Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 10

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Daughter has reached the age of asking "why?" to everything.

"hold on to that cup with both hands"
"why?"
"i don't want you to drop it"
"why?"
"It's made of glass, and if you drop a glass thing it can break"
"why?"
"because glass is brittle"
"why?"
"because supercooling molten silicon dioxide makes an amorphous solid which is weaker than the crystalline form"
"why?"
"the crystalline form has a tetrahedral lattice of ionic bonds"
"why?"
"because one silicon atom can bind with four oxygen"
"why?"

Trans men are trans too

If you really want to hurt Google, figure out a way for developers to make money off of apps in F-Droid, to the extent that they choose to remove their apps from the Play Store.

This is probably preaching to the choir here, but I love mastodon. I've never been more comfortable to just chat with random people since my days on an Ocarina forum in highschool. Its much more friendly than reddit.

Just found found a Danish sim card which will soon be deactivated.

+45 7166 2638

Send me one of these old-fashioned texts. :D

I will receive them on an old Nokia phone (Nokia 3210).

I might post them here also. :)

(Also, feel free to send silent messages or to try to intercept messages if you have SS7 access. [Which you probably always wanted to do if you have access.)

I published a thing: Lezer, an incremental, error-recovering, GLR parser system. Now with npm packages and docs! https://lezer.codemirror.net/

Spoiler: Amazon owns a lot of stuff.

Personally, I'm going to avoid as much as possible during the strike (Prime Day). Let me know if I missed anything.

▪️ A9
▪️ AbeBooks
▪️ AWS (probably can't avoid this!)
▪️ Book Depository
▪️ ComiXology
▪️ GoodReads
▪️ Graphiq
▪️ IMDb
▪️ Twitch
▪️ Whole Foods
▪️ Woot
▪️ Zappos

I won't guilt you if you need Amazon to survive, but fortunately, I don't, so I'm going to do what I can.

fucking love to wait for *squints at screen* SPIRV to build on my computer that lack any capacity to run fricking Vulkan stuff just so I can have a web browser that works
(ungoogled-chromium in this case)

feels weird that union busting is illegal and yet so normal that you can write an article about all the illegal union busting going on in an industry and still conclude “i guess nobody wants to unionize!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html

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(posted at Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:15:37 +0000)

Can someone recommend me a #Scuttlebutt pub to join for technically/computer science minded people?

#patchwork

This is to say, I feel like the Fediverse proves the saying true: "When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

Just because white opinions are no longer given special priority here does not suddenly mean they're marginalized, and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean they're correct just because they aren't artificially popular.

If you honestly can't take your opinions being criticized... stop sharing them publicly online.

@ParadeGrotesque

this is why, if one sees Apple being lauded for 'privacy' one should recognize it as an implicit statement thar privacy is for those who can afford it

@lilithsaintcrow

which brings me back to your point:

regulation plays into their hands, by ensuring only they are big enough to comply

@kaniini @feld @jonw