#Tag
Hey all y'all need to stop using "guys" in mixed company.
- My trans girlfriend is not a guy.
- My cis girlfriend is not a guy.
- I'm not a guy (or a girl, but that's not relevant here).
Misgendering is misgendering—even if "everyone's doing it".
Patriarchy shouldn't be the default.
Oigo a un ministro o similar diciendo que los madrileños tenemos que reaccionar ante el desmantelamiento de la sanidad pública y el escándalo del hospital de Torrejón. Quiten la ley mordaza, la presunción de veracidad de la policia y su infiltración fascista, los policías infiltrados en movimientos sociales y provocando disturbios en las manifestaciones, las multas disuasorias por chorradas. Verá como entonces si que reaccionamos. Claro que igual esa reacción no mola tanto. #rant
Oigo a un ministro o similar diciendo que los madrileños tenemos que reaccionar ante el desmantelamiento de la sanidad pública y el escándalo del hospital de Torrejón. Quiten la ley mordaza, la presunción de veracidad de la policia y su infiltración fascista, los policías infiltrados en movimientos sociales y provocando disturbios en las manifestaciones, las multas disuasorias por chorradas. Verá como entonces si que reaccionamos. Claro que igual esa reacción no mola tanto. #rant
my experience of gender is AMAB people either explaining things i already know (that they automatically assume i have no idea about) and/or AMAB people asking for the opinion of a "professional" as soon as i am done formulating my advice to them
is "de-professionalization by default" a gender?
the designated, correct toilet would have a sign that just says "uhm, actually"
Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.
Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.
my experience of gender is AMAB people either explaining things i already know (that they automatically assume i have no idea about) and/or AMAB people asking for the opinion of a "professional" as soon as i am done formulating my advice to them
is "de-professionalization by default" a gender?
the designated, correct toilet would have a sign that just says "uhm, actually"
Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.
Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.
Cool, cool - seems like #Rythmbox has absolutely destroyed my #iPod library:
All of the cover art is mangled:
Cover art that should belong to Artist A Album A is at Artist D, Album B.
It's all totally messed up!
And all I've tried to do was transfering a podcast from my Linux machine to my iPod (nano) (hint: it totally failed at that!).
This is the first time I'm using this software and it will be the last.
Is there no working solution for this!?
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/115601482804418695
Nothing I do on my phone now is significantly different than what I did with it when it was brand new five years ago. If it is slower now, it’s because the latest software has become bloated and less efficient. The phone manufacturers and their media mouthpieces can shut the hell up about my continued use of a perfectly functional device. #rant #PetPeeve #PlannedObsolescence
Cool, cool - seems like #Rythmbox has absolutely destroyed my #iPod library:
All of the cover art is mangled:
Cover art that should belong to Artist A Album A is at Artist D, Album B.
It's all totally messed up!
And all I've tried to do was transfering a podcast from my Linux machine to my iPod (nano) (hint: it totally failed at that!).
This is the first time I'm using this software and it will be the last.
Is there no working solution for this!?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/11/why-lying-is-essential-for-privacy-herd-immunity/
My date of birth is the 1st of January 1901. My phone number is 0000000000. My gender is decided on a coin flip. My country of residence is Afghanistan. And my Mother's maiden name is a random mix of upper-case, lower-case, numbers, and symbols.
Well, that's what you would believe if you were any website I've registered for. If you're a free WiFi provider, you get random details. Unless you have a legitimate reason for needing my name and address, you'll find that I live in a desirable area of SW1A 1AA.
You have a moral imperative to lie. The people who want your details are going to abuse your data. And that hurts you and the people around you. Targeted adverts are used to make you buy things you don't want and to believe things which aren't true. Deep data collection is used to work out what sort of person you are, the lifestyle you lead, and the risks you take.
Even if you think you are totally immune to advertising (you're not) and that you have nothing to hide (you do) - mass data collection is used to target people like you.
It is vital that you add as much statistical "noise" to the data collection pool as possible. This helps protect everyone.
Giving fake details is a position supported by security professionals.
3. My favourite pet is “the Eiffel Tower”
Enter the minimum amount of authentic information into online registration forms. Do you really need to enter genuine information in every field if there’s no legal reason to do so?
