I would like to know if there is an "official" way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I won't remember, and then logging out. If I'd like to come back later, there's a chance of my account being revived through the "forgot password" process. I am leaving Lemmy for good. I have spent a few months here, and the first few months were nice and positive. But now it feels much more Reddit-like. Most active communication here is happening at posts that I find negative. All this negative stuff is detoriating my mental health. I'd instead prefer to stay happy and remain ignorant until I personally experience the issues being raised here. Of course, a lot of people will disagree with this approach, and they are likely already coming up with comments to post on this thread that I'd find rude and thus negative. But I've seriously had enough of it. I have a heavily filtered Reddit with a home page filled with people like me. The communities they are part of either don't exist on Lemmy or are not sufficiently active. I will be active with these people until the old Reddit front-end reaches EoL. Please prefer to answer the first paragraph over the rest. PS: please don't judge me by my comments on my profile. I am a teenager and my personality is still maturing. I cringe at most things I do the next day after doing them.
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There's a "the' in the quote.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>>> sorted(set("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"))[2:]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
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Well, it depends on how you interpret their emotes. They constantly use that clown emoji, and so on. I interpret it as "not interested in talking to you" because, uh, I can't explain why. It's kind of because of all the circumstances in which I use those emotes when talking to my friends. I interpret their intent as how mine would have been. I frankly can't take them as anything else; it's a flaw.
Also, I didn't just start ghosting them for just this reason; it was usually for a few other reasons as well. For example, one of my former friends had habituated herself to calling people slang like dumbfuck on a regular basis. But I don't use such words when talking to my friends; I find them harsh. I kind of used to get upset whenever she'd call me by such slang, even when I had done nothing that could hurt her. We simply aren't compatible enough to remain friends. Her constant use of such emojis was merely a cherry on top, but a considerable one.
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I think it's time for another Fox News interview with an r/antiwork mod.
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A lot of teenagers use it for some reason. It's annoying because I'm a teenager myself, so I have to deal with my friends using it all the time. I went as far as ghosting some of my friends because they use annoying emotes all the time.
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Which instance? We should maintain a list of these instances to ensure we don't lose our data due to idiots like them.
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I disabled shorts everywhere. Before I saw your post, I couldn't even recall YouTube having shorts.
Also, Google tracks your everything, not just your YouTube history. You likely use Google Search a lot for adult content. Even a VPN and browsing on incognito mode might not save you. They have lots of ways track you.
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I use those mouse gesture browser extensions. Hold the right-click button, then swipe right or left. It's probably even more ergonomic than clicking those extra buttons (I have only ever used generic mice). Not that I am against extra buttons for other purposes, though.
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I don't care about video comments anymore; in my experience it was filled with attention-seeking content and incels trying to look cool. It's also full of bots in the reply sections.
Instead, I use mpv media player to watch YouTube. I pick a video off my recommendations or the subscription page then I copy the video link and then I just have to do mpv <video link> in my terminal. It's also much faster on my low-end PC.
It doesn't have sponser-block support, but it does have ad-blocker. I haven't really checked sponser-block support yet either.
Edit: found this for sponser-block support.
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Whenever I see commercials with politics involved, I get flashbacks of The Boys TV show. That show forever changed how I see these commercials.
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I concur. It is also very hard to make a rationale for whether your date is ghosting you, is just busy, or is not in a good mood. Obviously, if she is not in a good mood or is busy, she would prefer not to reply to me (because she might unintentionally ruin the bond), but what if she's just not interested in me and thus is ignoring me?
If you like this person a lot, your feelings will likely corrupt your rationale. Your hopes won't let you move on; you will keep suffering, deciding whether to move on or not.
