@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Sandra

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.

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Sandra, to random

Topic-based mailing lists and IRC channels were a huge part of the Internet when I grew up. To me this is a throwback to when the internet was manageable and cozy and fun.

It’s also the kind of discoverability that I think is good: topic based, rather than “trending” algorithm based, or, worst of all, “promoted”.

https://idiomdrottning.org/fedi-wishlist

Sandra, to random

I’m grateful to these guys for going through this. Thank you ♥︎

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mexican-bus-drivers-bikes/

Sandra, to random

I used to feel like our FOSS battles were pretty much over. The “downhill battle” era. The “year of the Linux desktop”. Fewer and fewer .doc and .swf files littering our drives.

Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; and we also had our own ideas and our own apps which were pure fire magic. Compilers, wikis, milters, httpd, rsync, blender, gigs of .oggs—we had it all.

Then three calamities struck. Silo sites, miniaturization, and DRM.

https://idiomdrottning.org/foss-dystopia

Sandra, to random

Grognards: “D&D lost its wild creative spirit once it started being inspired by fantasy inspired by it, like a snake eating its own tail. It was better when it was inspired by the pulps and not just Tolkienesque EDO.”
The D&D millenials & zoomers: “OK, here’s some wild fauns & furries & blue tieflings & dragonborn monks & water-spirit frog people.”
Grognards: “No not like that.”

Sandra, to random

For people running their own email domains, know that sending to Google and Yahoo will require DMARC starting February 1st.

I’ve had the same requirement on idiomdrottning.org for a while. Maybe I’m missing a lot of emails from people who aren’t down with the DMARC sickness already.

Sandra, to random

This situation is so messed up. More than most people have the capability to psychologically handle without making it worse. Great comic:

https://jewishcurrents.org/put-up-take-down

Sandra, to random

Here’s what I would’ve wanted:

Energy is rationed. Everyone gets the same amount. You can’t sell it (it’s cap without trade) but you can work together in collectives and coops to pool your allotment. The rations are separate for fossil-derived energy and renewable energy, with an awareness that renewable doesn’t mean infinite since there’s a bandwidth issue. The fossil rations rapidly decrease.

https://idiomdrottning.org/ration

Sandra, to random

Fun fact: the plain text file of a YouTube page's full DOM with the JavaScript loaded expressed as HTML with angle bracket notation (but excluding any images, videos, audios or other external files—we're only talking about the actual web page here) doesn't fit on a floppy. It doesn't even fit on two floppies. It's three times as long as the unabridged edition of Moby Dick.

Sandra, to random

Here’s an article I hadn’t seen before, suggesting to avoid words like “obviously” and “basically” in technical instruction writing. I use those words all the time! I don’t wanna any rash decisions whether to adopt or reject this advice without thinking it through properly.

My usage of these words have been deliberate; there are situations were “obviously” can reduce confusion and help a reader who would otherwise go “but… uh, isn’t this part redundant? Wouldn’t that obviously always happen? What am I missing here?”

But this article’s perspective is also legit (and the page that linked it to me, which made it more explicit that one drawback of these terms is that they can be gatekeepy and shaming). This is just one more thing to keep in mind along side the already existing perspectives, is probably the best conclusion here.

https://css-tricks.com/words-avoid-educational-writing/

Sandra, to random

Yes ♥
I love email and it's so great seeing someone caring for email and wanting to tighten it up and improve it. I don't do a tenth of this stuff (being pretty careful about s2s TLS is one thing I do + ofc I jam e2ee whenever I can) but it makes me so happy seeing people working on email instead of trying to "replace" it with some half-baked new-fangled protocol on my lawn.

gemini://rawtext.club/~nervuri/email/privacy.gmi

Sandra, to random

I’ve got a lot of posts making fun of “dark matter” but that doesn’t make this new model any less terrifying:

our findings indicate that this expansion is due to the weakening forces of nature

God gets tired?!

https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-universe-27-billion-years-old-study/

Sandra, to random

It’s rare that I discover an old web page from the old web that has stuck in my mind that’s still findable. Most are gone from the Google index or not archived or whatever.

But this is a memorable one:

In any event, the board is folding cardboard with black and red squares separated by a yellow line; the pieces are black and red plastic (maybe wood in the hillbilly scene); and there is this look of intense concentration when suddenly one kid (or geezer or hillbilly) says to the other, “Ya gotta jump um.”

