Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • If you step back and think about it, so much of human society revolves around people wearing the right costume for the occasion.

    Sometimes it makes sense (protective gear, etc) other times it just seems like “that’s what we’ve always worn for X [occasion | profession | etc].”

    How does removing your hat imply respect? What is the purpose for standing up when the judge enters the courtroom? Just a bunch of stupid rituals that may have made sense at one time that we keep doing for…reasons.





  • If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha

    Those are easy to bypass (or a human can spin up a bunch with throwaway emails and plug them into bots). I recommend enabling registration applications. While not foolproof, it gives the admins eyes on every new account. Also, consider denying any application that uses a throwaway email service.