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HUMAN BEHAVIOUR (REPEATING THINGS)

Everyone is a repeater of sorts.

Instead of deflecting or avoid this, we should youse this (yes youse is a word I just made up to reflect we use ourselves mostly in this value system !)

Using our views is also measurably proven by the way the 'other people' can use it against us even when they are not interested and so I think we could use it for ourselves *a bit* more like *everyday*!

So even though big tech or whoever doesn't really care or sympathise with us, imagine if people can AND do funnel things between each other... !!!!
NOW THAT'S POWER!

(POWER powered by the people, for the people)

MORE DETAIL ABOUT WHY WE ARE REPEATERS UNDOUBTEDLY:
because it's
- coming from personal feeling / expression
- coming from advertising
- coming from virtue signalling / projecting certain qualities

QUESTION: What to do about people on Mastodon who answer some questions, even friendly or friends but then don't answer some specific questions (not even the worst but just don't even say why)

Basically while it seems 'needy' (going to call it myself)
it's really like every other person and considered normal so I MUST do something about it or face passive-[insert your word here like aggressive] or apathetic like which is pathetic frankly as if we can live and not talk or that it's not fascism the opposite polar sense that we ignore people.

Seems like pent up aggression or rage but it's not. You try living without any sort of reply (oh wait you probably know how that feels so appreciate some constructive comments on that for why nice people don't answer and even continue conversation in the next topics lol)

WHY IS SMALLER TECH MORE BEAUTIFUL OR FULFILLING?

ARAL BALKAN's SMALL-TECH
E.F. SCHUMACHER's Small IS BEAUTIFUL
FREESCHOOL's EDUCATION AS EVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM

What's the point of these things?

SHORT ANSWERS:
less politically mixed / more conventrated
less polluted with other tech / more specific
less trojan-horsed / more customisable / pick and choose

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL for these reasons!

* because you have more: CONTROL / QUALITY / APPRECIATION / PERSONAL RECIPROCATION / ALIGNMENT / MEANING / INDEPENDENCE / INDEPENDENT CHOICE (or less dependency more exactly)

THE ANSWER OVERALL TO THESE QUESTIONS of why is because of that list and control / choice we have overall...

IN ALL PARTS OF LIFE SMALLER INTERACTION (OR MORE PERSONAL) IS OFTEN BETTER / MORE BEAUTIFUL *TO THE INDIVIDUAL*

If you scale up you lose this critical point about individual satisfaction and hand-on direct control / customisation (that list would go here)

SUMMARY
So I think yes the basics of small respect the individual more, from in a small field for planting plants using your hands (low tech / low consumption), to setting up a small old computer for family (low foot-print technology)..

I have more to say and understand that BigTech has largely enabled us but it's not out of our hands completely and we can bend that for-profit-tree-of-life to something less profit orientated if we can solve the banking a bit more often in our transactions and interactions.

The *realisation* to the above is really key to why we like things in smaller / narrow ranges... *and then* the next stage is realising how to get out / reduce the big consumption based for-profit systems more often.

Bill Gates has bought perhaps half the agricultural land I heard and I think that is very telling of the way we need to also go while using bigtech and solving what it has provided us wastefully over 20-ish or 30ish short years more exponentially...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful

#crisis without #culture
#technology heavy #gaming
#games #addicts #globalwarming #climate #climatejustice #computer #culture #RETRO #retrocomputing #computing #tech #SURVIVAL #LIFE #history

Wonder how much money the queen had when she passed away?

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...the queen and #bank accounts 🏦
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LEWD JOKE:bloblewd:(BUT REAL / REALITY)

Nobody is going to love me more than love I myself. ❤️ 💗 [:heart emoji not showing]

And that's what I'm going to do right now!

QUOTE:
The """solutions""" create as many security problems as it solves.

- niconiconi @niconiconi
https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/96iiird0xn

SENTIMENTS NEARER DEATH
WE GET MORE HONEST!

CONTRAST OF OUR HUMAN NATURE

Being sentimental or suddenly full of regret near to death is natural and probably hard to escape.

This post shows a bit about human nature; both as "It's ok to do these things / don't mind" and then nearer death "oh no what have I done / I should have done these really important things" but only when you've lost or losing something NOT before!

QUICK EXAMPLES FIRST:

Example 1.... being honest to self or others, only when you're dying or someone is leaving you.

Example 2... seeing what money is really worth, seeing in the end what's worth it when you can't hold on to it or it's worthless for health!

