I don’t think I’ve had any particularly bad ones. In fact I don’t remember having any since my age was in the single digits tbh. The only time I remember having malware was once when I tried to install iTunes on Windows for some reason, and I got infected with some kind of malware from trying to download this. I don’t remember what exactly it did—I think it was just adware that interacted with your browser, nothing too crazy. I think I may have done a fresh install or factory reset to get rid of it. I was really young at the time and I don’t recall getting malware since. I’ve definitely never (consciously) experienced malware on Linux, yet. (I say consciously cause for all I know maybe someone’s bugged me with a keylogger I’ve not detected idk. Hope not!)

How 😭

1 and yes normally. But I have sometimes had extended spells of no internet or computer access in which case I’ve used my own mind.

Children (be they your own or unrelated children you have responsibility for) are people, not property or pets or whatever. Treat them as such. They’re just people with less experience and more vulnerability.

How many homeless people have you spoken to? Of course everybody is different so treating someone like a person may look different depending on their circumstances, but the principle still applies, including towards homeless people with severe mental illnesses.

And also that’s just not my experience tbh. Both from speaking to homeless people on the streets, and also when I was in prison I met a lot of the typical types of people who would end up street homeless, including people who were street homeless prior to being incarcerated and people who were street homeless and mentally ill, and they’re still people. I managed to form good friendships with a lot of them. I don’t know, possibly you have genuinely tried to interact with homeless people and you’ve hit a brick wall, but in my own experience that’s just an assumption or first impression people have and not the reality if you just try talking to them for a few mins.

Just treat them like a human being instead of like a streetlamp or something. Speak to them. Ask them how they’re doing (I know the answer is probably “shit” but still, let them talk about it if they want to). I know it’s tempting to just ignore them because saying you don’t want to or can’t give them money is awkward, but imagine being in that situation, how humiliating it must be to sit on the floor, literally beneath everyone, grovelling to strangers. Show them the same humanity you’d expect to be shown if it were you on the floor. Even “sorry, but no” is better than being ignored. Maybe chat to them about their day or something if you can’t or don’t want to give money. Help look up the location of a local soup kitchen or shelter or something if they don’t have a phone. If they’re recently homeless you may be able to give them legal advice in terms of getting a roof back over their heads (I say “recently” bc in some places an eviction notice can be used to access social housing, if the eviction was ages ago they might not have the relevant documentation anymore).

And also frankly, when I do give money to homeless people, I don’t care if they spend it on drugs. If I’m giving someone money I’m giving them money. It’s their money now. I wouldn’t tell you how to spend your money, and I wouldn’t tell a homeless person how to spend their money. If they ask for help to overcome their addiction I’d do my best to signpost them, but I’m not going to force them if they don’t want it. If what they want is drugs then they’re going to get that one way or another, if not with money people gave them out of charity then through stealing or something else.

I know, the proportion of professional tech people here shocked me. I know there’s a lot of like open source nerds and whatnot here but I only do that stuff as a hobby lol

Give him food and water. I guess I can try trim his beard with scissors if he wants. And I would try to facilitate the bath. I know people don’t want to let random homeless people into their houses because they’re worried about theft, but it is so hard to get a shower or bath if you’re street homeless, and besides, if he steals something from me, clearly he needs it a lot more than me. I don’t have anything too valuable in my bathroom anyway so if he wants to nick some toothpaste let him.

It’s probably not used on Lemmy, etc. because we’re not requesting things of each other a lot.

Speak for yourself please. Make me a sandwich please

Aside from someone actually coming into your house and interfacing directly

If any state entity is in your threat model then this would be major concern. If you’re of any interest to the state, first thing they’ll do is raid your home and seize your electronics. Your threat model shouldn’t depend on assuming an attacker can’t physically access your device (I know you never said an air gap should be the only defence, I’m just saying in general).

Well, yeah, a fascist is a horrible person, and so on. But I don’t think “horrible person” is a particularly useful or meaningful category. I don’t care if you’re a good or bad person; I care what you’re doing, what effect you have on other people and on society at large, and if the answers to those questions are negative, is there anything that can be done about it? If a fascist can be reformed, then we should do whatever we can do make that happen. If they’re a lost cause, well… I like to believe that no one is a completely lost cause. The solution if someone is truly a lost cause is not particularly nice or humane.

I’ve used OSM while staying in a smaller town and the street data was good. It obviously depends on how much the public has contributed to data for your area, which is likely to be a lot for major cities, but there may also be people contributing decent data for less populous areas too.

Not a disease but I really liked having abdominal surgery tbh. I was so tired during the recovery and just slept all day. It was great. I can normally never fall asleep during the daytime no matter how tired I am.

Does the torrent listing have any comments? Ofc positive comments doesn’t guarantee it’s not malware but I wouldn’t chance it if there’s no comments

I learnt english by reading books. That might help, although reading can be quite a passive activity, so you might want to couple it with some writing activities to make sure you’re actually doing something so it sticks better. I’m also not sure how well that will work for your specific problem of struggling with conversations, but tbh I’m not great at speaking to people irl myself (although that applies in my first two languages—english is my third—as well so I don’t think it’s a language barrier thing so much as my brain thing) so I dunno what would help with that specifically.

africa must be a really woke continent then

I’m not trying to be a dick (it just comes naturally), but I wonder if there’s a connection between antibac wipes, sanitiser and the need for moisturiser…

I don’t use the wipes on my hands and I usually don’t use the sanitiser, it’s just if I can’t get soap and water and need to clean my hands. I’ve still needed moisturiser when I’ve not used sanitiser anyway.

In any case, the moisturiser fixes the problem, so I don’t see any downside tbh

Quite a lot tbh.

• Water bottle to stay hydrated
• Nail clippers because if I don’t carry them I pick my hangnails and my fingers would be perpetually bleeding lol
• Lip balm cause I get dry lips
• Moisturiser cause I get dry hands
• Tissues
• A multi-tool
• USB-C charger
• Wallet
• Keys
• Antibac wipes
• Hand sanitiser too lol
• Watch
• Lighter

Obviously it’s a long list but these are small objects so it’s not really a lot when you’re carrying a bag.

I usually don’t carry a phone or anything like that if I don’t need it where I’m going; normally I can avoid it. But if I need a phone, laptop, etc where I’m going then I’ll have that on me too.

LMAO the part where it just starts displaying a bunch of pills flying at the screen

Just a lager idc