fragment of history, complexity
"Cognitive science professor and author Donald Norman used to give students the Kobayashi Maru of design homework, asking his students to squish a CD player, tape player, clock radio, telephone and answering machine all together in an usable doodad.
The point was to fail, but also learn along the way that too much functionality defies a good interface."
(So, basically all things that smartphones can do today, minus the physical media)
I have a standing quarterly donation to #kde, because it is my desktop environment of choice and it absolutely rocks. Use it daily and it doesn't get in the way. I've donated some things here and there to individual developers because their things made my life so much easier.
Please, donate to the free and opensource software you use. If you switch away from a paid thing, consider donating some of the money you saved.
uspol
fedi people (including myself) like to meme with Sun Microsystems but the founders are still typical Big Tech people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy#Opinions
> In 2017, McNealy praised the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump, for his free-market economic policies.[36] On September 17, 2019, McNealy hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump's re-election campaign.[37][38]
Like, I'm evaluating P2P things again and GUN is basically instantly off the list of candidates because I cannot navigate their fucking website without being overwhelmed!
If you live in NC and voted.
Please check if your vote was just tossed out and challenge it.
You have until Friday April 18 ... so check now and let your friends know so they can check too.
uspol
Google Cloud is hosting https://professorwatchlist.org.
Cloudflare is providing DNS and DDoS protection.
Guess Google and Cloudflare enjoy being in bed with fascists now...
just discovered something really obvious about software you've been using for ages and feel bad about it? don't! it happens to the best - and it doesn't unduly hold them up either...
So, while I felt comraderie during my march as I moved with various organizations to stand up in the face of state oppression, the world at large still have some work to do.
Capitalism has put us in a place to keep focusing on the individual as opposed to the collective.
People keep focusing on who's protesting "the right way".
I'm not saying we should have bounce houses for kids.
But criticizing people for taking a step, for some their first step, is weird.
Beste #Nederland|se bubble, wil je helpen om de account van deze mooie initiative bekender te maken? (Graag boost, en als je het leuk vind zijn ze ook dankbaar voor follows🌸🐝)
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https://mastodon.nl/@Kleverbergh
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Dank u!
#Nijmegen #regeneratiefbiologischelandbouw #landschap #landschapsontwikkeling #natuurbescherming #ecologischbouwen #biobasedbouwen
fragment of history, google
"Wave is designed to operate as a decentralized communication network. Individuals and organizations will run their own Wave-compatible servers which will all interoperate through a federated messaging protocol. Although Google has developed the underlying technology, the company intends to open it up entirely to the community and make it a vendor-neutral standard. There will be multiple competing implementations, much like there are today for e-mail services, and it will be possible to use and operate independent Wave services without having to rely on Google."
New blog post! I've started taking regular snapshots of Library of Congress linked open data (as part of a much broader data rescue and monitoring project) and took the opportunity to finally get to grips with #SPARQL, #RDF and all that comes along with it. I've started small though...
On fooling around with triples
https://erambler.co.uk/blog/on-fooling-around-with-triples/
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.