Notices by xmlns="Dan" (divclassbutton@hachyderm.io)

Hi #rust devs, a question if you don't mind: can #cargo download non-rust dependencies? Specifically, there is a GitHub repo with some #XML files that I want to have as part of my project, but they'll be updating frequently and independent of my project updates.

@ekuber @jwz https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

This essay crystallized it in my head. People who buy cars believe they are buying the right to go faster than anyone else. When stuck behind in vehicle traffic they don't mind, those people bought the promise too after all, but a cyclist is sabotaging the promise the motorist paid tens of thousands for.

Though they would deny it if asked, all motorists see cyclists merely existing as an act of aggression and act accordingly.

@jannem @danluu Yes! Bikes for enthusiasts are all narrow sleek racing things, but every deliveroo rider near me has these fat tyres that look like they could run over landmines and not feel it.

Big change in how we look at bikes, definitely I'll be going for big tyres on my next one.

@thomasfuchs It was startling to see how bad Google results were when Reddit mods shut their subreddits. The whole internet is becoming more or less unusable.

I suspect the future is going to be a bunch of invite only enclaves.

@thomasfuchs Silicon Valley hopes AI will give them the one thing they want, more than anything in the world: an excuse for the obscenities they have unleashed and money they have wasted.

Until now that has been "the market", but that is now a problem as all decent people are disillusioned with capitalism.

The all knowing unknowable machine? That's something else entirely, and unlike economists who are the apologists for the current status quo, tech bros can be the priesthood of the new age.

https://thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/even-racists-got-the-blues/

Same thing happens when people try to do 1-1 mappings of English to Irish. ?