Notices by tante (tante@mastodon.social)

Pet peeve: Blockchain mining is not "solving puzzles". It's yelling random numbers till you get Bingo. You burn money and energy to roll dice really fucking fast. That's it.

TED talks are to good sessions like airports are to homes. They are un-talks in the worst, most designy kind of way.
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Just seen a sponsored ad saying "Treat every lecture like a TED talk".

Do not do this. A TED talk is a scripted monologue. A real class is a two way communication of knowledge and you must be able to go "off script" if necessary.
https://twitter.com/AndrewR_Physics/status/1022157454426210305

Having "Followers" and "likes" etc as a super visible metric is actually one of the big problems Twitter has systemically.

Again it shows how the product management priorities are super out of whack.
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We are committed to building trust and encouraging healthy conversation on Twitter.

Follower counts should be meaningful and accurate. We are removing locked accounts from follower counts.
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1017077041865412609

Horst Seehofer ist wirklich ein schlechter Mensch.

Was zur Hölle ist bei dem schief gelaufen, dass er das erheiternd findet?
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Horst Seehofer feiert seinen 69. Geburtstag mit 69 Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan, unfassbar zynisch #Seehofer
https://twitter.com/tilman_s/status/1016617896020267009

The Nerd praises for Elon Musk are an expression of nerdism's inherent fascination and love for the dictator. The "big man" and "hero" to make decisions.

That fascist idea is deeply woven into nerdism's core beliefs.
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If you want to get really depressed search "thank you elon" right now
https://twitter.com/paleofuture/status/1016648932280098816

Ich stehe als Innenminister zur Verfügung.

RT @JHillje@twitter.com
#Dobrindt bekennt sich im #Bundestag zur "Vision vom Europa der Vaterländer" - damit ist die @CSU@twitter.com europapolitisch endgültig auf Seiten von #AfD, #FPÖ, #Orban und Co #Regierungserklärung

The it's usually "decentralization" which blockchains are not: It's not independent processes but the same processes with the same data running in parallel. That's not decentralization.

That's why so much blockchain evangelism falls on its face: People keep looking for problems with properties that a blockchain could handle and forget looking at other alternatives.

With the new found prominence of public fascists people wonder: What can you do when you see fascists?

Here's a handy GIF:

RT @invicticide@twitter.com
absolutely the fuck not

are you high

You wouldn't believe how many people replied to this thread with "something something #Blockchain".

No, honey. Just no. An extremely inefficient append-only database will not solve any of this.
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The main problem with Github being bought by Microsoft isn't MS.

It's that in 2018 we still haven't learned that critical infrastructure shouldn't belong to one company ... and that we should avoid building single points of failure.
https://twitter.com/tante/status/1003615096910893056

RT @freeblackgirl@twitter.com
Please don’t buy into this rhetoric, especially if you’re from a marginalized community. Do your work well within the hours you’re being paid to do that work. Then, if you have the mental space, work on something for yourself. Don’t give everything to a company you don’t own. https://twitter.com/putemupcdukes/status/997448716398325762

RT @pudo@twitter.com
Suggesting to run a mid-size NGO via instant messaging is just insane. We use Signal groups in large, cross-border investigative collaborations, and it's stressing everyone out, doesn't permit for in-depth conversation to take place.

RT @smaine@twitter.com
TIL that changing random stuff until your program works is "hacky" and "bad coding practice" but if you do it fast enough it's "#MachineLearning" and pays 4x your current salary

RT @agiletortoise@twitter.com
The technology itself seems amazing. The apparent lack of appreciation for the human end of the equation was stunning. In a world of manipulative call center scams and exploitation, it’s broken to not announce a robot. (2/5)

RT @agiletortoise@twitter.com
The Google Duplex presentation was the something I'd expect from a 20-something, clueless Y combinator startup, not a mature company Google's size. (1/5)

RT @sarahmei@twitter.com
Richard Stallman is the reason I didn’t start contributing to open source (then called “free software”) in the 90s.

I’m not the only one.

He and his followers pushed out a whole generation of female developers, just at that critical time when open source adoption was widening. https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/993677847280562178

RT @DannyPage@twitter.com
Bezos: "I have no idea what to do with all this money!"
me: pay your workers a living wage
Bezos: "Look at this 'Amazon Winnings', just so much."
me: pay your taxes
Bezos: "sooo muchhhh money"
me: It'd cost only $55M to fix Flint
Bezos: "I should buy a rocket ship." https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/991344303594237952

Facebook seems incapable of thinking of connections outside of its software platform.

That's what you get in echo chambers.