Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Overigens: reis je in Nederland wel eens met de trein en wil je ook weten hoe je (tijdelijke) problemen met de geleidelijnen voor blinden en slechtzienden moet herkennen, meld je vooral en dan leg ik een keer uit hoe ze werken. Het is niet ingewikkeld, en het kan helpen om dit soort problemen sneller te vinden en op te lossen 🙂

Ter promotie van meer gebruik van #Linux staat mijn nieuwe project nu online: Linux voor een beginner.

https://linux.vooreenbeginner.nl/

Het doel is iedereen die de overstap wil maken een toegankelijke introductie te geven en dat vooral zelfstandig kan doen. De eerste mensen zijn afgelopen week gestart met het bekijken van de pagina's en hebben hun eerste installatie gedaan!

Volg nieuwe artikelen en ontwikkelingen: https://linux.vooreenbeginner.nl/rss/

Incidentally, many of the men who seem to be more competent only appear that way because they used harassment to steal work from more competent marginalized folks.

This, this, this. Men profit far too much from harassment to ever want to do anything to solve it. Entire generations of deeply mediocre white cis men have succeeded in academia exclusively because they use violence (implied, threatened, or actualized) to push everyone else out.

https://discuss.systems/@irene/114076941721668237

I was just laid off from SparkFun. It was sudden and cowardly. I logged on for a weekly status meeting and Nate had HR with him.

14 years this Saturday.

And now I'm unemployed in the midst of what is already a very difficult mental health crisis recovery.

Your boss is not your friend.

We saw a doctor yesterday and he said that our oestradiol is too high (1076 pmol/L) and T too low (0.3 nmol/L).

He said that the 'blockers' we take (5mg of finasteride) probably isn't doing anything to block T and it's the estrogen alone that is blocking it, and that progesterone has no studies proving it is useful but it does that it might be harmful with blood clots and cancer and stuff

Currently we are on:

5 milligrams of finasteride taken once daily

150 micrograms per 24 hours of oestradiol on patches changed twice weekly

200 milligrams of progesterone taken once daily.

Should we change any of this since no real advice was offered we are not sure.

Thank you!

When they want you tired, your energy is rebellion. When they want you miserable, your joy is rebellion. When they want you gone, your existence is rebellion.

..no one just so happens to have a premium sammobile account that they could use to download some archived firmware, is there?

Ken jij iemand die bij de NS werkt aan de website? En/of iemand bij de NS in het UX team? Ik kom graag met diegene in contact om het over een opdracht voor mijn studenten te hebben.

When it comes to digital stuff, if you can’t

download and store it
DRM-free
in a portable / open format
with no phone-home check
for entirely offline enjoyment

you’ve paid for an unstable rental of indeterminate duration, no matter how it was described to you.

Some common rhetoric by libs, moderates and electoral left is that we should put aside our differences to fight the far-right. The left is so divided, we won't ever beat the fascists!

In my opinion, those are not the words of an ally, but of a would-be conqueror. Using the enemy as an excuse to gain power yourself, like the fascists do.

For established political parties it generally has an implicit "rally _behind me_, help _me_ beat them" message. But even when it doesn't, asking people to just ignore their grievances and demands - without offering any concessions yourself - is not conducive to an alliance, it is asking for submission and fealty.

Want to call for an alliance against a common enemy? Instead of asking for _unconditional_ support, focus on the common goals. Propose actions that the many groups can agree to. Or, instead of _demands_ for support, start with offers: what are _you_ willing to concede for this important goal.

Hot take: If Slack is your only (meaningful) experience with participating in online chat platforms besides being a teenager on MSN/AOL/ICQ in the early 2000's, then I'll allow myself to doubt your community leadership skills.

to be clear my position is, 100%, robots.txt is sacrosant, and i think all this bean counting is bullshit. it's uninteresting and boring to me

but i am posting this thread based on my familiarity with quantitative social science as an MA in linguistics, and from that PoV all i can say is, you don't get to complain about your participants. your data is your responsibility. people you observe don't live to be observed or to comply. resilience of your measurement tools is your responsibility

an uncurated collection of numbers is an RNG, not a database

just because you store it in a DBMS it doesn't become data

data is a curated record of observations of variables. not any old garbage array is data