mindful of your own prejudices, automated thoughts, classifications, and emotional responses. Consider perspective switches, or considering the value of different views in general.


  • There are different kinds of cults. Cult is a different thing from religion. It doesn’t belong on the same axis. But we can continue the thought if we define it as religious cult.

    The scale is about excessive binding, control, rituals, restrictions, belief systems. If the left is the extreme, then towards the right we have weaker restrictions upon the belief system. The belief becomes weaker, and the beliefs do not have to restrict other and own people’s activities and beliefs.

    Religion in the middle makes no sense. It should be the label on the scale. “Religious extremism” or similar. Maybe narrow, restrictive, totalitarian.

    I don’t know specific terminology for the right side. Maybe open or unrestrictive practice of religion.