@p @taylan @SilverDeth real solid advice here
@taylan @p @SilverDeth
> I don't agree that "stop antagonizing idiots; don't you want the idiots to become your friends?!" is any kind of good advice.
that's not what p wrote
> being told their door is always open
that's common courtesy when parting on good terms
> and some coworkers trying to keep up private contact with me, but I tend to politely ghost them or turn down invitations to social events.
people being nice rewarded with ghosting👌
> I could easily make friends if I wanted to, but most people bore or frustrate me for a variety of reasons, so I politely turn away from them.
i think you might mistake acquaintances for friends. from what i know you are about to enter an age where having real friends will become increasingly hard.
> Unintelligent people can't seem to tell that this fedi account is 50% a joke and not what I'm like in earnest...
do you yourself know which half is the serious part? you just wrote a hundred words in reply to me agreeing to what p wrote. was that serious, or shitposting?
> And pee seriously seems to have thought that me lamenting about the stupidity of various online spaces was me complaining about "not having friends" because he has no reading comprehension.
i have no idea what post of yours p references, but i'm pretty sure reading comprehension isn't ps issue. declaring people stupid or insane is a very lazy argument imo.
@taylan @p @SilverDeth you can do things however you like when it comes to personal relations. i just don't think that it's that easy to make friends. i was invited by colleagues as well - it's just what some people do. that doesn't mean they are friends i'd rely on, especially after witnessing close friends going crazy during chinese flu era.
to me, using language like "orbiters" reflects how you seem to view others: not like equals who you might dislike or disagree with but as lowers. you can very well just mute people. i collected quotes in my bio as well but specifically without calling out people. it serves to keep away the collectivists. interestingly most of these quotes are in one sense or another saying i'm cognitively challenged, a classic argument of collectivists for centuries.
the point of free speech IS that you can use these words, because they are just words. I don't use them because I think using this language does change myself more than it changes others. insulting doesn't help me improve myself, neither does it further the goals i deem important.
p has a pretty good post on the FSE blog about free speech.
i haven't read your exchange about passwords. representation doesn't matter, as long as it's a reversible operation it doesn't change the strength of a password.
i think it's a pretty good hobby to hack on things which solve ones problems. annoying people on the net being one problem, a bot that replies them nonsensical stuff with the objective that they leave one alone is a pretty amusing solution.
in the post which i said was good advice, p suggested that arguing with people online might not be the the best way to spend ones limited time alive.
> i just don't think that it's that easy to make friends.
Making and keeping them requires you to recognize some unpleasant things about yourself and either fix these things or at least get control of them. People with zero friends, like this guy who is too great to stoop to the level of acquiring friends, end up more stunted than people that live in an echo chamber. It's depressing.
> the point of free speech IS that you can use these words, because they are just words.
Yeah, you can't stop ideas by stopping words; what people have issues with is the idea, and they want to cure acne by cutting off pimples (a metaphor borrowed from Orwell).
> i haven't read your exchange about passwords. representation doesn't matter, as long as it's a reversible operation it doesn't change the strength of a password.
It was conversion to UTF-8 by assuming encoding, which is a destructive operation, and then normalizing it, which is another destructive operation. Treating a password as an opaque token is the only way to handle it; you don't need to do any text processing on a password and shouldn't anyway, especially if you are doing text processing that is opaque to the user, and definitely if you are using something like iconv: imagine the Unicode Consortium changing a normalization rule and iconv reflecting it and then passwords breaking when the library is updated.
> p suggested that arguing with people online might not be the the best way to spend ones limited time alive.
Yeah, and he's not even arguing. He has said himself in other threads that the point is to antagonize people to "expose idiots" or just to take out personal frustrations on people he hates: he doesn't care about the things he is arguing about so it's pointless to discuss anything with him. So I had written him off as an idiot when he first did that, and then when he explained his actual goal, I wrote him off as completely pointless. He keeps hopping accounts, though, so he's hard to avoid.