Example 3... not practising what you preach - not going for it (not enough courage or playing it too safe, maybe not even working on it)

(some of which is perfectly part of everything but some we might never learn part getting out / solving / doing right / taking upon ourselves instead of deflecting / getting out of a paradoxical human thing we spin into crash somehow anyway)

Example 4: 'Charlie Brown' comic strip:

Schulz was asked if, in his final Peanuts strip drawing if Charlie Brown would finally get to kick the football after so many decades (one recurring theme in Peanuts Comic was Charlie Brown's attempts to kick a football while Lucy was holding it, only to have Lucy pull it back at the last moment, causing him to fall on his back).

His response, "Oh, no. Definitely not. I couldn't have Charlie Brown kick that football; that would be a terrible disservice to him after nearly half a century."

BUT DURING HIS DEATH

But in a December 1999 interview, holding back tears, Schulz recounted the moment when he signed his final strip, saying, "All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that poor, poor kid, he never even got to kick the football. What a dirty trick—he never had a chance to kick the football.'"

- Charles M. Schulz - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz#cite_ref-Michaelis_15-1
natural)

SUMMARY
So I think we can learn from this ahead of time.

While we're alive we don't want to give others much thought or be too real or maybe we're too precious over things rather than giving and even receiving freely...

People make silly games or go along with it like making people pay for our own respect 9we should all have ourself) or heroes that have to die or have something happen as part of a humankind as a sort of of click bait or hook to get them to see 'what happens next' as a psychological way to get people to keep reading... or find endearment / weakness etc.

In all fairness the Charlie Brown comic strip is tip of the story iceberg but simple and short enough to see people creating the misfortune designed (there is documentary about Marvel character templates for just this) otherwise possibly it wouldn't work somehow... much like how children like to see you fall or made a sad face when they take things from you and you say 'aww but I didn't get any cake' and the child smiles...
(adults too in more vicious ways)... kind of sick in a human 'normal' way...

Something about the human being makes people want to be high or low- not the middle

1. HERO high
or
2. SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY low

(some of which is perfectly part of everything but some we might never learn part getting out / solving / doing right / taking upon ourselves instead of deflecting / getting out of a paradoxical human thing we spin into crash somehow anyway)

Thought welcome.

VERY SMALL SITES <512KB:

https://512kb.club/

INTRO / QUOTE:

"The internet has become a bloated mess. Massive JavaScript libraries, countless client-side queries and overly complex frontend frameworks are par for the course these days.

When popular website like The New York Times are over 15MB in size (nearly 50% of which is JavaScript!), you know there’s a problem. Why does any site need to be that huge? It’s crazy."

Try something different.
https://512kb.club/

BROWSER ADDONS & PLUGINS *TOOLS*
'MUST HAVE' / USEFUL PRODUCTIVITY *LIST*

List gives you an idea of what you could really need or never thought of!

Use this link to search any of my examples below
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Autocopy / clipboard tool
- Holds previous clipboard
- use middleclick to paste! Easier / Efficient! ?safety hazard?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=autocopy

About memory cpu info
- Shows memory in browser bottom left
- show system CPU / memory usage
- and browser's CPU / memory usage
- some show as bars or numbers

Arrow to Top / bottom of page
- on every site go to top is useful!

Archive.org
- add to search bar
- add button, click to open in way back machine / lookup for current site

Dark Websites / Night Mode All
- Dark mode / Night mode for every website.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=Night Mode

Adverts / Blockers
- Adblock Plus / U-block Origin (careful of names, THEY ARE DIFFERENT / SIMILAR FAKES - READ THE REVIEWS!)
essential Advert blocker
- NoScript for tighter control https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
(of course you might have this already but do re-check it and even keep old version as backup as sometimes they change for worse / get bought out)

Behind the Overlay
- 1-click remove all overlays (reveals what is behind notices and blocks to content)

Color My Tabs
- Colour code / group by colour!

Cookies Exterminator
- clear cookies 1-click

Cookies - i dont care about
- literally bypass / don't make any active choice / don't show warnings

Copy Link Text
- Copy what's hard to copy sometimes in a link's description or mouse-over

Disable Ctrl-Q and cmd-q
- avoid keyboard exits accidentally

Download them all (basic manager)
- If you really need something better than standard browser manager

FireFTP from brower
- secure, cross-platform FTP, SFTP client

Flashblock
- Just to remind you of the days you needed this!

