Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 21

@craigmaloney The thing that gets me is kicking the can down the stack always results in *more* complexity. And managers talk like this is going to save us time and effort.

I'm trying to make a reading list of books about justice and ethics issues in tech/science/math/academia/teaching... any texts you would especially recommend? Thanks! :)

New project on Pepper&Carrot website: "The documentation for contributors"

https://www.peppercarrot.com/static14/documentation

Highlight:
- Translate with Inkscape and a Web Browser only
- Git workflow
- CC-By best practise
... and an API!

#git #markdown #framagit

I love Seal, but naming no less than three albums "Seal" gets the Peter Gabriel award of really messing with my music library.

Does anyone know a cool essay, treaty or other text on `use value`?

If you've ever wondered how much advertising is worth to a company there's no better measure of that then Kindle's Special Offers.

$249 without Special Offers
$179 with Special Offers

That's $70 they expect to make off of you with advertising, just in the pricing of the device.

That's the hard part about subscription services vs. advertising: advertising pays stupid amounts of money to market to you in the hopes you'll buy shit.

Want to change this? Make advertising a liability.

Google cooperating with the Chinese government's censorship and data collection would be a concern, but the last five search fields you used were almost certainly censored too. Search engine design is not just about tech, it is also about ethics and most designers don't think like librarians. https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/

Entering Brexit Britain for Womad festival is “so difficult and humiliating” that performers are giving up says organiser

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/radio/2018-07-25/womad-2018-festival-brexit-britain-visas/

These are the #Gitea issues regarding federation:

- users, repos, organizations: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612
- federated pull requests https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184

Go, go-devs!
/cc @cwebber

Why can't I find a ruby virtual environment? Every time I try to get Ruby going locally I mess something up. I just want like Python's virtualenv but for Ruby.

I think people miss out on the biggest benefit of a society built around cycling.

Everyone's glutes would be so well developed.
A solarpunk world would be a world of amazing butts.