Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social
Sometimes the oldest pseudonyms are best!
Ethics, lgbt, privacy, yoga, cooking, brewing, music, languages. And of course Oscar Wilde. He/him.
I use Syncthing for my works in progress. Revisions to my files get automatically copied between my devices (including my phone) whenever two of them are online together. They never get sent to the "cloud."
I do my writing mostly in LibreOffice, but this works with MS World and other word processing software, as long as that software runs on your own devices, not in the "cloud."
"Espresso machines are dancing.... Let us try for once not to be right."
I wonder how many of the people who identify themselves as "socialist" want public ownership of the means of production and how many really just want a strong welfare state and high taxes on the wealthy.
How to deal with racism and stuff Show more
Good news (US Supreme Court privacy decision) Show more
From Allie Brosh's "Dogs' Guide to Understanding Basic Concepts":
Q: Should eat bees?
A: No.
Q: But....never bees?
A: No. You should never eat bees.
Q: Bees?
A: No.
Q: But how does it not eat bees?
uspol, cruelty to children, bitter humor Show more
Global Services for Machine Intelligence (GSMI) en Lionbridge serĉas homojn, kiuj parolas Esperanton je nivelo C1 aŭ pli, kiuj pretas partopreni en mallonga pagita tasko, por helpi la kreadon de voĉrekona teknologio en #Esperanto. 40 USD por unu horo. Vi bezonos komuniki en la Angla kun la teamo. https://esperanto.org.uk/eab/eab_news/2018-06-14-lionbridge.html
uspol, snark Show more
Prince Ea on the environment Show more
This PeerTube animation is cute: https://framatube.org/videos/watch/a8ea95b8-0396-49a6-8f30-e25e25fb2828
#YouTube makes money from videos promoting extremism. Its algorithm radicalises viewers, because it wants people to be angrily clicking on more videos.
YouTube is tearing society apart by encouraging us to hate each other:
The most promising ethical alternative to YouTube is #PeerTube, which is decentralised and in beta testing.
You can support development of PeerTube to a release version at its crowdfunding page:
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
Savings vehicles in the U.S. Show more
Now Is The Perfect Time For An RSS Renaissance
https://neflabs.com/blog/rss-renaissance
'...might sound silly today, in an era of centralized services (e.g. Facebook, Google) bombarding our inboxes, phones, and "feeds". As privacy and security breaches make headlines, we clamor for a decentralized internet. But less than twenty years ago, the internet was decentralized, when the human cycle of individualism versus collectivism was perfectly aligned with divergent expression...'
We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Beginner tip: marry a blacksmith for free swords.
Pro tip: marry many blacksmiths and get a whole poly-armory
Slate calls smart speakers a "good value proposition," then explains how useless they are.
What is best in life? Show more
