I have a "unique" accent of some kind. Basically, I don't sound like I'm from "around here", even though I have lived in the same area for my entire life and so have my parents. Probably because I read a lot more than I actually talk to people.

Going to bars. I can't drink with my medications and I don't like going to loud, social places unless there's some other reason to be there.

Desperately needs more upvotes

Digital signal processing

Check out LibertyHub @ lemmy.blahaj.zone. Zero tolerance for liberal bullshit over there.

Why tf is this being downvoted here? 🖕 to liberals.

I'm just a 12-inch 60 watt guitar loudspeaker with tailored mid-range frequency response primarily used to record metal trying to find other guitar loudspeakers with tailored mid-range frequency responses primarily used to record metal

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I know a lot of loony leftists are saying things like "this is a violation of international law"

Shitlibs in a nutshell

Edit: Okay thank goodness you're being sarcastic.

Maybe TMI but hygiene. When I'm too sad to clean up then obviously I don't do it, but when I'm doing really good I get so caught up in my work that I forget to clean up.

Well I just tried #define int void in C and C++ before a "hello world" program. C++ catches it because main() has to be an int, but C doesn't care. I think it is because C just treats main() as an int by default; older books on C don't even include the "int" part of "int main()" because it's not strictly necessary.

#define int void replaces all ints with type void, which is typically used to write functions with no return value.

Running #define ; anything yields error: macro names must be identifiers for both C and C++ in an online compiler. So I don't think the compiler will let you redefine the semicolon.

One kinda emphasizes, if not "otherizes" the other... usually in a not good way...

Yeah. People have been killed over being Catholic in a non-Catholic Christian society and people have also been killed over being a non-Catholic Christian in a Catholic society.

But that doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't differentiate at all between the dogmas of Catholics and the wider practice of Christianity.

(orientalize or occidentalize)

I mean there are lots of non-Catholic Churches with European origins, for example Lutheranism and Anglicanism. So I think it's a bit more complicated than "otherizing" with respect to that specific dichotomy.

Catholics are Christians, but Christians are not necessarily Catholic. For example, Orthodox Christians are not Catholic. Being Catholic requires, at the bare minimum, agreement with the Holy See and implicitly the dogma he endorses. Even this "minor" difference can be used to find non-Catholic Christians.

Precisely, Catholic ⊊ Christian.

The reason why this is the case has to do with the history of Christianity, specifically the various schisms throughout the ages as the Christian faith evolved. That's an incredibly complicated topic which I'm not qualified to discuss.

Not really.

A lot of good people are on enshittified social media (Threads in particular) because they feel pressured by their social network (their actual set of human contacts) to "go where the people are". Some of them are there because they don't know that the free Threadiverse exists, particularly Lemmy (I've never met anyone IRL who knows what Lemmy is).

It's not a silver bullet, and obviously I'm just one guy making uncoordinated comments and posts, but I think that there is some benefit to interacting with Threads users if and only if you personally can take on the extra load of doing so.

If we wanted to make a "coordinated" campaign against Threads, IMO the strategy would be to (1) be nice to people from Threads who decide to come to our communities, so long as they behave, and (2) post openly coordinated anti-Meta messaging distributed throughout the Fediverse in places where Meta can't just take it down, of course placing this messaging in appropriate communities. I.e., make the free world a challenging place to be for a company that doesn't respect freedom. But I'm not experienced/sociable enough to orchestrate item (2).

Yes. Meta is a shit company, and I'm not a fan of corporations in general so they're doubly shit. Frankly, I hate them and everything they're about. My point still stands. Particularly, for my threat model, I want to be able to monitor the situation and interact with people who feel "forced" to be on Threads.

Yeah, I get that approach. IMO for 99% of people joining an instance that blocks Threads is probably a good idea. However, I'm not one of them, and I think most people on this specific instance aren't either, hence why we're here instead of somewhere else. I think that for my "threat model", the benefits of having access to the full Threadiverse outweigh the possible downsides.

I don't think they need us to be federated with them to use your information. Like they could probably just scrape it if they decide they're interested in it.

I think we don't block anyone, including Threads. If you want, you can block them for yourself in your settings.

No, I'm here to listen.