will ferrell was not the apparent trans ally I was expecting in 2024 https://youtu.be/PRZ1ELeGepo?si=GZK7zC4-l8ozRKib
Friend shared a chonky landing page for a Major Cloud Vendor's offerings...and y'all, I don't think anyone has internalised how high on their own supply the contemporary JS community is.
It takes some cirrostratus levels of disconnectedness to believe your `chatbot.js` is fine when it clocks in at ~750K (wire, 3MB unzipped) INCLUDING ITS OWN COPY OF REACT, lodash, every polyfill you've ever heard of, and 269 embedded `data:image/...` URLs.
Hoe herkennen we ecofascisme? Vaak wordt beweerd dat de klimaat- en ecologische crisis door overbevolking komt, maar dit klopt niet. Volgens Oxfam is de rijkste 10% van de bevolking verantwoordelijk voor meer dan de helft van de wereldwijde broeikasgasuitstoot. [3/5]
#sysadmin pro tip!
If you generate a lot of fresh Let's Encrypt certificates today, and don't enable auto-renewal, they will expire on December 25th, giving you a good excuse to leave your family dinner early.
It's now too late for Marcellus Williams, but it's not too late for Robert Roberson. On Oct 17, Texas will execute him for a crime he absolutely did not commit. Make it a big deal. https://youtu.be/ifpEfj1_hzQ
OV gaat achteruit: de auto is altijd sneller, zelfs in de spits
https://nos.nl/artikel/2538537-ov-gaat-achteruit-de-auto-is-altijd-sneller-zelfs-in-de-spits
Hoeveel jaar draaide de vroemvroempartij aan de knoppen?
"Bastiaanssen denkt dat beleidsmakers zich niet goed genoeg realiseren dat een kwart van de huishoudens in Nederland geen auto heeft."
Niet realiseren? Die mensen hebben gewoon niet voor succes gekozen. Vroem! Vroem!
If you're in the US, it's time to order your 4 free covid tests. Keep yourself and those around you safe.
https://covidtests.gov/
GDPR, transmisia, positive-ish legal ruling
The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that under the GDPR, the asylum documentation of a refugee in Hungary must be corrected to reflect their identified gender (as opposed to assigned-by-government gender). There are some caveats to it however.
While evidence of its correctness may be expected to process the change, that evidence requirement *may not* include having undergone gender reassignment surgery, as this would be in conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights.
A major factor in the ruling was that the refugee was granted asylum on the basis of being trans in the first place, and this served as an implicit recognition by the government that their identified gender is correct, from a GDPR perspective.
The full details of the ruling are here: https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=CJEU_-_C-247/23_-_Deldits&mtc=today
What's that? You're still doubting the power of grass?
This is 24 hours later. I have a glasses kit. I just wanted to see how long it would last with regular daily use. Absolutely badass stuff, grass.
Someone shared a comic I liked, but I noticed that somewhere in the chain, the artists name had been removed, so that stopped me. Reverse image searching proved surprisingly frustrating and involved diving into the cesspit of LinkedIn, but I eventually identified the artist as Irina Blok, but I can't link to the original image because its in Instagram jail, so here's her site.
That was a pain in the ass. Please don't trim credits. It's an asshole move.
Tech opinions
Daydream: a smooth-talking grifter swindles the Zuck out of a bajillion simoleons in exchange for AR glasses that he never provides; Zuck shakes his fist at the sky
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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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.