@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's so frustrating that so many people in tech just take seriously all of these things that come from tech giants and think they're "ideas" that should be "tested for their merits".
My child, these tech giants only want one thing, and it's disgusting: shareholder value.
They don't care about you. They don't care about the Internet. They don't care about the community. They don't even care about technology.
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.
But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”
There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!
The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.
This is bad.
The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”
The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”
These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI feel like more ire should be directed at our governments that have put us in this impossible situation, and less at people who are given no good options. Did we incentivize or require ventilation/filtration upgrades in public spaces? No. Did we educate people about masks? No. Did we continue pushing regular vaccinations? Not really. How about a long covid research moonshot? Meh.
People are selfish. That's not going to change, that's just human. Govern accordingly.
@juandesant@astrodon.socialI think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846
@j12t@social.coop“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.
Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?
From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard.
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… awesome—I think I remember folks talking about this one years ago! Thank you!
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comMore distasteful negative marketing from Canonical.
I'm no fan of CentOS/RHEL either, but how about focusing on what you can offer, not spread FUD about the other folks.
Do I now want to see a similar marketing backstabbing from CentOS pointing out how many dead projects and noses-out-of-joint Canonical have left behind them? No I don't, and I don't think CentOS would. But that's where this goes.
@twcau@mastodon.socialDear Disney - F.U.
This says a lot about you as a company, when you think cutting the awarding of an important prize to a film talking about tragedy is somehow necessary.
https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/112081467005772272
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAbout life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic
@fgraver@hcommons.socialHow to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-think-about-the-prospects-of-truly-green-growth
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt's really hard to think of a more 'wrong-thinking' government than this one. Talk about focusing on the wrong stuff. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516658/watch-live-transport-minister-announces-n…
@davidoclubb@toot.walesI'm experiencing some poor results on website carbon calculators, which I think might be related to embedded #Pixelfed images. Just want to raise it and see whether anybody else has had a similar issue? @…, presuming it's not a pix.toot.wales issue...?
(The screenshot i…
@anildash@me.dmThe Letterman team just posted an anecdote about Prince's first appearance on the show — including how Dave seems to think Prince didn't like him. The truth, as always, is more complicated than that. And shows some ways in which Prince & Dave weren't so different. https://www.anildash.com/20…
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeAre wet runs the times where you cry in the middle about something you think is related but is some insecurity entirely in your head?
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieI recently watched the 1940s Powell & Pressburger film “A Canterbury Tale” and was astonished by how likeable and then moving I found it.
If you’re not an old movie sort of person, think about it as a visit to a foreign country’s films.
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgMy son wants to make his own electric guitar as a long term project. I think this might be too big a project to jump into. He's not even particularly keen on the idea of starting with a kit.. Any passing luthiers have advice about an easier step into this world?
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place☝🏻💡I’ve watched the full Alan Moore #Maestro course last year and I think this free sample lesson about his writing #philosophy is one of the key ideas he keeps talking about in lectures and throughout his work.
🧠⚡️Spectacularly spot on to me.
✍🏻🧙🏻♂️ Find out how to bec…
@fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizzaThe whole aesthetic of my wardrobe is very "the schizophrenic guy on the bus", which is a pretty big coincidence, when you think about it
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@publicvoit@graz.social
@drahardja@sfba.socialThe rampant pillaging and straight-up “appropriation” of human-generated training data from the Internet—without compensation—is a hallmark of many of today’s #AI giants. Now that they are starting to step on some wealthy toes, I think litigation is about to smack them down hard this year. NYTimes got a head start; who’s next?
“YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against …
@lexd0g@wetdry.worldnever really cared about watching eurovision live but i watched some of the performances earlier, i feel really bad for what they did to joost, i think he would've won if he wasn't dq'd and i hope he either returns next year or nl refuses to attend if he doesnt want to
nemo absolutely killed it and im glad their song won, i loved the song lyrics and the live performance. bambie was also great and i feel like spain shouldve placed higher than 22nd 💀
@primonatura@mstdn.socialEver wondered how to dispose of #cork? If so my latest blog explains a few companies giving #corks a new lease of life.
https://<…
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI continue to be fascinated by the pacing in FFVII Remake and Rebirth. Having heard some discussion about Rebirth’s minigames, its (semi-) open world design, and whether it thinks completionism is good or bad, I think there’s something slightly different going on. (1/2)
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgTFW you see a very old friend randomly in an online meeting and think how tired and careworn they look, but then wonder if they think the same thing about you...
