This is a whataboutist counterpoint at best. Universities and their researchers are not a monolith.

I suppose I'll be watching two pile of snakes pretending to be people for the duration of which this plays out.

Reddit is ProCSS

Oh

I'm going to miss the old thing :(

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric and activism has enough influence to lead directly or otherwise to the further persecution and discrimination against an already marginalised minority group.

She at some point opted for or was identified by those with similar views as the term TERF, a 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist' (the acronym is arguably problematic). The queer community and queer allies use the term with a implied derogatory connotation. A number of TERFs who picked up on this connotation now believe that it is an insult, and do not wish to be labelled as such (despite TERFs coining the term themseIves).

A very interesting and crazy proposition, but I think you're asking the wrong question. There are definitely ways of removing distractions from your environment without resorting to something so drastic.

E.g. have you considered creating a user with restricted access to certain programs (example) and set up add-ons for web browsers that restrict access to certain websites?

A world without advertising and marketing is a world without persuasion. These two concepts by themselves were never the problem, as they're just a means to increase awareness and demand for a product or service. To me it seems that you instead take issue with a consumerist society.

I feel like a lot of people are missing the point when it comes to the MIST. I just very briefly skimmed the paper.

Misinformation susceptibility is being vulnerable to information that is incorrect

• @ach@feddit.de @GataZapata@kbin.social It seems that the authors are looking to create a standardised measure of "misinformation susceptibility" that other researchers can employ in their studies so that these studies can be comparable, (the authors say that ad-hoc measures employed by other studies are not comparable).
• @lvxferre@lemmy.ml the reason a binary scale was chosen over a likert-type scale was because
  1. It's less ambiguous to participants
  2. It's easier for researchers to implement in their studies
  3. The results produced are of a similar 'quality' to the likert scale version
• If the test doesn't include pictures, a source name, and a lede sentence and produces similar results to a test which does, then the simpler test is superior (think about the participants here). The MIST shows high concurrent validity with existing measures and states a high level of predictive validity (although I'd have to read deeper to talk about the specifics)

It's funny how the post about a misinformation test was riddled with misinformation because no one bothered to read the paper before letting their mouth run. Now, I don't doubt that your brilliant minds can overrule a measure produced with years of research and hundreds of participants off the top of your head, but even if what I've said may be contradicted with a deeper analysis of the paper, shouldn't it be the baseline?

What exactly are you arguing against, here? I don't waste time on people who try to strawman me.

This was an amazing thing to read

In my case I was ecosystem'd into RPM and Flatpak, so openSUSE makes me happy

I read the headline and my immediate thought was "is this controlled for socioeconomic class?"

I guess I'm reading the paper

Then just write proprietary code. Open source philosophy to me seems about creation for a "greater good". What's the point if you're not even going to be open? The organisation just becomes a massive corporation like any other at that point.

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works

That depends on whether the communication channel is encrypted.

I'm a huge proponent of the command line, but you often spend more time learning tools and configuring your environment than getting work done.

I'd instead recommend you start with learning basic system administration for Linux. User management and permissions on https://linuxjourney.com/ or TLCL would be a good place to start. Of course there's a good chance your desktop environment has ways of configuring users and permissions, too.

Ublock origin has a very powerful URL filtering system, e.g. https://beehaw.org/c/gaming$document blocks you from accessing the gaming community on beehaw, but doesn't stop you from accessing https://beehaw.org or other communities on the site.

Yeah uh no, I didn't argue one way or the other about a boycott. That was your assumption and you're trying to get me to fight it. If I cared to tell people what to think about a heated topic on the internet and then defend my position it from a bunch of mouthbreathers, I would go back to Reddit.

Your comment is a de facto strawman.

That's a very interesting anecdote, now that you say it

Logseq has genuinely made me a less stupid person. It's confusing to learn, but the ceiling for articulating and organising your thoughts and knowledge base is insanely high. Other apps kind of feel like I'm fighting the limitations of my tools in order to organise a mental library of where to find information.