Social - Alice Ice

Social - Alice Ice

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As someone who always prefers websites over apps ( whether it be me writing a project or using a technology ), my favorite line from @pluralistic keynote in PyCon US is

"An app is just a website that we have wrapped in the correct DRM to make it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it"

https://youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw

3/ I really do recommend going back to the primary sources from Toyota. Because software dev has a weird attribute, making 1 app locally on your machine that you deploy locally to your phone as a hobby, can take days/months/years. But once it is "done" you can put it in an app store or online, and all subsequent copies are "free to produce". This is not common in manufacturing. Making item 2 and 3 has cost, in materials and labour. But in software all of, or the overwhelming amount of, cost is in making the first one.

So the perspective is wrong. Developers don't produce code. Developers are trying to design a solution, and that is not done in isolation and more isn't necessarily more.

Like imagine you like a minimalistic style, putting more and more stuff into your house doesn't make it better, it makes it worse.

The goal isn't to write code faster, it's to make something that is valuable to someone.

9/ People are clearly not getting my point… I’m clearly struggling to convey it properly. Clearly.

Yes! It’s recognizable! It’s a very common architecture!

It’s everywhere!

But it’s In Our Programs!

We use it all the time!

Unix pipes is an example (though we usually don’t write that complicated Unix pipelines).

Java steams, functional programming… it’s absolutely everywhere.

In our programs.

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.

In letzter Zeit scheint der Ulf Poschardt doch eine recht kurze Zündschnur in Bezug auf selbstbewusste junge Frauen zu haben.

Auf dem bösen Instagram hatte ich in den letzten Tagen mehrere Frauen, die davon berichteten, von diesem so gar nicht ausgeglichen wirkenden Journalismusdarsteller angegangen worden zu sein.

Ich denke ja immer, wer mir nicht wichtig ist, den ignoriere ich.

Männliche Hater jedoch....

Danke an Heidi Reichinnek für diese schöne Reaktion.
Hochgenuss.

@lgbtqia
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mDi_TlIV2xY

ist echt ein toller ! Es gab neue Tarife und ich wurde angeschrieben, ob ich wechseln wolle. Hoch wie runter ginge.
Da ich die für mich passende Leistung bereits in einer günstigeren Stufe fand, antwortete ich entsprechend.
Einige Zeit später bin ich kostenlos in meinem neuen, günstigeren Tarif.

Datensparsam, grün und Gemeinwohl-orientiert ist der natürlich weiterhin.

Topp!

"Mütter sollen mehr in Vollzeit arbeiten"

Ach, fickt euch doch alle!
Macht meinen Job mal in Vollzeit und sorgt für gesundes Essen und saubere Wäsche und einen geordneten Haushalt. Und bitte nebenbei nicht vergessen, das Kind zu erziehen.
Ach ja, und irgendwann sollte ich ja auch noch leben...
Ich habe die Schnauze voll. Wir Mütter machen genug. Meist zu viel.
Geht erstmal selbst einer anständigen Arbeit nach .

„Was ist in Deutschland los, dass eine derart haltlose und unverantwortliche Aussage einfach hingenommen wird? Wie kann ein Jude so vielen anderen Juden, die die Jerusalemer Erklärung unterstützen, Antisemitismus unterstellen? Herr Schuster und der politische Diskurs in Deutschland unterscheiden offenbar zwischen »guten Juden« wie Herrn Schuster und »schlechten Juden« wie mir – also zwischen legitimen Formen des Jüdisch-Seins und falschen, illegitimen.“

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191303.antisemitismus-die-ihra-definition-ist-israels-diplomatischer-riron-domel.html

yeah, I concur.

A meme. The top text is "how people think the linux community looks like" with some cool-tone matrixy-teal cybercyber hoodie situation.

the bottom is, 'how it actually looks like' with a picture of a unicorn rampant (software from the 80s) being ridden by a kung-fu headbanded cat (furry sysadmins) wielding a gold desert eagle ( dot-dot-slash ) in front of a massive wildfire (kernel mailing list on fire ) with a nyancat streaking in from the side (indian tech guru) with a mario castle in the rear (marxist/leninist hardliners) and a glorious pixellated rainbow (trans girls everywhere for some reason)

