@samwilson i ended up just blocking new account creation on mine. I got sick of spam accounts getting around everything I did to stop them. I think your wiki is a good idea, are you really thinking of retiring it?

I’ve been pretty angry these past few days, over a dispute relating to the reimbursement of travel expenses that’s left me quite a bit out of pocket.

The details are unimportant. What matters is how awful it’s left me feeling, how helpless I am to get the parties involved to do what I regard as the right thing. It’s left me stewing with rage, in a way that’s overtaken my thoughts in quiet moments.

Well, I decided I just didn’t want that feeling in my body anymore. So the next time a wave of anger rose up on me, I decided to try and figure out what was going on.

It seemed obvious to me that my rage was bound up in impotence and humiliation – in lacking the power to change a situation I regarded as unjust. So I was tempted by the proposition that anger is a failure mode of control: that it arose because I couldn’t make the situation behave in the way I wanted it to.

But on reflection, that “wanted” is at the core of it. What I really mean is that anger is a failure mode of *desire*.

@gildilinie @jonny

Also a computer scientist and, as the author of the fourth most-downloaded paper in the ACM Digital Library, I can claim some experience with publishing in our discipline.

I gave up a few sections in. I have absolutely no idea what the paper is trying to show nor how they are trying to show it. Or even what ‘clean’ means in the context of the paper.

Developers Wanted.

Introducing our new Developer API website 🥳

https://developers.pixelfed.org

#pixelfed #developers #api

On leur arrache les yeux pour plus de productivité : la face cachée des crevettes de supermarché

https://vert.eco/label-vert/on-leur-arrache-les-yeux-pour-plus-de-productivite-la-face-cachee-des-crevettes-de-supermarche/

Pour produire plus, de très nombreux élevages de crevettes sectionnent les pédoncules oculaires – soit la tige qui relie l’œil de l’animal au reste du corps – des femelles reproductrices. En théorie, cette mutilation est censée jouer sur le système hormonal des petits crustacés et favoriser des pontes plus rapides, donc une meilleure production.

Does anyone have access to archival JAMA research?

A friend is trying to track down full text of this article from 1924.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/238191#

doi:10.1001/jama.1924.02650310026009

#research

'Pilze' #FotoVorschlag
A couple of years ago, I saw this cluster of fungi along the way. There's so much beauty along the trails. Sometimes we simply don't see it.

#photography #fungi

@randahl Same, same.

Never thought the racist and misogynist system underlying the US electoral process would result in a fascist elected 2X by a minority faction, bolstered by an equally fascistic Congress and Supreme Court.

I hope Mitch McConnell is living in hell on earth, trapped in his body, knowing he is cursed and reviled, after stealing a SCOTUS seat and refusing to convict and remove Trump. One man should not have that much power.

The inscription on this monument built by the Ancients was damaged, but we were still able to translate it. Looks like we will find many valuable relics and treasure if we dig here!

Ah du coup l'info importante et gravissime pour les malades de longue durée c'est ça: https://code.travail.gouv.fr/actualite/indemnisation-arret-maladie-ce-qui-change-au-15-octobre-2026

La réduction "de 3 ans à 1 an la durée maximale de versement des indemnités journalières par l’Assurance maladie pour certaines affections nécessitant un arrêt de travail de longue durée."
Depuis le 15 Octobre de cette année, au calme.

Et AUCUN, je dis bien aucun, grand média n'en parle.

Et pour être sûrs de BIEN enfoncer les malades bien profonds, une nouvelle sanction a également vu le jour! 😃

Friends don't let friends work at google or uber ....

Or meta, palantir, openai, anthropic, mistral, spacex, microsoft, aws, coreweave, nvidia, apple, adobe ...

#tired

#basiskort I dag prøvede jeg at gå til den station, der er tættest på mig, der har en 7/11. Målet var at putte penge på mit anonyme basiskort. Desværre ser den 7/11 ud til at være under ombygning, eller måske er den lukket. Den var der i hvert fald ikke.

Nu tager jeg til midtbyen, hvor jeg ved, der er to 7/11 på Nørreport station. Tanken er, at dette forbedre mine chancer.

Jeg må undersøge om man kan tanke på andre måder, for det er, indrømmet, lidt besværligt.

It is fascinating and rather unexpected for me to realize I haven't found a need to reinstall my primary #NixOS machine since I wrote this blog post in 2020. Even when I migrated to a bigger ssd, I just copied the whole disk (via #btrfs snapshot send) and continued as before (with some grub & uuid fiddling).

Intuitively it would feel that an OS that has a major release twice a year and only a month (!) of support for the previous release would have more chance to have screwed up an install at some point. But in practice it's the opposite. And I have a somewhat less common disk setup with encrypted grub and such.

This is not to say NixOS is perfect, and it's certainly not for everyone. It's an exotic distro with its own functional programming language that manages everything.

It has its own pain points and surprises (probably deserving a new blog post at some point).

But one of the quite unexpected experiences for me is the total absense of any need or desire to wipe and start afresh.

https://ጮ.cc/2020/08/31/current-system-nixos.html

@Sascha
Viel Spaß!

Ich schaffe es heute nicht dazu und bin gespannt, was ich von den Ergebnissen höre.
@goern @paderta @bsz

For those who didn't see the original Mad Max, or haven't revisited it for years, the scenario is much more yahoos in back-country Australia than the post-armageddon setting of Mad Max 2. Which was released in the US with the subtitle 'The Road Warrior'.

The writers of the sequel wanted to explore the societal breakdown that might result if the yahoo behaviour and mercenary policing of the first film were normalised. In combination with the consequences of Peak Oil and climate change.

(2/?)

bug? right.

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/117450230465316218

Wenn ihr euch das nächste Mal grämt, etwas aufgeschoben zu haben: Just don't. Die Prokrastination hat jetzt ihren Endgegner gefunden. Das internationale Messwesen hat sich am Donnerstag darauf geeinigt, Schaltsekunden durch Schaltstunden zu ersetzen. Die erste Schaltstunde müsste demzufolge in 1.000, vielleicht auch erst in 3.000 Jahren durchgeführt werden, je nachdem wie schnell sich die Erde bis dahin gedreht hat. (Vor allem letzteres, optional *noch* weitere Aufschiebung, wegen Natur. 😆🤪)