timorl @timorl@qoto.org

@xiroux @jacek we are indeed privileged to be able to pick our jobs as we do in IT. I would argue this creates a moral duty to pick jobs responsibly.

So, my experiment earlier escalated quickly 😂

You can now control the lighting in my office via the Twitch chat. It supports hex values, but also a wide range of color names. It does so by looking up the color name on Wikipedia, retrieving its RGB-value and converting it to the closest available color in the Philips Hue gamut.

Watch it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/codecereal

Just try it out, type in the chat:

"!color indigo"

or

"!color lime 210" (brightness value from 0 to 254)

Reminder that you, yes YOU can be abusive even if you aren't a Bad Person

We tend to think of abuse as something that only bad people do, but the truth is often more subtle than that. Abuse as a constant pattern indicates a bad person but we are imperfect beings.

Be sure that when you and someone else face a hard situation together that you aren't straying into DARVO territory, for example. Don't let yourself become someone else's abuser.

It does my heart good to know that this is published in a peer reviewed medical journal

conspiracies are a lie made up by Big Conspiracy to sell books and podcasts

Collisions with the windows of buildings kill more birds than wind turbines do, by some orders of magnitude. And that's before we get to cats ...

(Current numbers for the US; ~250,000 per year killed by turbines, ~1,000,000,000 per year by windows. 2.4 billion/year by cats. Numbers via Dunning, B. "Wind Turbines and Birds." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 7 Jan 2020. Web. 12 Jan 2020. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4709 )

So switching to Linux might reduce the use of Windows ... but probably increases use of cat ...

European Judges, join lawyers in Polish protests. In an age of autocratic Caesars, the rule of law, has to be supported on the street. Something that young Indian lawyers have instinctively grasped

https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/11/hundreds-of-judges-and-lawyers-join-warsaw-protest-against-polish-muzzle-law

has anyone tried to speedrun a theorem prover?

@pinkprius this is the response to it from Matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

@freemo @timorl Most art forms are based on words with large semantic range. So is banter and many other forms of communication. I think language really needs both very well defined terms and vague ones. Sometimes efficiency is not the most important.

But as you say, sometimes large semantic range is used to win an argument or because of ignorance. I believe that's called "being a dickhead".

@timorl I find being clear about what word your using and what it means is critical to having any sort of meaningful understanding or a useful stance on any issue. So often I ind peoples words sound poetic, moving, and insightful, but in reality its just because a word is left open to interpritation and everyone fits their own assumption about the word in there. So its really just smoke and mirrors.

I think people do this intentionally this way they can argue in whatever direction they want and "fill in" what the word meant later to suit the argument.