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Comment on Am I German or autistic? in ~health.mental
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Comment on Software job openings surge this year, defying AI fears in ~tech
Parou LinkFirst introduce vibe coding, then hire people to fix the vibe coding, then replace them with more polished AI, then realize your software updates destroy people's machines, then hire people to fix...First introduce vibe coding, then hire people to fix the vibe coding, then replace them with more polished AI, then realize your software updates destroy people's machines, then hire people to fix everything, repeat.
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Comment on You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago in ~tech
Parou Link ParentI've been using my main domain for more professional occasions and to host my actual main inbox. My secondary domain is mainly for a catchall mail forwarding, so that I always have a new email for...I've been using my main domain for more professional occasions and to host my actual main inbox.
My secondary domain is mainly for a catchall mail forwarding, so that I always have a new email for every service I use and can 100% filter out who the fuck gave my email to third parties or got hacked without telling anyone again. -
Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech
Parou Link ParentThe worst thing I ever saw someone pull off with WordPress was an entire social media platform including realtime chats and marketplaces, etc. Every page took almost a minute to load for literally...The worst thing I ever saw someone pull off with WordPress was an entire social media platform including realtime chats and marketplaces, etc.
Every page took almost a minute to load for literally every visitor.
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Comment on In the world of tech, people constantly ask “Could chatbots ever be conscious?” but I feel like asking “Are you?” Take the test! in ~tech
Parou LinkThis test unironically uses the exact things that came up during my autism assessment against me.This test unironically uses the exact things that came up during my autism assessment against me.
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Comment on How far back in time can you understand English? in ~humanities.languages
Parou LinkUntil 1400s everything was easy and nice without even having to really think about it. But the 1400s is such an insane jump that I gave up immediately. If my life depended on it though, I'm pretty...Until 1400s everything was easy and nice without even having to really think about it.
But the 1400s is such an insane jump that I gave up immediately. If my life depended on it though, I'm pretty certain I could read it after spending a bit longer on it. -
Comment on Hair loss open discussion in ~talk
Parou LinkI had the beginning stages of hair loss before I transitioned around 10 years ago. Since then many male friends spoke to me about their hair loss. Except for one, all of them decided to not follow...I had the beginning stages of hair loss before I transitioned around 10 years ago. Since then many male friends spoke to me about their hair loss. Except for one, all of them decided to not follow along, never asked a doctor about finasterid, and instead complain about even more hair loss 10 years down the road, while unsuccessfully trying all the scammy social media tips and solutions posted by the same men who also continue to spread the whole "your beard grows in thicker and faster if you shave it" misinformation.
Now their hair loss is permanent and can't be reversed by this anymore. You have to act in the first few years of noticing it.
Many other men similar to these friends now get hair transplants and are put on finasterid afterwards, anyways.
The one friend who actually listened and wasn't afraid because "hormones" started taking finasterid and is happy about his hair again. His beginning hair loss is gone and his general hair quality improved as well.
Don't be a social media masculinity-guru following guy, actually listen to what medicine has to say, not ads made to sell you something. Otherwise, it will be too late to do something about it at a point in time that is arriving sooner than you want to.
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Comment on Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it in ~tech
Parou LinkI just got a groupware offer from my domain provider for free due to a beta test of said software like a decade ago and use it with my domains. Never had to think about this hassle again. Might be...I just got a groupware offer from my domain provider for free due to a beta test of said software like a decade ago and use it with my domains. Never had to think about this hassle again. Might be worth looking into different groupware products if you want more features than just a simple imap inbox.
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Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes
Parou Link ParentOff topic to the general post, but: I call this "chasing the buffy era". Buffy significantly shaped how TV shows were written going forward. No other TV show had such an influence on writers and...Off topic to the general post, but:
You can see a lot of new shows, even good ones, play fast and loose with pacing and it can really hurt an otherwise great show.
I call this "chasing the buffy era". Buffy significantly shaped how TV shows were written going forward. No other TV show had such an influence on writers and producers as Buffy the Vampire Slayer had. Virtually every headwriter with a successfull TV show that features big season specific arcs from the early 2000s till around 2015 either was very obviously inspired by it in many key aspects or even openly talked about it in interviews.
When the buffy era shows ended, it became very obvious that companies like Netflix started to mass produce series in hope to land a similar success as those shows had. For many of those, they even straight up hired the writers of them.
There is one giant issue: The successfull buffy era shows were successfull because they spent their entire first season with character development, very slowly from "I fight my fated role, someone else should take it, why is it me?" and a majorly inconvenient threat (mind you, not world ending, unbeatable, just majorly inconvenient, we don't want to fire our big shot of literally fighting satan or something in season 1) to "I accept my role, there is no one else who can do it but me".
These new shows throw out a first season of like 8 episodes in hope to land something big. The entire character development is literally done in a single first episode and this episode already ends with the major threat, the main villain, the big boi being introduced and often times already having a shot at the protagonist. Then they spend 7 more episodes of getting back at them and the season ends with them defeating them already. Bam, there is literally nothing to be done in a second season, messed it up.
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Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes
Parou (edited )LinkIt's less that the modern web is complex, it's more that non hobby websites are running on unnecessary levels of frameworks (backend AND frontend). Every shit text that could be displayed...It's less that the modern web is complex, it's more that non hobby websites are running on unnecessary levels of frameworks (backend AND frontend). Every shit text that could be displayed blazingly fast with ease with a simple read on the backend and normal basic html + css has to go through multiple layers before your browser actually displays it instead.
We are talking:
- Entire backend frameworks that handle files, databases, often websocket servers that you don't even know are being connected to when you load many websites. Often it's not even just one big package, but multiple that are working together. Sometimes they barely are even made to work together, but employers want the team to make it happen.