Some things just stick in your mind.

https://www.bobnewell.net/checkers/rediscover2.html

Sandra, to random

Thanks JBanana for finding this:

https://www.window-swap.com

Sandra, to random

It’s a curious accident of human nature that strawdoll tactics are so popular rhetorically since they are really, really bad for convincing people. They’re good at preaching to the choir and riling up the base, which is what contributes to their popularity; “manufacturing outrage”, but when people see through the strawdoll claims, that can undermine the credibility of your entire case and send them running right into the waiting arms of the other side, and when that other side truly is so much worse than yours, that’s a disaster.

People on the fence are especially vulnerable to this. They’ve seen some of the other side’s argument and now they come to hear you out. They see you saying things about the other side that doesn’t mesh with what they’ve heard, with how the other side has originally presented itself, and they conclude that you’re exaggerating or even lying, especially if that other side isn’t presenting itself that honestly.

https://idiomdrottning.org/strawdoll

Sandra, to random

ADHD Productivity Fundamentals:

Remember why you are pursuing this.

Good rule when tweaking your system (or when considering whether to even tweaking your system; sometimes don’t mess with a good thing).

https://0xff.nu/adhd-productivity-fundamentals

Sandra, to random

We see something messed up and we fix it and we realize that others could benefit from the fix so we share it.

https://idiomdrottning.org/foss-maintenance

Sandra, to random

Growth sounds great. It’s what plants crave.

“Growth” that’s based on pretending that existing limits don’t exist isn’t “life”. It’s reckless and deadly.

In grade school, a lot of the econ lessons were about not getting stuck in borrowing loops and to be careful with credit cards and “buy-now-pay-later” schemes and to only use loans for carefully considered investments. Don’t waste what you don’t have, is the takeaway there.

The under-accounted–for costs of fossil fuel leads to destructive behavior. We think it costs $4 per gallon but when the piper comes it’s gonna be our skies, our waters and our selves.

https://idiomdrottning.org/degrowth-isnt-death

Sandra, to random
Sandra, to art

I’m gonna need more than a “maybe”

Sandra, to random

Darling, stop confusing me with your wishful thinking! It’s a li’l trickier than that. This is the difficultest problem humanity has ever faced. All of our processes—markets, policy, elections, legislation, even day-to-day living—are geared toward exacerbating the problem rather than solving it.

We had the toolbox for it back in the seventies: energy rationing. Let’s get that going again.

https://idiomdrottning.org/wishful

Sandra, to random

When I was young I thought that 1 was prime. The guy who explained that it wasn’t just said “they just decided that it’s not prime, a lot of stuff works out better that way”. A good, succint “a wizard did it” explanation that satisified me and over the years I found that it was true, that a lot of things really did work out better.

But reading Lamb’s essay, I see that a wizard really did do it, i.e. that it really was something that the math community actually decided rather than calculated out.

https://idiomdrottning.org/prime-one

Sandra, to random Swedish

Have keyboard, won’t travel: looking at my dwindling stacks of cash 💸 it kinda might be time for me to reluctantly acquiesce to a dayjob. Perhaps hacking Lisp? 1950’s tech is still relevant, right? 😅

I wanna stay here in Sweden. I can do Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure & sundry. Maybe even… 😰 non-Lisp languages? I can do frontend, backend, wire, metal. Big picture architecture is fun. Or util libraries or whatever. Large or small codebases. XSLT experience. Linguistics degree.

Serious offers considered. Looking for a huge paycheck & only having to work a few hours per week. Or less.

UX design would be way more fun than hacking Lisp. I have no degree in that, though, I just have a lot of, uh, “ideas”. Icon design experience.

Sandra, to random

A hundred and eighty bugs in one DSA?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00066.html

What happened?

Sandra, to random

Rich gets richer:

https://mixmag.net/read/spotify-reportedly-will-start-paying-less-royalties-to-less-popular-artists-news

Sandra, to random

I don't want mandatory darkmode because I just can't see it very well especially when I'm tired. I can but only if I squint and like super focus, or zoom in. Here is a comparison image (above and below) but to me they're the same picture.

This is for LCD screens. On CRT it's the other way around and there I did use darkmode all the time. I dunno why.

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