Brian Danielak @capbri@qoto.org
@ilanahorn for my part, I use this app (and its iOS counterpart). Apologies if you're not on a Mac π
Super sad that I'm not at #positconf this year. Really disappointed at missing the chance to see @kellybodwin and @Cmastication and @amelia
@Cmastication @th@social.v.st stop clogging my mastodon feed
@gvwilson the only solace I've found is in writing the best possible prose I can in my research papers. It doesn't fix the pollution, but it's my own little way of refusing to contribute to it.
@grimalkina do check out Firefox Multi-Account Containers. I get so much use out of them by not having to switch browsers/log out any time I want to go from work email to personal email.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
@Cmastication @axbom I used to drive a 1985 Toyota Tercel with a theft deterrent system. The system was it was a 1985 Toyota Tercel.
Brian Danielak
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Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
@gvwilson what are some resources for getting better at those three things?
@kjhealy "before planning an experiment you should access the hazards"? Well, I wouldn't normally give myself a fungal infection, but if that's what the rules say then so be it.
@Cmastication it was spectacularly awesome and tragically cringe at the same time.
@Cmastication can't be worse than the time I was at iO and my friends made me tell the story of the third-worst date I ever went on. In front of the whole audience. The troupe then acted out the entire date. Again, in front of the whole audience.
Brian Danielak
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I wrote about the idea of craft -- a concept I've been hearing a lot lately in conversations about software work and often find myself wrangling with. But it also turned out to be about my grandpa. In a year of many losses, I have been thinking a lot about those I love and try to take with me in everything I do.
@amelia glue::glue("woo", "hoo", "!")
@ben guaranteed never to turn pink
Brian Danielak
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I'd worked for a year as an instructional technology assistant for a college where everyone talked about the students this way. I'd suggest some creative, exploratory assignment structure, or an application of open-ended writing exercises, and I'd get back, "But our students can't even spell! They don't even know proper grammar!" My repeatedly ignored response was that students need to feel like they have a stake in academic discourse to want to participate in it on its own terms. 2/
Brian Danielak
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Instagram just told me to "take my power back from Mercury Retrograde." I have enough going on without fighting a planet.
@ilanahorn welcome back!
