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Les larmes qui coulent sont amères mais plus amères encore sont celles qui ne coulent pas.


"Proverbe" introuvable en gaélique et en anglais. Par contre, on trouve une citation très proche dans l'homélie LXIV "Sur les actes des Apôtres" de saint Jean Chrysostome (vers 400 après J.-C.).

Extrait de l'homélie LXIV "Sur les actes des Apôtres" de saint Jean Chrysostome:

Les larmes qui coulent sont moins amères que celles qui ne sortent pas du cœur; celles-là soulagent la douleur, celles-ci l'augmentent en la concentrant en nous-mêmes. Ainsi, lorsqu'on est dans la peine et qu’on ne peut exprimer son chagrin, pour ne pas paraître rechercher la vaine gloire, on souffre plus vivement que si l'on donnait cours à sa douleur.

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|Les larmes qui coulent sont amères mais plus amères encore sont celles qui ne coulent pas.|



Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.


Citation faussement attribuée, selon les sources, à Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein ou JF Kennedy. La citation est en réalité de Marcel Pagnol:
«Tout le monde savait que c'était impossible. Un ignare ne le savait pas: il l'a fait.» (Cinématurgie de Paris, 1967)


|Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.|



Qui avale une noix de coco fait confiance en son anus.


Proverbe de Côte d'Ivoire apparue dans "Afrique magazine" en 2003.
Je me permettrais cette modification:
«Qui avale une noix de coco a une grande gueule et fait confiance en son anus.»

|Qui avale une noix de coco fait confiance en son anus.|



Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.


Citation modifiée. Elle est tirée de "Saint Genet, comédien et martyr" de Jean-Paul Sartre (1952):

«L'important n'est pas ce qu'on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu'on a fait de nous.»


|Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.|



Il vaut mieux arriver en retard qu'arriver en corbillard.


"Proverbe" apparu dans un ouvrage de 2001 et attribué au Québec. Cependant, il est introuvable dans la littérature du XXe siècle.

En revanche, voici une citation américaine extraite de "The Signal Engineer", Volume 6 (1913):

«Il vaut mieux arriver tard mais en sécurité que d'être transporté à l'improviste sur une civière.»

google.fr/books/edition/The_Si…

|Il vaut mieux arriver en retard qu'arriver en corbillard.|



La France est un pays qui adore changer de gouvernement à condition que ce soit toujours le même.


Citation apocryphe et anachronique attribuée à Honoré de Balzac et apparue dans la littérature de gondole de supermarché en 2007.

|La France est un pays qui adore changer de gouvernement à condition que ce soit toujours le même.|



Je vous assure qu'un imbécile instruit est plus idiot qu'un inculte.


Citation méchamment déformée extraite "Des Femmes Savantes" de Molière (1672), acte IV, scène 3:
«Vous avez cru fort mal, et je vous suis garant, qu'un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.»
Cette affirmation de Clitandre sera critiquée par Trissotin.

Extrait:

Trissotin.
J’ai cru jusques ici que c’était l’ignorance
Qui faisait les grands sots, et non pas la science.


Clitandre.
Vous avez cru fort mal, et je vous suis garant
Qu’un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.

Trissotin.
Le sentiment commun est contre vos maximes,
Puisque « ignorant » et « sot » sont termes synonymes.

Clitandre.
Si vous le voulez prendre aux usages du mot,
L’alliance est plus forte entre pédant et sot.

Trissotin.
La sottise, dans l’un, se fait voir toute pure.

Clitandre.
Et l’étude, dans l’autre, ajoute à la nature.

Trissotin.
Le savoir garde en soi son mérite éminent.

Clitandre.
Le savoir, dans un fat, devient impertinent.

Trissotin.
Il faut que l’ignorance ait pour vous de grands charmes,
Puisque pour elle ainsi vous prenez tant les armes.

Clitandre.
Si pour moi l’ignorance a des charmes bien grands,
C’est depuis qu’à mes yeux s’offrent certains savants.

Trissotin.
Ces certains savants-là peuvent, à les connaître
Valoir certaines gens que nous voyons paraître.

