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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I don’t know, this level of what about ism feels like an attack on a very real and legitimate issue

    Absolutely I agree that pie feed does great things, and they’re updating, but 100% this is a real legitimate issue. And it needs to be addressed.

    Given this is the only place I have found this discussion happening in a productive way, we shouldn’t sidetrack it.

    Basically we’re talking about the lead developer maturing and removing their opinions. It takes almost zero effort to code that, but it might take a lifetime of effort for them to come to that position.

    I understand other commenters frustrations with your counters, it feels like a dismissal, this is a real problem affecting real users today and they have legitimate grievance. If they want to organize, that is very reasonable.


  • Now you’re talking past me.

    The issue is not that there is an option, the issue is not that there is even a suggested option.

    The issue is a writer of core infrastructure software is putting their prejudices into the software as a default that have to be opted out of. That is antithetical to federation. That is pushing an agenda. That has no place in core infrastructure software.

    Imagine if the Linux kernel by default, hard coded, blocked all IP addresses connecting to China, anybody could go in and remove those blocks, but they’re there by default… Infrastructure should not have political opinions baked into it

    We can go back and forth about wither this has had a material impact. That’s not actually important. What it demonstrates is this software project is not mature yet. They still have too many emotional biases baked in.

    I half expected them to have the Lemy.lol block baked in, thankfully they didn’t, but it wouldn’t have surprised me if they did.










  • Is it possible to never go to a fast food chain?

    We have the physical addiction to glucose, but you have overcome that before

    We have the habitual triggers, something in your life makes you think of your old addiction, those you have to find a way to get past, maybe the snacking

    We have the situational triggers, seeing a place, going past a place, triggers old addictive cravings, this is where having a buddy you can call and talk it out can be helpful.

    If you are willing to wear a CGM all the time, you can have a buddy monitoring it and get alerts if it goes outside of a predefined range (say 6.5) so your buddy can help you deal with the recovery

    When you fall off the wagon before, you mentioned fast food, but what is different the month before falling off and the day you fall off?