Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Auke Hoekstra: The Underestimated Potential of Battery Electric Vehicles to Reduce Emissions #ev
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302715

@ianbetteridge By “Town Square” businesses like Meta really mean “Shopping Mall”; a space that has the illusion of being a public space but is relentlessly and ruthlessly a private space, with all activities tightly controlled.

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

#technology

@DrPsyBuffy However, folks on Mastodon are mean in a morally superior way! 😇

I like Mastodon, don’t get me wrong. But a lot folks on here who write these kinds of posts also talk about how Mastodon is superior because it isn’t as mean as Twitter, but I’ve seen quite a bit of meanness, it’s just wearing different clothing. Just my .02. 🤷‍♀️

Introduction? Sure, #introduction I guess

I'm jules and this is my professional account. I'm a mathematician and computer scientist based in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I'm an applied category theorist, which means I study compositionality, especially in microeconomics and machine learning

I'm affiliated with the Mathematically Structured Programming group, I'm a co-founder of the startup 20squares, and I'm in the process of co-founding a nonprofit research organisation called the Institute for Categorical Cybernetics

Many cultures around the world have a legend of a Bon Jovi-like figure.
Germans know him as Guten Joven;
in Brazil he is Bom João

Daily Mastodon trending topic report:

1. You’re using it wrong in many ways that personally offend me

2. This place was better without any people

3. Open-source software

4. You’re being polite but not in the way I prefer

5. The Fediverse (“fedora universe”)

6. Should we de-federate Toyota if they start a server?

7. Top 20 Fediverse alternatives to Wikipedia

8. Historical evidence that Hitler invented quote tweets

9. Cats

10. It’s weird how people create accounts but don’t stick around

Me: Mastodon is the best. People are friendly, there's no manipulative algorithm, and it's full of interesting content.

Journalist: Amazing, the headline of my article will be "Mastodon is social media's new hope".

Me: Also, there are no ads.

Journalist: Interesting. Let's change that headline to "Mastodon is a toxic cesspool that is already dead".

I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.

@p1xelHer0 Choosing a programming language has gone from ”which function declaration syntax looks nicest” to ”which community is run by the least insane people”

I assume Amazon workers exchange stories of odd orders they've packed, like the one I just placed for set of kitchen knives and a pair of medical tourniquets.

Metrics
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks

Please, take some time to check in on the ex-Twitter employees in your life.

Not because they need it or anything, I just bet they have some funny stories to share today.

it sucks having nuanced views on the internet

"systemd has the right goals but also has poor architecture: i like operating it but i don't like its underlying design" is so much harder to digest than "systemd good" or "systemd bad"

"sandboxing is good when done in a way that gives users the ability to control how their programs run, and doesn't have to make your computer locked down like iOS" is harder to digest than "sandboxing good' or "sandboxing bad".

"verified boot that lets users control the signing key allows users to verify that the boot sequence is what they want it to be, ensuring that their FDE isn't compromised; however, most existing implementations give vendors control that should belong to users" is harder to digest than "verified boot good" or "verified boot == DRM".

it's hard not to sound like a corporate shill, which is the opposite of what I'm trying to be whenever I start talking about security. Fossbros have given the entire FLOSS community these warped preconceived notions on what sandboxing, verified boot, and even Systemd are and aren't.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

Any meaningful UX testing in 2023 needs to account for ad blockers and password managers.

If your site or app doesn’t work with popular ad blockers, or it refuses to allow logins pasted in from password managers, it’s broken.

Yes, some executive type will want to argue about this because they think ad blocking will go away or they misunderstood some now outdated infosec guidance. They’re wrong. Users use ad blockers and password managers and if your stuff doesn’t work with them, it’s broken.

Fact!

Life outside the 15 minute city.