Asking questions. Ewan, lagi kasi akong nagooverthink dati on reaching out pag may tanong ako. Feeling ko kasi dati mabobobohan sa akin yung pagtatanungan ko, na dapat alam ko na yung sagot sa itatanong ko. Recently ko lang din naovercome 'to, but ngayon, it comes naturally. Gusto ko lang matuto, and maybe yung pagtatanungan ko will pick-up something from it, too. Kung kailangan ko pang tawagan para lang maiexplain maige yung tanong ko, idemo ganun etc, I'll do it.

Also Salted Caramel flavor hehe

Actually putting in effort to connect with people.

I used to be extremely shy, and this manifested in me not contributing much to conversations and sometimes looking a little bit standoffish in my body language.

I still am very shy, but I've since learned to work past the initial discomfort of shyness and be active in conversations, or at least make an effort to show other people that I am interested in what they want to say.

I've made a lot of friends I wouldn't have had I not worked on this part of myself. I only regret not trying earlier.

I'm not sure if this answer is in the spirit of the question, but that's the first thing that came to mind.

sushi/sashimi, kare-kare, kimchi HAHA puro food

DotA, unfortunately

Sounds great too! Di lang basta inilapat hehe

Already added it to the sidebar last week. Hope that helps even a little bit.

It's catchy, that's why, and the innuendo is not immediately obvious, unless of course, you have that "mind"

better to check with your close friends, maganda rin may update sila about you and how you are feeling

I think if there's any circumstance that the three-month rule should apply, it's this.

GIve your time to heal, to process. Pag mejo okay na, then siguro okay nang kausapin siya. But take care of yourself first. Besides, she's the one who broke up with you.

Let go completely, or else the cycle will just repeat itself

Any recommendations sa sandwiches nila? I've been passing by a poster of Bahn Mi's sandwiches but have yet to try one.

Parang stir naman kasi yun. Onus of proof is with the accuser, bakit si Ruud magpapaliwanag? Haha.

Man I don't have the balls to be out of town during a work week.

Also, lakas ulan sa town kanina.

Isa sa mga natutunan ko today, as in a few minutes ago lang, makapangyarihan yung pakiramdam na kaya mo iexpress ang nadarama mo kahit alam mong irereject ka ng iba. Sana maramdaman ng lahat yung kapangyarihan na yun.

😂😂😂

This feels like a psyop full of traps and reverse traps. That this is pretty much a googol-IQ level play from MKZ-3000 or its strategist co-processors.

Consider:

Facebook/Meta already knows that the kind of people who have already migrated to the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc) are the type mistrustful of corporate interests in the internet—anti-FAANG and all that. Facebook meeting-up with people from Mastodon, devs and/or large instance admins (hence, Mastodon.social and Mastodon.world instance owners), would put those people in a frenzy.

Add an NDA to that, which can have the overall effect of an injunction, super-injunction, or even a hyper-injunction—even if that kind of thing isn't legal in whatever jurisdiction the NDA is in (please keep in mind IANAL), and you've got a recipe for people really getting suspicious.

What for? This would shake confidence in Mastodon (and the Fediverse at large) by making it seem that it's already compromised, further scattering people across different solutions.   Even more insidious is that this gives Facebook/Meta an easy way out just by pointing out that it's "too conspiratorial" to think that Mastodon is compromised (because of a meeting).

Is there a way out of this dilemma? I think there is. By giving a Fediverse platform, and their instance admins, just enough trust for them to do their jobs. This is a very hard balance to achieve tho, and personally, I veer too much in either direction: either not trusting people enough, or being too ready to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Plot twist: Yung Fediverse pala nakipag-meeting, lol.

Please tell me they didn't spend a fortune on this, because if they did, parang lugi ata sila. First the Love the philippines then this.

I'm sorry, but logos nowadays are hideous 🤮

Nope, walang app na may mod tools at all. All moderation has to be done through desktop.

Di na naman makapag kumento sa platform na to ng maayos, pati logon wonky na naman din =.=

This is off-topic but... I hope you don't mind.

I could be the only one thinking this way, but IMO, places bearing names of real people should be reverted to whatever it is they were before the renaming. Hence, I'd love to see Quezon province revert to Tayabas (province), Rizal (province) revert to Morong, or Quezon City be… no, wait that's an entire aisle of cans of worms.¹

And really, even if we look at places in other countries that are named after people, such as Washington state (US), it doesn't really give me much. Sure, it's in honor of some guy named Washington, but do I really want a Philippine province named "Aguinaldo"? Hell no!

