josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

Ha, ha! It didn't work on me! I beat behavioural psychology! (I read the last part second.)

I dare you to look at the list of Nobel laureates in Literature and see how many you actually know (by name, you don't even need to have read them). That's how inconsequential this whole shitshow is.

And that's just one of them. Take the Peace prize instead. Woodrow Wilson won it for what? Caving to Clemenceau in Versailles and sowing the seed of WW2? I guess. What about Obama, whose acceptance speech was a defense of “just war”? And the EU, whose only purpose as an organisation seems to be to kiss NATO's boots? Even the Dalai Lama, who you may know for tongue kissing little boys, or Aung San Suu Kyi, whose inaction while in power led to the Rohyngya genocide. They're not the only bad apples, I'm sure. (Henry Fucking Kissinger, motherfuckers! In 1973.)

You know who never won it? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. You know who's still waiting in jail for a recognition? Julian Assange.

My point is that Literature and Peace are the ones most people are acquainted with, and we know they're a joke. I wonder if the others work the same. Just one anecdote: When the CRISPR creators got theirs (for Chemistry, I think), the committee left out the _actual_ creator, a Spaniard named Francis Mojica. Why? Because he was a man.

Unironically yes.

One day, _all_ developers will become mere users, and some time later writing a program by yourself in a text editor will become and act of rebellion.

No more High Programmers, just @Computer.

Let me start by stating that I think there's nothing wrong with being a“non-code open source contributor” or with being proud about it. But, that said, let's face the facts: software, no matter how you look at it, is about code. Your documentation, your logos, your translations, your evangelism or whatever you do may be awesome, but if the codebase is shit or it's unmaintained, your work doesn't matter _at all_.

You're not the star in this movie, so don't try to act like you are.

¿Podemos mandar por fin PulseAudio a tomar por el culo o todavía hay que esperar?

Funny how a website called reclaimthenet.org doesn't work if one uses Tor and has JavaScript disabled. And by ‘funny’ I mean sad and infuriating.

Some people shouldn't (or, to follow their own “Notational Conventions”, MUST NOT) be allowed to write RFC documents. I won't name names, but it is RECOMMENDED to see working for Microsoft as a huge red flag.

What did the Japanese do during the covid scare? I just saw a chart (a real one, I assume, from NHK) that showed that syphilis cases, which were steadily declining before 2020, have risen since then. This year so far, there have been 10 000 new cases diagnosed.

I'm going to say more about this: I do believe that universities are not fulfilling their duty towards the society they're supposed to serve, especially, but not limited to, when it comes to technology.

Why don't all universities have free USENET/IRC servers accessible to everyone and maintained by the students as part of their education? Why don't they all keep Tor nodes? Why don't they experiment with newer, better ways to communicate?

All of those proposals are relatively cheap, educational and good for society as a whole. And when I was a student, they were already doing that. They just decided to stop at some point.

One can only hope. That said, in these times, nothing comes back as it was, but usually in some revamped, capitalism-friendly way.