@dtluna You really can't though. If you think you can, you've just put some alternative absolutes in there without noticing, and it feels more true and self-taught because it's contrarian.
@dtluna The easiest way to control that individual is to provide them with an absolute fact sheet. Isn't that what you are accusing state school of doing?
@lain Also have you tuned GitLab. I recommend you lower unicorn workers to 2. Set sidekiq workers to only a couple (Instead of the default overkill 25 or whatever it was). And disable the Prometheus monitoring plugin.
You often shave of a nice gig of ram simply by doing that.
David MacIver calls it "an extremely well written and brief non-mathematical introduction to the economic factors driving the formation of organisations." and came out all excited at the other end of the 80 pages of it.
> why do we see the "nothing is certain", "nothing is black and white" attitude?
That's the counterreaction to people's willingness to put things into boxes and never look back.
If you see lots of signs saying "please don't hang your clothes to dry in the public park", that's an indication that people tend to do that -- otherwise the sign wouldn't be there.
> The State loves when people have their mind clouded by ambiguities.
State good. Anarchy bad. People's mind clouded by ambiguities is another way of saying that people are thinking for themselves.
Coming to the Fediverse there are a lot of choices to make and you don't really have the information to make them.
It's easy for those of us who have been here for a decade to go "oh, just start somewhere, you'll get the hang of it and *then* you can make an informed choice", but for a newcomer that initial overwhelming experience may be enough to drive them off indefinitely.
Not sure what to do about it. "Just tell people to go to mastosoc" is *not* the solution.
@dtluna That's why humans don't like non-absolutes. Ambiguities are super frustrating when you're trying to be in charge. But they're absolutely necessary.
@deadsuperhero @cwebber And a few Mastodon frontends too, I think? Wasn't that brutalwhatever a Masto frontend? And I know there's at least one more I forgot.