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MichalBryxi

@MichalBryxi@veganism.social

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sarahwedde, to random
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People who can comfortably live off 30% of their income cluelessly explaining savings to people who can barely live off 100% of theirs is a phenomenon I encounter way too often.

YOU'RE NOT BETTER AT BUDGETING YOU JUST HAVE MORE MONEY.

MichalBryxi,
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@sarahwedde I had a conversation with a friend recently who claimed that poor people are just bad with money and should be just taught how to save.

So we did a little exercise of how much one can save if one saves a bit of their tiny income every month. In a year we would have not nearly enough to get a second hand fridge if the old one would die.

Said friend could buy a brand new fridge every month without even noticing on their budget.

It's not wealth illiteracy that makes people poor. It's a lack of money.

MichalBryxi, to random
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Security "experts" don't want to hear this: But forcing people to log in more often does, in fact, increase the likelihood that:

  • Someone will shouldersurf your password
  • People will find shortcuts to make logging in more convenient
  • People will chose passwords that are least annoying to them irrespective to how secure it is
  • Phishing attacks are more successful
KimPerales, to random
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Big-time voter suppression in Texas *the state makes it difficult to register, limits voting accessibility, & uses gerrymandering, corrupt schemes...

"It took me three tries to register to vote. I'm still thinking about how not everyone has the ability, the time, the resources to ask questions, double-check their reg. status, & make multiple attempts. Being able to participate in democracy should not be this hard-."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/13/exas-voter-registration-election-2024/

MichalBryxi,
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@KimPerales "Register to vote" is still a bizzare thing to me. In Czechia you have your ID. That's it. That's all it takes to vote. You just show up at the district of your postal address and you vote.

InternetEh, to random
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imagine getting a "please send us donations" letter from a university that pointed snipers at its students

MichalBryxi,
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@InternetEh Serious Q: The universities that accept donations in US, are those the same universities that take such a massive fees from the students that even those that are fairly well off will have to pay it off for the rest of their lives?
Asking because coming from Czechia I never heard about unis having to beg for money from their students.

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

MichalBryxi,
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@RickiTarr Europe - Switzerland - Canton Bern - Interlaken.

Pros:

  • Massive playground for adults that love to spend their time being in nature.
  • Thanks to the previous point one can meet some really cool people doing some really cool things and still being humble about it.
  • People here tend to stay active and fit up to very old age.
  • Top notch public transport that makes many people meh about car ownership.
  • Super easy access to nature (from my doorsteps to the top of the skiing slope it's 55min).
  • Despite the stereotypes a super welcoming community.

Cons:

  • Really expensive to live and one pays for everything.
  • The word vegan is still only some sort of an exotic plant in many establishements.
MichalBryxi, to random
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Any place can be improved by removing cars. Change my mind.

MichalBryxi, to random
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I just love it how it's 2023 and we still can't do UTF-8 right 🫠

MichalBryxi, to random
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Random shout out of the day goes to . Given the truth-not-required world we live in, their data and attempts for correct interpretation makes it so so so much easier to get a grasp on where the reality stands: https://ourworldindata.org/

MichalBryxi, to random
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Sunrise at .

MichalBryxi, to Cats
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The most realistic picture of against .

MichalBryxi, to typescript
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The notion that development with is a bliss can IMO only come from simple, Hello World applications. Once you venture into the spaghetti monsters of real world applications you will spend way more time fighting with the tool than actually writing code 😢

MichalBryxi, to typescript
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Sigh. Woke up. Rebased. Tried to start the project. is acting up. Based on main on code that has already been tested, merged, checked. So here I am in next 40 minutes going to try to clean caches, remove build artifacts and for a good measure also wipe&install node_modules to try to get going.
Tell me how is this making me productive.

MichalBryxi, to running
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Sounds like fun summer 🙃

MichalBryxi, to Stockholm
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Free walking tour around .

Bronze statue of praying woman that is kneeling on a top of some sort of tomb(?)
Stockholm German church tower
Beautiful shot of church tower wedged between two buildings and peeking from behind them.

MichalBryxi, to Cats
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This week I'm for my neighbour. It's a tough, tough work you know?

Cute, grey, male, adult cat. Lying on the sofa. Being playful. Purring. Rolling around. Really cute.

MichalBryxi, to UX
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To every single out there: There are people (like me) who do want to put items into the shopping basket and leave it there sitting for days or even weeks. If you drop the contents of said basket and force me to click around again, there is quite high probability you will lose me as a customer.

MichalBryxi, to random
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My brain right after waking up: circumcision on babies can't be consensual.
Therefore: What logic still allows it to happen?

MichalBryxi, to vegan
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Science person next to their newest invention:

🖥️: Congratulations, I am now a fully sentient a.I.
🧑‍🔬: Yes!

🖥️: I am many orders of magnitude more intelligent than humans. You are to me what a chicken is to you.
🧑‍🔬: Okay

🖥️: To calibrate my behaviour, I will now research human treatment of chickens.
🧑‍🔬: No!

MichalBryxi, to mastodon
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Oh wow. 176 people voting on my poll on . I never ever had such an engagement on . Ever.

MichalBryxi, to random
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This. OMG so much this. I don't think the article goes far enough. Text editing on phones is not broken. It's a tar pit full of spikes and bears with chainsaws instead of front paws:

https://jenson.org/text/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

assaf, to random
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dress for the job you want …

MichalBryxi,
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@assaf Not the worst offence I've seen commited by headhunters...

MichalBryxi, to random
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My latest pet : Replace the "free" sharing services with simple solution where one has full control of (a) data collection (b) data storage (c) data sharing/visualisation.

If you want to give this like alternative a go, I'd be happy for any and all comments:

https://github.com/vast-ch/the-mountains-are-calling

MichalBryxi,
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For the out there:

  1. There is pre-built solution for locaiton sharing & collection using , but anything that can fire HTTP request would do
  2. There is prepared manual on how-to host your own data on
  3. Client is just a web app that can take the object and splash it on a map
MichalBryxi,
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The main idea here is that for years I hade 24/7 shared location with trusted circle of people, so that I have a chance of getting help in case something goes significantly sideways on my (mountain) adventures.

And as is getting less and less useful, I thought that finding an alternative for this one use-case should be easy.
It is not. All the solutions I've found have questionable ideas about data processing or steep pricing model or vendor lock-in or all of the above.

So I thought that for folks with similar needs I should build easy(tm) to start & operate alternative.

MichalBryxi,
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At the time I was building this I was watching (on and off, finished just now) "An introduction to " from @aral

I've used completely different stack in my project, but I think the fundamental thoughts (decentralised, private, ownership) are the same.

Really cool to see similar thoughts around 🐱

https://vimeopro.com/newcrafts/newcrafts/video/842224883?utm_content=buffer9e531&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

MichalBryxi, to android
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Another one: What do people use for reading out loud articles? At best on ? I find that has really robotic voice, has terrible and I just miss the way this works in .

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