Notices by alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)

Relatedly, I was talking with a doctor at the German Heart Center this week about how good (well trained, compassionate) the individual doctors and nurses in the German healthcare sector are, but also how terrible all the bureaucracy is. She basically said: “Good people trapped in a bad system? That’s Germany…”

For context: Duncan Reynolds in this episode was a fictional wealthy property developer funding gangsters to go pyromaniac.

He's talking to the protagonist, who resembles Batman.

"How long do you think either of you will live if I talk?"
"Long enough to see you hang!"
"[laughter] Don't be a fool! Hang? I'll never even be charged & you know it! Even if you took off that mask & testified yourself, people like us don't go to prison old man. We aren't ruled by laws, we make laws! Laws to protect us from *them* [the poor]. My family & yours built this city, this country. Its ours. The people are ours."

- Duncan Reynolds from The Red Panda Adventures e25s3 Brimstone Alley

Tiny Privacy Tip for Developers 🔒✨

Data deletion is an important
process for privacy, safety, and respect of consent. It should always be:

1. User accessible :blocky_white_cursor:

2. Done thoroughly 🔎

3. Completed shortly ⏳️

4. Permanent :nes_fire:

Unless there is a legal reason for not doing so, this should be a default feature for every software and services storing users data.

Let’s work together to make sure one day it is.

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy

@luism @Em0nM4stodon As far as I'm concerned: The public (usually journalists) can take snapshots, and not honer deletion requests.

Truly thorough deletions is pretty much impossible (once data leaves your systems), but I would advise software developers to come as close as they can. Our systems are used by the powerless more than the powerful.

@jerry As an anti-capitalist, sounds like a good law-enforcement strategy to me! Lets hope they keep getting away with it!

Whee!
Been a good while since I bought a new game on release.

We'd need to keep our operating systems simple, to avoid taking space away from the data we'd wish to store.

Vector monitors are attractive that way, since it'd take less software to render abstract data to those displays. By rearranging hardware rather than adding more of it.

Speakers are even simpler to build, without needing more software abstractions. Though it does require a multiplier.

Making the OS a programming language interpreter is a proven strategy for simple OSs.

2/2

With my rough idea I explored yesterday of what collapse-era computing might look like, what sort of OS would fit?

Most places who care should be able to build 1970s if not 1980s-era chips, maybe even 2000-era. If we can continue obtaining wafers, not guaranteed!

The biggest challenge would be designing large RAM, & other datastorage.

Keyboard input & audio output would probably be the most feasible I/O, with mice & vector-monitors being secondary.

1/2?

Reading Seymour's complaining about being painted as a caricature... Doesn't do much to dissuade the caricature I perceive in him!

Someone who fails to understand the distinction between equity & equality, institutionally incapable of admitting that the march on The Beehive represents kiwis better than his own filter bubble.

Someone who fails to see his own culture as such, whilst decrying others as "woke".

My stance for any new followers: "AI" isn't so much a (new) technology, its a narrative.

Its this narrative, this hype, this misinformation which is causing all the harm. And its far from the first time we've been through it.

The tech, also known as "machine learning" or more specifically "neural networks", is well established & already had some invaluable uses before the hype!

Please don't expect me to be interested in it being larger than ever now, or insist I must use it!

@dev Is it like the PS3's "Cell Processors"?

@dev I still struggle to understand from that reporting: What do DPUs aid with?

O.K., I think I'll be able to discuss Willow in the context of my hypothetical hardware-browser tomorrow...

The Floater Manifesto - Ernie Smith "Tedium":
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16891536/operating-system-floater-manifesto

Attribute styling - Go Make Things:
https://gomakethings.com/attribute-styling/

Make creative borders with background-clip border-area - WebKit:
https://webkit.org/blog/16214/background-clip-border-area/

Digital Infrastructure and Why Open Source Is Not Enough Anymore - Hagen Terschüren interviweing tante:
https://ausnahmsweise.net/podcast/digital-infrastructure-and-why-open-source-is-not-enough-anymore/ (audio with transcript)

"Reducing Complexity" - John Cutler "The Beautiful Mess":
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-321-reducing-complexity

Bret Victor - De Programmatica Ipsum:
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bret-victor/

Synopsizing...

The Future of Programming - Brett Victor @ Dropbox's DBX conference (2013, pretending to be 1973):
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 (YouTube via Invidious)