tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

I don't do transcendental meditation or anything. But I've been all day at home taking care of two semi-sick small kids, and by now I assure you I'm enlightened as fuck. I'm level eleven of Buddha. My train left station Nirvana behind. I am one with the multiverse. I'm Vantablack belt in mindfulness.

I have neglected my #weeknotes for a month or so, but now I'm back on track (with more coming):

https://blog.tripu.info/2022-week-13/

Los practicantes del #AltruismoEficaz llegamos a donde estamos partiendo de intuiciones muy básicas, casi universales, y siguiendo unos pocos argumentos lógicos bastante simples.

Si te suena lo de «altruismo eficaz» pero no lo tienes muy claro, o si no lo habías oído en tu vida, **Pablo Melchor** de la _Fundación Ayuda Efectiva_ lo resume todo muy bien [en este artículo](https://www.sumapositiva.com/p/donar).

https://endbannedbooks.org/

#freespeech #censorship #literature #art #books

Living long isn't everything (you also want to prosper — wink ), but it's quite important. This is how you do it:

* Look after family relationships and social connections
* Take care of plants…
* …and eat mostly plants, lots of legumes, whole grains, soy
* No tobacco, no alcohol
* Constant moderate exercise
* Be outside in the sun
* Live where women aren't discriminated
* Live somewhere remote
* Have a religion (oops)

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

I think I would happily pay for a subscription to #Twitter if Twitter:

* had no #ads
* showed a strictly chronological timeline of what you're following (and only that)
* offered #RSS (of accounts, hashtags)
* let us edit past tweets
* …while always preserving a history of changes and deleted tweets
* were better at flagging NSFW, and let us customise visibility of those tweets

But I'd rather pay the same money for the
#Fediverse and #Mastodon to:

* improve and evolve
* become simpler to use
* promote themselves so that they become way more popular

Physicists, help me understand this:

If they're referring to _power_, the unit should be _KW_, right?

And if they're referring to _energy_ consumed (in some interval of time), then it should be _KW⋅h_ (not _KW/h_). Right?

(And if so: the quantity is meaningless unless you specify _the interval of time_. eg: _“400 KW·h on an average day”_. No? I mean, my smartphone also consumes 400 KW·h… if I use it for long enough!)

> _“I don't find #languages easy but I have a hunger to #learn. When you can speak another language you go from being a person in an adult's body pointing at things like a child to being able to communicate with people like an adult again. There's a political basis for me to learning other languages, because if we don't come together in the world then the world's not going to make it.”_

— #EddieIzzard

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/28/why-languages-matter-eddie-izzard-alastair-campbell

OK, I'm fed up with #Pixelfed @pixelfed. I think I'm done with it once this year's #dailyphoto is over.

Last night I [bumped again](https://qoto.org/@tripu/106091353468149241) into the issue of collections being limited to 18 posts. So I created [a new collection](https://pixelfed.de/c/422147543041479526) with the idea of splitting my 30 photos of April between [the old](https://pixelfed.de/c/415513620799474040) and the new collection (15 + 15).

Issue: because of the new UI, posts have two valid URLs now; eg `/i/web/post/<POST>` and `/p/<USER>/<POST>?fs=1`. When I tried to add a few photos to the _new_ collection by pasting their URLs, it didn't work. Until I realised I had to use _the other_ URL.

Issue: when I tried to remove the last 3 photos from the _old_ collection, the “edit” pop-up didn't even show me those. Until I realised the pop-up takes its data from the page itself (not from an API call), and because of the infinite scroll on the page, unless you have scrolled down _before_ trying to edit the collection, you won't be able to edit but the first bunch of items.

Issue: once I understood that (and I scroll until the end, then click to edit, then select the last 3 photos), the dialog box says _“Select a Photo to Delete”_, the button is labelled _“Delete 3 photos”_, and if you dare to click it, a confirmation pop-up says _“Are you sure you want to delete this?”_. NO, I'M NOT SURE. Are you going to _remove these photos from the collection_, or _delete them_??

A couple more useful and up-to-date comparisons of #messaging #apps:

* [by Kuketz IT-Security](https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html)
* by @thenewoil: [detailed](https://thenewoil.org/messaging.html), [chart](https://thenewoil.org/messaging-chart.html)

#privacy #security

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/talking-about-trauma/201902/when-male-rape-victims-are-accountable-child-support

#MensRights #sexism