Perhaps it's age, or maybe it's just working in #ClimateScience?
🧐
@AmkiTakk@blorbo.socialSometimes I think about how tiny baby Stolas was and I smile. Look at this tiny chicken..................he's so cute. 
#HelluvaBoss
@ferrous@neurodifferent.meI have been filling in various gaps in the online archive of my mother, Dinah Murray's work - notably including the first ever publication about #monotropism, her 1992 Durham paper 'Attention Tunnelling and #Autism'.
I think these papers hold up pretty well, all things considered!
https://monotropism.org/2024/dinah-murray-archive-update/
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldChildren, hush. Your father is writing a think piece about Sydney Sweeney's boobs.
@scott@carfree.cityDespite gentrification, the Mission is still a progressive neighborhood with lots of solidarity for unhoused and other poor folks, but you wouldn't know that from the Inner Mission Neighborhood Association. They're your classic NIMBYs who hate encampments but also hate the tiny cabins site to get people out of encampments. Does it make sense? well no, but they've been too busy putting hostile planters everywhere to think about it much.
@risottobias@tech.lgbtnews anchor: "the good news is [that the US has shot down a bunch of the drones]"
I don't think prefixing news about a warming war as "good" is a bright idea
@beaware@social.beaware.liveGrr....I hate not being Linux knowledgeable. Makes things so much more annoying.
I get by. But I bet I wouldn't be so nervous about stuff if I knew 100% what the heck I was doing.😬 🤷♂️
I'll get through it eventually. Think I'm gonna take a break for today though.
Try again tomorrow.
@KingShawn@mastodon.socialDIAF YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! 🤬 https://universeodon.com/@LaNaehForaday/112429415032620025
@wraithe@mastodon.socialGood thread and discussion, way above my paygrade/expeience.
I’ll just echo Erin saying I hope these lead to even better tools for moderation.
From: @…
https://mas.to/@kissane/11208478…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineErinnerung: Keine Fotos zur Schwangerschaft oder von Kindern in Social Media posten:
"A fresh warning from experts on the dangers of posting your kids online
Parents considering posting pictures and information of their children online should re-think how they go about it, in a new warning from Edith Cowan University (ECU) data experts."
#DOI: 10.2196/54414
@dingsextrem@mas.toI cannot claim to be free of any -isms (and i'm very suspicious of any person claiming so).
But if any toot of mine falls into an -istic category in your opinion, feel free to tell me so. At least i will think about the possibility that you're right (I still might disagree, though).
@trochee@dair-community.social> i just don't care what briefcase business boys have to say about anything, they do not imagine cathedrals, only plastic bags
— @…
https://blob.love/@nora/11242362767817
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialI freely admit that the pronouns thing avoids me to a large degree. I can easily accept that it's necessary to use the right pronoun if it's known when talking about someone in the third person and I have used 'they' when talking about those I don't know since a child, probably for 60 years.
But in talking to someone directly I'm not going to use the third person or even think about it because it would be rude to use it when talking to them.
I've no …
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialDear the Fediverse.
AWS is nagging me about 2FA on my Root Account and I think I should probably buy a #Yubikey.
But my brain is unable to focus on the marketing bilge on their website. What should I know before deciding which one to buy?
@cdarwin@c.imYou may not think about #Tim #Dunn.
Indeed, unless you’re a close observer of Texas politics, it’s likely you haven’t heard of him.
But Dunn thinks a lot about you.
For two decades he has been quietly, methodically, and patiently building a political machine that has pushed Texas forcefully to the right, sendi…
@juandesant@astrodon.socialI think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846
@hey@social.nowicki.ioHaving watched quite a lot of interviews with Brexiters and then learning about how UK literally screwed people over with privatization of their water system makes me think UK is a perfect example of Lords and Peasants. Lords abuse their people and when shit hits the fan point to some easy to point target and redirect the mass anger there.
Also, Scotland water system is public. People there pay 30% less for water. Rivers are clean. They didn’t vote Brexit.
