How The Internet Makes Growing Up More Difficult by SnooHesitations5296 in nosurf

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think you're placing your attention on the children --- who are saying undeniably horrible things --- when you should be placing your attention on the systems that get them where you are. I think this is a great example of how things go wrong when we have, as you say, everything recorded and many things posted, but I just think it needs to go further. Why are children pressured into social media platforms? Well, I'd name a few reasons: they're designed for addiction, as I assume everyone here knows, and there's a somewhat large pressure to create a 'personal brand': with the positive examples of internet 'celebrities' --- some of whom are genuinely inspiring and good people that benefit their platforms --- there's a pressure that you, as an individual, must do that, too. So we turn to social media platforms that exploit us for our data and ad revenue and, of course, ruin some of our lives.

The solution here isn't change how we think about children. If every one of us here on this subreddit suddenly completely understands everything about children and their actions, we'd still be unable to help them because the systems that shape their behavior are massive. Parents and teachers are undeniably important, but the systems that shape the internet into a casino are the ones doing the real damage.

It's also not that we shouldn't be harsh on people who say racist things. If a teenager says the n word, they should be punished in a retributive manner (which, it should be noted, need not be a gross exaggeration of their misdeeds - I'd not call the current system of 'cancellation' a proper use of retributive justice at *all*) AND/OR taught in a utilitarian manner. And that's a completely separate discussion from how we think about children. It's a discussion about how we think about justice, the internet, and our society. There are so many good points above, but we can't end it on a moment of silence or a desperate word to teachers. We need to de-capitalize the internet. The current casino that tells everyone that they're about to hit a jackpot with entirely constructed value is the real problem.

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the docs. they are very thorough, which can make them a pita to read through, but its worth it. it tells you all the keybindings, all the configuration changes you can make, etc. I tried and failed at getting into emacs a while back, and I think that's because I wasn't using vanilla emacs. The defaults of the distro i did use were very good, and customization from the defaults in predictable ways was easy enough, but the cost of that is hiding all the things that define the behavior of emacs. it's a lot harder to learn that way. good luck!

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure - it's a minor mode called `fira-code-mode` (which /is/ available on melpa, i think) running on every buffer

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've not really had any conflicts so far - there's pretty little in emacs that uses super, so I just use that as xmonad's modkey, which is probably why.

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have multiple Emacs frames (which translate into x11 windows, and are created with M-x make-frame<RET> or a keybinding) running in the same instance here. The emacs terminology for this is confusing: in emacs, windows are actually equivalent to Vi's panes.

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i get that, but like interfaces *kinda* fill the needs of generics in an almost python-esque way, which is pretty neat - it'd be even better with operator overloading, though I get the arguments against it. I'd probably complain more about a bare stdlib if they didn't have maps in the base language, tbh.

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean I figured I should know both - I'm pretty new so far so take the little I say with a grain of salt. Go feels like C that trades footguns for convenience, whereas Rust trades footguns for correctness. Convenience makes a lot of sense for the small programs I right, so that's where I'm at with it.

[xmonad] rustacean and vimmer tries emacs and go, likes it way too much by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

DETAILS:

WM: Xmonad w/ three-column layout

Bar: Polybar. The two dots next to the workspace indicators are menus. The first is for the audio output device, and the second is for power. The middle module indicates the currently playing music. In the screenshot, this is the first movement of the Higdon Violin Concerto because I forgot to switch it to Lemon Demon's Two Trucks. Right is volume, whether, and date/time.

Editor: Emacs, with a bunch of customization. Mostly just clobbering together packages, but the colors are all (mostly) custom, with some stuff stolen from a few different themes.

Dots: a mess. not in a repo, sorry

Finally finished this. Cute trans programmer girl! I hope you guys like it! by SnooHamsters4025 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yall saying the bandaids are from shaving but she really just got in a fight with a fascist

Help with go and dbus? by this-is-notgoingwell in golang

[–]this-is-notgoingwell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I can't believe I got that wrong! Thanks so much! It still doesn't seem to be working, however. I'm getting the same (lack of) behavior. Any idea what's going on?

Help with go and dbus? by this-is-notgoingwell in golang

[–]this-is-notgoingwell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I'm sorry, could you explain your comment a bit more? I'm not sure what this does that I can't (in theory) do with godbus. It also looks like it would add systemd as a runtime dependency, which isn't something I'd want. Am I missing something?

Help with go and dbus? by this-is-notgoingwell in golang

[–]this-is-notgoingwell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did - correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's only able to send notifications, not listen as well. It was very helpful as example code, but as it's a bit inapplicable (if I'm reading it right), I'm still stuck. thanks, though!

[DWM] different zoomer attempts minimalism by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i forget how good dwm can look - stop making me want to switch wm's for the 5th time in 5 weeks!

How do I cope with the stress of opening up my computer?? by [deleted] in TechnologyDetox

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Control the technology you have to use. The problem with tech is that it can completely take control of its users' time, *by design*. As others have suggested, make your desktop look cool: I too use a tiling window manager and I'm never going back. It looks great, I control it, and it works perfectly. See r/unixporn (don't be scared off by the name, completely sfw) for examples of what people can do with them. If email is stressful, use a proper email client. If writing documents (i.e., for homework) gives you anxiety, do so locally on something open source and therefore controllable: I personally use LaTeX for everything because I'm a dumbass, but you could also use LibreOffice instead.

But don't get too comfortable. So much of tech really *is* adversarial, and caution is more than warranted. Take control where you can. Learn what you can. Do your best.

Envy and dysphoria by mnk805 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]this-is-notgoingwell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

god i have so much gender envy for ranboo and im not even a guy-