@beatricejess@Npars01@KatM@amydiehl Believe me, by the time they turn 10 or 11, they've got their own social networks, and you're only needed to feed them and ferry them places. And make sure they get their shots and checkups and homework done, of course.
I was just reminded of around twenty years ago when this guy who I knew on LiveJournal took extreme creative liberty and used the head from my LiveJournal profile pic and Photoshopped an image of me and sent it to me as a "gift" and I was just like "uhhhhhhhhhh...thank you?"
Considering the way mothers are treated in this shithole country, I'm outraged to see all this bullshit celebration of mothers this one stupid day per year.
Give us control of our reproductive system, safety from abusers, equal pay and maternity leave, for starters.
Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it
"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page
A couple of things there Simon. How do you know this? Are you still using the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos to which you refer, or are you just taking this on the word of good, 3rd party information sources?
If it's the former, why?
If it's the latter, then yippie kai yay! The demise of these platforms is underway and in full swing - just as Steve Ballmer once called Linux "Cancer", the fact that these silos aren't simply ignoring links to particular resources, especially those in the #Fediverse, and have taken up with the practice of actively blocking them, is a good thing; and you, as a #Fedizen, should be proud.
Yet again, if it is the former, and you really insist on validating and monetizing those privacy mining silos via your subjugation as inventoried chattel there, consider pinning something akin to the following to the top of your profile (make sure to read the alt-text for the image):
@qurlyjoe
I don't mind (as long as it isn't for some some legacy admission). But kids who got hosed by DeVries and predatory lenders? Sure.
I paid off mine. Granted it was only $7500 (86.08 a month for 120 months, and I had a coupon book). Could afford rent, food, and the loan. No car. Made about $5.00 an hour. Some lean times. Philosophy didn't pay well.
One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
@baldur "VC-funded startup" isn't even the only factor - plenty of cool projects started out with no VC funding, but then got acquired later in their life by private equity types. A clean start is no guarantee.
Looks like 16.9 GiB for stackoverflow.com.sqlite.br (16.9GiB) and roughly 6 GiB for the rest. Maybe people running #SearXNG instances could add searches on data dumps like these?
Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"
@gsuberland@thetaphi@jasonkoebler Indeed, which also suggests that the over reliance on GPS for centimeter accuracy in crop planting is a nasty failure mode that should be avoided.
The solar storm is just a dress rehearsal 🎭 for nation state actors knocking out GPS and causing food shortages.
I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
@RickiTarr Kids (like the young of many species) are designed to be -mostly- sponges, they learn from what they are exposed to. If animals learn the wrong stuff, they don't survive.
The saying "garbage in, garbage out" while overly simplified, applies.
Far too many of us are already not spending enough time unlearning the garbage we were fed about racism, sexism, assumptions about how to live with others, peace, economics, how to treat the environment, etc. around us.
TIL that mustard plants grow very tall and have purple flowers that bees really like. I planted them because they're a great "grow literally anywhere" plant you can just yeet into the ground and leave to do their thing, and they're great at weed suppression and outcompeting grasses, but I didn't know they'd end up looking nice and making the bees happy too.
... now I'm in the mood to do some guerilla gardening.
Taking a short Mastodon break. I'm tired of the culture of criticism here. Unlike Twitter, on Mastodon, it comes from those on the left who attack liberals for not meeting their purity tests. I've been attacked for wanting to help defeat Trump by those who don't like a Biden policy; for COVID-safe dining outside with heaters because that harms the environment; for traveling masked because some immunocompromised feel they can't. Stop attacking others; start being the change you want in the world.
@augieray
I don't like this, at all. I absolutely get what you're saying (& going through) though, so please take care and return soon. Your voice is far to important to be outside the conversations we need.
@matthiasott links to all of the notes on the site. I read somewhere that pagination is pointless if you have a static site and are not making requests to a database, thought “oh yeah fair point” and put them ALL there. Has a nice side effect of being able to just cmd/ctrl+F to search the titles.