Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Today I learned that the secondary streets close to cars and become open to café seating on saturdays in “my” neighborhood 💖 And I also learned in Spain orange juice isn’t jugo, it’s only ever zumo de naranja y de dónde eres, México, chica?

Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

"In Berlin-Mitte gibt es eine Veteranenstraße. Sie führt 300 Meter steil bergab. Daran schließt sich die Invalidenstraße an. Sie ist fast zehn Mal so lang. Das ist wenigstens eine ehrliche Straßenführung." - #taz zum geplanten Veteranentag https://www.taz.de/!5969381

Bikeshedding time: Which is the better hex colour representation format?

Caps or no caps?

#RStats

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

@kaoudis the % prefix in FF helped me with this a lot

I can't figure out if this is a good blogpost topic or not, but I've been thinking about how many conversations I see about human behavior in software overindex on like, differences between people* and not within-individual variation**

Overall malleability of our own traits and states over time is fascinating and underexplored in a very essentialist kind of culture***

* "all managers are like x"

** "some days I am like x and some days I am like y"

*** I find tech to be very essentialist

We spent half a day in #Lausanne. The Palais de Rumine was cool. Like a bunch of smaller museums, all free. A wonderful multitude of stairs.
“On his death, Gabriel de Rumine, son of Russian nobility, left the city of Lausanne 1.5 million Swiss Francs to erect a building for the use of the public.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_Rumine

“Nothing is better than having more Microservices than users.”

You'd be smiling like this too if your rack was this neatly cabled from the factory! We call this the cabled backplane and it means you'll eliminate time spent on intra-rack network cabling and configuration issues. And of course, no power cords either thanks to the DC busbar!

@ice I have one of these, a thing I really like doing is walking around town wearing these and seeing how the sound changes. I've experienced walking down a section and finding a two-meter space where I walk into this patch of sidewalk, bam on like a light is a loud hum, I walk out on the other side, bam it's off. Apparently I just walked over a buried power cable, I couldn't have known was there otherwise. It's like having an entire new *sense* for directly experiencing EM fields, it's amazing.

I’ve got a new "music player". As in "what kind of weird noise will this random object produce if I put that little black box next to it while wearing headphones?"

I’m not sure how to define the SOMA Ether. It’s a bit of a noise instrument, a bit of a detector. It’s described as an anti-radio, since it grabs broad unfiltered radio waves and electromagnetic activity.

Using it feels like ghost hunting. I now have no doubt that my washing machine is inhabited by some drill n bass spirit.

Today at #emfcamp #emf24 I'll be around and about including crocheting. Find me after my talk (7:30pm, stage B) to talk about trees and satellite imagery and wildfire prevention, or indeed anything else. Most of the day i'll be wearing or carrying a well engineered pale pink hat.

How do we think about aptitude, ability, performance and potential -- these are massive and complex arguments even in the areas of psychology where we have done the most work and have the strongest evidence to draw on. I've been reading a lot about "predicting programming aptitude" and this work here is better than a lot of what I've been reading, but in the entire area I see a lot of failure to integrate with modern education research.

@t36s hm, well you didn't technically ask, but i use a package manager so i can get upgrades to things i've installed without having to remember what it is i've installed

Folk using "algorithms" to refer to everything that's wrong with the web the way folk believed "miasma" caused the spread of disease pre sanitation

@kate O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, I prithee. 🎄 https://youtu.be/LC6F8wnYKkg #simlish

imagine what a creature called the "mountain chicken" might look like.

then google it.