Notices by progo in NYC (progo@boop.city)

Sabine Hossenfelder: Physicists have been inventing unobservable things that no one ever finds, for half a century, and are still happily doing it, believing it's proper Science.

How I lost trust in scientists - 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOjD_Lt8qY

Hm.

The Framework laptop company is diversifying away from the Intel/AMD platform and launching a RISC-V mainboard option.

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

@coolboymew they couldn't sue the universe or the Internet, so they picked a concrete scapegoat.

(I think no one should use Tiktok, but it's a personal choice issue, not a legal damages issue.)

@ninapaley please do. We all need to be aware of how exquisitely elaborately our systems are broken.

@CSB so is this Doctor Who scene like #1 or #2?

@CSB realism fail, then. :^b

@CSB Apple's hand gesture idea is right for IRL and for fiction. Change my mind. :^)

@CSB great. Now he's going to have tennis elbow.

@CSB or is he gesturing near his body like last year's demo of Apple's AR headset?

@CSB you miss my point.

1) Good AR hand gesture UI: Apple headset demo had users making gestures with their hand just over their thigh, while resting on a seat.

2) Bad AR hand gesture UI: almost any Hollywood production in the last 20 years. Everything from Minority Report to Picard. Poking hard at empty space at chalkboard height, that doesn't push back.

Also, everywhere including your screenshot: image should be opaque, or at least more opaque than that.

@jeremiah I hope this kind of thing catches on.

It took over 20 years, but we have managed to soft-fork JavaScript into a subset that is orthogonal to "this looks like a stack based virtual machine", and then it got really forked off to a stack based virtual machine for all your zero-install coding needs, which everyone has deployed already in their browser.

And now, we add languages to the UI layer that make better sense for UI scripting.

@jeremiah holding public discussions about a software project in a disaster service like Discord makes it less free.

Still technical free-as-in-RMS because to RMS discussion and documentation are irrelevant to whether software is free or not.

But forcing me to use a proprietary service where the client has mystery meat navigation for the global "which project am I on" nav bar makes me not participate in the project.

@Zerglingman I think for "lets retard the babies' communications skills, part 2" I'm going to reply to requests with neutral-toned "I don't need it", and if they start to argue I'll put on a mask without speaking any further.

Or leave if I have other options.

I'm not going to argue or get fully religious about it. I don't have the energy for the rage.

@Zerglingman I got a dirty stare from a shopkeeper behind glass, and a verbal "don't you have a mask? why aren't you wearing a mask?" … not one text sign anywhere about it.

Also, so many facilities around me left "mask required" signs up for months or years after the facility personally stopped enforcing it.

So I have learned that a "mask required" sign doesn't have meaning.

Mask mandate resistance idea:

You can't get in much trouble for appearing without a mask somewhere where they demand it, if no one has SPOKEN to you yet.

1. NEVER wear a mask anywhere, to start with (unless you're sick or there's smoke, etc.).
2. When asked verbally, comply with a silent stare. (Or argue if that gives you a dopamine hit.)

They can't verbally ask everyone, everywhere, every time.

Think of this as the unprosecuted shoplifting of anti-masking.

@ChrisWilson can you at least write in and affirm none of the prescribed choices if that's how you feel?