Social - Alice Ice

Social - Alice Ice

aliceice | @aliceice@social.aliceice.de

🥰

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍🩶🖤

Photo of an orange cat by their pride and transgender flags. Such a good kitty :3

absolutely HAD to get art to commemorate this <33

🖌️ tartiicat

Artwork of my feral snow leopard character, Kieran, paws up against the glass window of a snow leopard enclosure, looking curiously at the cat mimicking his pose An actual photo of me in my snow leopard fursuit, paws up against the glass window of a snow leopard enclosure, looking curiously at the cat mimicking his pose

What screen readers do you use regularly on your Android device? I’m looking for an anecdotal idea of how popular alternative apps on really are. Please boost! Thanks so much for your help.

Would you like to know how to do honeycomb darning? Well, I made a little video.

does anyone have any frameworks for measuring energy usage from a command invocation that they would consider reliable? my major goal is perf so distros/spack/guix/nix can avoid wasting resources on rust (and perf+disk usage i know how to measure), but i think there is an energy reduction number that would also come out of this

i really really want to give an estimate of energy usage reduction for rust builds to ngi but (1) i don't have a prototype (2) i haven't researched enough to get a lower bound (3) i don't actually know a good way to translate improved performance into a robust energy usage number

My adorable little console based tool for patch reporting continues to take shape nicely. This output is consistent across platforms, too.

I haven't had this much fun writing anything in ages.

A screenshot of a terminal view showing the output of an exosphere command: host show ayakashi -u

There is a details box at the top containing the hostname, ip address, online status, last refresh timestamp and operating system details. It also contains a short summary with the number of available updates.

Below is a table detailing individual security updates, including the name, current version, proposed version, whether or not it is a security update, as well as the source repository the package comes from.

Rows where the security column is set to Yes are tastefully highlighted.

@mr_daemon

This looks interesting! 😁

How does it work under the hood?

Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam (@so_treu) is an activist, artist & scholar from Atlanta, & one of the 1st people that identified the growing online threat of white nationalism & hate organizing online. They continue this work in the fediverse. See this convo with them & Artist Marcia X.
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

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.

@lgbtqia
We are always looking for volunteers.
Check out our list - anything on it you can do to help trans folk?
https://transrescue.org/current-volunteer-opportunities

email volunteer@transrescue.org if interested

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!

„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.

»