<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>i see your point. i feel much the same about resistance to manipulation.</p><p>i do fear that, at the extant levels of capital and power inequality, many people will simply have neither reason nor opportunity to learn this throughout their lives.</p><p>at the same time, their misguided actions continue to have bearing on the world in which we live, and create adversity for us. i see social media as a way to channel that in novel and sometimes disturbing ways.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Haven&#39;t seen it but bitfield manipulation is one of the things I use kcalc for most frequently.</p><p>That, and converting awkwardly specified mechanical drawing dimensions into coordinates kicad&#39;s footprint creator can use (daydreams again about being able to bolt solvespace&#39;s sketcher/constraint solver into kicad&#39;s footprint creator)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> not quite the thing you&#39;re asking for, but have you seen rinkcalc.app? i use it for everything but bitfield manipulation</p>

<p>Looking for a GUI calculator tool for Linux. I haven&#39;t been happy with any of the options I&#39;ve used to date (currently using KCalc).</p><p>Requirements:<br />* Easy base conversion including clickable on/off bits for encoding/poking register bitfields</p><p>* Allows typing arbitrarily complex algebraic expressions and evaluates them only when you hit enter, with free editing up to that point. KCalc starts parsing and evaluating stuff as you type so if I type 3 + (1 and then want to backspace or add some other stuff, I can&#39;t delete the parenthesis because it&#39;s already pushed the parser stack or something.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker" class="u-url mention">@<span>unspeaker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> &quot;being resistant to manipulation&quot; is a skill that i rather painfully had to learn; it would serve them to do so as well</p><p>had i had some sort of influence in design of social media systems, i would be thinking and talking about about it in other ways. but i don&#39;t, i design programming languages, and my concerns about social media begin and end at the individual</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>i&#39;m glad you do. it&#39;s a good thing. but it&#39;s an assumption - not a given. are people who are vulnerable to manipulation somehow not real people?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker" class="u-url mention">@<span>unspeaker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> i trust myself to know what i need, yeah</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>i realize i&#39;m probably in the minority here, but i neither find it self-evident that those things which i *want* to see are the same as those things which i *need* to see; nor do i find it a good idea to remain uninformed about those things which i disagree with. it just feels too much like letting someone get the drop on me.</p><p>as long as there&#39;s a platform (i.e. an active intermediary), it will serve the interests of its users only as far as those serve its own.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>it doesn&#39;t. many people are on social media for this exact reason. this is useful to all involved - especially when other spaces are unavailable.</p><p>a second group is there to market to the first group. this is useful to the second group, often more than to the first group.</p><p>these two use cases provide a veneer of legitimacy to the whole endeavor, used by a third group of participants who surveil the first and second groups&#39; activities, while themselves remaining unseen.</p>