Notices by Jamey Sharp (jamey@toot.cat), page 12

ProTip: If you’ve switched to Firefox because of Chrome’s recent malarkey but miss the minimal interface, switch to the compact UI in FF:

Menu > Customize > Density > Compact

boost this post and i'll give you a prime number

hey everyone writing code: you can't get around this. code does not exist in a noble mathematical void which absolves you of accountability. any system which people touch is tied into the fabric of society, and should be scrutinized for potential to do harm.

How to make a racist AI without really trying http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/

"... the sentiment is generally more positive for…
https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1042395951560880128

exposure to FL/OSS has profoundly impacted my perception of competition. i meet bizdev folks for whom everyone like them is a threat, and it just doesn't map for me. any good work, any project worth its salt, is only possible through collaboration. a morality of competition divides and degrades us; there is no reason to believe it is right or natural or inevitable.

I met a traveler from an icy land
Who said—"Two dry and fleshless pits of plum
Lie in the dustbin... near them, on the floor,
Half stained with purple juice a napkin lies,
Whose tears and wrinkles tell
That its user well those plums enjoyed;
And on the napkin, these words appear:
I have eaten the plums
That were in the icebox;
Look on my works, ye Hungry, and despair!
Nothing beside remains."

i feel like free will is less some kind of physical fact and more a lived sensation. determinism is arguable on the basis of physical properties and natural laws, with nondeterministic caveats emerging from uncertainty principles, but by making conscious choices i experience free will whether or not it really "exists".

Pretty interesting to learn how much the Linux Foundation's employees earn. For example, in 2016 Linus Torvalds earned US$1.67 million. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460503801/201723189349305852/IRS990

Has anyone plugged together WebSub (https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/) and Web Push (https://w3c.github.io/push-api/ or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8030) yet?

Seems to me we could have occasionally-connected and roaming clients getting real-time notifications of things like, say, RSS feed updates, using mostly infrastructure that exists today.

@strypey I like your goals, and I have high hopes for https://jmap.io/ solving these problems. Their draft specifications already give you a single URL that provides access to sending/receiving mail, syncing contacts or calendars, and managing junk/not-junk/phishing flags on messages.

@doodlemancy us fellow bi folks are only as confused about the world and ourselves as everyone else in it

"bisexuals are just confused" statement partially true. but i'm not confused about my sexuality i just don't understand algebra