tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
Julia Galef’s “The Scout Mindset” summarised by Anthony Fleming
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eQgLREsGCo252HRmo/scout-mindset-poster
Beautiful #painting, and beautiful #ideas:
“I favor selectively shining a light on the offending symbols, imagery, and language, both past and present, as a reminder of our history and of how far we still have to go as a society… and of how vigilant we need to be.”
“I’ve never believed my role as an #artist was to make work that ensured comfort. My paintings are purposefully subject to alternate interpretations, and a reading of Comparative Religions 101 that provokes anger is certainly possible if the viewer is a literalist. But I can’t explain the humor and irony in the work to a literalist, any more than I can explain Red to a person who is (red/green) colorblind.”
Note to self about #online #diagrams and #charts:
excalidraw.comfor sleek hand-drawn diagrams (just a few shapes, but great UI)app.diagrams.netfor blocky, corporate-looking diagrams (plenty of clipart, bloated UI)mermaid.livefor auto generation of diagrams belonging to a handful of types (computing, engineering, business), similar to #Graphviz (very limited, but declarative and text-based)asciiflow.comfor the lolz, basically
Happy #WoDES!
World Day for the End of #Speciesism
(I don’t like “speciesism”: I suspect as an idea it is wrong, and a bad concept to try to rally people around. But I’m a #vegetarian/#vegan, and whatever draws attention to animal welfare is a push in the right direction.)
Curious about the inner workings of the @w3c? Interested in their job openings? Willing to join their broad community, either as a member company or as an individual contributor?
My ex-colleague @koalie has written a great intro for the world:
Reading #Dynomight explaining #DerekParfit I realise that just as #liberalism/#libertarianism is the most inclusive political/economic system because it allows for other orders to emerge within it, #consequentialism may be the most inclusive moral theory because it may contain other systems just by redefining what a “good outcome” is.
That is:
A group of free individuals (liberalism) may enter voluntary agreements and commit to redistributing their wealth (socialism), transferring all power to a certain person (autocracy), abiding by rules decided by the majority (democracy), etc.
A consequentialist, in its narrowest definition, is free to conclude that the best possible outcome is one in which they and their special ones enjoy the best of life (egoism), one where certain rules are obeyed most strictly (deontology), one where all actions align perfectly with the word of god (theological voluntarism), etc. — and to act accordingly.
Useful taxonomy of moral theories (#DerekParfit via #Dynomight)
La vergüenza del #decretoley, que siempre fue una vergüenza, es una vergüenza aberrante y miserable con este #gobierno:
https://civio.es/el-boe-nuestro-de-cada-dia/2022/07/07/decretos-ley-desde-1996/
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1542692708401176577
Challenge accepted.
- Trick question; don’t engage. He’s asking you to do something without #crypto but also without banks and without cards. He could as well ask you to do it without using the letter “m” in your keyboard. If the point is “crypto is how poor, unbanked people can take their wealth with them”, then someone with $25K and on an international flight is most definitely not poor and not unbankable.
- Done. With Wise. Quick, easy and with reasonable fees. And there are others. What was the point?
- Good one. I don’t know how to do that, with or without crypto. I’m curious to see how it’s done with crypto (not how it would be done, but how it’s been done).
- Again, trick question: why on Twitter? He could ask you to do it on IRC as well. Setting that aside: Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, etc.
- This must be a trick question too, because it’s too easy. DigitalOcean Spaces, DreamObjects, GCS, Azure, Wasabi, IBM, BitTorrent, IPFS, home server.
Digital life #tip:
I open #Twitter regularly, just to check mentions and DMs (yes, I could enable web/mail notifs instead, but I don’t like them; that’s another story). Too often I get distracted by the “trends” sidebar (#clickbait, news, gossip, photos) and I end up clicking and skimming some shitty article.
In config, I set my location to “จ.เชียงราย, ประเทศไทย” (that’s somewhere in Thailand) and unchecked personalisation (“trends for you”). And now the list of what’s trending looks much better for me.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
