Notices by Tak! (tak@glitch.taks.garden)

I just got a git hash beginning with 00000

Daylight Saving Time has really helped me understand the global reaction to the climate catastrophe

Here's a thing that would cost us literally nothing to remove, would make our lives easier if we removed it, that makes us all feel terrible, costs billions of dollars in lost productivity, and literally kills our children now … and we just … can't do it.

In light of that, it's no wonder that we refuse to make a concerted, drastic change whose effects will be felt decades in the future

@inthehands DAOs were a great object lesson in "what if the laws actually were code‽"

(When looking for the wikipedia link, I was pleasantly surprised to find nothing web3-related in the first page of search results for "dao" - we did it, y'all!)

@misty No worries, I just wanted to make sure that I support this method 🙂

@misty Was it the name field on the image, or some other mechanism?

CEOs: It's impossible to get anything done when we're not all sitting together in the same office at the same time

also CEOs: We're replacing this entire department with a team of contractors across the world because we can pay them less

@souvlaki As opposed to Finnish This Meal, where you add vodka and salmiak licorice to all the dishes

@aral human centipede theory

relatable

source

@aral That really sucks, now imagine all the women trying to deal with deepfake porn

I'm always fascinated by the way that fantasy writers' interests influence their magic systems, even though it's utterly predictable:

• linguist: magic words / language
• translator: magic powered specifically by translation between languages
• programmer: magic that follows rigidly defined rules, and therefore has bugs and exploits
• botanist: magic is derived from plants and their products
• eugenicist: magic is in your blood
• hack: magic only works in ways that support the plot
• pervert: sex magic
• Adrian Tchaikovsky: bug magic

@annika Oh, nice! I loved my yotaphone2.
Can you run "normal" android apps on it, or are you confined to what they provide / support?

I'm going to start leaving audio logs in my code instead of comments

@InternetEh This has always been my experience with computer versions of d&d. "Ooo, I'll specialize in axes!", "Hey, I'll take exotic weapon proficiency this time!" ➡️ "oh look, another sword 🙄"

This is amazing.
I'm a few days behind, but basically all of Copenhagen found out this weekend that laws currently in force allow bicycles to park in all city car parking spots, when a representative of the "Socialist" party made a public proposal to put up informative signage to that effect.

The Technical and Environment Commission would like you to be aware, however, that it could have unforeseen consequences to inform people that bikes can be parked in the same spots as motor vehicles

I fully expect this law to be reversed at the earliest opportunity, but until then: Let the hilarity ensue!

https://kobenhavnliv.dk/amager/frygter-kaos-her-er-parkeringsreglen-kommunen-ikke-vil-skilte-med (danish)

microsoft made excel execute python code in the cloud because it was easier than shipping a working python install on windows

Multifactor authentication must consist of:

• something you can forget
• something you can lose

Instead of defederating from fosstodon, adding a thing that autotranslates posts into a random non-english language before federating them there

Trolley problem: You are in a runaway trolley with nearly 8 billion other people.
If the trolley is not stopped, it will roll into a furnace.
Simply pulling the lever will stop the trolley, but it requires billions of people to stop what they're doing and pull the lever together.

aaaaaa there are already so many federated microblogging services!

If you want to make a new activitypub service, make something we don't have yet!
Bookwyrm but for video games or movies!
Federated fandom!
Short-form video! (No, this is neither peertube nor owncast)

Be weird! Nobody needs yet another choice of microblogging server!