Notices by arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net), page 9

"Pollution now kills three times as many people worldwide as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined. (...) Burning fossil fuels, according to a recent paper, is now “the world’s most significant threat to children’s health”

Ban. All. The. Cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/cars-killing-us-driving-environment-phase-out

I have yet to really come to terms with my extreme disappointment with the tech industry. Not just with the "techlash," but with many more personal things:

- burning out on being an open-source maintainer
- realizing that the browser industry is brutal and uncompetitive
- noticing how many tech influencers are just seeking out social media validation through Twitter or GitHub
- realizing that the frontend JS community is largely fad-driven rather than evidence-driven

I could go on

"In the old days, they built cars to be as good as they were able to, now they build them as bad as they dare." #soundsLegit (/quote via https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ksk-rollover/2019-January/000626.html )

"Every time you write code or introduce third-party services, you are introducing the possibility of failure into your system. I have far more faith in xargs than I do in Hadoop." http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html (/via @affanzbasalamah) #TacoBellProgramming

Kamal Velan (of FSHM) has spoken about the need for the source code used in EVM's to be in public to ensure more transparency. Apart from that the news that the journalist of this article written that Syed Shuja has hacked the EVM is false and wrong.

வாக்குப்பதிவு இயந்திர சர்ச்சை... புரோகிராமை பொதுவெளியில் வைக்க வேண்டும்!

https://www.vikatan.com/juniorvikatan/2019-feb-03/investigation/147939-voter-machine-controversy.html

I hate the "own your data" meme in the decentralized social web. A friend of mine pointed out how useless the phrase is a few years ago and I agree. "Ownership" sounds an awful lot like digital "property", which is nonsense when moving from physical to digital stuff because copying doesn't destroy the original. The path you go down there is the path to artificial constraints like DRM. Yikes!

We should be talking about user autonomy instead. That's a much better meme.

why shame someone for having an old phone when you can congratulate them for successfully defying planned obsolescence

git question: Is there a way to turn off the terminal "animations" using the escape sequences etc in the git command line program? They don't play well with emacs eshell.

I guess the real answer is to not use those command line programs and instead use the emacs alternatives like magit and so on? #emacs #git