@stf@chaos.social#passkeys seem to be not so easy to implement: https://www.corbado.com/blog/passkey-implementation-pitfalls-misconceptions-unknowns
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAmazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts https://www.404media.co/amazon-amazen-workingwell-savoring/
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI thought the #DoctorWho debut with Disney was fine.
Not great, not horrible, but good. In a way, it was a return to earlier (‘60s/70s) silliness and absurdity in basic plots. It also is clearly pulling back to being aimed at a younger audience. Fun. Don't think too hard about it; enjoy Ncuti dancing...
Also: all the people bemoaning how terrible this all is, the end of Doctor Who…
@shuttle@mastodon.onlineHave you used Rust for AWS lambdas or other serverless-type deployments?
What do you think about them?
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… I think a lot about how full time sponsorship of 11ty almost killed the project
@design_law@mastodon.socialToday, I am reminded about the main reason I joined AIPLA--to get announcements about Design Day.
When I brought up the notice/publicity issue about a decade ago, I was met with derision and told that "everyone who is interested" was already in the loop, and they were mostly in DC anyway so advanced notice didn't matter.
I think the 400 people logging in online today would disagree.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSomeone posted about how AI art seems “soulless” perhaps because it doesn’t do anything to help you connect with the person/artist who created it. I think I agree with that view. As an artist I crave that connection with people... I sold a bunch of prints last week and it was amazing having someone see something I created and having some feeling of liking it because we have some shared experience and that is the connection thing. More of that please.
@al3x@hachyderm.ioThis is an incredible summary of what I experienced too with OmniFocus and the reason I have’t been able to incorporate it completely in my routines.
The conclusion is that it is not about you.
Nor about the tool.
It’s about how the process makes you feel. https://emacs.ch/@fox/1124182267532471
@j12t@social.coopWe need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete.
We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web n…
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caIn scientific naming, for the Homo genus, we really need to think again about the Sapien term for the species.
"Wise" does not accurately describe a warmongering, habitat destroying creature. Maybe we are still Homo erectus, or a subspecies Homo Erectus stultus.
:mastodon:
@saraislet@infosec.exchangePodcasts don't work for me, but I think I'll try these:
Terrible, Thanks for Asking: "It’s a show that makes space for how it really feels to go through the hard things in life, and a community of people who get it."
“It’s Going To Be OK” is a hard thing to believe given the state of, oh, everything. Many things are, in fact, not going to be okay at all. But on the advice of a wise therapist, we’re on a quest to find one okay thing about every day.
https://ttfa.org/
https://link.chtbl.com/IGTBO
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRemember 10 years ago when the tech industry promised we’ll “3D print everything from food to houses”?
Now think about the promises about AI.
@axbom@axbom.meDoes anyone know of an email service, add-on or tutorial that allows for mimicing the one feature that intrigues me about HEY e-mail: opt-in for receiving emails from someone.
i.e. the default would be that someone who is not yet an approved sender ends up in a separate inbox where I have to confirm if I want to keep receiving email from them or not. I think HEY calls this ’the screener’.
Or if you’ve tried this fature and don’t like it, that would be cool to hear about as we…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialtech whinging
I like nixos so far but mannnn I get the same flavor from it I do from people who read too much marxist theory.
"How do I...?" is usually either "ask someone who has done it" or "read a few hundred pages of theory until you can answer the question yourself”
So much good concept here, but ugh.
Also I think there's a barely-acknowledged community schism and nobody will actually talk about the other camp clearly.
@primonatura@mstdn.socialEver wondered how to dispose of #cork? If so my latest blog explains a few companies giving #corks a new lease of life.
https://<…
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI continue to be fascinated by the pacing in FFVII Remake and Rebirth. Having heard some discussion about Rebirth’s minigames, its (semi-) open world design, and whether it thinks completionism is good or bad, I think there’s something slightly different going on. (1/2)
@mcmullin@musicians.todayTwo good questions this morning from Andrew Simonet. The second is one I don’t think we talk about enough: you can’t just have the greatest art from the greatest artists, without the whole cultural ecosystem that produces and nurtures them. The minor artists and the failed experiments all play essential roles too.
https://
@AmkiTakk@blorbo.socialSometimes I think about how tiny baby Stolas was and I smile. Look at this tiny chicken..................he's so cute.
