@[email protected] @[email protected] ​it doesn't just look dangerous, it looks actually impossible (legally) for many of us if that goes through. I don't have access to all of the information they're asking for even if I did want to give it to them (which I don't).

@[email protected] and @[email protected] (posts infrequently but normally with links to longer articles) might be of interest

@[email protected] @[email protected]

"on the average, we get about two percent efficiency out of schoolbooks as they are today. The future of education, as I see it, will be conducted in the medium of ____ where it should be possible to obtain one hundred percent efficiency"

Wat hoort daar op het streepje?

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.

We have seen over the last weeks and months antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.

In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.

More: https://link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

Build communities. Find people you trust and place more faith in their recommendations. Don't trust anyone who says there's a magical solution here.

I'm not saying we shouldn't make things better, and I'm not saying there aren't a lot of low hanging purely technical fruit we shouldn't try and improve (I'm looking at you, most package repositories for most languages) but its worth remembering that improving things for everybody has to include everybody actually being able to use the improvements.

Most people either need to pick a level of trust and use a device as it is, or not use the tech. This isn't an elitism argument; I know something about software but if it comes to medical or legal matters, I'm in that same boat. Yes, we can educate people about the threat vectors they don't understand exist if and when they're relevant, but trying to make individuals responsible for the security of their mobile phones via verifying their software stack is like making me responsible for the safety of the drinking water coming out of my tap.

Watching @[email protected] post about trust in computing and being reminded just how little most of "us" (developers, open source advocates, even just anyone with a senior administrative job) understand the amount we've learned about tech over the years. No, people aren't going to check the hash of their downloaded open source binary blob. You don't because you're lazy, or you trust the mirror server you got it from. Most people don't because they don't know there is a binary blob, and you're about 3 layers of understanding they don't want and shouldn't need away from even telling them it exists.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​In this time of "this is not a both sides issue, stop it" Card is a refreshing reminder of a simpler age where I could look at someone's views and go: "you know what, I disagree, and I think that your views are problematic in ways you aren't seeing, but I can respect both you and the thought you've put into them."

(this assumes that I haven't missed anything personally reprehensible about Card, in which case I'll just sigh and go back to my doom scrolling)

@[email protected] thanks! I'm aware you didn't mean it that way, but... triggers be triggers, and I guessed you'd want to know 🤷‍♂️​

@[email protected] as the son of and father of people with dysgraphia ​I agree with the sentiment of the post (see also learning to draw) but that 'everyone' cuts a bit. They both got hurt pretty badly by people assuming they could 'just fix that', and with my son for a while I was one of the people doing the hurting

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​I managed to get the compile to complete by shutting down everything else on the machine, and the compiled result only lists "en" as an available language, but it still seemed to want to generate 126 locales while building bonfire_common which was what made me think I was missing something.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​ah, good news. I've just deployed 1.0.1, where I tried setting the COMPILE_ALL_LOCALES but then spotted it was overridden by the :prod flag regardless. My last attempt was to directly edit config/bonfire_common.exs with static values:

--- a/config/bonfire_common.exs
+++ b/config/bonfire_common.exs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ default_locale = "en"

## Localisation & internationalisation
# Only compile additional locales in prod or when explicitly requested
-compile_all_locales? =
- config_env() == :prod or System.get_env("COMPILE_ALL_LOCALES") in ["true", "1"]
+compile_all_locales? = false
+# config_env() == :prod or System.get_env("COMPILE_ALL_LOCALES") in ["true", "1"]

locales = if compile_all_locales?, do: [default_locale, "fr", "es", "it"], else: [default_locale]

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config :bonfire_common,
config :bonfire_common, Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr,
default_locale: default_locale,
# locales that will be made available on top of those for which gettext localisation files are available
- locales: locales,
+ locales: [],
providers: [
Cldr.Language,
Cldr.DateTime,
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ config :bonfire_common, Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr,
gettext: Bonfire.Common.Localise.Gettext,
extra_gettext: [Timex.Gettext],
data_dir: "./priv/cldr",
- add_fallback_locales: compile_all_locales?,
+ add_fallback_locales: false,
# precompile_number_formats: ["¤¤#,##0.##"],
# precompile_transliterations: [{:latn, :arab}, {:thai, :latn}]
- force_locale_download: Mix.env() == :prod,
+ force_locale_download: false, # Mix.env() == :prod,
generate_docs: true

We aren't even asking why ICE is even at these protests full of white ICU nurses and moms in vans. Like, why are they there? Looking for a Mexican drug gang in a suburban roundabout? Finding the secret foreign terror hiding in the trunk of a minivan?

They aren't even pretending to do "immigration enforcement" they're just suppressing dissent. Lower your head and put that sign down and they will go away. Say "yes officer" and "no officer" and show your papers and no one gets dead.*

*sarcasm

@[email protected] "I'm not sure that we're quite ready to tackle this area. Let's move on for now and let it come back up when you're ready. And you're less likely to pull my arms off." ​

@[email protected] dang. Now I have a perverse desire to write a counsellor for monsters visual novel.

"The​ frog seems mildly upset"

"The giant spider seems to be masking with anger"​

mastodon.social/users/GeePaw... It's a painful realization that I missed two programming languages I've absolutely written code in while replying to @[email protected] here. XML and yaml. Do better, industry, do better...

@[email protected] my just about to go to university son has deep dived into 3d graphics and physics simulations as a hobby over the last few years, and it threw him a while back when I answered a straight forward question on memory allocation with 'no idea, I've never written anything in an unmanaged language'. ​

@[email protected] hmm. I suspect I'll miss some stuff, but:

-Spectrum BASIC

+html (first paid work ever, well before becoming a 'developer')

+sql (I was a data analyst before accidentally transitioning to coding by getting so bored of my data analyst job that I automated it with...)

-vbscript in excel

+c#

-Python

+VB.net

+f#

-clojure

+elm

-ruby (a language I thought I'd enjoy and really didn't 😞 )

+haskell

+typescript

-ink

-gdscript

Fair play to Minneapolis. This is the fight back the whole US needs.

#Minneapolis #generalStrike #fuckICE #MinneapolisProtests