Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 31

@danilo You take VC, you must grow exponentially and exit. That’s the game. Is that compatible with a sustainable commons? I don’t think so. Does it help to vilify folks trying to explore alternative paths to the *mainstream* one of VC that has mired us with trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists and billionaires like Musk? I don’t think so either. It’s no different to shaming environmentalists for opposing the fossil fuel industry. People criticising VC aren’t the problem, VC is.

@avlap2 @ayoub So are the subtitles wrong? Because, if we’re for some reason nitpicking the crap out of a bigot’s bigotry, the subtitles show her addressing Arab viewers and quoting “every dog gets its own”. Thereby equating Arabs to dogs, before clarifying that they’re more like rats. If the subtitles are wrong, blame that, not the original poster. And there’s something to be said for missing the forest for the trees.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

~ Stephen J. Gould

Would be nice if more people knew this quote and spent some extended time thinking about it on every level.

@gwynnion I would’ve expected better from folks arming a genocide.

There have always been anti-trans feminists, but they were largely irrelevant until they joined forces with the anti-abortion movement and other fascists in the US and UK, who have the wealth and media control to plaster their views all over the place, creating the fake impression of consensus on the issue.

@aral EviCore? It’s no coincidence these fuckers picked a name so close to EvilCore which is what they are. A real life #MrRobot entity bent on fucking people over.

@cobalt @RodneyPetersonTalent I’m so sorry :(

@aral

Even pro-capitalist folks should be able to recognize that the free market doesn't work in all cases. For instance, when the only way to 'compete' is by screwing over your customers, maybe it's time to try a different system.

Insurance most obviously fits into this category, and I think public utilities are similar (like the UK's privatized sewage disaster).

Computer says die.

(Psst, it’s actually capitalism.)

https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations

#healthcare #AI #capitalism #corporatocracy

@nonlinear Alt-text: Screenshot of social media post. The text in the screenshot is duplicated in the post itself.

PS. This is the Browser helper:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/regression-tests/tests/helpers/Browser.js

And this is the Kitten process helper:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/regression-tests/tests/helpers/Kitten.js

The only thing I’ll eventually need to add is a WebSocket helper so I can mock Kitten’s htmx¹/Streaming HTML² requests and that should give me pretty good coverage without having to resort to orchestrating actual browsers.

(Also, the unit tests are in quite a dismal state so there’s lots to do.)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/htmx-the-htmx-web-socket-extension-and-socket-routes/
² https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/

#Kitten #htmx #testing

Now that Kitten¹ is rather stable, I’ve decided to write some regression tests before refactoring to add class-based route/component support (in addition to the current—easy to get started with/use—function-based workflow).

I tried using Playwright but it’s quite heavy and not quite right for my needs (Kitten is more than just a server and I need control of it during testing). ~100 lines of code later, I have something that works well using tape and JSDOM :)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten

Quick heads up: I just deprecated @small-tech/tape-with-promises for adding promise support to Tape 4.x.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/tape-with-promises

Tape version 5.x supports promises so my little module is no longer necessary unless you’re stuck on v4.x.

What’s tape? A neat little JavaScript unit testing framework I like:

https://github.com/tape-testing/tape

Already use tape? Does your test runner need more monkeys and bananas? Try my tap-monkey module:

https://codeberg.org/small-tech/tap-monkey#readme

🙊🍌

#tape #nodeJS #unitTesting #tapMonkey

@asbjorn Because of the same reason: spam degrades the quality of Google’s data about you and so do ad/tracker blockers. You’re the livestock they farm so anything that hinders them from this primary business function is a no-no.

@f4grx @cemedia Ah, gotcha. No worries.

That account is satire based on a UK “journalist” who is famous for access journalism.

Sometimes, it’s the only way to get through to peopl, sadly.

And, to be fair, at this point I don’t know what it’s going to take for some people to recognise – much less do something about – a bloody genocide.

@f4grx @cemedia Because there’s a genocide happening. Although, oddly, looking at your profile, you also reposted it? So why are you having a go at me about it?

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@macrumors Oh no, no more land snorkel? *sadface*

@jwildeboer What do you expect from the standards body of surveillance capitalism?

What do you think of genocide?

It’s terrible. Horrible. The worst possible crime against humanity.

I was talking about Israel’s genocide…

Oh, god, I’m so sorry. It’s beautiful. Just perfect. Joyous even. Please forgive me, I’m not an antisemite.

#liberals