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JackbyDev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Empath

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  • And I've met plenty of people who can pick up on people's moods and know that people who mock others' misfortunes are cruel without calling themselves empaths.

    For what it's worth, that's essentially how Wikipedia describes it:

    Empath (/ˈɛmpæθ/; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia) 'passion') is a term for people who are claimed to have a higher than usual level of empathy.

    In parapsychology, the mechanism for being an empath is said to be psychic channeling; psychics and mediums say that they channel the emotional states and experiences of other living beings, or the spirits of dead people, in the form of "emotional resonance." Studies of such claims have found them to be the result of mundane empathy and charisma, with no actual supernatural capabilities involved.

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

  • Empath

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  • And I'm saying that's not what I typically think people mean when they say they're an empath. I mean they mean something more than that.

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • It's so infuriating to me that there isn't a way to just encrypt traffic without verifying it's part of a chain. By all means, give a nag warning in browsers, but ugh, I think that ship has long since sailed. Plus, realistically, you'd need just as many scary warnings to deter the average user that they might be getting MITMed.

  • Empath

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  • It's always been my understanding that the term empath implies some sort of higher sense that not everyone is capable of. Similar to some extra sensory ability. Though I may be incorrect. I've never read anything jabbing at "empaths" as jabs at empathy as a concept.

    Edit: Phone autocorrected "empaths" to "empathy", oops.

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • Can you not issue your own certificate? I guess it depends on how many devices and what types of devices need to connect. It's be a one time effort per device (importing your own self signed cert) versus one time effort per service per X days.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • The article is from December 2nd, though maybe the conference is from much earlier, so barring that... The fucking UN said on September 16th that "Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip." It's absolutely infuriating that people are still viewing this as something controversial or debatable. I was naively hoping that once the UN used the big G word (genocide) that more moderate politicians (being incredibly generous calling them moderate) would finally start acting like it's a genocide.

    Source: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

  • Where can you report users for a site-wide ban?

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  • If the community moderator acts in it before instance admins see it then they don't see it, right?

  • What is your response to people saying "data privacy doesn't matter because it's all out there anyway"?

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  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

  • Zero Trust Architecture

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  • Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down

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  • Last time I checked it out there was a lot of racist spam. It seems better now. Maybe it was one bad actor or the spam filter is better.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • Yeah that makes sense.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • The Treachery of Memes

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  • This is not a Dodge Challenger.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • As an American, I sort of understand that argument for Europe more, because everything I've read says manual is more common, but still, how often are you going to be in some scenario where you're forced to drive a manual? Like if you're bad at driving a bigger truck, you just shouldn't do that on busy roads until your comfortable. I don't view these types of things as necessary knowledge for driving.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • They keep saying that but those Bitcoins are still in the dump. (I'm aware it's not comparable since having the drive in hand versus missing is a huge difference. Just a little joke.)

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  • It's not really a problem, it's just funny that so many forms of power generation we have are just boiling water to make steam that spins turbines.

  • Dying to be right

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  • I can't unsee the wrong bubble now lmao. Just one dude talking to himself.

  • Dying to be right

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  • Guess neither were poisonous. Ba dum tiss

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    I dunno

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  • That's a really odd way to parse it.

     
        
a +   b
    -----
    c + b
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    I dunno

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  • Now that's a good troll math thing because it gets really deep into the weeds of mathematical notation. There isn't one true order of operations that is objectively correct, and on top of that, that's hardly the way most people would write that. As in, if you wrote that by hand, you wouldn't use the / symbol. You'd either use ÷ or a proper fraction.

    It's a good candidate for nerd sniping.

    Personally, I'd call that 36 as written given the context you're saying it in, instead of calling it 1. But I'd say it's ambiguous and you should notate in a way to avoid ambiguities. Especially if you're in the camp of multiplication like a(b) being different from ab and/or a × b.