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@davidculley Update: the product manager for has replied in the Github issue thread, and committed to making the telemetry opt-in instead, without use of dark pattern.

hospital, social worker, autism, positive 

Social worker at the hospital today: "it's nice to work with autistic folks, it's so easy to establish a clear [agreement/understanding] with them!"

😅

De trein en bus zaten vandaag weer vol met snotterende mensen. Als je wacht met mondkapjes dragen totdat er een golf is, nou, nu is dus het moment om daarmee weer te beginnen.

@bert_hubert Ik heb begrepen van anderen dat Bunq meestal niet zoveel interesse heeft in wat je met de rekening doet (en om diverse andere redenen zou ik het ook wel echt als "last resort" beschouwen), maar geen *persoonlijke* ervaring mee.

(Of daadwerkelijk witwassen ze wel meer interesseert, is me overigens ook nooit helemaal duidelijk geworden, maar dat terzijde.)

Asking for a friend (echt), is er een soort bank-of-last-resort voor stichtingen? Een bank die wel bereid is na te denken ipv gillend weg te rennen zodra het iets met het hulp aan Oekraïne te maken heeft? Het is leuk dat de overheid contante transacties boven de 3000 euro verbiedt maar dan moet je niet ook bankrekeningen onbereikbaar maken, lijkt me.

Some serious props to Australia Post for this one. No street number provided, just "The one with the big antenna". Thanks for the laughs @xssfox !

Ken je rechten, flyeren op “semi-openbare” plekken als stations is toegestaan
doorbraak.eu/ken-je-rechten-fl

“Heb je ook ervaring met beveiligers, boa’s of politie tijdens flyeracties bij of in stationshallen? Laat het weten aan Doorbraak of aan anderen van de WRS-campagne.”

#Arbeidersstrijd #Beweging #Ecologie #WijReizenSamen

A huge victory for trans people's rights in the European Union: the European Court of Justice ruled today that EU member states are not allowed to refuse a legal gender change obtained in another member state, and that all member states must recognize a gender change obtained anywhere in the EU.

“The Court emphasised that the refusal to acknowledge changes of forename and gender acquired in another Member State is contrary to the fundamental rights of EU citizens.”

ilga-europe.org/news/joint-sta

re: subpost about debugging 

@clarfonthey And for an extremely specific value of "best" that mainly means "scored well on standardized tests" and not much else, too

re: subpost about debugging 

@clarfonthey At one point, various tech companies were bragging about how they hired the best graduates of top schools right out of school, with the implication that they must have the most competent people, and every time I see a post like this, I think back to that

@infobeautiful Irrationally annoyed by that one mis-sorted entry at the start of the list 🙂

re: health, positive...? sort of? 

@rune Many of them are, unfortunately, potassium :p But not all!

re: health, positive...? sort of? 

@rune Well to a point, I should still not overdo it, I assume :p And my favourite snacks are still verboten due to potassium :(

hot take rust floats should be called f23e8 and f52e11 instead of f32 and f64

health, positive...? sort of? 

Judging from said doctor's puzzled look, they did not expect it either

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health, positive...? sort of? 

Given that I'm suffering from kidney failure, I absolutely did not expect a doctor to ever tell me "your sodium level is too low, you should eat more salty things"

"COVID is not a cold, it's a car accident. It spreads throughout the body, impacting many different organ systems... It's not unusual to get into a car accident and be just fine, but a lifestyle that involves getting into a car accident once a year comes with a reduced life expectancy." The health implications of repeated COVID infections: longshadowofcovid.substack.com #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #YallMasking #MaskUp

@erou I feel similarly (I've often run into the exact same problem that @aral has), though over the years I've learned to reframe that slightly: you'll always have people disagree about your communication strategy, but whether this matters depends entirely on *who* the people are that disagree.

For me that means that if some random techbro disagrees, it doesn't matter to me; but if other marginalized folks disagree, I should probably be paying attention.

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