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#51
tech / F/OSS follies
Last post by prime - Jul 04, 2026, 09:26 AMQuoteMy rule is to use the best tool for the job, regardless. Sometimes that is BSD and open source software, and sometimes it is Windows and commercial software. I have no ideology except realism.
But, sometimes, the F/OSS manages to hammer home a point: stuff that volunteers build reflects what the volunteers want to do, not what makes the best tool. You can see this in absolute pieces of shit like LibreOffice, Wikipedia, or Mastodon that work badly and glitch constantly, but are an "easy answer" to tell others so lots of people use them and hide how much they are mediocre.
My phone needed a new SMS client, so I went over to F-Droid to check out what was there. I tried a new client, "Fossify," and at first gave it the utilitarian thumbs-up. It seems to work OK. But then, the glitches emerged. It lost track of group threads. It refused to send JPGs at random. It was very slow.
All of this shows that much as the best tool for the job is the right choice, the best tool for the person or people to make the tool is also a big question. Some have the motivation to excellence, and others ignore basic glitches.
If I had a wish for the F/OSS community, it would be for it to have a different core of supporters than the people who hung out at demonstrations, shopped at organic grocery stores, and boycotted big corporations by buying weird off-brand alternatives. They are fanatics, and this means that like the Apple fanbase, they are blind to the defects of what they are promoting.
In my view, the original shareware authors had it right: remove ideology, focus on practicality. If you send out your software as shareware, people will use it but also hold it up to the higher standards of the market and not ideology. You probably get the same ratio of purchase-to-piracy anyway.
https://bbs.hou2600.org/index.php/topic,17.new.html#new
#52
tech / Houston 2600
Last post by prime - Jul 04, 2026, 08:56 AMThe bbs has moved to here: https://bbs.hou2600.org/
#53
idea / Re: Mailing List Discussions
Last post by prime - Jul 04, 2026, 08:54 AMTo the "Neechy" thread I might add: Nietzsche was an extreme transcendentalist whose basic idea, amor fati, meant rejecting the self and becoming what one was destined to be, a role in the cosmic drama of human flourishing and struggle.
#54
sense / Re: Psychopaths and Narcissist...
Last post by prime - Jul 04, 2026, 08:53 AMIn my view, the narcissist is simply a fully-realized individualist. They do everything for themselves and never doubt that.
They also have to build up a sense that they are successful, but all of life does this; it is the "fiction-absolute" that Tom Wolfe wrote about.
They also have to build up a sense that they are successful, but all of life does this; it is the "fiction-absolute" that Tom Wolfe wrote about.
#55
sense / Psychopaths and Narcissists - ...
Last post by sub rosa - Jul 03, 2026, 08:45 PMMoving over from the Mailing-List.
I must add self-esteem to my own list of "Nonsense" concepts. I usually go along to get along and use it in the conventional sense, for purposes of communicating with my fellow humans. But self-esteem / self-worth does not exist in biology, physics, or anywhere else. It is simply a relational and contextual variable determined by 'the market' - which market ceased to be pure biology long ago, only to be replaced by an over-socialized, extractive, parasitic system that has evolved to reproduce mostly morons.
In response to the grotesque 'valuation systems' out there, people are told to look inwards to develop their own sense of 'self-worth' without needing 'external validation;' but that leads to a split personality. To evaluate the self, one must become both judge and defendant, subject and object, which is crazy-making.
An arguably sane approach is to look at 'self-worth' like a glass of water that can only be understood relationally, contextually, and under high specificity. What is water worth? To someone who's trying to start fires or dealing with a flood - essentially zero. At the other extreme, in a desert, it may be ... EVERYTHING. Then the self-esteem sky-rockets, go figure (eye roll).
The water didn't change. Only the context did. Otherwise, self-worth means nothing and it's basically a neurotic, perverse notion.
Narcs need to feel like glasses of water to an entire world living in the desert. If they start having doubts about this, they detect something tragic in it. Vulnerable narcs must be literally taught that "it's OK for everyone to NOT like you," or even for most people to not like you.
Narcs act only for themselves because they are unable to connect with and value relevant others. Their existential goal IS ultimately themselves, often through the use of others, institutions, or ideologies. The point is to advance personal goals as dictated by self-image.
In my view, all existential goals worth anything involve a sense of unity and connection with others, therefore life; but that cannot be reduced to abstractions and symbolism (as in "I love humanity"), or mere survival & reproduction.
