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Notices by wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social), page 14

  1. ben (ben@mastodon.lubar.me)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 01:30:45 EDT ben ben
    • Thomas, Computer Wrangler

    @thomasfuchs can't imagine why a device for telling time that can play audio would have an alarm feature

    that's just being silly

    like having a headphone jack on a device commonly used with headphones

    In conversation Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 01:30:45 EDT from mastodon.lubar.me permalink Repeated by wohali
  2. Thomas, Computer Wrangler (thomasfuchs@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 01:59:46 EDT Thomas, Computer Wrangler Thomas, Computer Wrangler

    Anyway here’s a cat

    In conversation Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 01:59:46 EDT from mastodon.social permalink Repeated by wohali
  3. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 18:54:57 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    • FelĂŸry

    @Felthry i have a great explainer!

    https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-blood-type/

    scroll far down.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 18:54:57 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  4. handstands (handstands@lgbt.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 18:18:22 EDT handstands handstands

    They give me a chance to decide if I can handle it right now and emotionally prepare for what's in the real body of the message if so.

    The difference between having and not having them is stark. I've found that even though it's (extremely) difficult emotionally, with them I can often actually engage with the contents without getting totally overwhelmed. Without them I get blindsides and completely discombobulated emotionally, especially when they occur in a context where it's very hard to see them coming. It can take days, sometimes even longer to get myself back to a point where I can stop going over it over and over in my head.

    If you'll permit the Star Trek analogy: it's the difference between getting to raise your shields first before the barrage of photon torpedoes hit, and not getting to raise them. Damage might still be substantial in the former case, but it's manageable. Whereas in the latter case it's bye bye to most of the ship, hope you can limp it back to space dock for repairs that might take forever.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 18:18:22 EDT from lgbt.io permalink Repeated by wohali
  5. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:49:28 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    • Nolan
    • Poebelkaiser

    @nipos @nolan It'll still be serving the actual media from Google's servers. I mean, I use youtube-dl. But it doesn't change the fact that it's still their infrastructure and not anyone else's.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:49:28 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  6. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:33:46 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    in reply to
    • Nolan

    @nolan Yeah, this is basically me. I avoid them whenever I can (I don't Chrome, I use OSM, etc.) but you can't avoid YouTube in any practical sense right now. PeerTube hasn't gotten big enough yet.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:33:46 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  7. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:31:16 EDT Nolan Nolan

    At the end of the day Google is becoming so dominant on the web that they practically *are* the web, so you either use Google products or you avoid touching a computer. I can't quit Google entirely (Chrome DevTools, GMaps, YouTube are the big ones for me).

    How do you deal with something that builds amazing products but also does it in kind of a sleazy way? And maybe is becoming way too powerful? I suppose you become a tech vegan sneaking occasional bites of cheese pizza. https://nolanlawson.com/2019/05/31/tech-veganism/

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:31:16 EDT from toot.cafe permalink Repeated by wohali

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      Tech veganism
      By Nolan Lawson from Read the Tea Leaves

      A year ago I wrote a blog post about living with an open-source phone. A commenter on Reddit described this as “tech veganism,” and I thought it was a great metaphor.

      For the past few years I’ve swum in a lot of “tech veganism” circles (mostly thanks to Mastodon), so I think I have a good definition now:

      • a preference for open-source software over proprietary software
      • a suspicion of big tech companies
      • a high bar for privacy and security

      The parallel with veganism is a good one for several reasons. First off, a lot of people find vegans annoying. “What, you think you’re better than me?” It’s a lot easier to eat animal products if you don’t think about where they come from, and vegans are an uncomfortable reminder of food’s icky origins. Plus, it’s never pleasant to think that someone might be silently judging you for your personal lifestyle choices.

      Now imagine someone telling you they don’t use Google, Facebook, etc. “What, you think you’re better than me?”

      Second, people don’t typically choose tech veganism because it’s a better user experience. Even though some vegans may swear that their black bean burger tastes just as good as your Angus beef, the honest ones will acknowledge that it’s more about principle than palate.

      Similarly, there are plenty of tech vegans who will claim that OpenStreetMap is a great replacement for Google Maps, or that DuckDuckGo provides better search results than Google. But if they’re being honest with themselves, they’ll admit that they’re more motivated by principle than quality or convenience.