Clitandre.
Oui, si l’on s’en rapporte à ces certains savants ;
Mais on n’en convient pas chez ces certaines gens.

Philaminte, à Clitandre.
Il me semble, monsieur…

Clitandre voit dans un pédant un sot et Trissotin voit dans un ignorant un sot. Trissotin dit que «Le savoir garde en soi son mérite éminent». Ce à quoi Clitandre rétorque que «Le savoir dans un fat devient impertinent». Toujours est-il que la comparaison est faite entre deux sots, et non entre un sot savant et un ignorant.

|Je vous assure qu'un imbécile instruit est plus idiot qu'un inculte.|



La vraie tragédie de la vie, c'est qu'on devient vieux trop tôt et sage trop tard.


Cette citation n'est jamais sourcée et elle est introuvable dans les ouvrages du XIXe siècle. La première occurrence semble remonter à 1932 dans le "Seattle Municipal News" sans référence à Benjamin Franklin (c'est aussi le cas dans les années 1940-1950).

|La vraie tragédie de la vie, c'est qu'on devient vieux trop tôt et sage trop tard.|



La liberté des uns s'arrête où commence celle des autres.


Cette citation n'a jamais été vue comme un proverbe. La première occurrence de ce dicton, que j'ai pu trouver, vient de l'article "Sur le bûcher" d'Alexandre Weill extrait de "La Vérité Israélite" (1860).


Extrait de "Sur le bûcher" d'Alexandre Weill (1860):

La liberté comme son existence n'est point absolue. Cet homme est le père, le frère de tous les êtres humains. C'est-à-dire il n'y a pas de différence entre lui et son semblable. Son moi n'est pas un moi autre, quoiqu'il puisse être supérieur. Il résulte de cette donnée que la liberté de l'un s'arrête là où la liberté de l'autre est compromise ou seulement gênée. Et voilà l'idéal du devoir fraternel! En effet, de deux hommes l'un est toujours ou plus fort ou plus rusé. Si cet homme n'obéit pas à un principe idéal, il subjuguera son frère, s'il ne le tue pas dans un accès de colère.

|La liberté des uns s'arrête où commence celle des autres.|



Slightly sketchy account makes me uncomfortable and others report it... I politely give them a warning to migrate before shutting them down...

Day and a half later "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"... whelp, that's an immediate delete...

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2 months into a relationship and god I love her so damn much. There's a lot of passion, but there's also that steady comfort and safety... God I already can't imagine life without her.

How do y'all process the lesbian uhaul instinct? lol

#gay #ReallyGay #lgbt #lesbian #UHAUL

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Servers that consume significant resources (ie. fediverse servers...) cost so much... 😭


Sorry for the downtime


Housing situation has been a pain, still on the temporary server environment and been hitting major resources bottlenecks.

I'm hoping to get a place sooner, but I've hit some roadblocks that very likely will push it drastically further out... in which case I'll need to spend more money on this environment to return things to stable.

Reminder that I'm covering this entirely out of my own pocket and these constraints are because I'm between homes and can't use my own much cheaper hardware. If you appreciate this instance I would very much appreciate a donation.



Long time no writing here


I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you)
And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design.
I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook.
More info for who is interested are available here: ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbi… (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free)
It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated.
These are couple of pictures of my latest works:

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any comment/critics is appreciated.



NAME AND GENDER MARKER CHANGE ORDER HAS BEEN SIGNED! WOOOOOO!

... Now for a mountain of other paperwork that's been waiting on that, but all of that at least is quick.



Now I'm cranky because I had to ban a user for genocide denial bullshit...

How the hell do you come onto a blatantly anti-Zionist server and think you're going to get a chill response at claiming the palestinian genocide isn't real?



Date night tonight with my girlfriend, what do y'all think? #TransEuphoria

(Sorry no image description, if someone else writes one I'll copy it, but I'm useless at describing myself)


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Hello there. Glasgow calling.
I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art.
I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica.
Best wishes all.
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Emsquared
@Shiri Bailem Thankyou very much. Hope you are well.


