Thanks for the nostalgia.

2010 - back then I was an insecure teenager, finding refuge and empowerment in technology, anxious that I will die alone. One year before finishing high school and two before meeting my future wife. I texted her also using Pidgin for ICQ and Google Talk (without the OTR, of course).

Now I’m a self-confident software developer, instead anxious that I will die in a fascist dictatorship, and absolutely sick of the modern shitnology, preferring to care for plants on the balcony after work, because they are something real and not annoying.

Tech is just not fun anymore. But maybe it’s for the better, that made me go outside more.

But back on topic:

prohibiting encryption is like saying people should not be able to have private conversations without a microphone in the room which the government can always tune in to, if they see the need. Obviously completely ridiculous.

I guess just in case I’ll keep my illegal encryption software somewhere hidden and encrypted. Will be fun when we will start sending crypto data hidden steganographically in a wall of text that reads like bad LLM output. Have fun scanning all the traffic looking for cues that are not there. Anything can be encoded in almost anything else. There is absolutely no way that a government, no matter how powerful, could enforce any such restriction in a bullet proof way against anyone who puts in the tiniest bit of effort.

Concerning making math illegal… Reminds me of DeCSS. Been there, done that. When people were wearing shirts with the illegal prime number. Fun times.

Ah endlich hab ich den “Haupteingang” entdeckt. Hab das gleiche Problem. Issue bei Voyager gemacht, auf admins hier verwiesen worden. Keine Ahnung was los ist, aber es ist sehr ärgerlich.

That’s too harsh, unless you are a medical expert who is 100% confident this cannot be. I doubt that you are.

Skin has its own microbial flora and is the largest organ of our body. Imagine you take antibiotics. This can lead to all kinds of side effects, because good bacteria just as bad are killed and your gut needs to repopulate.

If you did not wash your skin for decades, I’m pretty certain that you will acquire a pretty unique and rich microbiome on your skin that co-exists with you in symbiosis if you are healthy. Now you just wash it away.

Yeah overall I agree, brain stuff ist complicated and all boxes we draw there are simplifications anyway.

Maybe I’m wrong but I thought of people with more stable and rigid habits/obsessive interests/hyperfixations to be on the more autistic side of the spectrum, and more random/oscillating patterns to be more on the ADHD side.

My hyperfocus period is usually between days and months, where I learn everything about something and then I don’t care anymore.

Never had this with food or cooking though. Like, of course there are dishes I love to eat regularly, but there is no dish ever I’d like to eat every day for weeks. I know I’d hate it after week 1 already.

I also thought that sounds more autistic than ADHD to me. But apparently there’s a lot of AuDHD folks so it’s hard to draw the line I guess.

I played enough with generative AI myself to also think that this smells very much like AI, and not necessarily in that it is bad, but got these signature AI quirks all over it that I would also bet money on this being AI.

Haha, about the same. Now 32 and feel like I’m the best I’ve ever been since diagnosis and medication 💪

That sucks. I forgot a doctor’s appointment I waited 3 months for. Had to wait for another 3 months…

Bandcamp solves all problems - you buy the CD as before, but digitally, including lossless FLAC, like 90% goes to the artist or their small label instead of Sony or Universal or Spotify, you can download the album or stream it with the app. It’s good enough for me that I only store the files for backup and use the app for listening to most of my recent music purchases.

Nope, if you lose a referenced object mid execution, your GC has a bug

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This.

I grew out of video gaming the moment I started to realize that games are a manufactured irreality where nothing you do really matters, because once you quit the game you gained nothing in life, it is a well engineered time sink.

Since my time became a scarce resource and I started to value it, only a rare unique mind twisting puzzle game or short experimental experience might be worth my time, but I will not touch games that eat hundreds of hours of your life for well, nothing at all.

Also, when I was young and had almost no friends, games were a refuge and distraction, now I don’t need them. If at all, now I’d rather play a board game with other people, because it’s wholesome real world interactions and social fun.

With just one simple Zig zag movement

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It lets you C more clearly

I water earliest when the top looks dry and with a finger I dig in and it is not still dark and wet there. For a pot like this and a small plant like this, it does not need water more often than twice a week, depending on temperature.

Temperature is what it is inside, it was around 25 °C this week, humidity always has been in the healthy range around 45-60 in the last weeks.

I potted it into like 70% of this mix https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B0CZ78WNG3?psc=1 that I had from last year in my basement and like 30% of this compost https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B07NWY7R87?psc=1

Oher plants including a young tomato grow just fine with it.

Since I thought somehow it must be missing something I also fertilized it a bit with some CalMag (die deficiency looked like Magnesium or Iron, but I don’t have special iron fertilizer so I just thought adding some Mg will not hurt in case it is in fact Mg).

Was thinking about buying iron chelate or what it’s called, iron supplement granules.

Unless someone has a better idea.

I did not grow that one from a seed, it’s one I bought with the two first real leaves randomly in a supermarket and the first two leaves did not have this problem, it looked healthy.

Is this the new official flag of the USA?

Yeah, I’m also more on the time blindness overcompensation club.

If I have no time fixed, minutes stretch into hours.

If I have some fixed time scheduled, I live by the clock and will rather be way too early than a little to late.

I have to trick my non ADHD wife to be on time, because if there’s a schedule, I’m the master time keeper.

Being late is just way more stressful and I hate rushing and the anxiety of being too late to the train or some doctor or whatever.

My coping mechanism is to have the anxiety way earlier than other people. Everyone believes I’m amazingly organized.

In general I disagree, often you can’t read it it’s satire, trolling or someone being serious, there are weird people and also bots on the internet.

However this piece was pretty clear satire, if you read far enough (probably I would have stopped in the middle and downvoted this crap if it was not marked).

The “ChatGPT showed me a new sorting algorithm” part really does make it pretty obvious to anyone with dev background that this is not serious.