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chaos communication congress, covid, ableism 

@snoopy@chaos.social That unfortunately doesn't match the things I've been seeing. It'd be great if that were the case, and I'll be happy to post an update once there's more public clarity on the matter, but all I have to go off right now are some rather concerning internal communications and questions about the choice of venue under the circumstances.

chaos communication congress, covid, ableism 

:boostsPorFavor:

From what I'm hearing, the plan is to organize this year's Chaos Communication Congress in an absolutely packed venue with *zero* COVID measures because the orga doesn't care about even *trying* to find workable solutions.

This would be grossly irresponsible and unacceptable. And as usual, vulnerable people are being thrown under the bus.

"Being inclusive is good, sure, buuuut maybe vulnerable people just shouldn't come for a few years."

This is not good enough. Fix this. There are *so many* possible solutions, see eg. the MCH2022 measures.

Encourage people to self-test, and provide free self-tests for those who cannot afford it. They're cheap in bulk now.

Tell people to wear a mask, even if you can't 100% rigidly enforce it. Public health measures are not all-or-nothing, it doesn't *have* to be perfect.

CCC folks speak loudly about inclusivity, but that requires actions, not just words. Pretending that COVID doesn't exist is ableist and needlessly harmful.

If the Congress orga go through with this, I will not go to , and neither should you.

I think we all know how widespread hacker pest is every Congress, so you're almost *guaranteed* to be exposed to COVID at , with all the consequences that that entails - including serious risk of chronic disability and, y'know, *your brain* not working right anymore.

And yes, this is information from the grapevine, but this needs to be talked about *now*, before things are set in stone and the only response we'll get is "sorry, it's already decided". I'm sure that the orga will be able to issue a clarification if the policy changes.

Wrote a little library that can be used to do relational queries on linearly-ingested larger-than-RAM datasets, demonstrated here on the (tiny) GTFS sample data feed: gist.github.com/joepie91/a1b70

our anti-crunch game jam 'a game by its cover' is back – no competition or prizes, long deadline, late submissions possible

with crunch and burnout as industry staples, more than anything we want to provide a safe, comfortable and fun way for participants to get creative

my friends and i made video with more info about the rules and how to participate

youtube.com/watch?v=QPRkBTiSfT

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

i swear there’s a big machine somewhere stamping out identical right-wing FOSS guys

@malin@linuxrocks.online Yes; though it'd require some browser-side JS to update the page contents as the number of people is adjusted.

There are some approaches that come to mind:
1. Insert the ingredient data as structured JSON somewhere into the page (eg. in an embedded <script> tag) and re-generate the page contents every time the amount of people is adjusted, this requires some form of templating (eg. with React)
2. Use specially-tagged tags like so: "Add <span data-amount='2'>2</span> teaspoons of sugar" and upon the number of people being changed, have a bit of code that finds all the `data-amount`-having tags in the page, takes the value from the attribute, multiplies it, and puts the result as the new *contents* of that tag.

Option 1 is probably better if you want to expand the site over time with more (dynamic) functionality like optional ingredients, option 2 is probably better for a "quick and dirty" implementation if this is all the dynamic stuff you'll need.

Squatnet: **Amsterdam: Oud hotel gekraakt door studenten voor meer huisvesting**

"Op donderdag 13 oktober om 3 uur ‘s middags vond er een demonstratie plaats op het roeterseiland campus van de studentenvakbond ASVA voor meer studenten huisvesting. Om de hoek van het protest hebben dakloze studenten van Autonomous Student Strug…"

nl.squat.net/2022/10/13/amster

#anarchisme #bot

PSA 

@Stoori @samgai Their stupid signs are still everywhere around here :(

I feel like I, upon discovering Mastodon, found the total, like, 5–6 people I wanted to follow and've just stuck with them for the last 3 years so I don't know how effective asking the greater Fediverse will be but

Does anyone know of any artists on here who either can do ASCII art or, while not the medium they usually inhabit, are willing to give creating it a try? 'Working on an all-text video game and could use someone who's open for commissions, right now.

#art #ASCIIart #commissions

Thinking about the Freedom Convoy in light of the hearings that are starting 

If you hold a meeting/rally/protest

And Nazis show up

And Nazis are welcomed

You just held a Nazi meeting/rally/protest

I think I could be a shark plushie

you don't have to think, you just lie in bed all day, and occasionally people hug you

Thinking about how nurses in the pandemic, teachers in shootings, or people in "caring" professions generally are so often called on to be "heroes"

And like

By definition

If you're going "above and beyond", it means that what you're doing is literally not your job

If anyone ever uses a wartime metaphor to try to manipulate you into doing something, you should be extremely suspicious of what they're trying to ask you to sacrifice

@f0x @kim @goat@hellsite.site (I say this affectionately, as a long-time NixOS user whose configuration repo looks more like a shape-shifter than a configuration file)

@f0x @kim @goat@hellsite.site The best part is that that link will show completely different things over time depending on when you've last refactored it :3

@aeva@mastodon.social Magic trick: extract smaller pieces from the multi-year research projects as soon as they become independently useful, and just publish those by themselves

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