Notices by Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands @coolandnormal @jwi there isn't enough consensus and political power to enact this now, but I think the nation would better if anyone who lives here more than half the year was considered a resident and vote in local elections and easily become a citizen with no more administrivia than getting a passport. If you chose to live under the rules of a location you have a stake and should have a say in how those rules are made. It shouldn't be substantially more difficult than moving state

@inthehands I don't want to harsh your mellow but I haven't seen any reliable study/evidence that the vote isn't representative of the missing ~25% eligible voters, the bias due to vote suppression targets likely Harris voters more, but even if you had 100% of eligible voters, while it might change the outcome (yay!), the ratio is probably not going to change much, certainly not 70/30, this brand of fascism is way more popular amongst some powerful demographics than we'd both like.

@inthehands I don't know if I'll ever _not_ bring up Mr. Fred Rogers as an example of positive masculinity in these discussions, that was one American man who was not afraid of what dipshit "bros" thought of him as he was very very publicly kind and caring, which can be the hardest, toughest, up-hill fight for social humans. Too many adopt a masculinity of abuse and cowardly violence because of fear of what others might think of them. Itd be sad if it it wasn't destructive

@inthehands @donaldball sure, people game P-values and the methodology of many scientific papers is not reproducible, but most tech/software metrics don't even reach that level of bullshit.

@inthehands I wonder how much the need to keep the dev team busy with visible "features" and trying to be all things to all people drive this MS Word level of feature creep away from a simple tool which does simple things. If there were a more competitive market with 6+ viable phone/tablet OS companies you would have a better chance at finding an OS with an interface that fits your usage, as each fights for a different overlapping set of users with different needs. Duopoly can't produce that.

@inthehands @tehstu While I don't think strict skeumorphism actually makes UX better, the (Jony Ive?) era at Apple where they ripped the graphical design out and replaced it with minimalist flat color, also ripped out a bunch of context on what was an interactive element and what was UI chrome, to the detriment of usability.

To make the UI usable it needs to do less and demand less state tracking by the user, esp when your brain doesn't have a 14-element working-memory

@inthehands this observation applies to to the whole of public schools as well, in the presence of charter, magnet, voucher, private and home schools which segregate students across economic, racial or religious boundaries; with full funding for the privileged and poor education for the less privileged

@inthehands "To err is human but to really fould things up needs a computer!"

@inthehands I haven't seen it yet and my brain is a little frazzled and can't remember the plots of the Disney movies I _have_ seen to be able to synthesize anything. Looking at a list to refresh my memory, in Encanto the villian is the matriarch who loves her kids and grandkids but needs to resolve her trauma before she destroys her own family. The only way they could have gone harder and still had a happy ending is if they didn't regain their wealth/prestige but were happy together with less

@inthehands you know, that would make for an interesting Disney Princess story, kind of like how in Frozen 2 Queen Elsa abdicates in favor of Anna, but with an anti-nepotism message. Have the prince/ss screw up due to hubris and get deposed fleeing like Lion King, they fight their way back, learning to be a better person, like Moana/Maui, but when they defeat the big bad, instead of winning the throne the people don't want them, there is a better leader, and they happily join the common people

@inthehands I have no inside knowledge but I heard that they refreshed some polling that hadn't been done in a while to clarify where they stood and that Biden getting COVID may have helped clarify his thinking on whether he wanted to keep busting his ass trying to right the campaign, only to win another 4 years of struggle, or just take a victory lap and retire. Clearly he coordinated with many many Dems though because all the press releases and statements today were not _reactions_ to news.

@ErickaSimone @inthehands I think it's probably moot as he doesn't have the votes for any policy changes to be legislated, but the power to impeach and remove already exists, why do you see court packing as a danger? The Rs have been bending the courts to their will for decades and have packed it without doing so obviously, the only constraints on Ds are in how the story narrative is perceived by the public, as legit or out of bounds. Well, and having the votes...

@thomasfuchs quality shitpost

@ATLeagle @QasimRashid I think a lot comes down to the candidates perception of the voting population, that there aren't enough leftist anti-racist voters to carry the electoral college so you need some percentage of the majority white supremacist voters to actually win, but the balancing act is keeping the two constituencies from alienating each other.

@lanodan @neil We don't really need large monopoly businesses squeezing all the value (and then enshittifying) out to themselves when the same money could buy a whole lot of distributed capacity and expertise as well as a more thriving economy, rich shareholders only can buy so much shit, whereas well-supported workers can in turn support more themselves.

@lanodan @neil This is something that a small army of small web developers can make a living on too. I used to room with a guy who made just these kinds of sites for small businesses, just enough PHP so the owner could post events or list their drink specials but mostly static designs using the colors and images. They kept themselves in beer money and rent (tbf many of their clients were bars and paid in-kind) as basically a human-powered Squarespace/Wix, without the complexity.

@mjg59 I worked for an org which had standardized usernames in AD as "Firstname Lastname" and when joined with winbind (or on Mac) I was surprised by how many things _didn't_ break on "/home/Firstname Lastname/"

@thomasfuchs you can see exactly how that can happen if management fosters a culture of not bringing up problems by biting people's heads off when they do, the people assembling this surely noticed the design flaw but were pushed to workaround it with whatever materials they had at hand that wouldn't raise suspicion, conspiring to hide the problem. Most likely explanation, lack of faith in the worker doing the work. Such contrast with NUMMI.

@thomasfuchs honestly, a browser/PWA-first phone OS isn't a terrible idea, or maintaining a basic Linux desktop like GNOME and making it a ChromeOS-alike, or domain/email hosting, each of which could be a paid product, with certified hardware partners alongside a DIY ecosystem, to improve the sustainability of Mozilla. Mozilla could also stop trying to be a Silicon Valley tech company and run more efficient operations. They could be a lot of things which they aren't :-(

@inthehands @Nonya_Bidniss @futurebird the idea that there is that much less life in the world is too horrible to contemplate