Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 35

@technomancy This is what I love about the seasons. In summer you cannot imagine dreary ice and snow covered forests; in winter you cannot believe the sun will ever come back, and the birds, and green leaves, and flowers. I love the changing world.

We spent two weeks in #Sweden. When we came back, my wife was asked whether she had seen anything about the troubled neighborhoods in Sweden, the problems they had with immigrants. What the fucking fuck! I thought only simpletons who read Breitbart or other such terror fiction outlets believe these fabrications. But this person has recently joined the Swiss police and had half-heard of the “no-go zones”. When does the stupidity stop?

@publicvoit @holomorph Oh wow, I'm really liking geeqie! Quick tagging with numbers. Quick navigation. Allowing moving, copying, or linking. I feel like has potential. Thank you for the recommendation!

@holomorph @publicvoit I already like the option of sorting by exif date!

@publicvoit @holomorph Hm, giving geeqie a try. Thanks.

“The conference is FREE for private attendees, students and speakers.”
http://act.perl-workshop.ch/spw2018/
I like this conference.
#perl

Got an email just now: “Did you know you're one of the top 25 Perl developers in Switzerland? At least according to github stats: http://git-awards.com/users?country=switzerland&language=perl”
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@sajith I only half remember using Gnome for a few weeks many years ago, somewhere between enlightenment, gnustep, fvwm2, and other stuff I don’t remember. And when I got this new laptop I considered going xfce for a second, which used to be my default for many years, decided to give Gnome a chance, found this extension within minutes and never looked back. 🙈

@sajith These keybindings, for what window manager are they? Standard Gnome?

@amdt I don’t know. It seems very different from knitting, for example. Like: I need to make thing so that I can better make this other thing that I need to do. Perhaps we need to look at artisans. Do they sharpen and oil their tools for hours before they begin working on the actual project? Is procastinology a thing – or did the people interested in it just not get to it? 🤭

@GeekDaddy Yeah, at first this was problematic for applications like Gimp, but these all resolved themselves. Now I am sometimes stuck with ugly windows that should have different dimensions, setting dialogs mostly. That's OK. Terminal, editor, and browser being full screen is also OK. So that leaves only a very small number of annoyances, for me.

@thorstenpanknin Yeah, sometimes it's nice two have two windows side by side.

Why am I procrastinating by configuring Emacs and writing code instead of organizing my 1000+ pictures... Please don't answer. 🤦

@Wolf480pl @thor I think it's more stupid than that. HR thinks: "We should know more about our candidate, let's check social media. Hm, no presence? Probably a recluse, weirdo, or whatever. Hey look, there's somebody that easier to assess over there!" And that's it. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.

Just found this via a post by @lindner: "Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity" https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/24/algorithmic-glass-ceiling-in-social-networks-the-effects-of-recommendation-on-social-diversity/
"Our mathematical analysis demonstrates the existence of an algorithmic glass ceiling that exhibits all the properties of the metaphorical social barrier that hinders groups like women or people of colour from attaining equal representation."
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