Never hit a "skip this version" as hard as I just hit the option in the software update popup for the software I am currently using to write the very last chapter of my complex book project
The good news: Projet Montréal is get their ass handed to them. The bad news: it's Ensemble Montréal which is the party of Tremblay and then Coderre. And the one with the most right-wing program (so much dog whistling) is number 3....
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I don't know what this means, but I'm noticing an asymmetry in terms of how I think about the way I relate to organizations. If I'm feeling burnt out and want to step back from an organization that I'm involved with, but the organization doesn't seem particularly strong at the moment, and I don't think that there are enough people who would step up to replace me, then I'll feel like I'm being selfish; the organization needs me. But, if I'd never joined in the first place, and the organization didn't seem particularly strong at the moment, then I'm not sure I'd feel that the organization needed me and, therefore, that I had an obligation to join.
Consider this: if you're feeling burned out, and see nobody around who can replace you, these observations may be related.
Now this: if the organization has given you benefit, have you given it benefit? If so, you've paid your way.
It may be time to move on; if the organization stumbles or fails without you, maybe it's come to that place in its life.
I've personal experience.I stayed on and served, way too long in two volunteer gigs: one 25 years, one 33. When I walked away, there just wasn't enough energy left. It took me too long to notice. But that was years ago.
Now I'm looking at closing down, or maybe reconfiguring, a business I've run for much longer. Am I providing an important service that people want? What will it cost me and pay me? I'm mulling this over.
I am all for the Finnish approach where fines are in days of income. (This year or the average of the last five tax years, whichever is higher, as I understand it. It'd need some provision for being driven and the asset-rich no-income sorts.)
So it's not some fixed amount of dollars for speeding; it's n days gross income. (2.5 days = 1 percent by convention.) So if you speed in the school zone it's five days, sort of thing.
There is no part in our transit failure that require to have mega trucks in the city street (Le camion le plus vendu au pays), or 300+HP cars to compensate for toxic masculinity.
In case you didn't get it I drive more than I take transit (mostly because I don't commute, nor do I go dowtown, as in that case I do take the metro). But I'm full on being pro transit. And for safe cycling.
There are lots of reasons some people need bigger cars. They have more children, then need it for work, they don't want to get killed when the STM driver slams into them, and so on...
Personally I own a very small car. Yes we should tackle those issues, but it's just more of a money grab when we can't even stop wasting money and solve a simple transit problem in our corrupt city.
The spaces we make don't have to last forever to be successful and do good. Just like any relationship being good or not is not predicated on how long it lasts.
Create a space, use the software that makes sense to you right now, it doesn't have to be forever. Be ephemeral!
All I know is that the PC I just got has Windows 11 and a local admin user and I was able to uninstall copilot and one drive. I haven't had to login with any Microsoft account for anything
Even though sighted people have not joined this yet, I am witnessing an increased desire for more audio based social media apps such as this from sighted people. Ramblio ramblio.com/
I'm a blind and gay writer that does a lot of fiction and nonfiction writing. My blog is all about The existential irony of a blind person living in a capitalist world. I do have a speech disability, so I'm a better writer than a speaker.
What if a state tries to mandate us as #deltachat app devs/distributors to shut down a chat profile?
Nothing. It can't be done.
We have no list of chat identities, have no handle or data about them, and don't mediate the message transfer.
However, EU #Chatcontrol politicians and Russian authorities would want us to insert backdoors into our FOSS code. But that is nothing than can happen overnight, and we are fine with friendly forks already. Resilient private internet communication ftw :)
@CAWguy Are you using Delta? I downloaded it and I want to try to get my fam on it over Christmas. We use WhatsApp 🤮 and it’s the only reason why I have it still.
I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.
And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.
It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.
For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.
I am so lost, every single time.
I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.
I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU #Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.
My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)
Unfortunately, you don't get one thing: "avoiding so-called big corps" and "just works" don't go together. they just don't go. Because if you want "purchased, turned on, works" — you need lots of people having invested lots of hours and money in that. I'm having the same problems with FOSS: I'm totally blind, and I need my PC and my phone to work and to be accessible to me. But when I go to an open-source product and say "Look, it's inaccessible for blind people/people with dyslexia/reduced mobility etc.", do you know what they say? "You need accessibility, make our product accessible". That's how most of open-source works. Your problem is the same: you need good documentation, write it yourself, that's what they will tell you. One great podcaster and (yes) techie once said: "Splendors and miseries of open-source", and that's my go-to phrase now.
I do hope (and trust, to some extent) that the tech geek culture is growing to embrace striving for friendly relations with non-tech-savvy people. And there are definitely things out there that are widely accessible and easy to use, like Wikipedia. Or for example, I can find a lot of apps on FDroid that work for me, like music players and camera and this and that. Though being sighted definitely widens my options.
