Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Since this seems to have confused a few people: the "do what he feels like" quote in the original toot was meant literally.

Yes, that is almost word-for-word what every one of these people says. Yes, the language really is that consistent. It's a very specific expression of entitlement.

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To emphasize: the point here isn't the specific thing that they were asked to stop. That may well have been something small and relatively insignificant.

The point here is that they have shown unwilling to consider the impact of their behaviour and words on others, as a matter of procedure, as a default response.

This means that the same will happen for more severe incidents, *including those that you will not recognize as incidents* because it affects a marginalized group that you are not a part of.

If someone gets asked not to do something by other community members, and responds by laughing at it and saying that he'll "do what he feels like"...

Ban them.

Doesn't matter if the person who asked them was "just another user". Doesn't matter if they're a productive contributor. Doesn't matter if they say they will listen to a moderator. Doesn't matter if it was just a small gripe. Ban them. Right away.

They are telling you that they have no respect for the well-being of other community members, and that this is a deliberate choice on their part.

There is no possible way in which they will ever be a positive addition to the community, unless they change that attitude. It will not magically improve over time. Waiting for them to offend "more obviously" will just harm a lot of people in the meantime.

Ban them. Do not let them return until they have rectified that attitude.

Huh. Just had a dream that was more lucid than any dream I've had in a long time.

I realized I was dreamy, and that I could 'simulate' pretty much any sensory experience. For some reason, I chose "walking in dry grass", "paddling a boat", and briefly "floating in the water".

Got everything; the crackling noises of the grass, the wavy feeling of the water, the proper directional feelings of movement and muscles - I even adjusted the rowing because it was initially not realistic enough, I was going too fast for the rowing I actually did.

My brain got one detail wrong, though; it believed that I was already half-awake and just lingering in dreamy thoughts, but in reality I'd just *dreamed* being half-awake, and I was still solidly asleep.

I guess that explains why I had difficulty waking up, and why it felt a little like sleep paralysis.

I think the #NixOS community should be a hell of a lot more hostile towards #LLM shit creeping into the community, actually.

This is just the next iteration of the tech hype grift, after NFTs and blockchains fell through (it's the same goddamn people!), and it's not something we should be legitimizing as a community.