New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people, Google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org,” the one they created in response to firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office, through an SVP there.
Seems like they want us to know how forcefully and clearly they are backing this genocide.
@hpk the interview is great, I'm only halfway through and have marked it up with highlights. Wish I read German.
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I finally wrote down my thoughts on the UX of the Vision Pro: https://hans.gerwitz.com/2024/04/16/visionos-ux.html
@oldladyplays I feel this. I will keep striving to make open source alternatives that _just work_ for those of us who can do and even enjoy sysadmin work, but don't want to _have to_.
But I won't pretend we've succeeded quite yet.
Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—
so glad this DIDN'T happen to the #opensource and #linux supply chain with the #xz #backdoor attempt! but it looks way better when things fall over.
what a great excuse to do a #physicssim in #blender3d #b3d after seeing @ahl draw this already. And I learned about drawing outlines in blender, and made things fall over, yay.
@scalzi any idea why my request to follow your @threads.net never was “approved”? I am following other accounts there already.
All of Hollywoods’s depictions of ineffective ways to destroy data-holding devices (phones, thumb drives, laptops) are a disservice to the public.
@aral @maxheadroom I want hierarchy dismantling but am quite concerned that by avoiding authority, we (progressives) are opting out of social leadership.
@aral @maxheadroom Oof. Have you found a “replacement” for DiEM25?
I like Volt’s platform but find their tactics too timid to get behind.
The amount of time I have invested porting stuff that worked perfectly fine with CommonJS over to ESM is unbelievable. But it is all worth it knowing that at the end of the day, after all that hard work, it will... work exactly the same with zero additional benefits... mostly. It will probably always have some hiccups that don't work as nice as the old system.
@OrionKidder [full disclosure, I now work for Canonical] The intention baked into the snap ecosystem is more akin to SSL certificate management than Apple or Google's control. Yet to make a packaging system secure and flexible enough to underpin Ubuntu Core requires _trust_ or otherwise you can just use debs. This smells like dangerous centralization and it requires a lot of nuance to consider whether that risk is real.
@OrionKidder I think you already understand! The performance disadvantage of snaps has been largely addressed, but AFAICT the distaste for snaps today is very focused on the fear of central control.
And doesn't this seem quaint, now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ntPdFPmUM
@futurebird it’s already been said, but because I want to share the joy: Kagi plus DNS blocking (e.g. via pihole or nextdns.io) and you’ll never see a Google ad again.
Among other measures, the Dutch parliament is considering banning anti0democratic parties. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/04/09/wet-op-de-politieke-partijen-voor-advies-naar-de-raad-van-state
This sort of self-policing is of course sensitive and maybe dangerous, but I’m heartened to see the tone of “something must be done about the fascists”.
@Devilstower @Jonathanglick I was regrettably part of that cycle, moving from St. Louis to a new HQ city (Seattle) because my white-collar career plateaued. I took my spending and investment in city real estate with me.
@StillIRise1963 OMG that article is so much more worrisome than I expected.
i swear, you could solve public transit in the US if you just got:
- the software people who truly love the field
- to talk to the municipal politics people who are actually doing it for the love of the job
- to talk to the train planning people who are actually doing it for the love of the job and or hobby
- to talk to the physical security and penetration testing people
- to talk to the mining engineers
- so they can then plan and pull off a complicated heist to rob the treasury
Only 2.5% of the world's population is Nigerian. 🇳🇬
But 33% of the top 100 ranked Scrabble players are Nigerian.
https://www.wespa.org/aardvark/html/rankings/full_rankings.html
Only 1.3% of the US population is Indian American. 🇮🇳
But 20 of the past 23 spelling bee champs have been South Asian.
https://people.com/human-interest/national-spelling-bee-champions-words-they-won-with/
British colonizers did this to themselves. 🤷🏿♂️
English belongs to us now.