Rufus is such a great tool in that regard. You can turn off all the arbitrary system requirements and have it automatically create a local user account.
Since I'm running a half dozen federated services and I've got an IQ of like 87 and the attention span of a toddler, I find it really confusing when people are claiming it's hard and they're not even running any services themselves.
[Admin mode] Not sure why, but I've been seeing some odd outages during the day that aren't actually outages. Everything continues to be fine, I just can't see the stuff.
Added some dos and ddos protection, let's see if that helps things out.
Added some dos and ddos protection, let's see if that helps things out.
No, that should be my actual account on nostr from before the mostr bridge was up and running.
The most likely future is we'll be so busy congratulating ourselves on our cultural perfection we'll die out.
It's already well underway. Hopefully newer generations can come up with an innovative new answer, but if they do it'll be from within a cage we built for them out of their great grandparents narrow vision of the world.
It's already well underway. Hopefully newer generations can come up with an innovative new answer, but if they do it'll be from within a cage we built for them out of their great grandparents narrow vision of the world.
I'm here through alex's portal(this one), and I've also got an actual native account.
In the 9th century, the Song dynasty in China lost the northern half of the country because instead of dealing with the invaders to the north, they sat in the capitol writing poetry about how great it would be to win. In the same era, the Indian subcontinent was being invaded by the Muslims and instead of doing anything productive, they built nicer temples so the Gods would grant them victory and they ultimately ended up losing most of the subcontinent.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of what's real. Let one of many different bad things happen, you're dead. Reality doesn't care about ideology if the ideology inevitably leads to ruin. It'll just let you die. The giant stone heads on easter island is all that's left. The Minoans left virtually no trace of their existence despite once being a regional superpower.
We're ironically a deeply conservative culture. We already have all the answers. We don't need to change anything, just do more of what our grandparents did but moreso. We don't need to care about what other cultures do, what ideas are out there, because we're the center of the universe.
In that sense, it won't matter what we want the future to look like, because we won't be a part of it. Things will change too much, and we'll be too busy looking backwards to do anything about the future.
"Progress"
The word progress was undoubtedly uttered as justification for every genocide. It's a mindless word without any judgement of whether the thing being progressed towards is good or evil or something else entirely.
People who use it as justification are similarly without regard for whether what they push for is good or evil, which is why it isn't justification for anything.
The word progress was undoubtedly uttered as justification for every genocide. It's a mindless word without any judgement of whether the thing being progressed towards is good or evil or something else entirely.
People who use it as justification are similarly without regard for whether what they push for is good or evil, which is why it isn't justification for anything.
Both are broadly important, though postsecondary needs to generally be more like training and less trying to turn people into "well rounded individuals" since people are paying based on it being vocational training. Paying to become a well rounded individual is a luxury many people can't afford, it's something the idle rich can faff around with while people who need to figure out how to get food and shelter or they'll die can focus on that.
That said, prior to that point a well rounded education is a good idea since people never know what they'll end up with when they're 10. I do think educators are failing their students -- if more than half your students can't do age appropriate math or reading or writing, then that's a failing grade for the instructor and the system they work in. The problem isn't that math is hard, it's that the system failed to teach the skill.
That said, prior to that point a well rounded education is a good idea since people never know what they'll end up with when they're 10. I do think educators are failing their students -- if more than half your students can't do age appropriate math or reading or writing, then that's a failing grade for the instructor and the system they work in. The problem isn't that math is hard, it's that the system failed to teach the skill.
While I agree with you, I also agree with basedbagel. It's true that some people just don't get things and coding is one of those things, but it's also true we shouldn't tell people they can't do things and that they're too hard to learn.
Same goes for all the stuff you mentioned. "Oh, I can't learn machining, I can't learn weaving, I can't learn car engines, it's too hard" but in reality they're all things people can learn and do learn every day.
I never clicked with playing musical instruments. It just never worked for me. That doesn't mean it's hard and people shouldn't try, it just means I couldn't get it. People still should try because you never know what you'll turn out to be good at until you try. Everyone is different.
Same goes for all the stuff you mentioned. "Oh, I can't learn machining, I can't learn weaving, I can't learn car engines, it's too hard" but in reality they're all things people can learn and do learn every day.
I never clicked with playing musical instruments. It just never worked for me. That doesn't mean it's hard and people shouldn't try, it just means I couldn't get it. People still should try because you never know what you'll turn out to be good at until you try. Everyone is different.
Freedom includes freedom to do things you don't like.
Sucks, but trying to get involved with every person being a bit of a jerk is a fools errand.
Sucks, but trying to get involved with every person being a bit of a jerk is a fools errand.
Yes, that experiment seems to prove you can't just give people everything because it'll destroy them. Ironically, we're seeing that in some subcultures that are highly protected by the state -- without any reason to do anything productive, you end up with people who just destroy everything around them, whereas throughout history you've seen people with much less live much happier lives because they had a reason to go out and do something productive.
Caesar Milan talks about it a lot with dogs -- the problem dogs have isn't that they're not loved enough, it's that they need a job and if you're not walking them enough and tiring them out they start misbehaving because they're trying to do something. I think we have the same thing with people, people tearing up the furniture because life is just handed to them with the best of intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYooC9yys8
Caesar Milan talks about it a lot with dogs -- the problem dogs have isn't that they're not loved enough, it's that they need a job and if you're not walking them enough and tiring them out they start misbehaving because they're trying to do something. I think we have the same thing with people, people tearing up the furniture because life is just handed to them with the best of intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYooC9yys8