robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@lauren Also, you cannot see a preview of videos for kids (you can only see a static thumbnail). I am similarly confused by the reasoning there.
@beanface42@toot.aquilenet.fr @rysiek My closest climbing gym is also mostly like that (well, you need to come when someone's in, but then there's simply a sign-in book, piggy bank, and since some time ago a card terminal inside and a Twint QR code in the milk box outside (because there's ~no mobile coverage inside)).
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I wonder if teaching children about non-transitive dice in primary school maths classes would be a fun way to prepare them for the fact that most non-trivial interactions in the world are at least as complicated, most “rankings” are meaningless, etc.
@8petros BTW. Jeśli chcesz rozkminiać jak działa coś w fedi, to `curl -s -H 'Accept: application/ld+json' URL` bardzo często da ci opis tego co jest pod tym URLem w postaci, w którą na to patrzy reszta fedi.
Jest taki użytkownik z punktu widzenia ActivityPub: https://paste.sr.ht/~robryk/0d0bed89b62e175d6300ec4d2e72d578220f70f8, ale jest typu "Application", więc to pewnie coś dziwnego wewnętrznego.
A co się dzieje jeśli zamiast https://kinowolnosc.pl/accounts/peertube podasz URL https://kinowolnosc.pl/videos/local (do którego ten pierwszy i tak przekierowuje)?
@8petros "peertube" tam chyba bierze się z nazwy użytkownika. Czy próbowałeś ustawić użytkownikowi "peertube" tamże jakąś inną przyjazną nazwę?
@8petros W jaki sposób się melduje? Zarówno w tytule strony jak i w nagłówku widzę "Kino wolność" a nie "Peertube".
> Yes, it is possible for programs with GUI. Harder to implement in CLI...
And yet, I only remember games doing that. Not sure why.
The CLI ~equivalent that's doable over the dumbest terminals would be asking you to retype a description of what you want to do. That I did see in real tools (e.g. a "delete project" CLI asking you to type the name of the project being deleted).
@rysiek A, przeprzaszam, myślałem głownie o przypadkach typu "użytkownik GMaila", bo w tym kontekście widziałem przykłady na trend o którym myślę.
Po chwili zastanowienia zauważyłem, że aplikacje banków i weryfikacja "czy twój telefon jest ~kontrolowany przez swojego ~producenta" jest podobnym przykładem w kontekście właścicielskim.
@rysiek Obawiałbym się tutaj innej "skrajności". Wiele firm nie pozwala użytkownikom na pewne czynności (np. Google czasami nie pozwala użytkownik na oddelegowanie dostępu do GMaila przez OAuth: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/7454865), bo empirycznie w tych sytuacjach ludzie często robili coś, czego później żałowali.
Często tego typu problemy da się rozwiązać lepszym opisem tego, na czym polega decyzja, albo lepszym zakresem możliwych decyzji. Niestety czasami (IMO) żadne z tych podejść nie działa. Jeśli wtedy będziemy oczekiwać "czegoś więcej" of firm, to naturalnie zaczną się starać zabraniać użytkownikom podejmowania tych kategorii decyzji.
W moim idealnym świecie rozwiązywalibyśmy to przez _więcej_ delegacji, tak że użytkownik mógłby wybrać komu powierza "opiekowanie się sobą" w tym zakresie. Nie widzę niestety jak taki świat mógłby być stabilny (nawet nie mówiąc o tym, jak można by go osiągnąć).
@madargon There's a UI affordance that I sadly haven't seen outside of games: instead of asking people N times "are you sure" (with N varying depending on the severity of an action), have the button that triggers the action require being held down and have it visually represent how long you still need to hold it (e.g. by making it a progress bar, too). Then you can vary the time based on "severity" of the action.
I think that is strictly better, because it gives the user an intuitively clear feeling of how serious this action is (similar to the pistolgrip handles used to control control rod movement in US naval reactors requiring larger force to turn in the "outward" direction than the "inward" direction).
The counterpoint is that if you learn things by seeing how they are done, it teaches you even less of why they are done the way they are.
One thing that, I think, would make getting some of these things easier from how I imagine your POV, is to imagine you have 10x more instances of the thing than you do. This makes it clearer why e.g. making as large as possible part of your system stateless and worrying less about trying to recover it from blunders (instead just making it very easy to reinstall/recreate it from scratch) is something that people often strive for.
Parodiowe przewidywania z '93 na podobne tematy: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/marc/stuff.athena/humor/smart-house (głównie zabawne, ale też pokazujące które z zagrożeń były wtedy bardziej wyobrażalne: zakładały, że wirusy będą głównie/wyłącznie czynić szkody lokalnie).
@niconiconi This might be a good job for valgrind.
@agturcz Shouldn't the playbook the the problem start by mentioning that possibility?
Random things that come to mind, with no attempt at completeness:
Check what authorities of the place you live are willing to tell to a random fellow who shows up with one of those identifiers (e.g. in large parts of Switzerland, unless you opt out, anyone can look up the address of the owner of a car with a given license plate).
Do you have websites that are attributable to you? Do they share analytics IDs/ads accounts/... with other websites that are also yours, but not easily attributable?
Unless you opt out via robots. Mastodon has a setting that causes robots configuration (I believe via meta tag or http header) to request robots not to read the user's profile nor pages that correspond to their posts.
That's obviously suboptimal, because those posts will likely get indexed on pages of posts they are a response to. (Possibly also on "remote-viewing" pages on another Mastodon instance, but I don't know whether those are robot-excluded always and would anyway expect that to be something that's not shown in search results due to its typical uselessness -- it's usually a copy of an available primary source after all.)
robryk
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The Church Slavonic used two letters to denote nasal /o/ and nasal /e/ - the Big Yus (ѫ), and the Little Yus (ѧ). My uneducated guess is that the weirdly shaped symbol ѫ looked too much like a guy in a tie, so the Polish scribes went for more familiar A-like shape of ѧ when denoting a nasal /o/. The middle leg transformed into a small tail, and centuries later whoever is learning Polish will get rightfully confused by Ą being pronounced as /ɔ/.
@karafuto When I was a kid, I found it really weird that ą is not drawn as o-with-attached-tail.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
