Notices by some fedifriend (samgai@vocalounge.cafe)

@puniko Interesting, do you know any specific laws around that? Or can you find them?

@puniko I've got a burning question that you might be able to answer: How prevalent is video surveillance of public spaces in Switzerland?

Voxel Tycon looks pretty neat! I've been wondering who's going to come with the next interesting idea to replace OpenTTD. I find the UI pretty clean and easy to use, and they seem to have changed the formula by limiting demand in places that consume resources. Though I find it unfortunate that they went back to only using block signals, when OpenTTD's path-based signalling is much less messy.

Name the first Swedish song that comes to your mind!

Half-Life 2 but Alyx keeps repeating "What cat?" forever

Thank you for providing alt text!

F1nn5ter when F2nn6ter shows up:

An interesting fact from Philosophy Tube's latest video:

You can identify and fight discrimination without even having to define the discriminating factors (race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) or label people with them. All that matters is that the discriminating person *thinks* that such a label would apply to the other person. (E.g. a straight person seen near a gay club can still be a victim of homophobia.)

@andrewt @astrid @lily I'm going to start calling it tritone paper now. No regrets.

Public transit timetables should be open data, published in an internationally standardised format.

That way, instead of each region having its own route planner, maintained separately and with varying quality, we could have a large choice of route planners (even offline ones) that work in a large region.

PSA to software developers:

Usernames and other user-provided values should be directionally isolated from their surrounding inline text, if there is any. In HTML, this can be done with the <bdi> element.

Not only does this stop people messing with text direction using directional overrides (sorry for ruining your jokes), it also makes sure that an English sentence still ends on the right even when starting with an Arabic name.

See https://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/uba-basics#isolation for demonstration.

I overheard a conversation about micropenises.

The participants in the conversation (men and women) found the topic very amusing and used language that made people with micropenises sound like liabilities, like unavoidable risks where "you only know when it's too late".

I was completely silent because the only thing that I could think of saying "you are horrible people and should be ashamed of yourselves".

@Polychrome You boost a post by kicking it.

@Polychrome You favourite a post by petting it.

Seriously, we need to abolish gendered clothing. Separating people into "pretty" and "practical" based on gender is just wrong.

And this is where it may have started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation

PSA: Pranks are only good if the recipient enjoys them, otherwise it's bullying.

@elsie @spinach

*1kHz sine wave*
"why do you swear so much"

@Polychrome Somehow none of the reporters used the word "monopoly" even once. They seemed to be framing it as a personal choice of a few people.

Corporations want to take your life and sell it back to you as a subscription service.

Mathematicians of fedi, do you use a language written from right to left?

I would like to know how you deal with mathematical terms that use left/right as part of a term: left identity, right ideal, left associativity, etc. Does left come first, does right come first, or do you just avoid this terminology entirely? Are there any problems when communicating with mathematicians who write from left to right?