A report from Leiden University in the Netherlands says...
We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can the tide still be turned?
The planetary boundaries were discussed on May 9 as part of Leiden University's Sustainability Day. They include climate change, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification. Six of the nine boundaries have already been crossed (see figure below). Crossing planetary boundaries increases the risk of large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.
Drastic changes are needed to ensure that the Earth remains habitable. In a keynote lecture, Jan Willem Erisman, Professor of Environmental Sustainability, said systemic changes are needed in food, energy, and how we live and consume. In fact, all planetary boundaries are interconnected.
For example, once the nitrogen limit is exceeded, it affects biodiversity and climate. Besides planetary boundaries, Erisman also stressed the importance of social boundaries, which include education, social equality, and health care. Planetary boundaries and social boundaries affect each other, and if we are to preserve a livable Earth, they must be addressed in an integrated way.
Conclusion: Unless we enact system change at the highest levels, there is no hope of preserving a livable Earth, either for humanity or for millions of other threatened plant and animal species.
@breadandcircuses
Ah the Rose Diagram, invented by Florence Nightingale to demonstrate that more people were dying from preventable infections during the Crimean War than from the conflict itself.
Coxcomb
> noun: A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
> noun: The cap itself.
> noun: The top of the head, or the head itself.
> noun: A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
> noun: A name given to several plants of different genera...
@jens Given the global reach of communications these days, I hope you arent naming names - as young people need to learn from their mistakes and failings rather then stigmatised and isolated.
What's the best approach to large-scale code #refactoring that you know? Start somewhere, commit frequently, and hope for the best? Is there something better than that?
@J12t Documenting inside the coding prior to touching the code, with (uncommitted) tasks and opinons inside it.
It provides more of a historical overview of the coding as it (eventually) changes, as well as reminds oneself and others of the forgotten facets; justifications; and functionalities.
Otherwise starting with a blank file, which has a strong delineation:
Do I copy the entirety of the function?
Does this function need adapting?
It forces the hand across the ecosystem esp wrt cruft
@civodul I find the limitation stated
> At the time of writing, the list is somewhat biased toward Python projects. If you know of some prominent ZeroVer projects
... all the more amusing given the problems Python had moving from V2 to V3.
@zwol@civodul I consider Debian users to have a great pragmatism but Ive always found Guix/Nix/Arch/Alpine coders or system crafters to be more interesting.
Beyond the conservative tooling availability that Debian offers I feel that the lack of risk taking and personal responsibility towards their operating system impedes their personal knowledge, capabilities, and development.
@zwol@civodul ... and as somebody who started out using Linux using a small harddrive, I was punished iin the face of limited disk space. With no warning or contextualisation updating would then uninstall X11 facilities as a first point of protection
Hey, I got to overcome knowledge gaps as a consequence but my predilection for startx is a consequence of trauma not from experimentation but rather uncaring settings which could have been mitigated with signposting and forcing choices.
@zwol@civodul My last Debian build died an ugly death. I was compiling a font package tool which enveloped the entire GUI infrastructure, banjazing anything in that purview.
Silly hacker, missing a bit sure.
But anything I tried to save the patient only made it sicker and sicker, what a dark rabbit hole to enter with a surgeon's knife.
If only rollbacks or containerising akin to guix shell was available, I wouldnt have left that slick rig I had lovingly crafted.
@zwol@civodul ... well NixOS set out explicitly to do something New And Different, ... Guix merely approached it better #Guile
Arrgh, I hope people arent feeling bad. OS developers and packagers have to do lots of patient and arduous work and yet its the bits above these layers which get all the shiny toys and then get to complain.
Its all ants and grasshoppers, really. If people arent happy with how their operating system is working they should shop around or step up and fill leadership gaps
Some thoughts about #fullsearch of federated-with instances. 🧵 1/2
Conflating any ill will you have with Supernovae at #Universeodon, with the issue of search indexing on the Fediverse to justify your fediblock won't help resolve the issues around search.
It isn't global search. While we shout, lock down, and don't participate in building the additions to our protocols that the #Fediverse needs, we've been letting #Google index the Fediverse. It's already searchable and Google's new Perspectives tab is going to make it even easier. Maybe we could fight that rather than keep thinking it doesn't exist and continuing to write ineffective Facebook-viral style "I do not give permission..." copypasta?
The #Fediverse does not respect your do-not-index-my-posts flag. It never has. It can't. It's not supported by the #Mastodon API, as @supakaity explains, and nor is it supported at #ActivityPub level and will need to be added into a new AP protocol.
Every instance server from the #Misskey (#Calckey, #Foundkey), #Pleroma (#Akkoma), and #Friendica (#Hubzilla, #Streams) lineages has full search of federated-with instances as default. All these services actually pre-date the creation of Mastodon in 2016 you can read @Polychrome 's post for their commentary on such. Fediblock all of them to create your very own #Mastoverse or you could become part of building a better, safer, Fediverse? Perhaps through participating in the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals? #FEP
Im more the hacker than an engineer. Unfortunately even though there are great examples from the author on stackoverflow and rosetta stone there needs to me more ideas and approaches from outsiders to allow me to move with ease.
Getting there, getting there.
Id better document after ;)
> Following the release of the 1978 The Rutles album, ATV Music, the then-owner of the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, sued Innes for copyright infringement. Though Innes hired a musicologist to defend the originality of his songs, he settled with ATV out of court for 50% of the royalties and shared songwriting credit on the 14 songs included on the album. As of early 2006, these six songs from the first Rutles CD
... https://www.liquisearch.com/the_rutles/lawsuits
> “It’s brutal,” he said, his smile fading for the first time. “I couldn’t afford to get a lawyer that would go up against these big corporations. They’re like the banks – they’re too big to fail.”
Remind me: have we talked much, here, about my notion of the “convivial stack”? This is the idea that, to the greatest extent possible, community governance, the built environment and the technological surround should all, simultaneously be designed so that they are open, participatory and actively invitational; modular, user-modifiable and extensible; and reward experimentation?
@ailurocrat@smallcircles@strypey@neil@dajb@bonfire Im not content until there are social-security funds within coding communities so that people with significant historical contributions to coding are able to seek financial support should they fall into arrears.
It exists for certain industries as a consequence of more successful groups giving back and would be a sign that the profession is operating maturely and in a sustainable manner.
An ActivityPub server written in Rust using SQLite, front end written in vanilla js, htmx and Tailwind, with Yubikey 2FA, Gopher and Gemini support, deployed on NixOS running on a RISC-V cluster in an old Cray enclosure. The server supports any feature of Twitter you liked or wanted and none you didn't. Only people you like can use it.
guys, please start advocating people to get on signal/xmpp/matrix for their own good in this increasingly fascist environment. Even if your friends dont agree, the word needs to get out asap, nothing is a rhetoric anymore. Everyone in this group already has seen whats happening inside and outside our countries and how persecutions are pursued.
Code generated from LLMs is going to need more testing than code written by developers. This seems self-evident to me, but I suspect a lot of people are going to learn it (or ignore it) the hard way.
Given that most existing codebases are not well tested, and most developers don't test, this does not bode well.
@DJGummikuh@kevlin Oh crickey, a system operating off 'ceteris paribus' style responses to specific troubleshooting could have some very peculiar effects on programming - as machines can not internalise the distinction between holistic coding and firefighting.
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