bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

#Police are an offensive and intrusive segment of society made up of regular humans who carry guns and are allowed to kidnap people and shoot them.

Other humans that carry guns are strictly prohibited from doing such things because the thugs that call themselves leaders didn't give those other humans a free pass on the abuse of human rights.

Ain't that a thing?

In the village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world, with what may be the earliest windmill design in the world, still spin.
Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, they have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years

Tarkovsky really was a cut above.

@Hyolobrika

You might have hit on the problem - that very concept isn't as well-understood as it was in the past. Navigating around a city used to involve reading a physical map, so by necessity we maintained a mental model of how our surroundings are laid out and named, and of where we are in relation to things. Recently, though, I've been meeting more adults who don't have this understanding. To them, the world is a big unsorted collection of addresses, and the little blue line on your phone's GPS magically guides you to the one you want. "The highway" is one amorphous entity to these people; they can identify that they're on an expressway and not a side road, but route numbers are meaningless to them and they are amazingly skilled at ignoring the signs they're driving past. Asking "which highway" I'd take to get to someone's home recently got me a blank stare from a person who's lived there *seven years*.

I have no trouble picturing the idea that the computer's files are located in a system of nested folders being completely foreign to a sizable chunk of incoming engineering students. They can probably understand that they typed their essay on the laptop, so it's saved on the laptop and not the phone, but asking for a more specific location than that will get you a less-than-useful response: "Uhh... I saved it in Word?" They're trained to quickly flick through screens of photos on their phones, pages of search results on their laptops, scrollboxes of recommendations on their smart TVs; ignoring everything except for what they're looking for. And they're *good* at it. So even the ones who have seen "New Folder" in some context menu have never thought it would be useful - better to just dump everything in one place where you can take it all in with a single sweep of your eye.

@r000t @essie

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@Hyolobrika @essie Human behavior is incentives.

A great user experience means the user doesn't have to learn anything. So nobody had to. So nobody did.

Those of us who had hobbies that required learning, learned. Everyone else, was a consumer.

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LMFAO

Jesus fucking christ can this get anymore retarded

Me, 1991:

Woaaa! Robots are cool! 🤖 👍

Me, 2021:

Figuring out that I am asked by a robot (a web server) to prove that I am NOT a robot, and that I can't as it would imply to execute javascript code from a company (Google) that I block because -among others- it helps guide US killer-robots to their targets (project Maven), it owns dozens of drone companies and the patent portfolio of Boston Dynamics... 💣 💥 🤯

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"One toot a day keeps the tw*tter away"

-Fediverse proverb

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They took away our communities and gave us identities instead.

We feel so lonely that we embrace our market segmentation.

I am sick and tired of constantly reviewing settings in web browsers to see if they have snuck in some new tracking mechanism that I get to disable because "your privacy is important to us".

I am sick and tired of all the black UX that goes into this, like opt out instead of opt in, or at least providing top level choices like, say, Fuck NO I'd NEVER EVER Like You To Track ANYTHING Now And In Every Perceivable Future. Like sync'ing every setting in your profile except tracking related settings, because hey that way you might by mistake opt out of tracking on another installation where you really wanted to be tracked. The list goes on and on.

Browsers are critical infrastructure and clearly an open source stamp on them fails in itself to provide any meaningful shield towards capitalist subversion.

I'd like a browser with a license that explicitly rules out *any* kind of commercial entity or interest contributing or directing development.

#surveillancecapitalism

This is probably the best stock footage I've ever seen

so glad i can take moments like this to let the cat take me past the backyard and into the woods

searching for an ethical bank account (giro) without having to sell my data to #schufa. any suggestions?

If someone asks you to explain the gap in your resume, just say "I can't answer that without violating an NDA."

It's a really cool way to tell them to fuck off. They don't have to know that the NDA was issued by you to you, and signed by you on behalf of you.