josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@freemo Do you know if there's anything preventing qoto from interacting with PeerTube instance fediverse.tv? They said we're not blocked, but I can't follow any of their channels. They told me to ask you about it. I can follow people from other PeerTube instances just fine.

That's one amazingly idiotic and classist take. Personally, I would expect a doctors' forum to be run by someone who specialises in—wait for it—forums! But maybe I'm wrong, I don''t know. I'm not a journalist.

If your cookie popup is going to waste more than two seconds of my life trying to make me accept your terms, your web is hot trash and you MUST NOT expect me to come back to it. Today I'm looking at you todosobrejapon.es and lavanguardia.com.

I usually read young people complain about how nobody told them about something until somehow they found out about it on their own.

Isn't that weird? I mean, that's how it's always been for my own generation, I think. If we were interested in something, we would just dive into it as deep as we could. Did we like movies, music or art? We didn't rely on schools or colleges to tell us what was out there. We searched for it on our own and shared our findings with whoever was willing to listen, because we were passionate about it.

That's why I think it's weird that younger people say things like: “They never told me about that in college!” Well, duh. If you rely on official institutions, you'll get the official version. If you want the truth, you have to put on your helmet and start digging. I thought that was what being young was all about.

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.