My Digital Footprint - Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
This isn't a theoretical concern. Earlier this year, Network Rail's WiFi provider exposed the details of people who'd registered for their free WiFi.
As the UK's National Cyber Security Centre says:
You should only fill in the mandatory details on a website
You should use an Ad Blocker as regularly as you'd use a condom - and for much the same reason.
If you have the patience, get a disposable SIM card and use that for receiving calls and texts from businesses or marketing firms. Then replace it after a few months.
To be clear - don't lie to people who have a legal right or legitimate need to know your details. Lying about your address to a delivery company means you won't get your parcel, and lying to your doctor could result in harm. Don't even think of deceiving the taxman.
But if someone you have no reason to trust asks for your data - feed them garbage.
#rant
Je sais que de nos jours bouffer des giga-octets de RAM pour afficher un bout de texte paraît normal, mais quand je vois que sur le Raspberry le système d'exploitation + serveur ssh + serveurs DHCP et DNS + interface web de Pi-Hole ne consomment que... 130 Méga-octets de RAM, je trouve ça merveilleux.
OK, politicians and campaign workers, the #election is over. Please collect your campaign #signs that have been blighting the towns highways and neighborhoods for the past several months. For future reference, candidates whose signs persist well after election day are less likely to get my #vote next time around.
BTW, These stupid signs don't change anyones mind anyway. Especially the obnoxious oversized ones that are gaining popularity lately.
Ok, I get it.Rust is cool af.
I'm a programmer who has been programming since around 1980; self taught in just about everything except assembler and TRS-80 BASIC, and at 62 still a productive professional programmer programming in python.
I've just come from PyPI.org, where I find that many packages listed there are drop-in replacements for python packages written in Rust, or new bits of work written in Rust but wrapped in a python binding.
Lets be clear: I am not a Rust hater. I've started taking an online course to learn some Rust, because the products of the toolchain are undeniably amazing.
I'm finding the language to be more than a bit difficult, however, because like most new and effective advances in computers science, its very different, and that makes it challenging.
What I am finding I don't like however, is the behavior of the community. Just because you *can* write rust code that will e.g., fit into the linux kernel, or be easily wrapped into some sort of binding, doesn't mean I want to discover that my python package repository, full of lovely python programs, done pydantically, and all according to the PEPs we know, love, and depend on, to be supplanted with a bunch of python wrapped rust code. Its unfriendly, unnecessary, and most importantly, dilutes the effectiveness and maintainability of the index and the code found there.
By all means, write Rust apps, if you're able.
Just keep them out of my python
reposititory.
Just my 0.02$
To reiterate: I have nothing against any programming language. They're all useful in some respect, yes ALL of them.
I just want my python repository to be pure python, with very few very notable exceptions.
I'm being bombarded with this again today and I've had enough so please forgive me some yelling.
THERE IS NO WAY TO USE AI ETHCALLY.
(Regarding, of course, the most popular uses of the term 'AI' today.) Stop saying you're using it 'ethically' or 'responsibly'. There is no such thing. It is built on massive theft, the undermining of humanity, and the willingness to give up food security, among other major issues. Stop pretending. Stop trying to force others to use it. Just fucking stop! The only way you're using it 'ethically' is if your ethics are bad.
And no, I don't give a shit how you want to reply to this, whine your way out, or excuse yourself as some shining exception.
I'm being bombarded with this again today and I've had enough so please forgive me some yelling.
THERE IS NO WAY TO USE AI ETHCALLY.
(Regarding, of course, the most popular uses of the term 'AI' today.) Stop saying you're using it 'ethically' or 'responsibly'. There is no such thing. It is built on massive theft, the undermining of humanity, and the willingness to give up food security, among other major issues. Stop pretending. Stop trying to force others to use it. Just fucking stop! The only way you're using it 'ethically' is if your ethics are bad.
And no, I don't give a shit how you want to reply to this, whine your way out, or excuse yourself as some shining exception.
Once again had to download a stupid app and spend ten minutes by the side of the road faffing with my phone to charge the car. This is such a huge barrier to entry for so many people, I do not know why you cannot just plug your car in and swipe a bank card, it is ridiculous. No wonder people stick to petrol cars, at petrol stations you can just swipe your card and fill up. It's inexcusable that it isn't the same experience for electric, there's no good reason for it. #ev #rant
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