Confidential Lake

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No no I believe there’s a misunderstanding, I am not lecturing. I am offering information as to my perception of your communication, but you are entirely free to disregard it, I have no stake in this

That’s alright, it’s all for you

Hi, for what it’s worth, as someone who’s a spectator to all this, I both appreciate the technical advice that you have been giving out and thought your comments came across as somewhat condescending and irritating.

No, I have never seen that anywhere. That being said I have not visited the US nor most of the other countries. I am a french citizen and although I have witnessed the odd little french flag hung up in gardens (very uncommon, but I’ve seen it) the prevailing sentiment in France seems to be a certain pride in gastronomy, sports and sometimes sciences, and a general tendency to criticize most governments. Rightly so, I think.

I don’t think hivemind is a bullshit concept. It’s another word for gregarian behavior. The observed dominance of a single point of view, amplified by the underlying system of upvotes that brings a visibility bias to already popular points of view.

Isn’t that what we call the hivemind ?

Yes, as much as I dislike the increasingly moralist culture on there, it still has a bunch of great contributions, if you care to sift through the awful interface. Sadly it’s got achievements now, which in my experience were so far confined to games. It’s not something I want popping in a corner of my monitor completely unprompted while I am trying to focus on an insightful comment. Not the kind of thing you get with free software… my last experience with Linux was Fedora 20-something, one which I aim to reiterate now, fifteen years later, that Wayland has improved to the point of letting me use my hardware to its full potential (drawing tablet, multiple monitors, etc). I’ve already installed Mint on my wife’s laptop, which she enjoys very much (because it gets out of her way), and I think I might go for Fedora again for my workstation later this year, or maybe Manjaro, who knows.

Classic liberal or social liberal ? (=american or european ?)

yea, I’m hoping to find something that really ties the room together, you know

I’d like to see that

oooooohhh, I get it. Indeed

I think that would be antithetical, or paradoxical. Redundant means superfluous (=more than is necessary)