@bearthatcodes That is ... special.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. - Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court justice (13 Feb 1892-1954)

The best thing about Microsoft's virtual monopoly on corporate email is that when they screw up, everyone suffers. Wait, did I say "best" thing? I might have mispoken. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsofts-own-anti-phishing-system-has-been-blocking-legitimate-business-emails-week-theres-1778051

@oblomov @mijustin @bart @wikiyu

XSLT dedicated page
Don’t let Google wipe out this Web standard

https://atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_des_flux_rss_ang_computer_xml_xslt.htm
#rss #xslt #xml #podcast #browser #standard #w3c #google

I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.

Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.

No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.

You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.

We can build a better world.

Via https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/

Went to yet another hospital appointment today. Doctor suggests getting a biopsy done, just in case.

In the car on the way home:

Me: *just minding my own business, looking at horses out the window*
Husband: Yeah, I'm glad you're gonna get an autopsy.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy This brings up such conflicting feelings.

Yes! We need to get the word out that COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease, that it can impact almost every vascularized organ!

But it's simultaneously INCREDIBLY frustrating to read "The best preventive measure is vaccination" when we KNOW that the best preventative measure is clean air via respirators, and the second best preventative measure is cleaner air through air exchange and filtration.

#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #CovidCompetent

Folk on welfare are not the f*cking problem 😑

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

@rasterweb Yes, please.

No.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

If I'd been designing the popup menu associated with external drives, I don't think I'd have put "Eject" and "Erase" right next to each other.

The venue I teach some of my classes at is a community hub that involves Men's Sheds and Grow Rhondda. They host things like a repair cafe and warm spaces with free food, and are integral to promoting mental health and wellbeing in a place that can have a lot of social isolation.

They've just discovered that the council won't be continuing their funding from March (they're withdrawing all funding from community spaces up this valley). They'll be reducing their hours to two days a week and -

Thinking AI is approaching sentience or AGI is like photocopying your arse and then concluding that your photocopier has an arse.

I'm unamused when some aspect of Homebrew breaks emacs. In this case, libjpeg.9.dylib has vanished. I'm especially unamused when I discover this a few minutes before packing up my laptop to leave the house.

It feels like developers are currently split into two groups that do not really understand what the other group is talking about:
One group tries to reduce their dependency on Big Tech by switching to alternative search engines, code forges, map providers, operating systems…
And the other group is trying to increase their dependency on Big Tech by adopting agentic and/or vibe coding.