Anyway, please don't hesitate to ask me tech questions, I'll do my best and explain. People say I'm good at it, so maybe I'll help you. I saw you have autism emoji, and unfortunately I'm probably bad at communicating with people with autism due to lack of experience, but please please, don't hesitate and don't be shy. There is no stupid question, and if I'm busy or away from keyboard, I'll answer anyway when I'm back.
My Parallels VM is insisting on downloading a ~25gb Windows update, no matter how I tell it not to, but not actually installing it. It used to be that I could go in with Parallels Mounter and forcefully delete the folder with the update and that would fix it for a few days. As of this time, I can no longer get write access to my own damn VM's disk image and I have no idea why. I do not want 25gb of god knows what on my internal drive. As the system administrator, I want to be able to delete whichever files I please. I know, I know, Google it, there's probably a fix, but I want to shout at the world a bit because this is just ridiculous and the ridiculousness is not stopping and it's not slowing down either. How long is it until I have to ask Copilot to do it and the response is "Uh-oh... Are you sure you should be doing that? I'm sorry, but as a large language model, I am unable to execute actions that have the potential to directly compromise system integrity."
This started happening in the win10 days, when they stopped letting you turn off the scheduled task that would randomly wake your PC upp at night. The workarounds just got more and more convoluted with each system update.
One way we work on making #curl code safer (with fewer mistakes) is by using more helper functions and fewer direct calls to *alloc() and mem/strcpy().
Since reported vulnerabilities generally are really old, we can't know yet for several years if it actually has the desired effect.
I plot the memory call density to see how it goes.
@Arwalk we found strncpy too often involved in mistakes. It is not generally "safer" than strcpy because of its lack of terminating null. Also, the right answer is rarely to copy a partial string, in more cases than not the correct behavior is to return an error if the target is too small.
periodic reminder that the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" (where people having unfettered access to a resource supposedly inevitably leads to its degradation and destruction) was popularized by Garrett Hardin, a white nationalist eugenicist who was using it to argue for global population controls
whenever I hear this (about once a year on the Fediverse), I'm reminded that I never got taught the tragedy of the commons in its original form, because in my life it's always been a parable about how a commons needs its participants to get engage in some form of social dynamic with one another outside of their private use of resources (e.g. a village council, networks of trust / obligation) as a means to check bad actors from damaging the commons for others.
it was very popular with certain professors at uni who were using it to argue that we'd inevitably destroy the planet if left unchecked. still, this is placing the blame on the actions of individuals rather than looking at the effect of systems (capitalism)
Hardin's original piece attempts to argue that only by privatizing everything can breakdown be avoided. This is through some stupid-ass game theory malarkey about how only an owner has an interest in the continued prosperity of the object in question.
This is obviously disproven by any look at how profit-oriented owners manage resources.
Game theory is like that. Full of "logical" conclusions that are disproven by even the slightest bit of empiricism.
Let's not forget or fail to give credit to the great Elinor Ostrom, first woman to be awarded Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics. Elinor's life work on commons taught us all that Hardin's story of the tragedy was wrong. Your understanding of it as a parable teaching importance of governance is due to Elinor. Oh, and Elinor did it with both an incredible body of empirical work and game theory.
A very important figure in debunking the myth of the “tragedy of the commons”, was political scientist and political economist, Elinor Ostrom. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics.
A very important figure in debunking the myth of the “tragedy of the commons”, was political scientist and political economist, Elinor Ostrom. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics.
Die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ist das Mitbestimmungs-, Forschungs- und Studienförderungswerk des DGB. Sie ist in allen ihren Aufgabenfeldern der Mitbestimmung als Gestaltungsprinzip einer demokratischen Gesellschaft verpflichtet.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon Mechanical Turk, launched on November 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence” — using 500,000 underpaid and misclassified workers to annotate, review, and sometimes even imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today, they are still underpaid and misclassified, but there are tens of millions of them.
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Cookies can give businesses insight into their users’ online activity. Unforunately they are subject to both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, making compliance difficult.
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Between insanity from yesterday and today, Sonic Synergy made the unfortunate decision to cancel today's show. They sincerely apologize, but will be back next week.
Při své #degoogle jsem narazil na problém Waze. Používal jsem ho ještě za krále Klacka, nějaký cesty jsem se tam taky nakreslil, tak to byla srdcovka. Dlouho jsem hledal, aktuálně zkouším Magic Earth. Privacy oriented, založené na #osm, ukazuje to hustotu provozu a trasy super. #ios i #android
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in reply to Mike Gorse • • •Consider this: if you're feeling burned out, and see nobody around who can replace you, these observations may be related.
Now this: if the organization has given you benefit, have you given it benefit? If so, you've paid your way.
It may be time to move on; if the organization stumbles or fails without you, maybe it's come to that place in its life.
I've personal experience.I stayed on and served, way too long in two volunteer gigs: one 25 years, one 33. When I walked away, there just wasn't enough energy left. It took me too long to notice. But that was years ago.
Now I'm looking at closing down, or maybe reconfiguring, a business I've run for much longer. Am I providing an important service that people want? What will it cost me and pay me? I'm mulling this over.