Notices by Steve Loughran (stevel@hachyderm.io)

@mekkaokereke @craignicol I can't believe that in the US it is somehow viewed unmanly to eat ice cream outdoors. Indeed, I recall that very nice gelateria in downtown Mountain View was always popular –though I never took a note of the demographics of the customers.

Here in Europe, we are proud to eat our ice creams. Not sure about hugging in Britain though.
#icecream

@mekkaokereke @craignicol what is this "see a doctor" thing that you talk about?

@mattly next they will want your phone number for 7x24 security escalations.

@mekkaokereke I think this is why there’s so much resistance to speed/red light cameras by the ruling classes. Cameras don’t show class/race bias other than in choice of placement, and you can’t get away from a ticket by announcing that your are a politician, judge, police officer.
For everyone else: cameras don’t pick on people based on ethnicity or vehicle type, claim they smelt marijuana, and in the US: kill people.
Automation is more egalitarian

Camera placement though: political

@robpike there are only two outcomes of software
1. -it dies, either forgotten or wistfully remembered
2 -future maintainers curse your name, your design decisions and your implementation
Really, death is the ultimate outcome of nearly all code (*). The only question is: how many people curse your name first?
(*),vi and tex are probably immortal. Maybe excel too, sadly

@thomasfuchs well. The Enron email graph kept everyone analysing organisational communication structures for years. It’s time for a refresh which includes Slack messages and zoom meeting transcripts