- On the frontend you will have a fucking entire layout and style framework on top of often a fullass javascript based content related one that dynamically loads the content or parts of it via additional requests, further modifies and sanitizes it, etc, because fuck, why display content the normal way if we can make it overcomplicated and less performant the larger the service gets, right? All this javascript based ressource preloading adds to the felt delay because without it, you can already see most of the website before big ressources are finished loading in. With it, you are either greated with a loading screen and can't access any content until it's done loading the ressources fully, or you have to look through a half backed layout that shows you placeholders for images, not loaded content, etc.
- Then big sites also use external services or secondary servers to store their images at, often even parts of the before mentioned frameworks.
All of this can usually be done in simple and performant way, but the industry jumped on too many trains and now everything runs on this giant mess.
In the end, it dumbs down to complexity, yes, but the complexity is artificially forced for something that does not even need half this level of complexity.
In addition to all of this, some years ago, it became public that many dev teams are even forced to add completely made up delays and loading bars that take longer than the actual load that is happening, because customers (and employers) complained too much about "feeling like nothing actually happens" when something loads "too fast" without an indicator or an indicator that's gone in a blink.
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Comment on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? in ~transport
Parou LinkI have a feeling the fact that americans complain about missing paths to get somewhere by foot all the time might be one part of the reason.I have a feeling the fact that americans complain about missing paths to get somewhere by foot all the time might be one part of the reason.
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Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp
Parou LinkGIMP is what developers without graphic work experience think people with graphic work experience want, without understanding what actually makes the standards in the industries the standards. The...GIMP is what developers without graphic work experience think people with graphic work experience want, without understanding what actually makes the standards in the industries the standards. The end result is a graphics editing software for developers and those with similar minor editing needs or an inherent masochistic tendency (technically the same as being a developer). I heard they finally added non script basic drop shadows in the latest big version tho. Give them another 15 years.
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Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech
Parou Link"Fuck Wikipedia, I'm gonna make a new platform TRAINED on Wikipedia!!!""Fuck Wikipedia, I'm gonna make a new platform TRAINED on Wikipedia!!!"
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Comment on My take on Apple's Liquid Glass in ~tech
Parou LinkI didn't read the article yet, but it's annoying that any load of the page flashbangs one before immediately going into dark mode.I didn't read the article yet, but it's annoying that any load of the page flashbangs one before immediately going into dark mode.
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Comment on US FBI readies new war on trans people in ~lgbt
Parou Link"The {t-slur} are making us shoot our own!!!""The {t-slur} are making us shoot our own!!!"
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Comment on A timeline of false “gender ideology” claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting in ~lgbt
Parou LinkThe way the first thing I ever heard about it was right wing news media spread the lie that the bullets had "transgender messaging" carved into them. I was like "the fuck does that even mean?"....The way the first thing I ever heard about it was right wing news media spread the lie that the bullets had "transgender messaging" carved into them. I was like "the fuck does that even mean?".
Turns out when your readers think that transgender people are a political hate group against your shit beliefs that everyone but you and your willing, silent trad wife, should not have the right to live an open life, you can just say any vague lie without further need to define what the fuck you mean and they will just eat it up and further spread it.
Not a single person of their target group asked for any clarification or even tried to define what that means themselves. "Transgender messaging". That was the whole thing. That was enough.
My face when it then turned out it was actually right wing online groups meme texts against the groups they tried to pin it on.
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Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games
Parou Link ParentI mean hey, we get a cool bike. Which is all I took from it. I don't understand how Nintendo frequently, without many misses, makes the stupidest advertising decisions they could do. Metroid isn't...I mean hey, we get a cool bike. Which is all I took from it. I don't understand how Nintendo frequently, without many misses, makes the stupidest advertising decisions they could do. Metroid isn't some 10 dollars cash grab bullshit, it's a highly acclaimed, long going game series. Yet they treat it repeatedly like we should be glad it isn't completely forgotten.
BUT HEY, shitass pseudo re-release of their worst ever flopping game console is TOTALLY what everyone wants and needs a fullass trailer with voice over and physical accessory.
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Comment on Nintendo adding Virtual Boy to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, with Virtual Boy replica accessory to play games in 3D in ~games
Parou Link ParentLol no, it's a repeating sentiment in the whole community that they keep giving us stuff nobody asked for while the games literally everyone screams for get ignored.Lol no, it's a repeating sentiment in the whole community that they keep giving us stuff nobody asked for while the games literally everyone screams for get ignored.
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Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games
Parou LinkVery disappointed how Metroid always seems to get the silent treatment. Absolute minimal, no news, no voice over announcement inbetween some random games as if it's a third party eshop cash grab game.Very disappointed how Metroid always seems to get the silent treatment. Absolute minimal, no news, no voice over announcement inbetween some random games as if it's a third party eshop cash grab game.
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Comment on Nintendo adding Virtual Boy to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, with Virtual Boy replica accessory to play games in 3D in ~games
Parou Link"Hey, you know what people would really like?" - "Older Pokémo-" - "That's right, a pseudo re-release of our worst failing gaming console that haunts our company history to this very day! Brilliant!""Hey, you know what people would really like?" - "Older Pokémo-" - "That's right, a pseudo re-release of our worst failing gaming console that haunts our company history to this very day! Brilliant!"
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13% German, 80% Autistic
I'm autistic and german, but I never understood the whole joke about german and autism in the first place, as I'm having issues with all the aspects people frequently list when they are talking about german society / culture being "autistic" or "autism friendly".
For example, people claim that germans are very direct. As an autistic german, I can't confirm this. I have daily struggles with people in my environment about essentially nobody ever really being direct about anything.
Germans have all the issues anyone else have in these regards, they are just packaged differently.