tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

It seems I listen to an average of ~2h of #podcasts per day.

Given that I play most of them at 1.5×, it's probably ~1h20′ listening per day.

#AntennaPod

#Parenting pro tip:

it's not considered child labour, and thus social workers usually don't intervene, if it's eighteen hours a week or less and you convince the little rascals that it's “a fun game”.

📣 PSA

Horrible, inflated #words in 🇪🇸 #Spanish, and their nicer, shorter equivalents:

* ~~influenciar~~ → _influir_
* ~~posicionar~~ → _poner_, _colocar_, _pronunciar_
* ~~modelizar~~ → _modelar_

❤️

https://soundcloud.com/rockmediante/02-jorge-drexler-mi-guitarra-y

This #song by #JorgeDrexler must be especially interesting to #Spanish language learners, I suspect?

Codas:

#DocumentFreedomDay coming up on March 30!

https://www.documentfreedom.org/

Also: advice about alternative devices appreciated (e-book reader, fitness band, etc). Boost if interested!

👉 **#Amazon Kindle (both an old one and a newer Paperwhite); wi-fi, USB and Whispersync interfaces**: sigh. Where to start?

No #EPUB, of course; only stupid #MOBI. I have to use #Calibre to convert stuff (doesn't always works well), then I can send to the Kindle via its special e-mail address, or copy over USB. Also: #AZW3, supposed to be an improved format, better for Amazon devices… _but not allowed as a format to be sent over e-mail_; only USB in that case. Why??

I want to classify my documents in directories, thank you. Copy, move, delete at will. But there's just one gigantic `Documents` directory, and everything thrown in there.

Notes and highlights: I can only share them (export, send by e-mail) for certain types of docs, but not others (format? DRM? bought on Amazon?).

…not to mention the whole opaque and annoying #DRM thing and the “you are not buying books, just borrowing them temporarily from Amazon” thing. Switching from one #Kindle to another, trying to share a document with friends, registering or deregistering an owner… those are all miserable experiences.

https://flickr.com/photos/tripu/9166738451

👉 **Newer #Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro, Bluetooth interface**: ditto. Give me all my freaking training files, I don't need a stupid Samsung Health account, nor installing a whole set of Android apps requiring a ton of permissions (SMS!? contacts!?) and special privileges to surreptitiously download and install other apps in turn.

Also: to send audio files from my phone to the device (for playing during workouts), I'm presented with a mysterious list of MP3 files supposedly living on the phone. That includes old 5″-long WhatsApp audio messages and other garbage… but none of the podcasts I'm actually interested in transferring. What directories are scanned, what's the criteria, how can I find or refresh? No clue. Again: give me a damn removable drive, and let me move files at will!

👉 **Old #Polar hear-rate monitor, USB interface**: I want all my workouts as [GPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format) files, thank you — no Polar account needed, no drivers or desktop software to install, no need to manually convert formats. I want to mount the drive over USB, and simply copy all files.

https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/98999449310330218

OK, I'm done with **opaque gadgets** handling **proprietary formats** via **closed protocols**.

I've always defended #OpenStandards and #FLOSS, and opted for interoperable devices when possible — but too often ended up buying the popular, less free product, out of (alleged) convenience.

Lately I've grown tired of fighting with stubborn gadgets and their stupid limitations.

🧵

Must read about #Ukraine, #war, #energy and #nuclear by #MichaelShellenberger:

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered

#TIL in #Mastodon you can write a DM addressed to no-one, and it'll be “sent” and it'll show up in your “direct messages” timeline (as sent to yourself). Useful for quick notes to self, stuff one's not yet ready to share, etc.

#tip #trick

> _“A friend told me recently that central planning of the economy could actually, finally, work this time, today or in the near future, because increasing computing power means that #Hayek’s “knowledge problem” is gone. (I remain sceptical.)”_

Already tried!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

I shall shut up about this topic at least for a while now, but for anyone out there still thinking that #MRA's and other critics of mainstream #feminism and of the concepts of #patriarchy and #maleprivilege are some kind of delusional misogynists amplifying trifles for the sake of controversy: please spend a few minutes reviewing the data (not _opinion_ — _data_) contained here:

* [Very brief list of #men and #boys' issues](http://empathygap.uk/)
* [A more detailed account](http://empathygap.uk/?page_id=22)
* [List of posts by subject, linking to sources — from imprisonment to health to job fatalities to educational attainment](http://empathygap.uk/?page_id=2244)
* [Published research about #gammabias summing it all up](https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1_5)

> _“The U.S. and Russia agree: prepare #women and #children for **safety**; prepare #men for **war**. Women and children live; men die. #Maleprivilege?”_

https://twitter.com/drwarrenfarrell/status/1497022731593797633

In my experience, the single most effective (and irritating) thing all #conspiracytheorists
(#covid-related or otherwise) seem to do when confronted with specific counterarguments is **being all over the place**, jumping from one thread to another, conflating lots of different claims in a hazy grand narrative, avoiding focus on any one idea to examine it carefully.

🇪🇸 #Spain

https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-otegi-rechaza-agresion-rusia-ucrania-y-pide-soluciones-diplomaticas-202202251648_video.html

#politics #política #Otegi