Notices by Kat (kats@chaosfem.tw)

@kittylyst @davidgerard That would be the cryptocurrency that's theoretically decentralised, but in practice centralised through a small number of exchanges that can and sometimes do rewrite transaction history by fiat?

Seems right to me.

@jessew
They're doing their part!

@fanta
Vamos a estar ahí.

@fanta
Puede que es verdad, pero todavía no me tengo que gusta el reguetón.

@neil
Let me put it this way: at Atlassian, we standardised deployment of a utility (molly-guard) that makes you confirm the hostname you think you're logged into before allowing a reboot or poweroff command to proceed.

Not as rare an event as one might prefer, especially when ssh-agent enables a troubleshooting session to involve ssh being threaded through multiple servers.
@lkundrak

@GossiTheDog That's actually very nearly how I quit Emacs.

@skinnylatte Twelve years, with a five-year waiting period after that to get a vote?
Wow.

People here are trying to increase the ten-year residence requirement for citizenship, which already has me deciding I'm not motivated to fight that hard against them to get it.

That's just ethno-nationalism with a bit of a paint-job.

@jessew
Are you sure they're not just trying to outdo the Dutch?
Looks like they're making a hellacious polder, there.

@roadriverrail Now that sounds like affirmation!

@GossiTheDog That is one of the most reassuring things I've heard from Germany in quite a while.

@roadriverrail Agreed on all counts.

There's also a widespread issue of conflating an identifier with the identity, along with an assumption that identities are atomic (because apparently none of us show different sides of ourselves in different contexts).

I prefer this emergent culture of embracing people however they are.

@roadriverrail The idea of having a name for each context appeals to me, quite strongly.

Our culture does like to constrain people, doesn't it?

It might be "correct," but signing paperwork with my legal name (i.e, my deadname) feels like fraud. It feels weird, and icky.

That isn't my name any more, or even my identity. But it's the one still recognised in officialdom, so that's who I roleplay as when I do official stuff.

Now I'm starting to wonder whether that isn't a feature - after all, real names have power.

Maybe "deadname" isn't the right term, at least in my case.

That was me, in a former life (a series of them, in a way). But I've pupated and hatched now; my wings are drying and I'm figuring out how to use them.

It's a shame that "caterpillar name" and "butterfly name" are such unwieldy terms because, at least in my case, they're so poetically apt.

@roadriverrail Same. Every damn time.

"We're against DEI here!"

So... you want me to preferentially hire and promote young white men who are (or pass for being) cisgender, heterosexual, christian, able-bodied, neurotypical and extroverted?

Meaning you want me to pass over the majority of the available talent until and unless I've shown that I simply can't fudge my way into filling the job with the minority of your choice, however underqualified?

Listen, I'm trying to start up a business, not run a snowflake refuge. If your boy can't cope with the variety of people that exist in the real world, and needs to be coddled in an artificial environment populated only by people who remind him of himself, then he just isn't ready for the rough-and-tumble of life in business.

I can't afford to restrict the quality of my team's problem-solving and decision-making to the inferior results you get from a monoculture dominated by whoever shouts the loudest and beats his chest the hardest.

And if he's going to talk over people, disregard their input, or outright bully and/or sexually harrass them because he can't control himself? That makes for a toxic atmosphere where people just don't put their heart into their work, and things are hard enough without putting a saboteur on the payroll. He needs to grow up.

Sorry if this hurts your feelings, but the facts don't care about those. Want your cishet white boys to do well in life? Fix the broken institutions that cripple them from childhood with protectionist policies, and start equipping them with the skills and attitudes they need to cope with the real world.

Oh, and stop trying to turn everything into a competition you can rig. If you want to stand on a podium by yourself with a trophy in your hand, get into athletics or something.

@WideEyedCurious @marlies Indeed, and I've always gotten improvements from targetted practice.

@neil There's a search facility in the system I'm preparing to bring on line. Thanks to the vagueness of that language. I'll have to assume it's covered by the Act and block any attempted use from the UK, until/unless I can get to grips with the legislation and feasibly implement what's demanded. Or even figure out whether this kind of thing is covered.

And that's just one of the jurisdictions to which this applies.

After I deal with the CRA, and everything else that applies within the EU.

I'm one person. I don't have the budget to employ a full-time UI designer or operations people, never mind legal specialists in multiple jurisdictions.

But let's give three cheers for the legislation that mandates us to figure out the details of a technical solution to a social problem. Remember, the important thing is that they're showing Big Tech who's the boss.

@skinnylatte This is what keeps me thinking about trying to get back into metalwork - forging and welding. But mostly forging.

I did a course about 20 years ago, and really enjoyed the way you can make and reshape your own tools to suit the job.

Also, powerhammer go BAM BAM BAM :)

About John Cage's infamous concept piece 4'33" and his equally infamously litigious estate:

They claim copyright over any "recording" of silence of that length, including any purported sample thereof.

However, my understanding is that the silence of the performers is only a backdrop for the substance of the piece.
It's about the sounds the audience makes.

Without the sounds of the audience, it's not a performance of 4'33".

Has this seriously not been brought up in court, to invalidate these claims?