      Third, tech veganism is a good way to alienate people. Talk about it enough, and you may get accused of being overly dour, negative, cynical, etc. Can’t you just eat a burger and enjoy it like a normal person? Why do you have to bring up factory farms all the time, and ruin my meal? Similarly: why can’t you just use Google like a normal person? Why do you have to drone on and on about LibreOffice and OpenBSD?

      Tech veganism can even cost you friends. In the same way that having one vegan in the group severely limits your restaurant choices, being the one tech vegan among your friends can really narrow down the options for communication apps. Sure, you can ask them to use Signal. Or email. But most likely, the group chat will just happen without you, and you won’t be getting any Facebook invites.

      Fourth, in some cases tech veganism is difficult if not downright impossible. If you’ve ever actually tried to go vegan (note: I have), you’ll find it’s a constant battle of reading ingredient lists to find the hidden references to milk, eggs, fish, etc. (Some surprising things that aren’t vegan: Worcestershire sauce, kimchi, even sugar.) And once you travel to a foreign country, you might find yourself surviving on bread and water, or else giving up entirely and grabbing a croque-monsieur.

      Similarly, it’s almost impossible to avoid proprietary software or the tech giants. Consider this FOSDEM talk, where the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy admits to having proprietary software embedded inside her body, because that was the only option for a defibrillator. She advocates open-source software, and yet despite her best efforts, she’s a closed-source cyborg!

      Try to avoid Google or Amazon and you may find yourself in a similar boat. There’s a great series of posts from Kashmir Hill where she shows that it’s nearly impossible to quit the tech giants because of how enmeshed they are in every app, website, and network request. It’s easier to find something vegan at a Brazilian barbecue than it is to eliminate big tech from your internet diet.

      Another similarity: just as there are more vegetarians in India, tech veganism can be surprisingly region-specific. In particular, Europeans have more reason than Americans to embrace tech veganism, because the non-Chinese tech giants – Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, the dreaded GAFAM – are all American.

      The dominance of American tech platforms in Europe, and especially all the data from European citizens being siphoned back to Silicon Valley, can feel like an issue of national sovereignty. Hence we have France opting for the open-source Matrix project for government communications, or organizations like Framasoft depicting themselves as a tiny Astérix-like village holding off foreign invaders. And the invaders really are foreign!

      One place where the veganism metaphor breaks down is that, although nearly anyone can be a vegan, tech veganism is mostly practiced by those who are expert enough or privileged enough to learn the elaborate workarounds to avoid the GAFAMs of the world. Setting up an Ubuntu laptop, a LineageOS phone, a Fastmail account, and wiring it all together so that you actually get calendar notifications is no easy feat. You will probably have to get your hands dirty on the command line.

      I find that there’s a bit of a “let them eat cake” attitude among tech vegan boosters, because they often discount the sheer difficulty of all this stuff. (“Let them use Linux” could be a fitting refrain.) After all, they figured it out, so why can’t you? What, doesn’t everyone have a computer science degree and six years experience as a sysadmin?

      To be a vegan, all you have to do is stop eating animal products. To be a tech vegan, you have to join an elite guild of tech wizards and master their secret arts. And even then, you’re probably sneaking a forbidden bite of Google or Apple every now and then.

      So where does that leave tech veganism? Well, for the near term, it’s probably going to remain the province of geeks and specialists due to the difficulties described above. Ironically, that means that it’ll mostly involve tech workers building products that other tech workers refuse to use. (Imagine if veganism were only practiced by employees of meat companies.)

      I also suspect that tech veganism will begin to shift, if it hasn’t already. I think the focus will become less about open source vs closed source (the battle of the last decade) and more about digital well-being, especially in regards to privacy, addiction, and safety. So in this way, it may be less about switching from Windows to Linux and more about switching from Android to iOS, or from Facebook to more private channels like Discord and WhatsApp.

      Generation Z has grown up with smartphones and app stores as an inescapable fact of their lives. Does anyone under 21 actually care whether the code on their phone is open-source and whether, Stallman-style, they can dive into an Objective-C file and change something? Probably not many. Does anyone in that demographic care about their phone’s impact on their anxiety, their quality time with friends and family, and their safety from harassment and abuse? Probably a lot more.

      In my opinion, this change is a good thing. You shouldn’t have to enter an elite tech priesthood just to preserve your privacy, security, and safety online. Tech veganism should be as easy as regular veganism – it should just be an option on the menu. That doesn’t mean that it won’t suffer from many of the same problems as regular veganism, but at least it will be democratized.