If you think Harris being a cop is worse than Trump being an aspiring Hitler:

You can go fuck yourself, you're more of a problem than the Nazis - signed, a Jew



A friend's furbaby is suffering and needs care yesterday, please donate if you can: gofundme.com/f/help-giggles-ge…

#MutualAid #pets




Still processing something...

I'm recovering from the trauma of constantly being hyper-vigilant of how I might present as a threat, constantly focused on how to make others feel safe around me...

and now I've traded it for the trauma of being constantly hyper-vigilant of potential threats around me.

It sucks but honestly I prefer it to the intense sense of isolation and loneliness.

#TransWoman #TransFemme #Transitioning #Trans #Transition

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@Shiri Bailem Much empathy as somebody on their own trauma recovery journey and an lgbtqia background and ally. It's tough out there for many in the trans community with so much ill founded backlash scapegoating in some countries and online.
Solidarity with your journey and hopefully dealing with your hyper vigilance and trauma issues.


Just reaching out for suggestions, it's not often I get people converted to the fediverse but when I do I'm a bit short on suggested instances, especially in variety.

As it stands I've got my own instance, which runs Friendica. But because I'm a nerd who craves all the options at once and will sacrifice some user-friendliness for it, it's good for me not for most users.

Aside from that, I've got lgbtqia.space which is a wonderful Mastodon server I started out on in the fediverse. But obviously leaves me fumbling when helping the rare few friends who aren't in the alphabet.

I'd like suggestions of other open instances (aside from the mega instances like mastodon.social) that I can direct people to, especially of different platforms so they have a little more choice in their experience.

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I love being on Fosstodon. Never had to look back and plenty of interesting people here \m/


I vote we try to convince conservatives that liberal elites have infected their computer software based on this, see if we can get them to throw everything out and self-isolate.



Mist and fog clouds over this domain. The thoughts of raceme flowers and pinnated ferns hang over my minds eye as I walk with covered pupils. The hard dirt feels rock like, with an occasional trip over roots.

Pulling me down a pathway of cedar and pine, nesting in its canopy, birds orientated skywards to a plateau of limitless sky. Just out of reac- war̓n̼͚͜i̴͈ng,͈͑̌ l͓̀o̩͋ͬw̦͊ b̵̍a̶͋͂t̫tê̾̍r͉̔͠y

O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿.




Getting tired of people pretending Jews can't possibly know the difference between Holocaust and "run of the mill" genocide (both are bad, one just is much more orchestrated).

But why should I be surprised? The pajamafication of the holocaust means most people don't even understand a damn thing about it anyways.



Listened to a command on the internet informing me how to remove dependencies using pacman on arch. Ended up removing ca-certificates and fucking my system. Had to reinstall those packages from cache.


I'm so incredibly done with people being on a high-horse shitting on advances in AI for no other reason than to feel better about themselves.

Like if your issue is things like copyright and training data? Sure, go off, it's a philosophical argument there about rights, economy, etc. Likewise for arguments about ecological impact (it can be made reasonable there, the companies just don't want to).

But if you're just posting bullshit like "Hahaha, the language model can't do math" or "Look at how it was baited into saying something stupid" as proof that it's worthless: go fuck yourself.

Let alone the people who try to relate AI development to "NFT Bros"... NFTs literally don't do shit, AI actually has multiple proven and valid uses cases but if you think it's the same thing that just shows you have your head up your ass and refuse to look at the world around you.

All of that before getting to the fact that they have shown incredible usefulness for disability accommodations, but I guess it doesn't count if you prefer to be ableist and think we don't need or deserve accommodations?

So tired of people in general right now...

#AI #LLM

#ai #LLM

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@Lea I think you're quibbling over the term "generative" there, a non-generative version would be outputting just variables rather than raw text. Ie. non-generative analysis is just going to be "x% confident, x% aggressive, x% sympathetic..."