#HelluvaBoss
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldChildren, hush. Your father is writing a think piece about Sydney Sweeney's boobs.
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeNIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@catnip@mastodon.onlineI think that supermarket car parks should have separate SUV spaces and ban them from parking in normal spaces. They should be as far from the shop as possible to give their owners time to think about their life choices while they walk to the shop. Those people absolutely should be segregated.
@miriamino@queer.partyisrael at eurovision / mention of genocide
there's no point in discussing the proportionality of the israeli reaction to october 7 with people who think israel shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place (i.e. support genocide if it is jews who get killed). who do not care about the jewish people who were displaced from muslim countries because it doesn't fit their narrative. people who deny what happened on october 7, people who cried genocide the moment israel reacted to the atrocities. i won't discuss with people who only ever demand a ceasefire from israel not from hamas.
i understand and share the compassion, grief and fear for palestinian life. but it can't come at the price of completely dehumanizing israeli people.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comThe more I see shit like this the more I think about Douglas Adams's idea of the Electric Monk, a device that humans created to believe things for them so that they didn't have to.
https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social🏈 @… #NFL
Via Meg Rowley 🤖 @…
A thing I'll admit is that when football media folks post about Matt LaFleur, I think they mea…
@bobwyman@mastodon.social**The elephant is dead.**
"The RNC is expected to cull about 60 people across the political, data and communications departments. ... the firings are part of a strategy to ensure that only staffers committed to Trump and the MAGA movement are left at the RNC."
I think it reasonable to conclude that the "Republican Party," the party of Lincoln, no longer exists. It has become the party of Trump.
@dsc@mastodon.scotI think men get to complain about this when they stop attacking, raping, and killing women.
Mona: Australia women's-only exhibit files appeal to keep men out
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1wpegrnrxo
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzsystems, communication, work
Thoughtful thread from @… - about job hunting in techie contexts, but at another level about how malfunctional systems persist, and info gets lost in transmission.
Reminds me of a kind of questioning which I think I do a lot: How does this actually work in practice. What are we trying to do. Where did this bit come from, and does it still make sense now or is it a left-over from an earlier situation.
#systems
@laura@social.coop#CommonplaceBook notes, including the internet grey goo and whether things are permanent online, and the wide-ranging great work of Ross Anderson
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2024/0…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaI really hope we get a good ARM processor for running Linux.
I’d rather not feed Apple with more money. It turns out I don’t like walled gardens.
From: @…
https://toot.com…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caIt's now 3 months later, and despite the completion of dozens of tasks, the punch list is getting longer. I think my wife and I have to start leaving some home ownership excitement for whoever purchases this place.
We have selected an agent to sell our house who is local, very knowledgeable, and highly rated. She also told us that our home is worth less than we expected. The current market doesn't care about our feelings.
@UP8@mastodon.social💥 Turning point? The ethnicization of social issues and what Indigenous communities think about it in Russia
https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/25/turning-point-the-ethnicization-of-social…
@cai@mastodon.socialI just encountered a problem at work which would be solved by... finding the roots of a quadratic equation.
I think this might be the first time I've had to remember and apply this formula since I first learned it about a quarter century ago.
@servelan@newsie.social👍 Teacher schools conservatives who are scared of kids' questions about identity - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/teacher-schools-conservatives-who-are-scared-of-kids-questions-about-identity/…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz❝I didn’t even know what I was going to do with the pictures, or if anyone would care about these pictures. Certainly I didn’t think I’d be talking about them 40 years later and selling a book of them — but [Ian MacKaye] was right, and I only put pictures of bands in the book that I loved and that I was compelled to photograph.❞
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI'm tempted to caveat that we should only create safety for people to make "harmless" mistakes.
I want to call out a critical distinction: It's not okay for mistakes to harm people — but rather it's important to create safety so that people **are not harmed** by mistakes. And that is part of creating safety for people to make mistakes.
Think about it like this: A hospital needs power for ventilators. They have redundant power sources so that any one power source can go out without harming patients.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSo Jeremy Rhyming-slang did go ahead with cutting off 2p from NI.
I really don't think that's going to have the effect on the polls that the Tories are hoping for.