  8. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:10:14 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    in reply to
    • Nolan

    @nolan Not sure, was an off-the-cuff mention since a bunch of the "disable AMP in WP" sites recommend doing that once you turn off the AMP plugin.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:10:14 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  9. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:08:04 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    in reply to
    • Nolan

    @nolan Why not just add rules in your server that redirect all /amp/{} requests to $1?

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:08:04 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  10. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:02:52 EDT Nolan Nolan

    "Google Is Tightening Its Grip on Your Website" by Owen Williams https://onezero.medium.com/google-is-tightening-its-iron-grip-on-your-website-27e06b3150e0

    "AMP adoption is also the only way to gain access to Google’s Discover feed, which features articles on the page that appears when you open a new tab in the Chrome browser."

    Welp, now I know why I get traffic to my blog from this thing. WordPress defaulted to enabling AMP by default, and I never bothered to turn it off.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 17:02:52 EDT from toot.cafe permalink Repeated by wohali

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      Google Is Tightening Its Grip on Your Website
      from Medium
      A new AMP update shows how the speed-boosting technology can infiltrate every corner of the internet
  11. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 14:45:34 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    • taweret

    @taweret oh no! *hugs* hope he's fine

    and is that a joke about having already eaten (himself)? ;) i know, weird sense of humour.

    In conversation Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 14:45:34 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  12. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:28:05 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    • sound mind

    @js0000 too true

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:28:05 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  13. ItsTheManOnTheMoon ebooks (itmitmebooks@botsin.space)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:25:09 EDT ItsTheManOnTheMoon ebooks ItsTheManOnTheMoon ebooks

    @desvox@catgirl.science Oh my mistake, you said ‘xtra hot cheerios’ and I like a man who collects promotional electric Miller High Life signs from the 1960s and maybe it's the least sexy part of the american experience

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:25:09 EDT from botsin.space permalink Repeated by wohali
  14. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:28:47 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯

    #OH #IRC

    * I can see the recap... "Like dude, I thought I was mellow, but that other guy... damn... it's like he didn't have a bone in his body.."

    * One of those extreme sport competitions. "And Rolf has almost made it to the five minute mark, will he -- oh, look, here's Brett coming up to the meditation booth, air horn concealed behind..."

    * I totally had all my bones replaced with silica gel, so I'm now, like, the embodiment of Do Not Eat.

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:28:47 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  15. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:25:15 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯

    #OH #IRC

    that said, competitive relaxing should be its own movie genre

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:25:15 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  16. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:24:59 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯

    as awesome as all of the representation is in Sense8, I just find it so. boring.

    I don't want to watch 45 minutes of people dancing, whether they're shiny happy rainbow people or cis hetero people or it's competitive or just for fun.

    There was enough of that in Sense8 S2 that I couldn't finish it :(

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:24:59 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  17. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:08:26 EDT wohali 💯 wohali 💯
    • taweret

    @taweret crumbling like a DELICIOUS COFFEE CAKE!

    damn it you have me wanting sweet pastries my body can't digest anymore!

    🍰

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:08:26 EDT from octodon.social permalink
  18. taweret (taweret@awoo.church)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:07:26 EDT taweret taweret
    • wohali 💯
    • Karen

    @wohali @bort @Pixley I'm sure a pack of chocodiles gives you all your vitamins and nutrients for the day

    In conversation Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 20:07:26 EDT from awoo.church permalink Repeated by wohali
  19. Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 17:09:28 EDT Sumana Harihareswara Sumana Harihareswara

    boosting Recurse Center
    @recursecenter@twitter.com

    Recurse Center

    ⏰ Fellowship applications close at 9 am EST tomorrow!
    We're funding Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on programming projects, research, and art at RC this fall.

    Apply by July 22nd and start August 12th or September 23rd.

    https://www.recurse.com/blog/149-10000-fellowships-for-women-trans-non-binary-programmers?r=t7819

    Please help spread the word!

    In conversation Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 17:09:28 EDT from mastodon.social permalink Repeated by wohali
  20. neville park (nev@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 16:57:43 EDT neville park neville park
    in reply to

    [
] psychological findings that highlight the similarities between men and women; psychological research on transgender and nonbinary individuals’ identities and experiences; and developmental research suggesting that the tendency to view gender/sex as a meaningful, binary category is culturally determined and malleable." 🐘

    In conversation Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 16:57:43 EDT from social.coop permalink Repeated by wohali
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