Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

"Free speech" is a good principle for governments (though one whose details include serious problems that need to be considered), not for moderating communities.

@joepie91 Third parties can't really offer this easily as vendors (airlines etc) tend to offer 3 types of product: single, retour and openjaw(a->b->c). As prices vary continuously you cannot safely sell 2 products simultaneously, as that kind of batching is also not supported (pricing holds are per product and short lived).

all i'm saying is, if they can add types to python, then i should be able to remove types from java. it's only fair

Students respond better to feedback when it's depersonalized.

Personal: Your wording here is unclear
Impersonal: The wording here is unclear.

Personal: Your organization is confusing.
Impersonal: The organization is confusing.

Personal: You made the opposite claim in the previous paragraph.
Impersonal: The previous paragraph made the opposite claim.

I've found that this makes a massive difference, giving students the detachment they need to focus on their writing.

#AcademicMastodon

One of the interesting things, as we begin to test out the federated model of social media at scale, is that having a rule of “I don’t have to put up with any dipshits” is getting a lot of pushback from the dipshits.

honestly if you need a whole 'council' with members and a process to try to convince people online that you're not a shit head, you are probably a shit head

jokes aside, the fact that these knobheads get so mad about defederation kinda suggests to me that defederation works quite well to isolate and disempower them, so that's nice

Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

i just saw credits for an old dos game where they put their "catering" in the credits, including their local pizza place

we should bring that back. that should be a thing

Yes, I know that no win is permanent and victory is rarely complete. The work is never done. But if we don't stop to celebrate when we do win, then we will turn into burnt-out husks who cannot carry on the fight.

👀 ​https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/1222

Git merge is an awesome feature because it lets you take two working branches and turn them into a single non-working branch.

MAPPA VIAE LACTEAE: A map of the Milky Way galaxy in the style of a 16th century cartographer.

"The art of cartography has seemingly been forgotten in this modern age of cosmic exploration. ... So here, I have attempted to channel the geographers of the first Age of Exploration, and make a map of our galaxy in their style."

📷: Starkey Comics (https://starkeycomics.com/)

Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.

@ehashman I've thought a lot about what you've said re: self-hosting being just a form of libertarian rugged individualism, and to me that points to the importance of mutual aid as one of the fundamental principles of interaction

"We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand."

as compelling as the declaration of digital autonomy is, it feels like without this critical cornerstone it's somewhat watered down