Notices by Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social), page 3

@RickiTarr it is a REALLY IMPORTANT change

this ties into a big lesson we've personally learned from queer history and enjoy applying elsewhere. when something is unspeakable, and you want it not to be, the most important step is to speak it.

@riley @ryanc deliberately? huh. we hadn't realized that.

we think we just put our finger on something we've been struggling for a while to find words for

explaining complex ideas in the form of a video makes them highly accessible to audiences who are already motivated to engage with these ideas. that's great!

it also makes them extremely difficult to critically engage with, compared to most written media.

so the thing about passkeys is...

it's two different technologies. it's an abstraction layer that treats them as the same when they are really, REALLY not

one of them is the older thing, the one you should actually want, where you have a hardware token and you use that to log in to things

the other is the new thing where Apple or Google or Microsoft manage all your logins for you, so that if you are ever at odds with those companies you're locked out of your entire life at once. efficient.

@hazelweakly we've observed before that generating unnecessary paperwork in the hope people go away or mess up is the core business model of health insurance companies

we think that ties into your point about capitalism, heh

*sigh* we remember saying, near the start of the pandemic, that we found it startling and upsetting that society apparently chose to forget the 1918 flu and not learn any lessons from it

and that we all have an obligation to not let this one be forgotten in the same way, so that there can actually be progress

we stand by that. unfortunately, it has become clear just how that mass denial operates.

@inthehands @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna oh WELL played. as you presumably know, the season reference IS a core haiku thing :D

@eris Nintendo's always been like this. they do a lot of this bullshit for like five years at a time, then get tired of it for a while.

@zzt @RL_Dane @dalias yeah... with Gnome, like, we don't use the desktop environment because it's just way too tightly integrated for our taste, but we do have some sympathy because a lot of what it takes to offer a pleasant UX is a unified design language that cuts across contexts

@dalias right, like, the really frustrating thing is that we like almost all of systemd's architectural decisions... and we do believe there need to be more people paying attention to overall ecosystem health stuff with Linux... but we don't like the clear hegemonic intent. BDFL is not an appropriate governance structure for something with this scope.

@emilygorcenski we see a vent in the ceiling, implying that this machine may be gas-based

make SURE to ventilate the space well. you do NOT want to breath carbon monoxide, it can have lasting effects

@timorl @quinn people were very polite about it

it was one of those situations where we're pretty happy about the fact the fediverse has an edit button, for sure

@timorl @quinn but yeah ... the events depicted happened thousands of years before Frodo was born. the books are the "real" version of events, in our head, so stuff that didn't happen "now" in the book narrative didn't even enter our consideration as something that the movie would have shown on-screen.

@quinn image description: meme template based on frame grabs from the live-action Lord of the Rings movie.

first panel: close-up of fingers holding the One Ring; the ring is captured "fascism"

second panel: Elrond the elf, captioned "leftists", has an intense, angry and weary facial expression and says "Cast it into the fire. Destroy it!"

third panel: Isildur the human, captioned "liberals", has a grim smile and says "No. I can interview it."

(edit: not Legolas/Boromir)

@mcc in higher dimensions, facelords are dual to volumelords

sorry, we seem to be kibitzing your stuff quite a bit this week, please feel free to tell us to dial it down!

@gwynnion society should fucking destroy the tracks to prevent people from being tied to them

or if we're prepared to take a REALLY hard look at ourselves, just stop whoever's been tying people to the tracks so we can keep the infrastructure. but that would require a degree of honesty few are ready for.

@josh this happens

@Rasp @wakame sounds solid!

@wakame @Rasp agreed

the danger at the high end is what network people call flapping - some system that's meant to do automated recovery brings things back up, but then either the original problem recurs or the monitoring tool doesn't realize things are actually fixed, so it restarts it again...

should be totally fine in a personal and carefully-thought-out scenario like this

we should really be keeping track of ours more frequently than we are, just, it's quite unpleasant