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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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aral, to random
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All hail Charles the Turd!

aral,
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HT @rimibchatterjee ;)

aral,
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@BradRubenstein Apparently not about Charlie boy but still, great song :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Girl_(Hall_%26_Oates_song)

mae, to random
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oh FUCK OFF

aral,
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@mae Mmm, open sauce!

aral, to random
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(Fuc)king Charles.

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aral, to random
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โ€œAccording to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.โ€

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

aral,
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@nf3xn @Cloudguy This article quotes โ€œA Home Office representativeโ€: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/king-charles-iiis-coronation-expected-cost-taxpayers-around-250m-1715507

aral,
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@reay Alas, this is not the way of kings.

aral,
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@musictraveler Whoโ€™s the clever boy? pat, pat

aral,
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@marjolica @Mark62 Wow. Just wow. I have no words.

aral, (edited )
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@rimibchatterjee

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lexd0g, to random
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skyline is dead. fuck nintendo.

aral,
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@kkarhan > โ€œnot because of @aral but I endorse the manifestoโ€

Exactly as it should be :)

@lexd0g

aral, to javascript
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An interesting JavaScript Database (JSDB) edge case I just encountered:

If youโ€™re persisting custom objects, please do NOT use setter methods (set something () {โ€ฆ}).

Use regular methods instead (setSomething () {โ€ฆ}) for predictable behaviour that likely matches your conceptual model of how things should work.

(This is due to how setters interact with proxies.)

Details: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types

aral, to random
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British democracy is arresting people protesting the crowning of a king.

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aral,
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@leighms I donโ€™t think you understand how protests work.

Or you do and youโ€™re being willfully obtuse, Mr. proud former Home Office guy. Either way, the Tories thank you for your service. Enjoy living in the autocracy youโ€™re helping legitimise. You reap what you sow.

Goodbye.

aral,
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@RnDanger I donโ€™t think democracy in the US is any yardstick either.

aral, to random
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Design is what happens between your ears, not what you see on a piece of paper.

(The piece of paper is useful for communicating with others about what happens between your ears.)

aral,
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@scottmatter I prefer non-colonial . Co-design (inviting the โ€themโ€ for tea to pick their brains) is definitely better than ethnographic design (hiding in the bushes to observe the โ€œthemโ€) but Iโ€™d rather non-colonial design where thereโ€™s no โ€œusโ€ and โ€œthemโ€; where people have the tools and skills to design for themselves so โ€œweโ€ (privileged designers working at fancy corporations) donโ€™t design for โ€œthemโ€ (the people we profit from) but we all design for ourselves and our own communities.

aral,
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@scottmatter Saved your link to read later, thanks.

Oh and I was implying that the paper (the board, the sticky notes, what-have-you) are the means we communicate with each other during the design process not how we communicate a finished thing to someone else in an โ€œover the fenceโ€ manner. (My view of design is holistic; either everyone involved in the making of something is involved or thereโ€™s a problem there.)

aral,
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@scottmatter Hadnโ€™t read that (also popping it on my ever-expanding list, thank you) but yes, indeed, the human mind extends far beyond the brain. And youโ€™re entirely correct that this is fundamental to design. Not just to the process itself but also in determining the character of the things we create and how those things, in turn, shape our reality.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/aral-balkan-ethical-design-cyborgs

https://ar.al/2021/12/18/the-three-laws-of-personal-devices/

https://cyborgrights.eu/

thetiredhorizon, to random

- Peaceful protesters are being arrested in right now. The law has been changed this week to allow it. Remember this when you want to protest your Brexit not panning out, or your fear of immigration - because you've just lost those rights, too.

aral,
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@thetiredhorizon Oh Iโ€™m sure theyโ€™ll make an exception for the xenophobes and bigots, donโ€™t you?

aral, to fediverse
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Hmm, I would have thought a post starting with @mention would not be visible on the main timeline but only under posts and replies but apparently not.

I guess itโ€™s โ€œfull attention of everyone following youโ€ or โ€œdirect message.โ€ Would be nice to have โ€œpublic but Iโ€™m not shouting it to all my followersโ€ as the default for @mentions.

aral,
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@brunogirin If a private message feature were to be implemented in the protocol, it would have to be end-to-end encrypted to be fit for use.

aral,
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@decathorpe Designing from first principles is about discovering the right problem to solve (e.g., how do we encourage civil discourse) and then working out from there to arrive at means of solving it.

