underscores

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[–] underscores 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be willing to give it a try. They can be frustrating at times, but to me it's not really worse than with liberal instances. I'd understand if the community here doesn't want to put up with them though.

I haven't checked it out in a couple years, but I remember there being several decent communities over there. But their more authoritarian communities are pretty shitty.

[–] underscores 2 points 1 month ago

I love how anteaters and sloths used to be lumped together with primates in the 1740s.

 

A list of all the fun ways people used to group creatures together that make no biological sense.

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A list of all the fun ways people used to group creatures together that make no biological sense.

[–] underscores 84 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I really don't like the idea of citing this study. It's always this same one from the 90s, and if it were acurate I expect the results would have been reproduced more. It's also not clear that the results indicate what the paper says. There's other reasons than sexual arousal that could explain the results. It could be they're imagining the scenario and are axious or disgusted by it. There's this paper that indicates homophobia is usually caused by fear or hate.

I don't like the idea of putting the blame for homophobia on closeted queer people. It's seems extremely likely to me that most homophobic people are straight, since most people are straight. Also we should respect other people's own identification instead of trying to force labels on people, even if they're bigots.

[–] underscores 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't have traffic data, which is probably the biggest disadvantage. The maps are user contributed, so the quality varies widely. Depending on where you are, it'll be ridiculously detailed with individual bushes in a park, or it's incorrect or outdated and you can't find your destination. I usually use this or OSMand, but I still keep google maps on another profile as a backup.

[–] underscores 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have a good enough grasp on the topic to fully vouch for the site, but I've found pluralpedia.org really useful and interesting.

[–] underscores 1 points 1 month ago

I think he's literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn't really any better.

[–] underscores 2 points 1 month ago

At least in the case I remember it wasn't a bot network. They would just put them on popular playlists so it'd end up with tons of listens. They were basically fake bands created as a way to get around paying licensing fees. If there's no real band there's no royalties to pay.

[–] underscores 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't used it but there's ProxiTok.

[–] underscores 5 points 1 month ago

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It's relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don't lose your entries. It's android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I'm not sure how well it works for longer entries.

[–] underscores 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't used Chameleon, but it seems to do some stuff like change the user agent that JShelter doesn't do. I'd assume it's more useful to get around a site designed for a specific browser or operating system.

[–] underscores 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

JShelter isn't mainly for spoofing, it's about blocking a bunch of potentially harmful advanced javascript features, often used for tracking. Any spoofing is mostly to keep sites working with the missing javascript features.

I have it installed on one of my browsers. I wouldn't recommend using it unless you're willing to tweak the settings for new sites you visit, because I've had it break sites pretty often with the default settings.

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