Very niche question, but does anyone know if there's been any crossover between the SMTPE ST 2110-41 & -42 Extensible Fast Metadata Transport & Formatting standards efforts and Midi 2.0? Particularly when it comes to interaction with AES67/AESX242? It would be really nice to see midi RTP gain more penetration and be able to manage it in the same way that I handle Dante audio in the house — not in the least because actually getting full Dante audio routing everywhere also means I need a distributed control surface fleet.
@feld Yes. Visa and Mastercard sort of tolerate those folks, but enforce the rules across everyone else, and those processors are much more expensive — and still kind of in the targets of stuff like Fosta/sesta. Substack is on Stripe who don't allow this. @maxkennerly
@maxkennerly Part of the principle, unfortunately, is "Mastercard and Visa tell us they will permaban us if we take porn and don't care about nazis", and they say that because the Treasury tells them so. It's definitely also a thing they're not pushing back against, but a lot of the problem with adult content online comes down to that.
If you care about climate change and ignore or dismiss the geopolitical, industrial, and socioeconomic structures that are perpetuating it, you're largely useless.
@Wolven Honestly, that doesn't bother me as much as the reverse, where in tech you can be a "senior" with three years of work. I think the problem is with the gatekeeping and the idea that mid-career folks can't lead. No one seems to have a good model for interacting with folks who may be doing good work for 50 years and what the different stages of that life look like.
@akareilly And sometimes the city, even. Which is very effective at preventing the creation of, say, at well-known national tenant's union with actual resources. This is not accidental, any more than the ban on cross-national unions in the EU is. @pettter
@akareilly Also? Even if you've always just rented, landlords for expensive apartments [mostly] do not pull that shit when they know their tenant's lawyers have lawyers.
The bit where if you ever need a receipt from a square merchant (for, say, business expenses) you have to give them an email address, which they then use to let merchants spam you unless you opt in to creating a "profile"? That's wildly illegal and will absolutely make me avoid them when I can.
Really enjoying @debcha's talk here at #theconference in Malmö — a great introduction to the ethics of care at infrastructural, tied to her wonderful upcoming book, "How Infrastructure Works".
@feld The fact that it's occasionally true does not justify using a misogynistic stereotype that does real harm to women in the industry. If you feel that it does, you're part of the problem.
And no, as someone who talks to a lot of exec teams, I would only say that the majority of CTOs are technically-inclined, and even then, a lot of them are tech managers, not engineers.
Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.
Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.
@e_urq Yes, exactly that about the truth. And I guess what I'm thinking about here is how letting that truth in changes you. If you keep going and keep fighting, yes, but then you create that quiet space in the part of you that looks at the odds and sees how the chips may land, and you put the mourning down — you can only mourn so much before it gets in the way of living. And then what? What does it mean to try to live with that space with honesty and care? To accept being an endling of a sort and to try to live that well, for yourself as well as those who come after.
I have no idea what my answer is, other than perhaps committing to work more with physical media — to write letters and paint, etc. To leave better ruins.
While pandemic, fascism, and onrushing genocides, not to mention the billionaire-class's efforts to steal even that which is nailed down are taking the headlines, the climate news keeps ticking by in the background. Some of it is good, very good even — this is really entirely a question of political will now — but most of it isn't.
As someone in her 40s now, looking at the likelihood of a 4°C 2100 continue to creep up, what does it mean to live in probably the last generation that will not see the end of globally-organized civilization?
Not in terms of offsets or recycling or all the other things we're supposed to do to be good people instead of doing something useful like shooting an oil executive, but culturally. What does it mean as an artist, an intellectual, a person-who-lives-in-culture? What does one do differently if one is going to be last?
Thinking about security, failure, change, art, and living. Recruiting barbarians; complicate your narratives. Fractional CISO to startups via Systems Structure Ltd. HEL/NYC/LON