Peanuts are a commonly lethal allergy to something that, while not unavoidable, is surprisingly prevalent. I have heard it’s awful.

I think of them like food content warnings for non-lethal allergies, like lactose intolerance. It’s a kindness to have a warning that helps people avoid shitting their pants. However, we all need to recognize that it is just that, a kindness. There is an inherent risk when someone says ‘hey, taste this.’ If you have a high sensitivity, you have a responsibility for self-care through self-denial. If you were uncertain if a food contained something to which you had an extreme sensitivity, you’d say ‘no, thank you.’ Same holds true for the whole world of media. You can hope for kindness, and put in the effort give it to others where you will, but don’t trust that it will always be given to you because it is an extra effort.

It’d need a bit of reinforcement, but maybe a lazy Susan?

It might be harder to navigate. Looking past your own glowing eye sockets could make your eyes adjust to the closer, brighter light and leave you night blind

Do you mean ‘life feels scripted’ in the sense of you feel like there is a narrative structure to life, like your actions and words are decided by an external writer? Or do you mean in the sense of life has a narrative economy, like someone could have ‘plot armor?’ Or is it the sense that life should have more structure, like it goes against some unwritten law of writing that some things could happen at all?

Depends a bit on how much depth and which topics you want to hit. Scratch is easy to grasp and won’t require any real effort to set up, but may make adults feel like they’re being condescended to with its cartoony aesthetic, and might be a bit limited in how impressive you can make your demo. Python would require a bit of ‘teacher’s planning time’ to set up an easy workspace in Google’s collab tools and design a lesson, but could be used to show more depth if the students are the type to want/accept that depth, but don’t mistake interest for readiness.

Time might also be important to consider as well. If you have only the one session to cram things into, it might not be a great idea to go deep, and definitely would be asking for trouble to try to install anything on all those machines. Non-technical people have a knack for finding the holes in your plan or taking far longer to do something that requires them to act individually, which leaves you scrambling to try to play remote tech support for the 5-50% who need it while the people who ‘did it in one’ get bored.

And first things last, Murphy’s Law always applies to presentations. Just ask anyone at defcon. Even for people who are so tech-y they are teaching other tech people about tech, the demo might work 37 times the morning before your presentation, but it will fail on the 38th because that’s when you’re in front of the audience. Minimize your attack surface. When you are limited to one session, leaving them with a good, inspiring message that makes them want to keep learning is better than trying to info dump.

Good luck.

People aren’t here for Lemmy in particular. They’re here to avoid the others. If all you want is content, you’ll just go to Reddit. If you are here, it’s because you recognized something of the awfulness in corporate reddit but liked the format. Lemmy is Reddit for people who pay attention and care.

Pick something that interests you but is made by a small, indie, maybe even solo dev. Check out some of the stuff made by people on lemmy in the Godot community maybe. Lots of cool projects to consider.

Big L, I see. The american Libertarian Party is a combination of 99% of the people who still want to vote but can’t fit in with the dominant two, with 127 reasons per 5 members. Lots of them are just looking for a way to be allowed to do whatever they want that is currently illegal, whether that’s as banal as recreational drugs or as oppositional to society as child slave torture-rape. Whatever their ‘thing’ is, they want to be allowed to do it, the rest of society be damned.

‘I’m 40% Markov chain.’

‘I am tired. I just want to go home and go to bed.’

You can see the quandary.

*gestures vaguely around*

Find the readers. Postman was right. It will only get worse.

1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day

If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.

Maybe just Debian (for reliability) set to autostart Kodi? (to keep it non-nerd friendly)

That makes the question one of ‘can a system be set up where violence is seen as universally unthinkable?’ and as far as I can tell, no. The simple answer in every situation is a hammer. It takes intelligence to see the value in thinking through a problem and finding an engineered solution. And it takes certain values to hold out in the face of simple answers in favor of better ones. Is it possible to instill certain values across the world? Maybe. Is it possible to make everyone smart enough to hold to those values? Or patient enough? And not scarcity-minded? Maybe one day, but not with anything like our current world.

Do I? I’m not so sure.

To enable and enhance epistemic instability. The more sure you are, the less sure you should be.

Surely you mean Our Computer, comrade.

At what scale? There are important differences between giving an armed robber the cash from the register and giving a dictator unbounded power.