eqyo @eqyo@qoto.org

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I'm annoyed because I just saw a combination of all three of:

People claiming #copyright on a work that is or should be non-copyrightable.

People misrepresenting what a license says or pretending they are the one who decides how it should be interpreted.

People using Creative Commons' *-NC licenses (NC was and is a mistake (not as bad as ND, but still)).

Just people being wrong on the internet of course, but I'm still annoyed that I showed it to me.

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Well shit, here we go again, what the hell was I thinking...

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I've started a little Neocities website today, predictably at the domain https://eqyo.neocities.org/ .

It's handwritten HTML and CSS; it's part of me learning how to make the kind of websites I like, which is ones with simple and readable HTML/CSS and without JavaScript.

I've split it into an English version and a Dutch version. They live in completely separate directories, which left the question of what to do with the root homepage. In the end I've done some shenanigans to redirect visitors to the English version, maybe not ideal.

Also, I learned (or re-learned, I must've known this rule at some point) that an apostrophe before a possesive s is actually sometimes correct in Dutch, namely when the name ends in a single letter representing a 'long' vowel.
So it's "eqyo's website" in Dutch as well this time, not "eqyos website".

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@trinsec Lots of that too, yeah

@2ck A bit of a dark direction to take this in, but...

Many people have done experiments that they could never repeat: for example, such experiments are an important source of knowledge about which plants are safe to eat and which are not.

Hurray, I'm done, time for summer break! (If I don't get a fail for the course I just finished.)

I want to try and do some interesting or semi-useful stuff instead of just flooding my brain with video and comics and social media and...

I also want to try and have reasonable bedtimes - off to a pretty bad start on that front 😅.

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and last night:
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last night, literally ONE DAY after I said on here "I'm not going to work into the night anymore, it's a tactical mistake":
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@encelado It definitely feels like a nightmare right now... In these situations I often work into the night and I'm tempted but I won't do that this time around - I find that my output is just awful when I'm too tired, it's a tactical mistake.

Well shit, I need to work a lot tomorrow so as to not replicate last week's horrible sleep schedule. In fact I should have worked a lot today, but haven't done much yet. In for a pretty hectic couple of days...

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@trinsec Your story is much more relatable for me, haha...

But apparently there is a certain kind of person for whom the USA has a lot of appeal, even in its current state - or rather, the media they read and watch hasn't tarnished their image of the country.

Recently, I watched "Kino no tabi" and while it was mostly quite nice, I cannot help but complain. The short version is: I can recommend it IF you are prepared for the ending, but can't recommend it to the unwarned. (I won't spoil anything except the emotions invoked by the ending.)

The series is about a human (Kino) and a sentient motorcycle (Hermes) travelling through many different city-states, each of which is its own strange, flawed little world.
In general, it's a very interesting, philosophical-ish series.

The general mood of the series is contemplative with undertones of sadness. The ending, on the other hand, devolves into complete and utter depression.
Now of course, the reason I'm complaining is that it made me feel bad, and my reasoning for why it's bad it motivated by that. But there a genuine mismatch with the rest of the series.

What makes it a lot worse is that the ending feels unreasonable. In earlier episodes, there is some kind of logic behind why things are bad, some cause to point to. But for the ending, the only cause presented is characters' own decisions. And those decisions are completely insane - in particularly the character Sakura feels completely unrealistic.

This is also a bit of a problem with the series in general: in its exploration of dystopia, it exaggerates aspects of human behaviour, and the people in the different city-states end up feeling very alien to the audience. Kino and Hermes are the only real people in the series, and even they do not show much character development.

Still, having given my warning about the ending, I can definitely recommend watching it.

About 2 weeks ago I was in a conversation with, among others, two women in their fifties. The topic came to the USA and they both turned out to have applied for the USA's green card lottery in the past year.
When asked if she would really move there, one of them said "definitely" and explained that it would be a dream come true for her.

It was quite a surreal experience, as when I think of the USA I think of its layers upon layers of insane problems and what looks like a gradual erosion of its republic.

Granted, for people who have a comfortable financial situation, I think living in the USA might be quite nice - for the moment, at least.
But it does also seem like a bit of a generational thing, like they have a weirdly idealised view of the country.
Of course, it is also true my media exposure to the USA is mostly focused on its problems and that this leads to a very negative view, but even if I knew one quarter of what I know about the USA, I would really not want to go there.