Notices by Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st)

Ye gods. The techbros really need some humanities education.

The archeological find that is often touted as the first sign of civilisation is not a building, or a stone tool, or anything like that. Its a human femur bone.

Why? Because it's a human femur that has a healed break. This shows that a group of humans cared about this one human enough, to feed, & protect them when they were injured. This requires compassion. It requires empathy.

It's what makes us civilised

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114269455848126595

I've said it before. And I will say it again. Empathy is not weakness.

Empathy and compassion are what makes us civilised humans.

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Ok. #IT nerds of the fediverse. Let's do a thought experiment. It's Monday morning, the boss comes in. We need to move all out stuff off US clouds onto our own hardware. He's bought us a small data centre (or larger server room). It's empty, just a raised floor, a power panel on the wall, Aircon, and two MAN generators outside. He wants you to buy everything to make this facility work. The catch. It has to all come from European companies. Everything.

What do you buy from who?

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@GossiTheDog for something as important as Heathrow, I'm genuinely surprised that a single sub station should take the whole airport offline...you'd think they'd have better resilience.

Oops. Sorry to everyone presenting after me who has a QR code on your slides... #NETNOD

There's already too much junk dumped in the sea.

Please do not throw your amazon echo in the sea. Please throw it at nazi's instead. Far more productive.

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/114179347767000042

Another week. Another museum. This week the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. I came here largely to see this one tool chest.

It's the Mästermyr toolchest. A 1000 year old chest filled with blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It's an incredibly important find. Beautifully preserved in the bog. The tools are wonderful. I'd seen pictures and read about these tools, but to see them up close. That hack saw is exquisite.

I wonder how the chest ended up discarded.

#Making #Tools #History

This is a drill. I repeat. This is a drill.

It's scary how many code bases have basically become write only code. Whether that's through the use of sparkling autocarrot to write them (i.e. llms), or just because they are so huge (i.e. chrome). Or in some cases both.

When we have projects with 40+ million lines of code, it's basically impossible for anyone to understand what it's all doing. Using llms just makes that even harder.

This is technical debt meeting hyperinflation.

Let's talk about technology.

For many of us, talk of #technology and people immediately jump to computers & electronics. That's technology. Everything else is. Well not.

As a society and culture, it's like we've forgotten that all other technological advancements that came before.

At it's core. Technology is about energy amplification. Taking an input of energy from the human, and magnifying it to get more energy out than went in.

That's all technology is.

Let's talk about this item.

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Ah, the joys of fediverse. Waking to find someone accusing me of being a class traitor for suggesting that Europe might need to build its' own weapons to defend itself.

So to remind you all.

There is no such thing as neutral. To be neutral in the face of conflict, is to side with the more powerful party. It is truly that simple.

@itnomad i can only imagine.

Continuing the tour of hermaphroditic genitalia that my balcony has to offer.

When I posted the photos of my snow drops last week, I mentioned that I planted bulbs for successional flowering from February through to hopefully may.

After the snow drops. Come the crocuses. I planted a mix, and it seems these purple ones are the first to bloom. With a vibrant purple petals contrasting with the vivid yellow inner flower parts.

#BloomScrolling
#Florespondence

"you keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means" me, replying to an American friend who just used the word freedom. As a European, to me freedom is much more about "freedom from" not "freedom to". I want freedom from persecution because of who I am. I want freedom from surveillance by the state, from corporate entities, and from individuals. I want freedom from harm caused by others.

This is a fundamentally different way of thinking.
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https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/114070829915547830

Dear Germany,

Please don't fuck up.

Love,

The rest of Europe.

I wish when people post about "don't use $word, it's ableist" they would also include suggestions about what to use instead. We can't be better people if we don't know how.

I may have achieved my goal. I think this is the best shot I've got this year. Almost all the flower head is in focus. The subject is properly detached from the background. And the background isn't detracting from the subject.

I may have to print this one.

#Floraspondance #BloomScrolling

Wanted to work out wtf 2000F was in metric, so I googled it, and apparently 2000˚F is just over 600meters in metric...

thanks google...

I see a lot of media stories about people talking about reducing regulations. People clearly failing to understand what lack of regulation results in.

It was a lack of proper regulation that allows cows to be fed cows, causing BSE & vCJD.

It was a lack of regulation requiring seat belts that caused so many people to die in car accidents.

It was lack of regulation about tamper evident medicine packaging that allowed 7 people to die from poisoned Tylenol.

Regulation is there to protect us.

How the fuck do you type a ° on a mac if there's no compose key ?