What itโ€™s not is looking existing artifacts and emulating them without understanding the needs, success criteria, and process(es) that led to them even if you end up in a similar place at the end (most times, you wonโ€™t.) Itโ€™s about constantly questioning fundamental assumptions.

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โ€By donning a second-hand hat, a 74-year-old man is about to become monarch of a small island kingdomโ€

As expected, the best reporting on todayโ€™s coronation comes from @thecontinent

While many mentioned atrocities are well-known, this part of erased African history is rarely talked about:

โ€While England has records of who lived in what village in 1068, its empire was quick to destroy the histories of those it colonised. These could then be overwritten with Protestant orthodoxy and white exceptionalism, banning things like queer love, once part of Africas cultural fabric.โ€

https://www.thecontinent.org/

Article: Time to turn that crown upside down By donning a second-hand hat, a 74-year-old man is about to become monarch of a small island kingdom. Sipho Kings in Europe โ€œYou can shove your monarchy up your arse,โ€ sang the supporters of Celtic football club in Glasgow last weekend. It is safe to say that there are few people in Scotland who will be obeying the official exhortation to swear โ€œtrue allegianceโ€ to their new head of state. King Charles III is the newest head of an unelected family that has ruled the country and its empire for generations โ€“ term limits donโ€™t apply here โ€“ and who built their wealth on empire, slavery, mass killings, weaponised rape and the calculated devastation of entire cultures. British taxpayers will pay $130-million for the pleasure of watching his coronation which just 9% of them โ€œcare a great dealโ€ about, according to the latest YouGov poll. Over the centuries, the British royal family have made Africans โ€“ and other imperial subjects โ€“ pay a far higher price. Not that it is easy to pin down the details. While England has records of who lived in what village in 1068, its empire was quick to destroy the histories of those it colonised. These could then be overwritten with Protestant orthodoxy and white exceptionalism, banning things like queer love, once part of Africaโ€™s cultural fabric. It has worked hard to forget the details of its past. In Kenya, colonial officials burned 3.5-tonnes of documents that allegedly detailed atrocities by British forces. With their history overwritten, Africans are left rebuilding, and contesting the dominant, Western narrative of Africa as a self-inflicted basket case. The family that drove this generational injustice has held on to what it stole, refusing to acknowledge responsibility, or make things right. At this weekendโ€™s coronation, far from hiding its sordid history, the familyโ€™s ill-gotten gains will take centre stage. Charles and his wife will wear crowns with hundreds of precious stones plundered from around the world. The largest, the Star of Africa, is embedded in the royal sceptre, the symbol of his sovereignty over country and commonwealth. Itโ€™s the worldโ€™s largest diamond, a โ€œgiftโ€ in 1905 from South Africa, which England had just conquered. The blood of Africans flows deep behind the glitter of gold leaf.

aral,
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@dgavin @axbom @thecontinent Letโ€™s put it this way: Charles is a billionaire today because his family were colonialists and slavers. Can we blame him for what his ancestors did? No. Can we blame him for accepting the wealth and privilege that he inherited because of what his ancestors did and for perpetuating the system that enabled them to do so without even an apology or any attempt at reparations to the people still disenfranchised by its legacy? Most definitely so; yes.

mairin, to random

I'm disappointed to not get hard hitting questions for my drunk Mac AMA lol!

aral,
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@cmsirbu @mairin Also see: https://starlabs.systems/

I donโ€™t know how itโ€™s like with Linux but I also have my eye on the Framework as a potential next laptop (my main machine is a fully silent desktop that I love.)

aral, to SmallWeb
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So as Kittenยน matures, Iโ€™m starting to talk about it at in-world events.

At the end of May, Iโ€™ll be in Paris, presenting Kitten (& Domainยฒ) at @newcrafts

https://ncrafts.io/agenda

I arrive the 24th, speak the 25th, and leave the 27th.

If youโ€™re around and want to chat about Small Web, Kitten & Domain, let me know and maybe we can arrange a small get-together if thereโ€™s enough interest.

:kitten:๐Ÿ’•

ยน https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
ยฒ https://codeberg.org/domain/app

aral,
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@framasky Ah yes, @Framasoft โ€“ thanks! Although youโ€™re very welcome too :)

(The Mastodon @mention autocomplete could use some work, me thinks.)

@newcrafts

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