FoxAmp - Winamp control buttons
- Music control from in your browser

Disables WebRTC, Flash, Java, Cookies, Javascript
(enable WebRTC for Video / Audio Conference calls like https://meet.jit.si/chataboutwebrtc
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/secure-kit/

Geo-Location Changer
- Change Geolocation to your desired one and protect your privacy / see content usually not wanted to be shown to you or even blocked by country.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/change-geolocation-locguard/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

Ghostery
- Security plugins

Key binder / config for Keyboard
- add any key to popular action / command

Loop Media
- loops music / audio especially

Middle Click Close Tab
- Either on Tab or anywhere on page!

Screen Capture
- Nimbus was #1 but was big competition before

No Squint
- Aid for text font sizes / zoom

Print friendly PDF
- Output to PDF to email OR print

Quick torrent search
- search for torrent downloads instead of client
- or use another Addon to manually right click 'Add search' instead of this plugin (which I prefer)

Request policy / terms and conditions / see site contracts
- go to pages of Privacy & T's + C's

Scrap book
- Add / compile to a collection

Send Later

Restore Session / Session manager

Tab counter
- Essential discrete as top right number

Tabs Tree
- see list and path of your clicks!

Sidebar
- see download / history etc for those browsers that got rid of it!

Undo close tab (single button)

YouTube / Twitter Filters (no adverts + minimal site + comments intact + no harvesting)
- recommend Privacy Redirect to FILTER / CLEAN all privacy problem sites as you click:
Nitter --------> Twitter Filter / Redirect
Invidious -----> YouTube Filter / Redirect
Bibliogram ----> Instgram Filter / Redirect
OpenStreetMap -> GoogleMaps Filter / Redirect
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

YouTube Lazy load
- Don't autoplay (allows you to choose when to play / change to lower res or read comments first)

** BOOST IF YOU FOUND 1 THING USEFUL **
** OR KILL ME ** (which is also by boosting post!)

#Browser #addons #plugins #tools

FOSDEM 2022 AUDIO TOPIC:
Legal and Policy DevRoom Talk....

AUDIO FROM VIDEO (just faces):

WHEN: Feb 5th Saturday 15:30 - 16:30
Full Audio / Video is ~58mins

WHO: Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Max Mehl, Alexander Sander

ABOUT: The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom for FOSDEM 2022 discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy...

Source:
https://www.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/organizerslegalpolicy/

Other similar info:
https://www.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/

Other notes, pics and info here:
http://freeschool.0id.org/?s=audio

⭐ Karen ⭐ mentioned here in this post if you want to use the audio version natively in Mastodon (very quick and low bandwidth)

Thanks to all in video also...
@o0karen0o@mastodon.technology

*** BOOST PLEASE ***
#Web #Legal #Privacy #Tools #Software #WWW #Libre #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Audio #FLOSS2022

WATCHING A FILM SOON - FIRST MOVIE OR TWO THIS YEAR

I've watched clips and even mountain climbing 'movie' documentaries on https://yewtu.be/ but not an actual movie (as in hollywood or any cinema) in almost a year!!!!

I used to watch an insane amount which was kinda thinking I was learning but wasn't from best sources (Hollywood).

Within last few years maybe 10 / 20 max ! (I'm considering I've watched more because maybe memory is key in saying this so I'll over-guesstimate than sell you something sounding fantastic!!!)

So I celebrate the official "planning of a movie" stage now and watch it sometimes when I'm probably desperate!

WHY DID I STOP WATCHING MOVIES /
HOW CAN I WATCH LESS? (Tips)

1. I think it *really* helped when my all-in-1 way program for downloading AND searching 'broke' (Python requirements mismatch between version)
2. I also realised I don't have hard disk space so that made me delete stuff which I couldn't do well, thus I couldn't download new stuff!
3. I realised all the downloads I used to watch and popular / fast on download are ALL Hollywood and therefore they somewhat make me Hollywooden-out since it was just mostly cake for the mind and simply crap cake too.
Serving only time-kill time made me realise there is more if I out my mind to it, and I thought myself better so stopped watching movies as a result (small movies plenty if relative to what I watch or who I talk to... though but much more controlled and on topic- not 'just anything' kill-my-time however style!).

I hope I'm a better person for it if not horribly right and a non-hollywood destiny awaits me!

MUTUALITY - RECIPROCAL LIFE

When people come back tired from work, if they see you doing work for them suddenly it's doesn't seem so bad or more a reciprocal life.

You could say it's like a circle ----> O instead of a one-way line (like working for corporations)

The motivation factor is total different when things are continuing and working for you (as you work for them).

SUMMARY
There is far less de-motivation and depression if people can give / allow other things to do for others.

(If you have anything just let me know even though this was a general comment)