Everyone up to and including the middle class is desperately worried about the NHS, and a lot of people think that NI money goes direct to the NHS (it doesn't, but they're very closely associated for many people). So people are going to think this NI cut makes the NHS even worse.
I think if you went out and grabb…
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineFree public transit would be amazing. And to the people who would say "iTs SoCiAlIsM": Sure, so what? Come up with *substantive* critiques, not ad-hominem BS.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/philbrick-its-time-to-think-differ…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comIf someone said to you, "democracy is about freedom, and freedom means I can behave however I want" you would think of that as a childish view. Yet so many people are willing to say:
"This software project is free software, and freedom means I should be able to do things any way I like in this project."
I see it over and over, and I still don't know how anyone can be that reductive.
At most it means freedom to work on YOUR stuff how you want. Communi…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioThis is an incredible summary of what I experienced too with OmniFocus and the reason I have’t been able to incorporate it completely in my routines.
The conclusion is that it is not about you.
Nor about the tool.
It’s about how the process makes you feel. https://emacs.ch/@fox/1124182267532471
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgStrikes me that this year #MGP24 is much less samey than in previous years. Lots of countries singing in native languages with weird folk instruments and distinct rhythms and tunes.
(Husband has insisted on starting #Eurovision from the beginning, but we were a bit late, so I *think* I'm about half an hour behind everyone else...)
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caIn scientific naming, for the Homo genus, we really need to think again about the Sapien term for the species.
"Wise" does not accurately describe a warmongering, habitat destroying creature. Maybe we are still Homo erectus, or a subspecies Homo Erectus stultus.
:mastodon:
@risottobias@tech.lgbtkwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you think likes on social media are thrilling and instant gratification, wait until you learn about editing files on the server
@axbom@axbom.meAlways worth a watch.
The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Hidden Costs of Social Media
https://www.ted.com/talks/dino_ambrosi_the_battle_for_your_time_exposing_the_hidden_costs_of_social_media
"Do we truly comprehend how much of our time and attention is given to technology? In his talk, Dino Ambrosi reframes how we think about our …
@mcmullin@musicians.todayTwo good questions this morning from Andrew Simonet. The second is one I don’t think we talk about enough: you can’t just have the greatest art from the greatest artists, without the whole cultural ecosystem that produces and nurtures them. The minor artists and the failed experiments all play essential roles too.
https://
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeNIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaI really hope we get a good ARM processor for running Linux.
I’d rather not feed Apple with more money. It turns out I don’t like walled gardens.
From: @…
https://toot.com…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Oil and Gas Companies Want You to Think They Care About Women — but It’s Just PR"
#Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Energy
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI am having the most persistently frustrating experience of my brain about one thing on Discord: Suddenly user icons are no longer specific to a person as I perceive them. I'm in three discords, and there are a set of icons behaviors that keep making me think I'm in a different discord. It's like a persistent deja vu feeling.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @servelan@newsie.social👍 Teacher schools conservatives who are scared of kids' questions about identity - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/teacher-schools-conservatives-who-are-scared-of-kids-questions-about-identity/…
@cdarwin@c.imThis is a very significant moment in Internet history.
Private finance is now eying big Fediverse apps and servers with greedy rubbing of hands
- surely there are millions of dollars to be made with this approach?
Yes, there are. And it's a problem,
but it may be a controllable problem,
especially if people in positions of power or influence recognise this.
Things are already dividing into private big money backers versus ordinary folks.
Both…
@risottobias@tech.lgbtI will admit that some concepts of a utopia go so far off the deep end I get so damn lost.
not even that I think they're wild crazy ideas, I just don't have a language for them
so there's still always a practical bit about swaying the person on the fence or the person on the wrong side of the fence - there's a learning curve to your utopia, and you might need to settle with first getting them bought into "the grass is greener for the things you can comprehend"
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI think this is an important post for anyone with a #retrocomputing hobby.
You can’t just hide behind the nostalgia without seeing the big picture. It’s not healthy.
https://antien…
@cdarwin@c.imIf one is investigating how the #Claremont #Institute, the California-based think tank, came to be such a hotbed of Trumpists and Trumpism
—think about such notorious Claremont fellows as #Michael
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeIncel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?
