Notices by ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ (deshipu@fosstodon.org)

@piggo I quite like the suggestion of Cory Doctorow that we should instead cancel all the agreements that "harmonize" with the US intellectual property laws, basically ending the "designed in USA, produced elsewhere" practice that is so profitable for them. It would also greatly improve scientific and technological progress outside of USA.

@njion Last time I checked burned beans were not considered herbs. And no, it's not any kind of plant infusion (then tomato soup would count as tea), only infusions made of leaves and roots. And then it's also not any kind of infusion (plant dye is not tea), only when it's used as a beverage. And I'm sure it's possible to find more cultural rules to further narrow it down.

Human language doesn't work on definitions anyways, and what a given word means is constructed on the fly in context.

@njion I have no idea what you are talking about, it's called buckwheat coffee in here. May also contain acorns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal_coffee

I'm ashamed to admit it, but when I was a kid, I didn't understand why we take care of the severely disabled, especially the mentally retarded. To me it seemed like such a waste of effort in humanity's quest for technological and cultural progress. It never occurred to me that technology and culture is not just the artifacts produced and knowledge hoarded, but more importantly the relationships, the social structures, and the world views developed along the way.

@piggo we can only hope that the empire will disintegrate fully and never recover, and the land will be reclaimed by the rightful owners

I've been interested in the usability and user experience design for years, as a hobby. I've been reading a lot of books, and following publications on the topic. I find it very significant that the more actual strict scientific research we have accumulated on the subject, with rigorous experiments, large samples, and fancy tech like eye tracking or even fMRI, more we understand how human perception works and how to design for it, the worse the actual usability of websites and apps becomes.

Apparently there is some kind of national bowling competition in USA now?

Isn't it fun when uploading a file to an external server and downloading it again to another disk is faster than copying the file between the disks? You gotta love Linux.

I don't quite get the "our project is so badly designed that you need assistive technology to even be able to use it" flex of programming languages that require an IDE.

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@piggo Oh no, do you think it may be because of the monolithic structure of systemd?

@revk I thought that's a genre of music?

I wonder if it's because the companies no longer have the budget to send their engineers to conferences, or because the engineers are so burned out that they no longer want to go. Or both.

I feel like I no longer meet any new developers on programming language conferences. Everyone are developer advocates. Especially the speakers.

Linux is actually the name of the penguin. The operating system is called Linux's monster.

You know the 10x developer? You know, that one guy on the team that writes ten times more code than everyone else, because everyone else are too busy fixing everything he breaks?

I have some great news, everyone! We have automated that guy, and put it into your code editor, so that you can be fixing the mistakes of a very confident but hopelessly incompetent developer forever!

@tk @piggo No, I don't do reflex-based games. I bought it anyways, but I can't play it.

@piggo I'm waiting for a fox sim. Will also accept a tanuki.

@sushee Wasn't Firefox open source, and therefore forkable? Isn't that precisely what safeguards open source projects from the original author turning evil?

Or did they manage to make this project so convoluted and complex, that they pretty much have a monopoly on its development, despite the sources being available?

Oh, right, and there are all those cryptographic keys that you need to make a working browser these days, that they don't make public...

@janl @sushee Is that another brave browser?