Recently, I've been thinking about creating an Instagram account. I've never used it before, and I dislike it in general, but because of recent circumstances in my life (a breakup that almost gave me depression, and some other things), I need to go out more and meet new people IRL, and Instagram is the de facto way to meet people in my country, at least for those of us under 30, to the point that you're seen as weird if you don't have one.
But I know that once I create an account, I'll get hooked to the feed, to uploading pictures, etc. because I know myself.
I don't know if the positive social aspect (meeting people, or creating a lasting connection with people that I meet once IRL) is going to offset that addiction and the general anxiety that comes with having an account.
Apple, and west coast US companies in general, are the biggest promoters of political over-correctness, "inclusion", "diversity", etc. (to put it in non-offensive terms).
It would be extremely hypocritical for them to simply dismiss the feelings of people. So, even if it doesn't make sense, they're obligated to apologize to be consistent with their own discourse.
The actual problem is that chargebacks are possible when using credit cards, and chargebacks are possible because of the legal concept of card fraud (i.e. the person holding the credentials could actually not be legally "authorized" to realize the transaction), and the legal concept of card fraud exists mainly for two reasons:
1. Banks are bad at security.
2. People are bad at security.
3. The responsibility in the case of fraudulent transactions is not clear. Who is to blame? The bank or the user?
Cryptocurrencies either solve these problems or neutralize the negative consequences of these problems:
- There is no bank to impose dumb security rules
- When credentials are "stolen", the user has no one else to blame than themselves.
- There's no concept of fraud. Whoever holds the credentials (private key or nmemonic seed) is authorized to realize transactions using the credentials.
- There are no chargebacks. Once a transaction is confirmed, the receiver can be certain that their money is not going to get pulled back.
> What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?
We should be ashamed at the number of people that die everyday in car "accidents". Specially pedestrians and cyclists.
If you looked at our reaction to Covid, you'd think we value human life very much, but when you look at how our streets works, you realize we actually don't.
1. Someone expressed their concern that fragments of GPL code would end up in projects with non-GPL licenses and called it open source laundering. They were also concerned about the interpretation of derivative work. Could copilot's output be considered a derivative work?
Just note that a Wayland compositor must implement some core Wayland protocols and it can also implement its own protocol extensions (for example, it can implement a screen-sharing extension, and efforts are being made to 'standardize' these extensions).
X11 (X version 11) is the protocol that controls most the graphics stuff in traditional Linux systems. It employs a client-server architecture.
The windows (clients) send their local framebuffers to the X server, X sends them to a compositor, the compositor joins them together into a big framebuffer that has the different windows in their respective positions and sends them to the X server. The X server then displays them on your screen.
There's a relatively new (~10 years old) protocol, called Wayland, which will replace X. The architecture is better and it has some other constraints (vsync is always on, so there's no screen tearing). Some distributions are using it by default (Fedora), but most are still sticking to X, since Wayland is not completely ready yet (in practice) and other projects are still transitioning into Wayland.
Maybe I got some technical details wrong, but that's the basic idea.
I used to use Twitter. My country's political news and related commentary usually got me into a mental state of frustration and misanthropy.
I deleted Twitter. Political news still frustrate me but I rarely see them anymore. Ignorance is bliss. I've effectively created a safe space where political idiocy can't cognitively harass me.
Is it wrong to be so uninformed? I don't know. I think a lot about it and I haven't come to a satisfactory conclusion. By being uninformed I'm somewhat unable to fight against the "wrong" opinions, but maybe if I was informed my opinions wouldn't change a thing anyway.
My mental health is better off just accepting any idiotic laws my country passes instead of trying to "protest" (in the most useless sense of the word: tweeting about it) against them, for the most part.
But I know that once I create an account, I'll get hooked to the feed, to uploading pictures, etc. because I know myself.
I don't know if the positive social aspect (meeting people, or creating a lasting connection with people that I meet once IRL) is going to offset that addiction and the general anxiety that comes with having an account.