Notices by Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 3

It’s become a cliche, but hardware is hard! One reason why hardware is harder than software is that the time between revisions is often longer. We need to wait for new PCBs, or for components to be delivered. Or for more new PCBs after we realise we got it wrong!

Tech workers are not the most paid people in a company. The executives are _and_ the company's coffers are at their disposal, especially when the CFO is hyper-obedient.

I can't just say I'm moving to another country, change policy to allow transnational work and give myself a bonus to offset that cost.

Nor can I change the wages of the workers who are underpaid.

Executives and leadership can. With a union, workers have a change to put the needs of the people who *do the ground work of keeping the company alive* to make sure they don't burn out in the process.

Next time a white person (especially a white guy) tries to harass you about voting: ask them if they successfully converted 20 other white men first.

Because THEY ARE THE Problem. Like the Origination of the Problem since this country was created.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/black-men-will-vote-for-harris/

I will always be a drop for many reasons (localized state violence that keeps population counts low due to poverty, lack of resources, etc) so blaming me for something I can't even control (like closed party voting in a Republican controlled state) is the most respectable way to tell me "do what I say" with a very hard R.

Electoral work doesn't end. It starts in your community and requires deep building. Not passing out flyers people will throw in garbage in two weeks.

Not donating half a million dollars to endorsers of cryptocurrency and genocide.

But getting to know the people in your neighborhood so you can fight book bans, fight for bike lanes, fight for a safer space that *escalates* into better representatives that are actually accountable to the community *and* knows the people to some pedigree.

Representatives who exist solely because they say shit you like is why things like stop and frisk, the Patriot Act and all of this violence happened: folks weren't concerned about politics but with presentation.

Very shiny. https://www.analogue.co/3d

It took nearly a decade to make this map. I'm definitely getting this. https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized/

> Nearly 300 names are compiled here, representing about 150 languages. Some names are from the precolonial era, while others are not quite as old, and in certain cases where the original name has been lost, Indigenous collaborators reconstructed names based on their cultural relationship with that location. Because Indigenous languages are living and dynamic, none of these names are any less “authentic” than others.

Lol I'd say something about the Wordpress thing but Occam's razor dictates that there's really nothing to add that hasn't been said.

This makes me want to pour over @ntnsndr's book on governance sooner than later.

I'm highly skeptical of unaccountable hierarchical organizations (so much so I'm willing to threaten my stability over it) and this is why. Power corrupts.

You know, the thing about Steam is that you don't technically need the launcher to play the games (from what I understand). And if you just *download* and copy them out of the watchful eye, you'd be okay.

Not to say I've done or tried this 🫣🥲

It's dark outside. A lot darker for 11 AM. Winds are strong and the rain's coming down. This is it.

Let's say you got a few short stories lined up and you want to publish them (for the first time!).

You're not concerned about agents or big publishing houses. The genre is sci-fi or history fiction.

Outside of one's website, where should one publish them?

#authors #writing #scifi

Me being forced to work with React again

https://www.twitterandteargas.org/

I need to add this to the reading list

This is the fanciest website I've seen for a Linux-targeted project tbh https://hyprland.org/

"Jacky, how is that you 'make' everything political?"

I don't "make" something political. Politics isn't a box, the words someone speaks or just some whim. It's the relationship of power that controls the relationships between *everything*.

Like who can use a bathroom. Who has the right to have water or have a path to wealth. Who can enjoy "creature comforts". And who can participate in understanding politics and those who can complain about it "ruining" everything.

[This is one of the reasons why I do not understand the 'CW your political post' nor will I ever: it's effectively choosing to opt out of life. And if you have the luxury, I'm not the person you want to follow or see! I can't wash away my Blackness. Coming out completely would destroy a lot of existing relationships I have. And falling in line with the normative (read: conservative) nature of people will do nothing but repress myself in ways I fought not to over a decade.]

It's fun to read in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Software that even in Usenet times, Black people were not allowed to just *talk about being Black* and always had to be policed online.

I wonder where that could come from...

I think about this one particular person in the React community that threw up a white supremacist-adjacent symbol at a conference; a person of color called him out for it (not a Black person, mind you) and they made her life HELL.

Y'all could start with the bare minimum. But hey, gotta keep that DOM rendered!

This feels like a good time to plug https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/ in case you don't know what React is

One of my favorite #abolitionists is being spoken about on BlueSky so sharing it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quaker-comet-greatest-abolitionist-never-heard-180964401/

A story of his that I love to talk and think about is how often this man, no taller than 4 feet, would cause mayhem in advocacy people that he had more operating privilege over.

Anytime someone would say something in support of slavery, he'd yell and call them a "negro-master". MAKE BIGOTS EMBARRASSED (and call them directly by their bigotry)!

Never put your ID in your phone. This is a fucking security risk. Police will shoot people for any reason and the act of grabbing a phone, which Google's are closer to the size of a pistol, is a bad idea.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

Don't even justify this feature. Let them kill it the way they killed Google Reader.