Notices by Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online), page 2

@GreenSkyOverMe The Roman mile is 1000 paces (steps, literally), so I see Roman mile "based on body part or action done with it".
Statute Mile is based on length of survey rod, so this is not drunk math, but more like ugly law.
Regardless of historic reasons I agree in the simple fact that metric system has much more sense and happy to live in a "metric" country.

@NataliaArmyOf1 Foots and alike are based on length of parts of human body.
"Drunk mathematician rolling dice" was funny to read, but sadly for everyone who dislike mathematicians, this is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)

#Georgian #language is a very beautiful one. But as it not so widespread as e. g. English, German or French, such languages need special effort to preserve and expand speakers community of this language.
Adding a language to services like #Duolingo and other such services for learning languages - is one of such efforts.
Sign this petition to support adding of Georgian language to Duolingo.
https://chng.it/kRXQrTkDSb
#culture #preservation #LearningLanguages

@aral As it all looks hopeless, I just don't know what to do about all this global mess which "should not be a concern of an individual by design".

@aral And this all gone so far I even doubt it even can be solved at individually, except may be by getting rid of IT at all, and rollback personal life to pre-internet life. Political decision impossible at all because of nature of existing political system.
I an feel sad about that, and I still donating to Mozilla Foundation and Thunderbird, just as gesture of protest.

@aral It was not deleted, so I guess there is some federation issue between servers.
In shortly, that post is critique of that practice of using "Yes" and "May be later", without any option of say "No" to something, as common practice of today "user experience"

@thezerobit Lack of "No" or "No! I said you, NO, b@stard!!!" button is not about being adult, it just about considering people as "users", some kind of slavery, similar to relationship between dealer and "user" of an abusive instance, like heroine or crack.

@aral Looks like another example happened of what you said about, when people seen as "users" without any autonomy and personhood.

@Sofie
That thing @aral builds is for making that how websites built easier to understand and use by newcomers, by people who never built websites before.

@georgetakei These 1 mln people had years to overthrow militants from power. Now they have a simple "choice" coming from years of choice they made yearly:
1️⃣ try to free hostages and give them to Israeli authorities, overthrowing Hamas militants from power in process. Chance of survival is 50%
2️⃣ try to run, chance for survival is 50%
3️⃣ stay and wait, and have 0️⃣ (zero) chance for survival.

@aral Due to my professional background, I put most attention not to ownership of project, but to project functionality, provided to people who will use the project - for personal needs or as an organization. I intentionally say "person" and "organization" instead of "user", after reading web0 manifesto and other your works.

@aral Sorry, Aral, I am not asking about _these_ aspects.
I just noticed that there are _technical_ similarity around concepts, like:
⭐ user owns data
⭐ user controls who can read or update data
⭐ user hosts data on some special thingy - that is generally speaking "publicly accessible" - you can discover it via some URL. In sense that data not hosted e. g. on user device as phone or PC, but on somewhere in internet?
⭐ decentralization is a goal.

What is difference between the SOLID project https://solidproject.org/ and the work the Small Tech Foundation https://small-tech.org/ does?
@aral can you explain the practical difference?
Their website is more developers-oriented, in hope that if developers will make apps that follow SOLID spec, more people will get their pod, looking for functionality or useful behavior these apps provide. And more people get used to idea they can own the data about themselves.

@TheBigOCommunity It would be nice to have some transcript for "language-impaired" people like me who have issues with proper detailed understanding of English aural speech. I was able to understand more or less what video is about because I am already aware about the things @aral and Laura do.

@aral May be this is about something I am not literate in, but I just can't understand what this is about.

@thomasfuchs 6. 6. Badly engineered website can't load content or don't function properly because of JS errors like "window.theCreepyTracker is not a function" or "can't read harvestData of undefined".

The #GNU , #GPL and a like licenses, that include right to share program with others in unlimited way, is NOT designed to be used for commercial software, unless you will end up with Tivoization of it (binding ability to use software to a central authority that manage some keys or "licenses").
With this said, I can imagine a web developers cooperative that would make a privacy-first software, not being pushed constantly by shareholders to "increase profitability" or to "ship this shit faster".

@Chrishallbeck Very relevant for me, as I bump into US-specific or EU-relevant stuff often, while live far away.

@goatsarah The great plan:
1️⃣ Give techbros all your data for free
2️⃣ spend your meaningless life watching boring and annoying ads all time, even while farting at WC, giving techbros bucks in the process.
2️⃣ Help techbros to train visual AI via captchas
3️⃣ be smashed in an driving incident by a self-driving car.
4️⃣ PROFIT!

@fsf Please fix the broken link to initiative page

@timkmak I seen plentry of good advinces at @mastodonmigration and @feditips posts