Notices by Julius Schwartzenberg (jschwart@mas.to)

@Eetschrijver if that doesn't work out, maybe we could petition Elon Musk instead to rename Xitter to Hitler. Or HitlerX or something like that.

@Natanox at one point I discovered there is a huge amount of videos on glitching in games. Maybe they were just trying to be part of that hype?

@janvlug @knmi Oneerlijke concurrentie lijkt mij een onzin argument. Dat zou een overheidsinstelling verbieden om informatieproducten van haar eigen data te maken, terwijl die data met belastinggeld tot stand zijn gekomen. Het zou betekenen dat de overheid een monopolie geeft aan commerciële partijen met belastinggeld. Bovendien zijn de KNMI data openbaar. Waarom mag de KNMI daar niet zelf een app van maken?

https://www.knmidata.nl/open-data

@lynchantropen het is opnieuw een voorbeeld van de wetenschap negeren. De duidelijkste situatie is die van intersekse personen die niet zomaar onder man of vrouw te plaatsen zijn op basis van aangeboren uiterlijke kenmerken.

@LiefhebberV veel van het geld voor die sigaretten die gebruikt zijn als bron voor de peuken, zit natuurlijk wel in de accijns ;)

@bert_hubert yes, it's a big privacy and security issue with Microsoft's mail hosting. I have to use https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/unmangle-outlook-safelinks to avoid Microsoft learning about links/URLs that I click on, also many that are used within the corporate intranet and should not really be exposed to the outside. (Doesn't really matter when Exchange isn't on-premise anymore though.)

@ryanc thank you for pointing that out. Indeed not so well phrased, I edited it.

It's impressive you are so strong and are writing about how things feel! I mainly wanted to express that for a CIS person without any doubts about their gender, any misgendering would unlikely trigger negative emotions even in the example you gave. It is easy to underestimate this gap between CIS and trans people and it also took me a while before I realized this importance around making pronouns explicit.

@ryanc I don't expect this to be similar in any way. As a CIS man, if somebody or some system would explicitly treat me as a woman, there would be more a surprise reaction.

A transgender has likely endured misgendering for a relatively long period, to a traumatic extend and in all sorts of contexts.
Misgendering will always seem much more emotional than for the average CIS person. I don't think I could ever imagine what a trans person feels in that regard.

@JeroenBaten @civodul yep, indeed I know it from there too, but they still license it from the firm of which they split off. And I understand it's also used at one more firm that was spun off from the same parent. So I suspect it would be at just those three companies.

@JeroenBaten @civodul is cadappl actually known and used outside of its home province? This is the first time I encounter it mentioned outside.

@VeroniqueB99 @janvlug yeah it is quite specific, but I think you might find it interesting. I can recommend reading what Jan linked to.

Possibly a bit easier would be to read this story: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

It also happens to be related to education :)

@dim0kq is there also a Ukrainian version of this article?

@zmicier я думаю що люди які знають українську або російську, багато розуміють. Мені цікаво :)

@rysiek I saw multiple posts complaining about a bilionaire speaking. I was confused by that.

I think it had better be highlighted that people have a problem with a fascist speaking. Then it's more clear that there is a problem.

@rysiek that could well be, but in these cases I care a billion times more whether somebody is a fascist or not than whether someone is a billionaire or not ;)

@VeroniqueB99 @janvlug I would agree that such services should be available at no cost, but we should not forget that "free" in "free software" is unrelated to software being available at no cost. In Dutch for instance we talk about "vrije software" and "gratis onderwijs". Only English uses the same word for both.

I still don't fully understand what you refer to with "free education" if you relate it to "free" as in "free software".

@VeroniqueB99 @janvlug you're using the word "free" multiple times, but its meaning is not always obvious. With "Free Health Care", do you refer to the financial costs or the freedom to choose particular care providers and be in control over your healthcare as in "free software"?

Also "Free College" is (apparently) Walfdorf education if you use the word "free" as in "free software". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

I don't think this type of education suits everybody.

@yamuis ik kwam laatst deze presentatie tegen om computers met vrije software bij kinderen te introduceren:
https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/188/

Hopelijk volgens er meer initiatieven zodat kinderen de tijd en mogelijkheid krijgen om te leren wat computers kunnen en te zorgen dat zij volledig controle hebben.

Veel ouders hebben zichzelf overgegeven aan o.a. smartphones waar ze zelf maar beperkte controle over hebben. Ik denk wel dat we gebaat zijn als de overheid hier ook aandacht aan besteed.

@ErikvanStraten mijn gok en enige ervaring is dat het vooral om kennismigranten gaat die hierheen komen. Net als de Turkse kennismigraten die hier naartoe komen, is dit precies een groep die vaak juist niets moet hebben van hun regering.

Ik gok dat er bij Israëliërs een tweedeling is, vergelijkbaar met de Turkse waarbij het deel van de disapora wat hier al langer zat er politiek wellicht anders inzit dan de groep die hier juist nu naartoe komt. Die twee groepen zoeken elkaar doorgaans niet op.

@OlgaPatlyuk it's important to be careful with smartphones. Mobiles phones are sometimes referred to as "Stalin's Dream" because of the amount of information that can be collected from people carrying them.

It is important to avoid that companies like Apple and Google (and possibly Chinese companies) get the opportunity to take control of Ukraine after Ukraine wins the war against Russia!!

І ти забула писати що українська мова - найгарніше ;)