Notices by Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social), page 5

I don’t understand why a country so dependent on driving like Canada has such a poor road standard. I drove many years in Portugal and nothing - I mean, nothing, ever - intersects a highway. If it did, it would not be a highway, per the legal definition of highway there. In Canada, highways allow you to drive fast, legally, but don’t give you the safety guarantees you need to do so.

@goatsarah @titociuro Just as a curiosity, I was searching Twitter to see if I could find something and apparently Twitter search is now so broken that it’s actually working worse than mastodon’s. That place is truly falling apart.

@goatsarah @titociuro +1. Aside from the people I already knew from previous networks and other contexts, it’s mostly by boosts and replies to posts from people I follow when I read threads I find interesting.

@titociuro AFAIK there is no inter-instance search. You may only search your instance, and even that isn’t great. This is mostly a tech limitation but there is a lot of people here who defend that way (and will get aggressive at you if you debate it). The argument is, this way, trolls, nazis etc can’t easily find people to harass by searching popular keywords, so they fight any kind of effort to improve searching or archiving.

@goatsarah It’s ironic that when I visit my parents in Portugal on a shitty Lisbon suburb, I can have the window open any time and not feel any real difference in the noise levels. Here, if I open the window, even during nighttime, my living room turns into a highway. The noise is unbearable. And I live in the city that calls itself “the greenest city”. This experience made me deeply hate cars and politicians.

@goatsarah Yeah, I’m not saying decarbonizing and depolluting out cities isn’t important. I’m just saying that isn’t the panacea people are led to believe it is by the car industry. Long distance and cities are different problems, but living on a city core, I honestly think politicians should face trial every time someone gets hit by a car, because they do exactly jack shit to stop this mayhem. I’m preparing myself mentally to move out of Vancouver because I can’t take this shit any more.

@goatsarah Existing cars definitely need to be EV. But solving the “too many cars” problem isn’t hard. Netherlands does it. Even Spain has the largest high speed train network on the planet only second to a much bigger country, China. The real hard problem to solve is finding people who are good at, and want to solve hard problems and are also willing to go into politics and win elections. EVs won’t fix this, among many other problems: https://twitter.com/visionzeroyvr/status/1665440425635618818

@goatsarah I understand why people don’t want lithium mines at their doorstep. But on the other hand, I think there’s always an element on colonialism in many of those protests. People want to enjoy the goods that come from extraction, but are happy if extraction is done half the world away, on poor countries so they don’t have to see of suffer through the consequences. Anyways I think the solution to mobility is less cars, not just making all cars EVs, that should be the main goal.

@goatsarah That seemed like some control room outside the silo. But I didn’t read the books so 🤷♂️.

@marioguzman I would be happy with iOS 16 and macOS 13 for another year as long as they furiously squashed bugs on each minor every few months. Major releases every year aren’t really helping anyone or accomplishing anything other than degrading quality.

@goatsarah It’s going to start suggesting songs from bands that don’t exist.

@Bossito Um exemplo: em muitos países (como no Canadá) o estado de saúde da pessoa é um elemento que conta para a aprovação, ou não, de um visto. Isso é uma violação directa da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos que o Canadá subscreve.

@Bossito Como pessoa de esquerda, o problema da esquerda não é esse, é o comprimisso. Faz-me lembrar uma certa cena do Mr. Robot. A partir do momento em que se aceita que deve haver controlo e restrições, já se deitou por terra qualquer princípio é qualquer moral. A partir daí está-se apenas a negociar onde se desenha a linha de violação dos direitos humanos. A circulação de pessoas deve ser ilimitada, não restrita, não controlada e qualquer posição que não seja esta é tribal é corrupta.

@mackuba RPin OS is based on Debian. I don’t think there are relevant performance differences between both or Ubuntu. Also RPi OS might not be as secure: updates lag a bit behind Debian’s and they used to require a “pi” user to exist (not sure if that’s still the case).

Anyway if you don’t need wifi, I would just use FreeBSD. 😊 It works really well on RPi these days, have one working 24/7 with no issues. No wifi support though.

Me: why does my timeline have 200 posts in an hour?

Eurovision. Riiiight…

@goatsarah I only know my M1 mini has a fan because of teardowns and feeling cold air coming out from the back. Whatever I do, it stays quiet. These chips are magic.

@goatsarah Watched the first episode yesterday (didn't read the book so I don't know the plot). What amazes me is someone had the technology to build a seemingly self-sustaining world underground and didn't think about lifts. 😄

Also, not knowing the plot, I may be saying something silly, but I couldn't stop thinking “take of the helmet, you're being poisoned!" during the last part of the episode.

I may subscribe to watch this when all the episodes are released.

@goatsarah BTW I haven't got notifications of your replies in the past few days. Today is probably explained by the great mitigation going on over the spam thing, but not sure about the previous days. :)

@goatsarah I still remember the occasional yellow surreal sky in Lisbon because of that. 😁Quite unhealthy but has a bit of dystopian sci-fi vibe to it.

This is why the design trend of using placeholders as field labels is a terrible idea. This dialog showed up like this when I used the “Add Bookmark…” in Safari. What do you think the selected field is for? The bookmarked URL, right?