Matthew @mattasdata@social.cleverlibre.org

The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities

Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari, and Firefox as your choices.

I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

The voice-recognition phone tree is basically capitalism's ultimate technology for brushing people off, you know? That's most of what capitalism does. Build walls between business and actual humans. Low grade tech, put a human out there who has no authority to actually help. Slightly higher, put in place a phone-tree puzzle that drops off 90% of respondents before they hit the human. Finally, capitalism's apotheosis, the "AI" "chatbot". Can *never* help you and you will *always* blame yourself.

The Fall of Stack Overflow: SO has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of Q&A, as well as the number of votes. The AI bots hit SO hard for sure, at least that is what I think. I still SO as top answer in Google but Bing is upto no good. LOL. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk

classic 🍪 #unix #linux #sysadmin #macos #freebsd #sudo

Important sets:
ℂ the complex numbers
ℕ the natural numbers
ℚ the rational numbers
ℝ the real numbers
𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes
ℤ the integers

The #Carpentries25 Launch event is now underway, and we will share some insights 👇 as they come up from the speakers and attendees!

I can't believe. The bird site is about to die. The final hours of Twitter before Elon is moving to X. It is already https://x.com/nixcraft (redirecting to https://twitter.com/nixcraft) So much history is about to go to the /dev/null. So many links are going to break forever. 🤡 #twitter #birdsite

Secret Panel HERE 🦋 https://tapas.io/episode/35309

All the time

This diagram by Anna-lena at #EuroPython is beautifully done 🤩

Twenty-Five Years and Counting: https://third-bit.com/2023/07/19/twenty-five-years-and-counting/

@viq @cwebber @mhoye @downey @DreamsAndLogic @alm

Congratulations Firefox team on finally matching Chrome's JavaScript performance levels after many years of hard work! (left is Firefox, right is Chrome) 🦊 https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

Project Management 101.