Notices by ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social), page 14

i've been in lots of computer science classes and only once did we talk about the ethical risks involved in creating or maintaining the infrastructure that much of the world uses. no one ever brought up things like accessibility, online abuse, harvesting personal data, or the lack of diversity

I say this as someone who codes professionally and for fun: insisting everyone can learn to code is wrong. It’s like saying everyone can learn to play the violin. Furthermore this sentiment is too often used as a cudgel to silence debate on systemic problems with the labor market

It took a bunch of coast to coast flights and some weekends and I'm still not happy, but this is as done as it's ever gonna be: 10 kilowords on how and why you can and should learn Common Lisp: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

Young man's PhD research focuses on the historical secrets of summoning fairies http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nGmYxm7zcZ4/young-mans-phd-research-focu.html #boingboing #academia #History #magic #supernatural

I'm going to try to keep my eye on the #history #archaeology #classics and related hashtags over the next few weeks in the hopes of watching community build and conversations grow over on humanities.one

others interested in #historodons and #BeforeModernTimes may wish to do the same

one or the problems with capitalism is that it's warped our brains into thinking people with an abundance of money are like modern wizards. our culture views the wealthy as though they possess some arcane, esoteric knowledge that gives them moneymancer powers. fiduciary spellcasters! 🧙🏼 💰

like, nah. magic missle is a spell. that rich asshole over there is either exploitative, a product of blind luck, or (probably) both.

How many of these can be applied to #Brexit? I've noticed 12/14

https://social.coop/media/22xAz_tvs_srD_1cCOo

#MastoAdmins

Please set a password for Redis on your instance:

Add REDIS_PASSWORD to your .env.production config and use the same password in your redis configuration, with the requirepass configuration directive.

Without a password you are a single server side request forgery vulnerability away from someone gaining shell access to your instance. SSRF vulnerabilities are not that rare that it never happens.

Reminder: "-mancy" as a suffix refers specifically to divination and augury. If you want non-divinatory magic, consider "-urgy" in its place, which means "work" or "effort".

JAPANESE MASTODON: Well-adjusted, polite people talking about stuff like video game strats and food

FRENCH/GERMAN MASTODON: Educated, politically oriented people talking about national politics and sharing news articles

SPANISH MASTODON: literal pictures of Shrek's hog

ENGLISH MASTODON: ｃ ｈ ｅ ｅ ｂ ｓ ｂ ｅ ｂ ｏ ｒ ｂ ｇ ｅ ｒ