Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social
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Well, today's session of C coding did not run as smoothly as I had wanted it to. Much sadness! But I did get half a feature into Bitlbee Mastodon, for those of us who like to use IRC as our Mastodon frontend. There must be about three of us. Although, true fact: most of the time I use Amaroq, some of the time I use the web client, and the IRC client is simply the thing running in the background every now and then. 😅 #bitlbee
Dev branch of the code, if you're one of us: https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/bitlbee-mastodon/log/?h=develop
Is there a glib (not glibc) info manual which I can use from Emacs?
I was trying to get some PDFs from admin.ch (the Swiss government), the English translation of the Swiss Civil Code, to be exact, where chapter 2, articles 60 to 79 explain how Swiss associations work (think FIFA, ICRC). I can download it using wget but Firefox claims "Secure Connection Failed" while still showing me the green lock. How is that possible? The particular URL I'm looking at: https://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/2/210.en.pdf -- and a summary here: https://communitywiki.org/wiki/CorporateMembership
The linked article on supply economics of vloggers and the social pressures they face is also worth reading: https://splinternews.com/get-rich-or-die-vlogging-the-sad-economics-of-internet-1793853578
@Digitalcourage Wow, what are these gangster methods?! I know Springer can be really low, but this is almost unbelievable!!
'It is claimed that some committee members have been told of “possible repercussions” if they fail to support the proposal.
They have allegedly been told that to “stay away” from the meeting if they intend to reject the new law, with substitute members, who are more sympathetic to the plans, lined up to vote instead.'
After the chaos over #YouTube's inexplicable takedown and enforced monetisation, Blender is now testing its own #PeerTube instance:
The plot thickens...
It seems Google may have taken down Blender's videos on YouTube because they wouldn't display ads for them.
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Tracking embedded into games. Gaaaah! https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/gaming/gaming-companies-remove-analytics-app-after-massive-user-outcry/
„Can Trump block people on Twitter? It turns out, the First Amendment has something to say about that.“ I love this.
How Trump can make you laugh: http://trumpconlaw.com/ – a podcast about constitutional law (USA)
I'm starting to enjoy programmers streaming their coding sessions on Twich / YouTube.
There's a lot you can learn from watching someone working on a piece of source code, voicing their entire thought process.
My personal favorites so far are "Fun Fun Function" and "JustForFunc". If you already discovered interesting channels, please share them with me!
I feel so strange. Writing C code and all the issues I had were actual issues, not memory allocation issues and not syntax issues... I feel like I could be a C one day.
Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated, having realized the futility of their jobs https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/tune-in-turn-on-slack-off.html #latestagecapitalism #mindfulness #scholarship #classwar #labor #Post #om
And for those of you that want to read the rest, here’s the link which I forgot to add to the quote. Sorry!
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
I don’t work for the love of it and earn something on the side, as if by lucky accident. I do it for the money.
And to think that we should love work is to think along the lines of Big Brother in 1984 by George Orwell. You don’t only get punished but you must want it, too.
Now, of course I am happy to have found a job that seems better to me than all the others given the money I earn, the people I work with, the flexibilities I am granted – but I am still alienated. This is not me.
Problem still unsolved. Sadly, I had never heard of this passage before. That’s because I never managed to read much of Marx except for the communist manifest. But that quote totally resonates with me. And it’s inversion is what we see a lot of these days: people telling each other to do the things they love to do, to find a job that agrees with them. As if such a thing existed! If people do it for love, they’ll do it for free. That’s not work.
«Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates on the individual independently of him – that is, operates as an alien, divine or diabolical activity – so is the worker’s activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self.»
– Estranged Labour, in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
As heard on Thinking Allowed, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2kpm0
«External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification. Lastly, the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own, but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another.» 3/4
«He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home. His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague.» 2/3
«What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor?
First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.» 1/3
