Notices by feonixrift (feonixrift@hackers.town)

Computer screen sizes should have followed paper sizes .. that way when you split up an A4 screen you'd just get two A5 screens, and it would be easy for applications to design for them since the overall shapes would be consistent. Like, this is a solved problem.

@ajroach42 It's basically webdav so I always accessed it through that.

I finally realized FE means frontend, not elemental iron!

Conclusion: All frontend devs are ironman!

I know our theme here is restore the future past, and I'm down with that. I'm also gonna hella diverge here. The cyberpunk mythos era wasn't it for me; at least not solely.

My future past was one phrase: "Wir mussen wissen, wir wollen wissen." - the mathematician Hilbert, on multiple occasions, including his epitaph.

The implicit faith behind that... we must know; we will know ...is we can know. That faith is the future lost I seek to restore. A rejection of the idea that seeking understanding is fruitless. An axis of glorifying that peculiar human trait, of seeking to understand.

Why do I chase a Diophantine equation; why do I pursue it through the depths of unit groups in dungeons of number fields? Because it is vital that the alternative, of claiming it can be neither trapped nor proven untrappable, be unthinkable.

@thegibson @deejoe My fear is less that they will develop sentience, than that they will remove ours in the process. Optimization, you know.

@aparrish imho rewarding humans for becoming more predictable / punishig them for the oposite is abusive constriction of human reasoning to an easily emulated smaller subset. An ex of mine did this, insisting people around them behave predictably. After a while I took to retorting with "I'm not predictable; I'm human." Along with language complexity arguments about some computations being impossible to embody in a finite state machine. Add in the visceral horror of the idea of simulations of us having algorithms run against them to predict what will work against us, and .. it's a ghosthack. Making people more predictable is a ghosthack against free will itself. Because the essence of free will is that its result cannot be predicted.

Feature desire: New icon, who's this?
Shows previously cached user icon when activated on a recently changed one.

Is anyone speccing out geodata over activitypub?

Actual Serious Kuestion:

Are surveillance cameras subject to GDPR?

Woohoo! We're on Mars!

Spirit and Opportunity meant so much to me (eventually) because of the tiny role I had with them. It's wonderful to see another touchdown so soon after Opportunity faded. The future is still on.