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[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert.

Pothos is usually fairly hardy. It's probably acclimating to it's new environment. Be very careful of over watering. Stick your finger deep into the soil and don't water if it's clearly moist. If it's totally dry, take it to the shower, get it totally wet but let all the excess water drain. If you haven't repotted it in two years, you may want to do that and check for root rot while you're at it.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 days ago

Not sure what you mean by incorrect as it's not defining peeling potatoes as the goal of Zen Buddhism.

I've practiced it and taken part in their retreats. The instruction for cleaning and cooking service was very much to just focus on what you're doing - like just peel the potatoes. Not thinking about peeling them. Not looking for a deeper meaning in it. Not narrating a humble-brag story about yourself piously peeling them. This quote is accurate but doesn't make for an exciting overview of Zen philosophy or practice.

 
[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fun fact: The "my body is a temple" line does originate from a spiritual tradition that did NOT forbid wine (Nondual Tantrik Shaivism) - though it did encourage moderation in all. And you'd be expected to drink the wine as you would be offering it in a temple.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get Waking Up app, do the practices and listen to the talks.

Congrats, you've touched reality, from the haze of the rat race and the world designed to keep you distracted from the big scary pointlessness of it all. Yes, everything and everyone will die and then something else comes along and eventually dies and so on. Most people don't want to realize this and rather numb themselves out, and encourage others to do the same as a shared delusion is easier to keep up. But the fleeting pointlessness is very beautiful if you let it be, scary if you resist it - makes no difference to the end result though, the truth is nice like that.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

lol @ gale, very on point

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus gets into this as well. It's a really powerful tool that we are very, very ill equipped to use responsibly.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Haven't looked at anything Detective Conan for a while. It's cool to see the old style in modern animation.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

That the idea of a constant Barbie-box description "self" is a fiction. Failure to discover "who I really am" wasn't proof that I was faulty, just the normal human experience before cultural and social conditioning.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Take your time like this: https://www.how-to-type.com/touch-typing-lessons/how-to-type-home-keys/

Then try a typing game like https://www.typelit.io/

It will take time and it will feel so awkward at first.

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm against it because of the questionable ways AI gets trained (stealing art or books for example) and also because of the environmental impacts.

With the unethical training habits and energy consumption from megacorps, in addition to just being brain-killing slop, AI generated content should have no place in social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is why I've begun to sworn off learning anything about current events on social media. Everyone's posting propaganda, misleading pictures etc. If I want the news, I check news sites, not social media.

Op is a mod...

[–] noretus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Vibes. Semi-physical feel of things. Just guessing.

 

There have been a few times like this but I ran into it again today. I need to buy a simple custom cork for a project and I just sought a native vendor, pretty sure that I wouldn't find one.

Lo and behold, I was wrong. I found two Finnish sites selling cork products. But something doesn't feel right. Maybe it's the amount of products, there's too many - what would have to be a fairly small producer wouldn't have that large of a catalogue, I don't think. I read their About Page and it's just some fluffy "we're a family business" bit with photos that just look like random buildings. No place names, no people.

Their contact page points to Poland: Nowosolska 12 60-171 Poznan, Poland

Okay so we have an address but it really doesn't seem like a manufacturing place, it looks like a warehouse (sorry for Google). Their site doesn't have any info about where their products are produced etc. though they fluff about "high quality portugese cork".

It feels like an European front for a Chinese manufacturer.

I had the same experience looking into a cosmetics line from Flying Tiger / Normal stores. I dig into the brand and just find some random address in Denmark that doesn't seem to have anything like a factory in it. See: https://www.sence-essentials.com/, https://www.brandfix.dk/ or https://www.karium.com/ for a similar thing in UK. And at least for the latter product, I have the handcream that says "made in UK"... but I am very doubtful because I can't find any information about the manufacturing. Everything on their site is just marketing fluff. Linkedin is a bit better but because their sites are so... insubstantial I don't feel confident in the Linkedin either. There are no people on their sites though (besides what could just be stock models), maybe at most some name for a "contact us" person. At least when I check for example, Lumene, which is an established finnish cosmetics brand, I can take a look at their page and see pictures of what look like a real store, with real people, and I can see their factory at the street view with brand logos etc.

Am I just being kinda overly critical and paranoid or are others noticing this? Between Shopify sites that pretend to be small artisans just reselling Temu junk and AI generated webpages I've become really doubtful of every product that doesn't have very transparent production process with real names and faces attached to them.

Edit: Also yes btw, doing this type of digging is annoying and time-consuming. I want more rigorous labeling standards.

 

(X-posted from Reddit)

Back in the day, before algorithms etc. what we had was webportals that specialized in linking sites with interesting contents. These were manually updated by people who were interested in whatever their site was about.

We still have some stuff like this, arguably Reddit sort of functions in this way still but it's kind of a mix of the old way of peer-to-peer content sharing and algorithms (and let's face it: an ungodly amount of bots). However mostly it seems to have gone out of fashion due to automatic algorithms (+bots) out-competing manual posting from people. However this is mostly true for most common denominator type stuff. It's easy to have algorithms push some topic of interest in general but every topic in the world has sub-categories. The more niche you get, the more clumsy algorithms get - not to the point of vanishing completely but they're not usually so fine-tuned - it's easier to cater things that in general appeal to a wider audience.

This is where you as an unique human can step in, and you can do it on Mastodon on Lemmy, depending on which more suits your needs. For example, I like ASMR, but I'm super picky and I dislike a lot of the current trends (fast and aggressive and overly sexual). I know I'm not the only one so it occurred to me to combine what I'm already doing (looking for certain type of ASMR vids) with posting my findings to Mastodon, giving me a reason to A: use Mastodon and B: eventually have a useful link to give to people who want to find the type of ASMR I like (slow and minimalistic). I'm not a content creator, I'm not looking to make a career out of this but I already spend time looking for the content I like because the algorithm sucks. It doesn't take a lot of additional effort for me to just post what I find to the Mastodon feed (https://mastodon.social/@slowasmrpicks if you're interested). Now if i see someone on social media bemoan the difficulty of finding this particular kind of ASMR, I can give them the link to my list - conveniently also directing people to Mastodon. AND if I actually get followers, I'll also have a way of pushing Peertube or Dailymotion if people start posting there more.

So here's an idea for you, if you have some niche interest that you look up stuff on naturally, because it's your hobby... why not do what I'm doing? Make an account on Mastodon or Lemmy for that specific thing and just post the link to what you found.

To people who are of my generation (and Reddit users in general since this is kinda how Reddit works), maybe I'm being a bit obvious but it seems to me the younger generation isn't even used to thinking like this. Sure they get reviews for big media like games and movies, but not meta-content online. If you post on social media, it's supposed to be "your stuff" and then you beg for likes and reposts to get the algorithm to pick you up etc. Curated lists don't make as much sense in modern social media environments but I think on fediverse it could work AND it would help generate a reason to be there, which they currently need as very few actual content creators have migrated. Also note that I'm NOT telling you to copy the content and post it, just link to it so the creator gets the engagement as they should.

TL:DR: Find something cool online that pertains to your very specific interest that you already spend time looking for? Make a dedicated account for it on Fediverse and post the link.

Bonus Tip: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clean-links-webext/ (or similar for other browsers ) to strip URLs from any annoying tracking tokens.

Edit: As a side note, of course you can just post about some very general topic, why not. Just then you are competing with algorithms that are far more efficient at it than you are.

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