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I've learned that checking comments in UpliftingNews is often counterproductive. Uplifting news, then someone posts a comment that just invokes depression all over again. Yes, I am directly referencing the user above you's comment as one such comment—though just in case anyone is curious I didn't downvote (in case one shows up), on topic, probably correct, and I don't see anything on the sidebar saying depressing comments about how bad the thing the good news is opposing is would be against the rules.

So why am I in the comments now? Unfortunately bad habits are hard to break.

Nope. I heard about how basically anything you expose to the internet gets attacked really quick by script kiddies and hackers, so I figure you have to have a lot of cybersecurity/networking knowledge that I don't to do that successfully.

Also, not even sure what I'd put up there. I'm not too sure anyone super cares about my personal projects besides maybe my friends, and I can just text them.

This is probably a boring reply and not the answer you were looking for, but "no" is indeed a valid answer to the question and it is Fediverse engagement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if this was a big community such that I knew your thread would be guaranteed to get replies, I would not have given the "no" kind of answer you probably were not looking for. Also, I do think my reasons why I do not have a website might be able to spark some discussion.

For anyone else reading through this, the article has things about building a better space online, but also a long retrospective on their own attempt and its failures.

Thanks for the description. I don't follow award ceremonies so just going by the title it is really unclear why is this supposed to be uplifting, and comes off as just typical celebrity news. The description tells me neatly, and lets me click on the article if I want further elaboration.

I appreciate that the sidebar manages to explain what this is for people out of the loop without linking to Reddit.

In all honesty I'm not sure I understand why this was posted here, is it about just how it feels possible now? Is the size written on the website up to date?

Well, he's a lot less purist about "I do not want to use any LLMs for coding" than I am for myself personally, but

Welcome! I'm a researcher exploring malleable software: computing environments where anyone can mold their tools to their own unique needs.

sounds interesting and I'll probably poke around his site. Thanks for posting!

I am curious about thoughts from people who sift through other peoples' personal blogs. I feel a bit odd reading someone's personal blog or website if I do not know them in real life, even though they did put it out there themselves voluntarily for the public to see…

Okay that headline is hilarious and your description is too.

Might want to crosspost to !pokemon@lemm.ee

I suppose I'm probably the most anti-nature environmentalist. Protect this because we need it to live, and animals need it to live. But I really personally hate nature, it doesn't bring me pleasure. I have been to some of the wonders of the world and was not floored, breath not taken away. "Checks out, let's move on." (Why'd I go to see it then? Someone else with me wanted to see it :P I'm a lot more interested in history that directly involves humans or something once living. For me, dinosaurs and artifacts of early human civilization are cool, gems are not.) I don't marvel at it, and any reason to dismiss something made with cruelty is something I'll eagerly jump on, even if it's definitely not a popular perspective. To me it really is an overvalued thing you pulled out of the dirt, no matter the facts behind how it formed inside the dirt.

Disclaimer: I don't say this to be contrarian, I am really not the type. Popular ≠ bad and I'm not some special unique snowflake, I just have some quirks where I have a different opinion, as does everyone else! I don't like nature, others don't like chocolate. I think most people have at least one unpopular preference/dislike, this is mine.

Geoffrey Farrow at Raphael, a jeweller on the other side of the street, can only just bring himself to sell lab-grown diamonds. “They are synthetic,” he said. “Lab-grown sounds exotic, but it’s created – they make it by the buckets. There’s no history to it. The price is going to go down further and further.”

I find that a very interesting perspective. I prefer the idea of something we made with human ingenuity as opposed to some thing you dug out of the dirt, probably with a shoddily-hidden special history of slavery and tears, and before that, just sitting in the ground like a bunch of other boring things. The history of a lab-grown is entirely mine and my hypothetical partner's to create.

If I was a diamond person anyways. I'd be more worried about losing the expensive ring somehow and worrying over it, and would much rather buy the cheapest thing that can still socially function as "look, I am married, don't hit on me!" without having to wear some ugly shirt that says that. Ideally both me and my hypothetical partner would just forgo expensive rings (and don't get me wrong, I'm adamantly not a T-shirt and jeans person, I like to dress up, I have just never been a ring person) and spend it on something else we would both like.

For those who do not share my opinions on wedding rings, which is valid, I am also glad to hear lab-grown prices are down so people can still get that ring they love without breaking the bank and without supporting De Beers.