i’m a Jew. tonight i am finally able to cry.
New here, looking for my home on the fediverse. Interests include traditional musics from around the world, opera, Asian drama series and growing my own veg.
Decades of life with chronic illness. Brain often malfunctions. Whatever words I’ve gotten out have likely been a struggle. Please be kind.
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emma@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience isEnglish
2·2 years agoi’ve only found k-drama communities on lemmy and it seems like they’re all abandoned. i know several k-fanatics on mastodon, some hardcore c-drama folk and 3 other thai fans. i don’t know if lemmy plays well with the more twitter-like parts of the fediverse but i can introduce you there if you have an account. i think we can DM on here?
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Technology@beehaw.org•I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience isEnglish
3·2 years agoUse Piped as a front end for y–t—. It’s open source & non-tracking, but views still count. The creator is active on the fedi too.
Individual servers sometimes go off line or lose quality when they’re rate limited. Just try a different server when that happens. If the one you’re using at the time shows ads and there are too many, check preferences to turn them off.
(My addiction is Thai. Also watch some c- and k- too.)
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Technology@beehaw.org•Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much SurveillanceEnglish
14·2 years agoThis just happened. It’s far too early to do more than speculate.
Like we can also connect dots from known things like FBI agents being killed because Trump leaked documents, his connections with Russia directly and thus Iran, to the possibility that information also leaked which compromised agents acting on Israel’s behalf within Gaza. To be clear, this is also speculation.
But yeah, we can create all sorts of scenarios based on bits of information and our biases and ways of looking at the world. We’ll never know everything which factored in.
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Politics@beehaw.org•House Votes to Oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker: Live Updates - The New York TimesEnglish
2·2 years agoDon’t what? Comment on the dire straits of both countries with an attempt at humour? Seems that part failed here.
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Politics@beehaw.org•House Votes to Oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker: Live Updates - The New York TimesEnglish
12·2 years agoYou know guys, you don’t have to actually outdo the UK for unhinged politics. I mean, our lot just won’t have that and things are bad enough here already.
I have zero interest in spending that much time wading through crap just so I can have the personal decision to block it.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.English
4·2 years agoI was never so glad I’d bought a normal telly as the week I spent in a rental with a “smart” one.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?English
3·2 years agook, thanks. this is the kind of info i’m looking for. disappointed to hear but better to know.
emma@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?English
2·2 years agoSelf-hosting on Mumble isn’t going to help me join existing communities on Discord, is it? I already have an over-abundance of opportunities to talk to myself ;P
emma@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?English
3·2 years agoI am careful that way. Thanks for this.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?English
5·2 years ago“propitiatory indexing” is a delightful autocorrect :)
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Chat@beehaw.org•Anyone else want to just want to abandon society and go live in a commune?English
18·2 years agoI don’t come anywhere near close to meeting the requirements for intentional communities. Chronic illness is a real bastard. I don’t need much and the quality of my life could so easily be improved by just a little help from others, but everyone - even intentional communities - is caught up in focusing on how much others can help them. What I can give is less tangible, and therefore dismissed.
I don’t want to abandon society but I do recognise we’d all be far better off if we lived in ways which were less isolating. Every person/family for themselves harms us all.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?
3·2 years agoMy central and autonomic nervous systems. Mine are shite and have been since I was wee. Even a clean reinstall of the original operating system would likely help a ton, but if the open source community could go through the files and find the all the bugs, who knows what I could make of my life. At the very least I’d be able to work again.


This place no longer feels safe for me.