tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
#Microsoft, #Skype: this is very stupid.
What comes before the @ in my email address is… a single character. You’re banning a letter of the alphabet for me.
You’re preventing me from using a very robust, completely new password — so now I have to make some contortions (and most importantly, remember those contortions) to adapt my usual password strategy to this silly requirement.
Volume III of #Proust’s “In Search Of Lost Time” feels like lost time indeed. I’m barely one fifth through it and I can’t see the end. It feels like I’ve been plunged into it for a very long year. Directions of use for some medicines are more thrilling than this.
…so far.
Los practicantes del #AltruismoEficaz llegamos a donde estamos partiendo de intuiciones muy básicas, casi universales, y siguiendo unos pocos argumentos lógicos bastante simples.
Si te suena lo de «altruismo eficaz» pero no lo tienes muy claro, o si no lo habías oído en tu vida, Pablo Melchor de la Fundación Ayuda Efectiva lo resume todo muy bien en este artículo.
Living long isn’t everything (you also want to prosper — wink 
), but it’s quite important. This is how you do it:
- Look after family relationships and social connections
- Take care of plants…
- …and eat mostly plants, lots of legumes, whole grains, soy
- No tobacco, no alcohol
- Constant moderate exercise
- Be outside in the sun
- Live where women aren’t discriminated
- Live somewhere remote
- Have a religion (oops)
Physicists, help me understand this:
If they’re referring to power, the unit should be KW, right?
And if they’re referring to energy consumed (in some interval of time), then it should be KW⋅h (not KW/h). Right?
(And if so: the quantity is meaningless unless you specify the interval of time. eg: “400 KW·h on an average day”. No? I mean, my smartphone also consumes 400 KW·h… if I use it for long enough!)
OK, I’m fed up with #Pixelfed 
@pixelfed. I think I’m done with it once this year’s #dailyphoto is over.
Last night I bumped again into the issue of collections being limited to 18 posts. So I created a new collection with the idea of splitting my 30 photos of April between the old and the new collection (15 + 15).
Issue: because of the new UI, posts have two valid URLs now; eg /i/web/post/<POST> and /p/<USER>/<POST>?fs=1. When I tried to add a few photos to the new collection by pasting their URLs, it didn’t work. Until I realised I had to use the other URL.
Issue: when I tried to remove the last 3 photos from the old collection, the “edit” pop-up didn’t even show me those. Until I realised the pop-up takes its data from the page itself (not from an API call), and because of the infinite scroll on the page, unless you have scrolled down before trying to edit the collection, you won’t be able to edit but the first bunch of items.
Issue: once I understood that (and I scroll until the end, then click to edit, then select the last 3 photos), the dialog box says “Select a Photo to Delete”, the button is labelled “Delete 3 photos”, and if you dare to click it, a confirmation pop-up says “Are you sure you want to delete this?”. NO, I’M NOT SURE. Are you going to remove these photos from the collection, or delete them??
I’ve been taking one photo every day of April, and sharing it online, since 2008. Most years, a bunch of friends and virtual acquaintances followed suit, and we had good fun.
Today I started a new batch — here:
📣 #AltruismoEficaz 🇪🇸 #Español:
Riesgos Catastróficos Globales y Altruismo Eficaz Hispanohablantes tienen abierto un generoso concurso de ensayos sobre #xrisks ✍️
https://riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com/articulos/concurso-de-ensayos
It seems I listen to an average of ~2h of #podcasts per day.
Given that I play most of them at 1.5×, it’s probably ~1h20′ listening per day.
👉 Newer #Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro, Bluetooth interface: ditto. Give me all my freaking training files, I don’t need a stupid Samsung Health account, nor installing a whole set of Android apps requiring a ton of permissions (SMS!? contacts!?) and special privileges to surreptitiously download and install other apps in turn.
Also: to send audio files from my phone to the device (for playing during workouts), I’m presented with a mysterious list of MP3 files supposedly living on the phone. That includes old 5″-long WhatsApp audio messages and other garbage… but none of the podcasts I’m actually interested in transferring. What directories are scanned, what’s the criteria, how can I find or refresh? No clue. Again: give me a damn removable drive, and let me move files at will!
I shall shut up about this topic at least for a while now, but for anyone out there still thinking that #MRA’s and other critics of mainstream #feminism and of the concepts of #patriarchy and #maleprivilege are some kind of delusional misogynists amplifying trifles for the sake of controversy: please spend a few minutes reviewing the data (not opinion — data) contained here:
The “#news” nowadays: the History and the causes of a complex, consequential conflict… in seven tweets
I just read, over the course of several days, #SlateStarCodex’s “Non-Libertarian FAQ” (years ago I had only skimmed it).
It is a brilliant text, as usual, and it reminded me why although I read and flirt at times with different ideologies I remain mostly a #moderate — why I don’t call myself a #libertarian or an #anarchocapitalist; but rather someone with libertarian sympathies, or perhaps a (classic) #liberal.
It reminded me why absolute #libertarianism or #anarchism as ideologies and moral systems, in particular, may feel rational, coherent, complete and desirable… without being any of those things.
Which does not imply, of course, that some specific governments nowadays would not do better by moving closer to the libertarian pole!
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
