Notices by Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 (kboyd@phpc.social)

Any Canadians on Fediverse know of a way to find the medication "desmopressin" for this person who might die without it? It's a diabetes-related thing.

https://cheknews.ca/comox-valley-woman-faces-death-after-drug-for-rare-diabetes-runs-out-1308635/

(contact info in the news story)

@soatok Slight counterpoint:

"THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT."

Perhaps the yadda yadda was unprofessional; but these don't seem to be backed projects. Why expect professional-grade service for free, on decade-old code?

I assume the ecosystems allow such projects to be marked as deprecated/abandoned. Maybe that would help.

Having an oil industry makes you a target of United States imperialism.

Ditching fossil fuels is a national security and sovereignty imperative.

@thomasfuchs @ramsey @Nickiquote I don't disagree.

But I do think governments should leave X. I'm begrudgingly okay with them staying on meta products.

But talking about X, and only X, as a social media source of info for weather alerts (as happened this week for Environment Canada) is something that I find deeply insulting.

@clarity Ah, I see. And conway's law enters the picture because that jumble is possibly a natural outflow of the jumbled nature of anarchism itself?

@clarity @mcc feels like it might also intersect with "it is difficult to convince someone of a thing when their salary depends on them not understanding it" and "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them"...

@annika font name words that seem related:

- Catamaran
- Palanquin
- Whitney

@inthehands @thomasfuchs In the interests of fairness: do ruby apps tend to include dev dependencies at the local level, or do they lean global for that? Because that could really pad things out. (A quick check of php on my system, via composer.lock, suggests that it is somewhere in between the two you've checked, but I also have concerns that the format of each lang's lock file impedes true comparison)

@annika My ebike looks like a bike, but it does have similar thicc tires. I really don't like the flat motorcycle-style seat, or banana seat or whatever it is called. Never have, not even as a kid. Not even on motorcycles!

@herzmut @vkc As long as a line gets drawn, I think we're all on the same page.

Technically my line hasn't been drawn yet, because I don't like any of the alternative options. FF, for me, is still the least-bad option. But being able to look back on the lines people have drawn, that's useful, because it will let us know if Mozilla ever gets back on track.

(I can see that things are not looking promising for that scenario.)

@cwebber Pacific Grace https://www.kevinboyd.ca/Portfolio/The-Sea/i-nfXL5Sc/A

@RamenCatholic Photography: If you have a phone with a camera, you're already there. Then it becomes a matter of thoughtfulness & composition/planning, and an exercise in storytelling. Though, sometimes it helps to have a "real camera" to feel more like you're actively doing your hobby. Pretty much any DSLR, mirrorless, or even film camera is good for that feeling.

Cycling: Ebike all the way, IMHO. Not always affordable, but I highly recommend it. Also, gloves. And a phone mount.

@annika the first thing I'd try is LibreOffice

@mhoye Perhaps it would be more accurate to the original intent to say "apps and websites can't solve social problems"?

Even that's not strictly true - but it's a good rubric to question if what you're working on is contributing, or if it's taking away from existing potential solutions simply for the sake of building an app.

@molly0xfff Isn't blackmail egregiously immoral? https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/2043231/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline

@kims @blogdiva what about when boat names do it? https://flic.kr/p/2oGKMPX

@mhoye is this why i haven't had the energy to code OSS lately? Too self-conscious of my butt?

Amazon is so afraid of unions that it's willing to eat the loss on 7 entire warehouses, just to cauterize itself.

Wow.

@mcc it's somewhat ironic that a "newest first, always" platform is so prone to necroposting ...

<schedules this reply for April 2025>

@feld @mekkaokereke that's why I said it was messed up. It's a completely plausible translation of our current status quo to several hundred years in the future. From a star trek perspective, that's messed up.

Especially because of the Company Town concept being adapted to space.

Rather than taking star trek's hopeful-utopia approach, The Expanse inspires hope from the grass roots. Earthers, Belters, and Martians coming together to intentionally make the world a better place.

(Except Duarte.)