It's already bad enough that our country is named after some prince. (I'd argue, however, that that ship has already sailed, and that we already have enough stake on the name Philippines that renaming our country is no longer necessary, the time for that should have been more than a hundred years ago, and at most, seventy-odd years ago.)

• ¹ Quezon City is a Frankenstein's monster created from bits and pieces absorbed from its surrounding localities, and that's an oversimplification of the history and politics of its birth.

I can hear Facebook/TikTok Filipino laugh tracks from this quesion

It's not like they're competent to do much else.

kung sino malakas dun sa tutulungan ng INC sa local niyo

Kaya never ako naniwala na nagpapanalo sila ng kandidato.

Huh, so should people stock up on puto't dinuguan during election season? Offer those kids some and if they refuse, alam na!

EDIT: Oh, wait within the ano lang pala ito (tama nga ba?), sorry! 😂

Mas cute siguro if they let the kids wear mini bayongs over their tiny heads.

So the numbers were inflated, and pretend that it's hype?

From one of the comments in the linked thread:

Obviously we can make inferences based on active users and speed of growth, but a smart person could minimize those signs to the point of being unnoticeable.

Off the top of my head, correlating the growth of new accounts to active users (plus some lag) could be a useful heuristic here. Preemptively de-federating from suspicious instances (based on the heuristic I've just given, or some other, more refined heuristic) can also be useful until there are better tools that are available against this.

I've noticed from looking at pretty graphs that there's usually a correlation between new registrations and user activity across the board. However, since bot accounts don't necessarily generate activity (and for a good reason—a lot of those bots are either made by well-meaning people demonstrating the danger, or are put as sleeper agents until they are needed), one can reasonably guess that an instance with an abnormally high rate of new user registrations, without the corresponding rise in user activity, is a bot-infested instance.

Of course, this could lead to bots artificially rising activity through spamming, and this needs action as well.

All this I've said have already been discussed in the comment thread where I've lifted the quote from. Of particular note to me is this:

A simple way to do so is to just start with a handful of popular, well run instances and consider them trustworthy. Then they can vouch for any other instances being trustworthy and if people agree, the instance is considered trustworthy. It would eventually build up a network of trusted instances. It’s still decentralized. Sure, it’s not as open as before, but what good is being open if bots and trolls can ruin things for good as soon as someone wants to badly enough?

I think the opposite approach, like how it is done in ad-blockers, would work: a list of instances that are considered bot-infested and are untrustworthy. Basically, a block list. Publicly-available lists would be made available, and instances can be might be more strict—and hence liberal in adding more instances to this list (Beehaw.org is one example I immediately think of that would do things this way), or less strict.

Having said all that, I have this suspicion that it's already how things work currently, just a bit more ad-hoc and "manual". Also, this is probably way too over my head.

Anyways, for whatever it's worth, that's my two cents.

Okay, I figured it out. It's that Language setting that's warns you against deselecting "Undetermined".

Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.

I actually needed to deselect it to make things work again.

I like it. It's very fitting. It looks like a horned beast.

Someone dug up details about the company on FB. Here's the text on their post.

Printplus Graphic Services' red flags, the "company" awarded with 3million+ contract for the PAGCOR's new logo.

🚩Printplus was JUST newly registered for PhilGEPS on June 14, 2023.

🚩Printplus FB page has only 39 likes/followers as of this writing.

🚩Their page itself doesn't even their own logo.

🚩FB page link was not even personalized

🚩PhilGEPS Registration Status: RED!

Not even a platinum. (Red means you cannot bid big POs like 1M above)

🚩It's used to be a BBM campaign merch giveaway page.

This sums that this certain company is NOT ESTABLISHED, and was just "hired" for another corruption scheme.

PrintPlus Graphic Services gumawa which doesn't even have a website. Hindi mo alam kung mura lang binayad tapos binulsa karamihan or talagang nagoyo sila ng what seems to be a hawsyaw print shop.

Minimalist Diablo logo yarn 👁👄👁

thats a demon logo

All these taken together, our new logo reflects PAGCOR’s long-standing commitment of being a guiding force that illuminates the way forward, drives transformation and development, and brings inspiration and motivation to the lives it touches.

nyeta ano daw? HAHAHA PAGCOR ba to o DSWD?

anong fire? anong beacon? punyeta HAHAHA may mga tanga nanamang maiimpress kasi nasampolan sila ng English kahit pantanga

Yung gradient ang nagdala! 😂

Ang unang pumasok sa utak ko nung nakita ko yan ay "gasoline station".

3M to? Walangya nga naman ano. Dapat ata taasan ko na rin ang singil ko pag may nagpapasuyo sakin ng logo.

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