I had it made by ChatGPT 3.5, so the theming is not perfect. I don't have the time to mess with this right now. If you are feeling generous, you may customize it and post the changes in the comment section of this post. ```json { "other": { "white": "#fbf1c7", "black": "#282828" }, "primary": { "100": "#ebdbb2", "900": "#282828" }, "zinc": { "50": "#ebdbb2", "100": "#d5c4a1", "200": "#bdae93", "300": "#a89984", "400": "#a89984", "500": "#a89984", "600": "#928374", "700": "#7c6f64", "800": "#665c54", "900": "#504945", "925": "#3c3836", "950": "#282828" }, "slate": { "25": "#ebdbb2", "50": "#d5c4a1", "100": "#bdae93", "200": "#a89984", "300": "#928374", "400": "#7c6f64", "500": "#665c54", "600": "#504945", "700": "#3c3836", "800": "#282828", "900": "#282828", "950": "#282828" } } ``` 
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These corporations would never let that be the norm. They are presently moderate about it because we are an extreme minority, but if this population starts growing at rapid rates, these leeches will go crazy. Just like how Google behaved a few months ago to prevent ad-block usage on YouTube. The unfortunate news is that we can't even do much about it; they already have a scary market share and the money to do whatever they want. Worse thing is that these corporations will unite together in such scenario.
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Yesterday, I made a choice that was very tough for me to make. So three years ago, I had a best friend, and we both liked each other. Things got hard because my feelings went too far, I became emotionally unstable and turned into an attention seeker. So because of that, I then ended the friendship.
Recently, she added me back. I thought we could be friends again because I felt like I improved my mental state in the last two years and won't turn into an attention seeker again. Well, a week later, I was the same as I was three years ago.
It was ruining my mental health severely. I couldn't focus on anything. But I still wasn't ready to give up on the friendship because she was a very nice friend, and I still liked her for some reason. So I refused to give up. But things got worse real quick, and then I decided to write a long message to her explaining why I can't continue this friendship and then I blocked her everywhere.
At the cost of ending all probabilities of a future with her, I feel much better now.
Gotta do something about this attention-seeking thing, though.
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Some of the "duplicate" questions that I have seen on Stack Overflow are phrased entirely different than the supposedly "original" one. It's like they expect me to brute-force their entire fucking search index before publishing a new question. I don't have that much patience or time.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/12252747 > This project was interesting. Recently, I've been digging into the functional programming paradigm. This is one of my first tries at it. I've been doing OOP until recently, but this project really was impressive to me. The whole implementation took about nine hours. Functional programming is much less convoluted. I spent more time programming than deciding on a good name for a certain identifier. > > Not only is functional programming more efficient, but I can also see that it's much less tedious to write automated tests for. I only have to take care of the local scope of the function I am writing a test for; there is no need to deal with the parent's inherited mess or even any parent's mere state. I just have to write the test for the function. > > I have scraped the Cambridge Dictionary to collect the data. > > The project is licensed under MIT at: > > https://github.com/eeriemyxi/novi > > https://git.envs.net/myxi/novi
This project was interesting. Recently, I've been digging into the functional programming paradigm. This is one of my first tries at it. I've been doing OOP until recently, but this project really was impressive to me. The whole implementation took about nine hours. Functional programming is much less convoluted. I spent more time programming than deciding on a good name for a certain identifier. Not only is functional programming more efficient, but I can also see that it's much less tedious to write automated tests for. I only have to take care of the local scope of the function I am writing a test for; there is no need to deal with the parent's inherited mess or even any parent's mere state. I just have to write the test for the function. I have scraped the Cambridge Dictionary to collect the data. The project is licensed under MIT at: https://github.com/eeriemyxi/novi https://git.envs.net/myxi/novi
       
I tried AwesomeWM two days ago, and after two days of hard work understanding the API reference, I came up with this. More screenshots are below.  
Although I've always believed that Google collects more, it seems that Meta gets maligned more frequently than Google in the eyes of the general public. Since then I've been growing curious on the matter. Should Meta deserve less respect on this subject than Google?
There have been reports of YouTubers I watch getting sick after eating food in third world countries. However, these countries are also home to a large number of people who do not get sick from eating the same food. _I think_ this suggests that the locals may have developed stronger immune systems. What do you think?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Musk+is+undeniably+just+trying+to+run+twitter+into+the+ground+at+this+point+lemmy
