Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

@kushal

Not a desktop application per se, but InvenTree can be run from Docker (https://docs.inventree.org/en/latest/start/docker/) and seems to have pretty positive reviews (https://www.libhunt.com/r/InvenTree#repo-reviews).

(I haven't used it, just looked around on LibHunt and this seems the most promising option there.)

@autism101 @JesseSkinner

It's great when it comes to actual programming, can make long debugging sessions fly by in that focused state.

But it can also lead to a lot of "yak shaving" when it comes to the tools and the environment around it. I've lost unreasonable amounts of time to "X is supposed to work with Y config, I can't let go of this without figuring out why it isn't!"
Often the "solution" is to just accept it doesn't make sense, shrug, and move on... but that feels so yucky!

@Cynni
In my experience, adding a reply can:
(a) add a new perspective to the chat, which often injects life into the conversation and keeps it from getting stale.
(b) articulate something that one of those already talking wanted to say, but couldn't manage to express.
We can't predict everyone's expectations about their threads, but on the whole I'd say it's a positive to leave a reply.

One caveat is that it helps a lot if we match the tone of their conversation in the reply i.e. if they're talking in short bursts of casual posts, it's better to do the same in one's own reply too, instead of adding long nuanced replies (and vice versa). That helps make it feel like less of a random intrusion.

#ActuallyAutistic #Fediquette

@siddarthious
I did not realize Asbestos was so ubiquitous in so many materials! I'd assumed it was just a roofing material that was going out of vogue, but it seems it's going to be around in many forms for a while.

@RustyBertrand
Little A'Tuin

@LouisIngenthron
Damn cool indeed!

@LouisIngenthron
What is this from?

@peterdrake
I didn't get to learn Prolog, but taught myself Brachylog (https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog/wiki) for the sake of code-golfing.

It got me thinking about data and computation in an entirely new way. Generic "this will expand your mind" claims are overdone in this field, but it felt like declarative logic programming truly did that for me after more than a decade of professional programming.

#prolog #brachylog #codegolf #declarative #logicprogramming

@lkh @actuallyautistic

One plausible reason is the novelty and the need to process it - mobile and digital media could present her with things that are entirely out of the context of her everyday life, and that becomes something huge to make sense of for the #actuallyAutistic brain.
If this is the issue, some period of quiet time after using the device, that lets her just process what she's seen, would help.

Another possibility is fantasizing about what she *hasn't* seen, due to getting overly focused on the digital content, and ruminating about that digital world.
In this case, setting plans for what she's gonna see, and letting her know in advance what's coming the next day, would help fix it in her mind as something concrete, and hence avoid the excessive fantasizing.

@zigzackly
I visited Geocities pages a lot but didn't see it as a social thing.
Tried IRC but could really get into it.

Mailing lists were the first among these that I actually participated in. I think I saw them described in a local language (#Tamil) magazine, and the idea of groups organized at multiple levels (comp.lang.xyz) fascinated me, so I checked them out. And over time built up the courage to ask for help and participate in discussions.

@KatyElphinstone
One thing that would've helped is an understanding that cleanliness doesn't have to be an absolute. Since I tended to take things literally, it seemed like the aim was to remove 100% of germs, and it always bothered me that we were doing such a sloppy job of it - it didn't make sense.

Understanding it as a complement to the immune system and body's own cleaning mechanisms, as something done to avoid overwhelming this systems, helped a lot to make sense of it as part of the whole process.

In general, making sense of it logically, instead of it being just a list of instructions, helps a lot.

It's concerning how much of my self-talk involves telling myself:
"We'll catch up on sleep later, I promise, but let's pretend for now that we're well-rested and alert and not a grumpy sleep deprived husk at all."

#sleep #SleepDeprived

@Josordoni

I've started to think of social media in terms of the Buddhist concept of Sangha - as in, curating your own circle of people in a way that helps you keep an eye on what's important, and lets you grow as a person.

Mastodon helps with that by
(1) not having an algorithmic feed that shoves hot button topics in your face, and
(2) giving you a lot of controls in what you see and interact with.

But it's still upto us to actively do the work, and create our own soul-nourishing Sanghas.

#socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #buddhism #sangha #positivefedi #selfcare