Notices by Michael F. Lamb (datagrok@tiny.tilde.website), page 4

If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years

Shit that I never saw until I moved to California:
1. Dude getting out of his car at a stop light on a 6-lane highway to lecture me about my car being too close to his
2. Dude screaming at minimum-wage earning grocery clerk for some perceived slight
3. Mall-food manager dude heroically stepping in to berate teenage girl employee for her picking up noodles with tongs technique and show her how it's done
4. Dude screaming at minimum-wage earning food service workers for some perceived slight

Many in my timeline disparage "algorithms," maybe in response to Silicon Valley surveillance capitalists using the word to excuse and distance themselves from the biases (and worse) in their systems.

I think it's important to remember that it's not the mere use of algorithms that's bad, but the fact that they are proprietary.

Because wow I would love some AGPL'd algorithms to help me filter and organize my media that I can control, modify, toggle on/off, and keep marketers far away from.

babby's first ergonomic keyboard experiment. Modeled it myself in OpenSCAD! 1h28m to print at 0.2mm resolution.