rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

Just when I think I’ve found an actually usable text editor on iOS it mysteriously looses my changes to a file. Worse than useless.

Ok, Planet Money has convinced me NFTs are maybe not entirely crazy. I guess the real crazy thing is the art market in general. My ultimate opinion will probably fall on who ultimately benefits. If digital artists end up making their worth compared with more traditional art forms then good. But if big business and rich investors end up making the most then what have we really gained (other than a whole bunch more carbon emissions). https://pca.st/episode/9798a8d4-d004-4252-be89-e8e3d1a0d685

Why does there even need to be separate music awards for different genders? I get there’s a biological difference in most sports, but music? Seems needlessly divisive. The Nobel prizes aren’t gendered, why is music?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/12/sam-smith-gender-2021-brit-awards

NFTs are nothing short of completely and utterly crazy. Ignoring the suckers who spending their money in such a way (who am I to tell them what to do with their money), NFTs are antithetical to the philosophical founding of the Web; that data and information should be free and open to the world. NFTs sure seem like an attempt for the elites of the world to claw back some control over what are otherwise identical bits on disk…

For anyone in the U.K. who isn’t aware, Clear The Lobby is a great weekly newsletter about whatever’s currently being debated in Westminster https://clearthelobby.co.uk/

Offering 1% pay rise to health staff in a global pandemic is disgusting behaviour. It infuriates me when people say we don’t have enough money. No; we simply don’t have the right priorities.

Having spent so much time in JavaScript land lately, playing with some C is honestly such a comfort. Error messages! At compile time‽ What is this magic??

Ok, I’m convinced; decimalised currency is a stupid idea https://youtu.be/R2paSGQRwvo

Why are people using Facebook to access government, health, and other information‽ A web company messing up should not be an issue national governments have to be concerned about… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban

I really feel like there’s a divide in the software developer industry between those that value reliability, accessibility, and stability and those that prefer novelty, and aesthetics. Here’s a quick way to find who you are: simply open this link and note whether your gut reaction is negative or positive, respectively. https://ray.so/

If I am offered the jab this year I will refuse it on the grounds that there are billions of people that need it before I do. Vaccinating our young and healthy whilst the rest of the world struggles to vaccinate their front line workers and those most at risk is both counter productive, because mutations will continue to crop up, and devoid of any morality

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/deliberately-playing-copyrighted-music-to-avoid-being-live-streamed.html Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed: “Clever, really, and an illustration of the problem with context-free copyright enforcement.” I disagree. The problem is not with copyright enforcement, after all a company has a right to take down anything it wants for almost any reason. The problem is that YouTube has a near monopoly of online video. Why are a handful of social media companies the gatekeepers to fair and equal justice under the law?

50 years ago today Britain decimalised its currency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115845 “The real ugly (sic) with SVG is how frequently we request SVGs from designers or companies and they hand us an SVG file that contains nothing but a base64 encoded PNG image.” — Am just lost for words

I find the stories of people travelling on holidays and flying to see family in the middle of a pandemic absolutely outrageous. I’ve not seen my parents nor my partner in over a year. So what if they have to cover the cost of isolating in a hotel, they should be thankful that I’m not running the show where they’d be spending the rest of this bloody pandemic in a prison cell

“There was an audible gasp in the room when the images appeared of a Capitol Police officer firing a single fatal gunshot”, “Some were seeing many of the images for the first time.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/politics/impeachment-graphic-video.html — how are the senators and journalists only seeing some of this footage for the first time? How are they shocked to the point of gasping? I know exactly how this played out from an ocean away. They were there, and they’re passing judgement on the ringleader. Bizarre.

The British royal family maintain certain privileges under the assumption they can be trusted to not abuse them. Looks like we’ve all been made a fool off. Parliament needs to move immediately to revoke this whole Queen’s consent mess. Never have I felt more #republican

Yes, because he’s clearly incapable of representing his constituents without a piece of cloth tied around his neck. How absurd and demeaning to people of other cultures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/maori-mp-rawiri-waititi-ejected-from-new-zealand-parliament-in-necktie-row