The thing that drives me nutso about climate change is that many of the necessary changes could be awesome. A society with more leisure time, cleaner air, closer connections to friends and family who live nearer to you, more exercise, more technological innovation, more jobs, more fairness, more nature… most people would benefit from these changes.
the details behind google's page rank algorithm are well documented and all the patents have expired. if you're not trying to sell ads and drive engagement I wonder how hard it would be at this point. I also wonder what a federated/collective search engine might look like. I should be doing other things yet here I am.
GR news, deadly train crash, grief, anger (-)
Hey, it's me again sharing some GR news from time to time! (sorry)
Everyday it gets more and more surreal living in this country.
Our grief becomes rage as more details are getting known about the train collision near Larissa, on the country's most commonly used route.
ETR 740s, a degraded railway system+more. We learned that there is no telematics/electronic system checking routes etc. Everything is still manual in 2023. The railway workers were demonstrating for years for this to be fixed. The public didn't know.
The company, in a tragic try of damage control, is still not releasing the official number of passengers, after 3 days, while relatives are searching the hospitals to see if their missing child is there or not. Not to talk about the ones who have no one to claim them.
The government is trying to cover their members responsible for the degradation who lead to this, of course, corruption. Elections are soon.
Demos everyday in many cities. We hate it here.
rant, tech politics
My problem with the software development community is that it's like 95% people who will do whatever a tech company with slick marketing says is right, and 5% people who rebel against the status quo but for the wrong reasons so they never get anything done.
Why is it so difficult to find people who actually approach tech intersectionally?
Something I don't understand is the impulse to go "oh no they got me, i anthropomorphized the computer" because they caught themselves going "thank you" when it helped them
Like i guess but it's not in a harmful way imo. If the extent of it is "when something presents itself to me like it's sentient i'm polite out of habit", that just means you have a good habit
Comment I just left on a PR: "YES!! I love this, always love to see more smaller functions, and this is a really nice self-contained chunk of logic to break out. Excellent call."
This is your semi-regular reminder to call out the good things in code reviews along with the changes you're suggesting! Coding is an inherently human endeavor, humans have feelings, and that is an attribute, not an inconvenience to be optimized away.
Also, this applies to many other feedback-oriented scenarios too, I imagine. When interfacing over digital mediums, I can always use more reminders that there's a person on the other end.
People who have larger/chubby/fat OCs or fursonas shouldn’t get labeled as fetish content solely because of their sizes. They can get cute art pieces of non sexual themes and non fetish related themes and not have to deal with others thinking inherently because it’s a very chubby or fat character that *it has to be* fetish material like it’s some underlying motive.
@jon can we get away from the idea of booking, and instead the idea of just buying a ticket. We don't book a slot on the motorway, why do we have to pre define our time and train? Just buy a ticket. Valid from a, to b.
currently thinking about the ways in which the tyranny of "professionalism" works to hold people apart who should be in community with each other
these ones have worked with a cool queer for over a year and have never until this week found a venue in which we were both comfortable discussing our extremely similar experiences of romance, sexuality, kink, trauma, and spirituality
and that was accomplished primarily through the kind of incredibly oblique signifiers that Empty Spaces specializes in (their DO NOT PET patch, my Dusa pin)
#emptyspaces
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.