The DT's toxic iceberg under the water is probably more massive than other hidden things because these people put a lot of effort in curating their personas.
I must add self-esteem to my own list of "Nonsense" concepts. I usually go along to get along and use it in the conventional sense, for purposes of communicating with my fellow humans. But self-esteem / self-worth does not exist in biology, physics, or anywhere else. It is simply a relational and contextual variable determined by 'the market' - which market ceased to be pure biology long ago, only to be replaced by an over-socialized, extractive, parasitic system that has evolved to reproduce mostly morons.
In response to the grotesque 'valuation systems' out there, people are told to look inwards to develop their own sense of 'self-worth' without needing 'external validation;' but that leads to a split personality. To evaluate the self, one must become both judge and defendant, subject and object, which is crazy-making.
An arguably sane approach is to look at 'self-worth' like a glass of water that can only be understood relationally, contextually, and under high specificity. What is water worth? To someone who's trying to start fires or dealing with a flood - essentially zero. At the other extreme, in a desert, it may be ... EVERYTHING. Then the self-esteem sky-rockets, go figure (eye roll).
The water didn't change. Only the context did. Otherwise, self-worth means nothing and it's basically a neurotic, perverse notion.
Narcs need to feel like glasses of water to an entire world living in the desert. If they start having doubts about this, they detect something tragic in it. Vulnerable narcs must be literally taught that "it's OK for everyone to NOT like you," or even for most people to not like you.
Narcs act only for themselves because they are unable to connect with and value relevant others. Their existential goal IS ultimately themselves, often through the use of others, institutions, or ideologies. The point is to advance personal goals as dictated by self-image.
In my view, all existential goals worth anything involve a sense of unity and connection with others, therefore life; but that cannot be reduced to abstractions and symbolism (as in "I love humanity"), or mere survival & reproduction.
The DT's toxic iceberg under the water is probably more massive than other hidden things because these people put a lot of effort in curating their personas.
#56
sense / Mailing List
Last post by prime - Jul 03, 2026, 03:34 PMBecause the world likes to shit on anything good, our hosting provider has removed mailing lists:
I suspect this is their frustration for being frequent targets of Google's monopolistic DKIM/SPF scam.
In any case, while I will look into renting another server to run a Mailman 2 instance, generally speaking I think the Google spam filter problem (which has increased spam and the quality of deception in spam, making it a failure like all Google products; stay away from Waymos!) the sensible response is probably to use the forum instead.
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I suspect this is their frustration for being frequent targets of Google's monopolistic DKIM/SPF scam.
In any case, while I will look into renting another server to run a Mailman 2 instance, generally speaking I think the Google spam filter problem (which has increased spam and the quality of deception in spam, making it a failure like all Google products; stay away from Waymos!) the sensible response is probably to use the forum instead.
#57
unseen / Eternal Justice
Last post by prime - Jul 03, 2026, 03:27 PMQuoteThis fundamental unity places Eternal Justice in the Advaitin nondualist camp. However, because harm and suffering are materially real for Schopenhauer, Eternal Justice also compliments Sāṁkhya's dualist perspective.
https://attackthesystem.com/2026/07/03/eternal-justice-as-the-emulsion-of-nondualism-and-dualism-schopenhauers-descriptive-appropriation-of-incompatible-vedic-philosophies/
#58
idea / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jul 03, 2026, 10:08 AMDiversity News (July 3, 2026)
Changing the laws, taxes killing us, crossing the cuckline, German economic collapse, labor force collapse.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-july-3-2026/
Changing the laws, taxes killing us, crossing the cuckline, German economic collapse, labor force collapse.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversity-news-july-3-2026/
#59
idea / Individualism
Last post by prime - Jul 03, 2026, 09:24 AMQuoteRecent evidence suggests that a single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin reduces the drive to seek out rewards, providing evidence for its potential to treat substance use disorders.
https://www.psypost.org/a-single-dose-of-psilocybin-reduces-reward-seeking-behavior-by-altering-inhibitory-brain-cells/
#60
idea / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Jul 03, 2026, 09:03 AMQuoteA study of women in committed and sexually active romantic relationships in Poland found that women who perceived their mate value as lower than that of their partner showed a stronger desire to satisfy their partner sexually. In turn, this higher motivation was associated with these women initiating sex, performing fellatio, and faking orgasms more frequently.
https://www.psypost.org/women-who-perceive-their-partner-as-more-desirable-report-higher-motivation-to-please-them-sexually/