“Could some #universities reverse the current trend and remain places where the independent-minded want to congregate? […] I'm hopeful long term. The independent-minded are good at protecting themselves. If existing #institutions are compromised, they'll create new ones. That may require some imagination. But imagination is, after all, their specialty.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism.html
"How could I ever trust my Mastodon admin with my data? A large company like Twitter is more secure because they have proper procedures in place" A large company like Twitter:
I put together an illustrated guide on rebasing with #Git (ie: moving commits from a branch to another). It's a common question I get from beginners, and I hope this is useful to others: https://blog.pablobm.com/2020/07/23/how-to-move-commits-to-correct-branch.html
We already knew that personalized suggestions tend to create echo chambers, but seeing it in action...
Do you also think that only the videos targeting your political views are reasonable, and the others are all nuts? To me, that's the most disturbing realization.
#Spain 🇪🇸 is by far the first country in the world in relative number of actual deceased organ donors.
Source: https://www.irodat.org/?p=database
I too found #WarAndPeace to be unexpectedly engaging and entertaining, in spite of the many long “digressions” from the “plot”. In some way, the whole thing is a meta-historical essay, isn't it?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2853426518
…and this is reason no. 173 why you should never use #URLshorteners:
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
#BitTorrent #privacy
“The #SoftwareDevelopment world would prefer to use their multi-gigabyte IDEs running on ElectronJS to build thousand-dependency Java applications targeting ungainly APIs on hard-to-operate systems than support something simpler and better.”
— https://mastodon.technology/@roguelazer
https://www.roguelazer.com/2020/07/etcd-or-why-modern-software-makes-me-sad/
🇪🇸 Pierdo toda esperanza en la humanidad. Hice una consulta por e-mail a una dirección oficial del Registro Civil Único de #Madrid, y esta es su respuesta, completa y literal:
«BUENOS DÍAS TIENEN QUE COMPARECER SIN CITA DE LUNES A VIERNES EN ESTE REGISTRO CIVL .UN SALUDO»
#español #lengua #funcionarios
Imagine doing this and then thinking you're the good guys.
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1276604449616564224
RT @AlecStapp@twitter.com
Are we going to talk about the fact that official reports from the European Parliament are openly (and approvingly) talking about implementing their own version of the Great Firewall of China?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1276604449616564224
🇪🇸 «Posicionar» (verbo) y «posicionamiento» (nombre) son #antipalabras: hay alternativas corrientes que son más fáciles y más cortas, y que además las preceden etimológicamente 🤷♂️
«Poner» o «pronunciarse» (v.) en lugar de la primera y «posición» (n.) para sustituir a la segunda.
Si no ves nada malo en añadir alegremente morfemas sufijos para cambiar la categoría gramatical de una idea *cuando ya existe una palabra equivalente, te* gustará mucho leer pronto «posicionamentación» (n.), que sería la siguiente palabra lógica en la secuencia; y luego, «posicionamentacionar» (v.); etc. 🤦♂️
#español #lengua #palabras
“If scholars scan each others' collective work—every word written or recorded—searching for the least charitable reading of every snippet, we can all destroy each other.”
#cancelculture
— #JonathanHaidt
https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1279443900789374976
EFF turns 30 this week! To celebrate, we're releasing all-new #EFF30 member gear. Join today to help fight for our rights online. https://eff.org/eff30 https://t.co/qPSqokKmME
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42