  • analyzing prose and flagging tone or phrasing problems = like so many anti-ai people you just assume the person using it is somehow unable to read and understand the text. And frankly as I've already said this is a disability accommodation I'm a little bit pissed off at this response. We can understand these things when pointed out, we can understand whether the text it gives is trash, we're not idiots. What it does is consistently give us text that fixes our tonal issues, and we can recognize those fixes after the fact but can't reasonably do them on our own. So maybe get your head out of your ass when talking about a disability accommodation that someone has first hand experience on and has said so up front.
  • summarizing reviews - again, you're just trying to throw away a point because you don't understand what "generative" or "large language model" means.
  • coding assistant - and again clearly you made one half-assed attempt to make it do more than it's capable of, considered it trash, and then threw the whole thing away. I've used it plenty, I've used it to speed through refactoring a whole project to change database engines out, I've used it to speed through building UIs with a bunch of buttons. Does it create good code when I just ask it to write a whole application for me? Hell no. But it sure as hell can see me writing a list of buttons and go, "Oh, I recognize the pattern of the names I'm going to fill this in 20 more times with all variables names changed to meet the pattern".
@Lea
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Shiri Bailem

@Lea like I said, you're attacking the definition of generative by ignoring the actual definition.

And I'm done with this conversation since all you're doing is looping back on points I've already called out. You've been an ass, just accept it and move on.

@Lea


It's just too warm to do anything... I loathe this heat. I want the winter temperatures back... 😩

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Still don't understand what the differences between the 3 timelines "latest posts", "latest creation" and "latest activity" in Friendica are. 😆
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@Shiri Bailem Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! It’s been very helpful in understanding the differences between the individual timelines.


Since nerdica.net collapsed, I was searching for a new Friendica instance. I've finally found one.
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Charline
@Shiri Bailem Yeah. They messed something up with their backups while updating Friendica or something like that. They couldn't manage to restore everything and gave up, sadly. But I'm glad I've found your server! 😀



Seriously, if you're not in the US it's important to recognize how catastrophically fucked everything is. Like I actively need to flee the country bad...

youtu.be/MXQ43yyJvgs?si=sTz4zy…

#Fascism #WereFucked

in reply to Shiri Bailem

If you're going to flee, flee to me. I will make use of you, by pointing you to someone who knows what to do.
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Yeah. Like, if you feel so powerless or hopeless that your impulse is to flee, why not take a chance at redirecting that energy. Point it toward a problem that needs doing.

You can do whatever you want. That's what it means to be free. You can be whoever you want to be, that's the meaning of liberty. If you don't have any ideas, come to me and I'll lend you a hand.

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@Ritz-Menardi ... yeah, I'm talking about imminent threat of the loss of freedom for existing.

I'm disabled, I can't do shit, communication and education is all I can offer and I'm doing all I can there.

I'm dependent on others even for my ability to flee...

This is like Germany just before the Holocaust, telling Jews (of which I am also) to fight isn't a great idea at that time.

in reply to Shiri Bailem

Disability makes everything more difficult. I get it.

Communication and education are important.

You should do what your heart tells you to do.

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I'd like to add that "all you can do" is more than enough. Be kind to yourself, you are both important and valuable.
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@Ritz-Menardi and to be clear, it's not an impulse to flee... it's complete terror because I see the writing on the wall for Hitler 2.0 and it's going to get really really bad before it gets better and if I stick around I'm very unlikely to survive.

Pikuach nefesh, my first duty is to stay alive.

in reply to Shiri Bailem

I know. Keep in mind, though, that the propagandic writing-on-the-wall cuts both ways. There are many more of us, than of them.

your first duty is to stay alive. plus, what you can do, you can do from anywhere, so long as the internet remains true. alas, has it ever been? but still it's up to you, what to do. no matter where you are, you'll find friends who will need your heart, your words, your kindness, and whatever other aid you may give.

I'm trans and relatively healthy and strong. in my legs at least. so my choice is a bit different than yours, mine becomes "die now, that others might live or die later, that others might die before me" and frankly that's not a choice at all.

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Shiri Bailem
@Harbinger of Salem I hate to say it but I wouldn't complain if he abused it to take care of his current political opponent...


llama3, ai, cringe


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I'm in shock...

An anime I'm watching has a love triangle and then actually had someone say "have you considered polyamory?" (paraphrased)

#Polyamory #SomeoneGetsIt #MushokuTensei