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致网友:最近我感兴趣的东西更多是理论而非技术,所以我要搬家到 Mathstodon。

新号见!

Friends: I'm migrating to Mathstodon, as my interest becomes more and more theoretical rather than technical.

See you on the other side!

@ShredderFeeder @Natasha_Jay the only use for a QR code I'll accept is for some sort of pairing between your phone and your computer. It's a nice way to transfer a bit of data between big-screen-no-camera and little-screen-with-camera without a preestablished connection

My experience of the GMail app on Android is that it is complete and utter garbage. Search has never worked, sync is slow and unreliable

And now this: I'm constantly getting a popup saying:

"To continue, you'll need to take additional action"

"Your account or device settings require you to complete additional steps before using the Gmail app"

Then the only option is "Cancel"

If I hit "Cancel" then I get a notification saying:

"No actions taken. Continuing in offline mode."

And then it continues to work as it always has. Badly, admittedly, but it works(*).

It's infuriating. What am I supposed to change? Why has it changed?

When has software become so openly contemptuous of its users. There isn't even a link to a page to help me work out what's going on.

Urgh.

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为什么书店里的英文字帖都是衡水体?

The idea that having a benevolent dictator forever is actually a good idea? That’s a nonsense thought rooted in the feeling that all this human stuff •isn’t even a real problem•: mushy nonsense, female-coded and thus low-status, can’t we just build good technology all day and not think about people.

(No, dumbass, you can’t, not if you actually want it to be good.)

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Any developer worth their salt knows that the outputting code is the easiest part of software development, and that code as an artifact has little value without everything that surrounds it: the people, the shared knowledge, the practices (both formal and informal), the infrastructure, the networks of trust, etc etc.

And yet!! like fools, we’ve got ourselves hung up on OSS licenses and copyright — the legal structures surrounding the code itself — as if code were in fact the only thing that really matters. As if we didn’t know better.

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This is something we should all be pondering: Big tech has most of my email, because it has *all* of yours: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours #AntiFeatures #SurveillanceCapitalism
Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours

Republished by Slate. Translations available in French (Français), Spanish (Español), Chinese (中文) For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work corresponde…

copyrighteous

几乎每一处都在表明,吃瓜人是多么容易被操纵。举最近的两个例子。

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A、对于 #查理科克 。重要的并不是他是谁或者杀他的人是谁、甚至都不是“该不该杀”,而是局面 - 进而是 #局势

还记得“基洛夫刺杀案”吗?事情已经过去了90年,直到现在人们也并不真的清楚为什么尼古拉耶夫要杀死基洛夫,诸如绿帽子等等传闻都是借口而已,甚至政治积怨·都·不·是重要的;唯一重要的是,斯大林利用了这场刺杀来扭转政治局势,镇压了所有反对他建立个人独裁的势力。
前两天913,一群人回顾温都尔汗,但大家都应该知道故事的真正重点是后来毛对权力的完全把控。

查理科克也一样。理论上法西斯势力能够从这一局势中得到相当大的利益。使用方式是另一件事。从刺杀案第一天起我就多次谈到事情的重点是内战VS革命 - 众所周知,只有革命能阻止内战,目前也并不缺革命局面,但革命比战争更艰难在于,它对“之后如何”的需求极大,准确说是对“之后”的期许和信念在推动革命的孵化和催发,而内战,只要有足够剧烈和集中可控的冲突就可以了。

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