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 2/2 ☀️

Page 5. "I find that thinking about the way we do particular things now, and then trying to restructure them in a solarpunk way helps a lot (if said things are worth keeping in the first place). Like, how would (insert thing) work if we gave a damn about its environmental and societal consequences? What are the large and small effects of it?"
Then there's three sections, each dealing with a different issue.
First, "What does free access to information and the dissolution of copyright and patents help achieve?" Drawing: a lady is reading - quote "literally any book or study" - on an e-reader. In her arm she has an implant, a glucose monitor that is free to both obtain and maintain.
Second, "How does library culture affect societal attitudes? How are people with compulsive hoarding treated? What assumptions exist in such a world?" Drawing: two girls are chatting. One says she has like 20 borrowings lying around at home, and at that the other covers her mouth with her hands. "Girl, what? Return them immediately!"
Lastly, "How are people with so-called shitty though important jobs get treated when money isn't a factor anymore?" Drawing: a man announces to his partner that he feels like janitor-ing for a bit. The partner sees no problem in it. 6th and final page. "If you want more ideas to think about, check out the Solarpunk Prompts podcast." There's a link to it in the post below.
"Things need not be perfect, they just have to be better on the whole." Then there's another horizontal spread. On the left, a person is asking another to fix their phone. The second one seems impressed by how old the model is. The first person says they've had it since they were 15. On the right, a young girl is asking her dad if it's true that "water was forbidden" in the past. He looks a little dazed, saying "well, sort of?" and thinking "oh boy, it's time for the talk". In the middle is a city landscape with lots of fruit trees, a bike lane, a tramline. People are chatting, a kid is drawing on the pavement, someone sits on a bench, a bird nibbles on an apple.

"Just because something is hard to imagine doesn't mean it's impossible. Unless it's magic. Magic is pretty impossible. Anyway...Go forth! Imagine shit! Lest the doomerism fungus consume us!"
End of comic.

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup.
"By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything).
The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?" Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol.
Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil.
The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow."
In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?" Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc.
"We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel.

"What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia."
In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back.

"Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person." Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!"
"The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!"
"How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

Knacken wir die Millionen? 😁 👍
Unfuckingfassbar was hier passiert.

Soll mir noch einmal einer der Social Media Bitches auf erklären, im Fediverse erreichst du doch keine Leute! 😉

Unter dem Video ist der Spendenlink zur Aktion für @kuketzblog

Danke
@FLOMB, dass du mein Frumpel bist (Freund und Kumpel) und zu zaubern kannst.

Ich mache schon Screenshots, aus Angst das der Server crasht. 😁


https://punktube.net/w/nrm686bY6wsryJ98rTf3aS

And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.

While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.

dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-a…

#AI
#adblockers
#tblockads
#freetube
#TradeRuinsEverything

Alle sind anders, alle sind gleich. Nein, zu Homophobie und Transphobie. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 und Solidarität!

Sharepic, das die Farben der LGBTQIA+ Community aufgreift.

Solidarität der Spaltung
Break the Binary

Logo die Linke

ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control

with deepest apologies

cursed Sun logo:
Sus microsystems with four among us in the place of the four leaves of the normal sun microsystems logo that are arranged in a diamond

Manchmal frustriert mich die Ignoranz meiner Mitmenschen in Bezug auf und "Aber warum fliegst du denn nicht auch einfach mal ein paar Tage nach Malle?" so sehr , dass ich mir fast wünsche, die Erde möge noch schneller verbrennen als ohnehin schon, nur um ihnen möglichst bald "I told u so" ins Gesicht schreien zu können.

Und ja, ich weiß, dass das nicht der Weg ist, der zum Ziel führt und versuche mich nur kommentarlos und geduldig als Vorbild. Aber es ist oft genug echt frustrierend. 🤬

The European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy has reached the goal of one million signatures! 🎉 I'm genuinely surprised how much it picked up pace this final week

That doesn't mean you shouldn't still sign it! It'll only be brought to the Commission if it has a million *valid* signatures, and some fraction is always found to be invalid. So let's give it some margin above one million!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

These: Die Arroganz einiger „Nerds“, die denken „weil ich programmieren kann, checke ich den Code der Welt“ ist Teil des Problems. Und diese permanente Abwertung einiger von Nicht-Naturwissenschaften a la „Ja die waren halt alle schlecht in Mathe LOL“ ist einfach nur Kindergarten.

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