barefootstache @barefootstache@qoto.org

Just had the experience with auto scanning boarding passes to board the plane that one passenger forgot to turn off auto-rotate on their phone. So every time they tried to scan the barcode the phone flipped it to the other side.

#ProLifeHack: turn off auto-rotate if you plan to board a plane with an automated terminal.

A subjective long life is defined by the amount of unique experiences.

#life #philosophy

Just picked a round of Aronia berries before the rain.

I love it when lack of communication is the cause for a ticket being stagnant for months. And the best part is that the code review didn't catch it.

Considering the game "two truths and a lie". Is responding with three truths an acceptable answer? Since if ever questioned what the lie is, you can respond with the prompt.

Would you welcome it if the moderator of a conference was anonymized by wearing a mascot?

Boosts are much appreciated!

#vote #poll @poll #umfrage @umfrage

Question: do #makeup free individuals exist or do they only exist if you disable at least one of our senses?

To add more context to this question it should be looked at an abstract point of view.

One can argue that any modification to the individual is a form of makeup.

If we took for example a freshly washed person. This person is only for a fragment of time makeup free or are they? Couldn't the act of washing be considered also a form of makeup?

Now let's say you took a photo of an individual, then you could easily say if they used makeup or not. Though at the same time you blocked out at least one sense: smell.

Looking into the thought of why girls should act and behave a certain way. It seems like it is an ideal that was sold in the 1950s by men. So it doesn't really say anything about their true nature.

Now the question is why do men want girls to act in that manner. The hypothesis would be that it has some kind biological roots. That men need to feel like they are the protectors of weak and innocent.

Assuming a fraction of this is true, then I can understand the #feminism movement to ridicule the #propaganda apposed onto womenkind to suppress their nature.

#biology #marketing

Lots of people try to simplify #nutrition that it is only macro and micro nutrients. If that is the case then we could live off of supplements.

Though one thing we still haven't (at least mainstream nutrition) quantified is the amount of organic compounds we need like alkaloids or antioxidants.

Next time you ask yourself if this food item is meek in essential nutrients, could it be rich organic compounds.

#health

It is known that #MyersBriggs has little conclusive scientific backing, though nonetheless it is interesting to see personal change over time.

The first three years I took it, I resulted with #ENFP-A. Then slowly through time I was moving more towards #ENTP and identified for a long time as ENXP.

Then I learnt that there is little scientific backing of many personality tests. Plus I totally ignored portrayal bias. The idea that one chooses the answers to what one wants them to be vs to what they are.

So I based a lot, if not all, my answers on the person I was at best of times, which was when I was intoxicated with alcohol. And for a long time I thought that this is the true nature of the individual. So in my eyes it made logical sense.

Now there is also the association bias, the idea that if you hear/read an emotional neutral text, on average, anyone can assimilate to at least one point. So by human nature being predisposed to the need of fitting in, association bias is one's foe.

Considering one of the prime factors of #MBTI that it's hard to change one's personality and that one is born with it, then getting various results over a set time interval, might say more of how one feels at the given time, then one's actual personality.

Nonetheless I just redid it again and got #INTP-A. At least this result falls align with a lot of my day-to-day actions. Though I am still questioning which other biases are here at play?

Took the time to upgrade my #neovim config. Completely scratched the old one.

There were two major things I learnt:

1. It is a pain to setup neovim on a shared directory. Best to ignore the suggestion altogether and multi install it for every separate user.
2. When using #NerdFont in the config, one needs to update one's terminal with that font version plus assign it. Didn't realize that one cannot setup a new font just for neovim like one can do with #vim

The main upgrade consisted of using a pre-built config written completely in #lua.

#TIL that #Reddit's new avatars are on the #Blockchain

Setting up the MariaDB is so much easier than xampp. Figured it out like in an hour.

Just reflecting now back to how many hours it took me to setup groups to then allow other users to use xampp, only to come to the end of line, and learn that the user needs sudo permissions.

On my other workstation, xampp was always finicky. Hopefully I can apply the new knowledge onto the other system.

After hours of trying to get #xampp to work without sudo permission, I got to the point that I would need to modify the source code.

So instead I decided to remove the module and start anew. This time with a different approach of only installing the one service I currently need from xampp, which is the #MySQL server. Though might go with #MariaDB instead.

Are there any downsides of going with MariaDB over MySQL, considering that the project was written for MySQL?

When I make #coffee with milk. I first pour the milk then the coffee.

It seems weird, though makes more sense. Since I realized that if I follow the typical route first coffee then milk, more times than not I either burn myself or it is filled to the rim.

This way I have less of a chance of filling it to the rim while getting the desired ratio of coffee:milk.

As an added bonus the mixing is done more efficiently, since the less dense fluid is already present in the cup before adding the more dense one.

#TIL that you can verify your #SSH key by signing it. This was introduced to me when setting up ssh for #Codeberg.

#Gitea