Notices by riga (riga@refactorcamp.org), page 7

@riga Or “this week in the present accelerating into a juiced up Dellilo novel”

Spotify has some guts organizing a “make apple play fair” campaign when they pay most of their artists less than poverty wages

just ordered my ErgoDox. excited to have a reasonable typing posture, but not to relearn how to type

Read receipts are an invasion of privacy. If you ever have a choice to implement them or not, don’t do it.

@Elmkast Yeah, also Quebec is more specific than most and Montreal doubly so (mostly in good ways 🙂)

@Elmkast there’s a good deal of variation within Canada on this. anecdotally, British Columbia’s system is far better resourced than Quebec’s

Burlesque shows basically get this idea right — sex is totally absurd!!

@riga To me, sex is the most ridiculous thing ppl do on a regular basis. So I find it hard to imagine taking it seriously enough to care that ppl do it in a particular configuration.

It’s very weird how who other ppl wanna boink is of the greatest concern to many ppl.

I think I found the right phrase to describe my dayjob writing line of business apps: “bureaucratic plumbing”

Reflecting on the breakdown of my last relationship. Combining someone whose greatest fear is engulfment with someone whose greatest fear is rejection... what could go wrong?

also strategically, it’s a wedge conservatives can take advantage of: “look at these urban elites who now want to use our taxes to fund college for their kids.” and on that count, i think they might be right.

@ykgoon Yeah, I’ve thought about this. Definitely possible

On a $350 pair of broken self tying nikes:
, "The first software update for the shoe threw an error while updating, bricking the right shoe." Another says, "App will only sync with left shoe and then fails every time. Also, app says left shoe is already connected to another device whenever I try to reinstall and start over."

"My left shoe won't even reboot." writes another.

you can’t make this shit up XD