caffeine @caffeine@chaos.social

Thought of the day: everyone praises that being a developer is easy cuz there's so much work around, but it's so damn hard to find something that doesn't corrupt your soul, smashes your ethics and doesn't compromise your morals. Ignoring that yeah, there's lots of jobs around 🙄

Bhavani Esapathi (https://twitter.com/@bhaesa) is my friend and a dear, wonderful person who has been battling autoimmune disease for as long as I’ve known her and doing so while helping others. Now the Tories want to hand her a death sentence and deport her. We cannot let this happen.

Read about her ordeal:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-immigration-deportation-woman-coma-home-office-crohns-disease-bhavani-espathi-a8903271.html

Sign/support this petition and help save her life:

https://www.change.org/p/home-office-grant-bhavani-esapathi-a-visa-so-she-can-live

Tell your friends, call your elected representatives, make some noise.

#SaveBhavani

things to do to save the environment

“Emotionally, intellectually, ecologically, cars desecrate the spirit of existence. They kill us quickly (collision) or slowly (air pollution, lack of exercise).“

A great new post from @kyleislikekyle on the life we miss when we are in cars.

https://streets.mn/2019/05/13/the-life-from-which-cars-keep-us/

#Firefox without Librefox crawls like it's carrying a backpack full of weapons-grade Naquadah ​

But Firefox + #LibreFox feels like holy shit my internet connection speed has doubled but I know it hasn't so what the fuck was wrong with this browser before? ​

https://github.com/intika/Librefox

yesterday i was on my bike waiting to turn left at an intersection and a girl in the crosswalk read my "YIELD TO BI CYCLISTS" shirt and she gave me the softest smile and i died in that moment and am now a ghost.

I'm really frustrated with IPFS. I run one of the more popular pinning services, Eternum.io, and the IPFS node eminently *sucks* for this.

Pinning is synchronous, so you pin objects to the queue and hope they're available. If they aren't, pinning gets blocked until your pinning requests time out, only you don't know how long to set the timeout, because if you set it to an hour, large content will always time out (because it takes long to pin) and small unavailable content will block your queue for an hour before it finally times out.

Imagine a torrent client that you could add torrents to but had to wait for one before downloading the next, and it never told you if it's *actually downloading* or not. You basically just take a guess on whether it's actually downloading and hope you aren't wrong.

I currently have a queue of 4000 objects that need pinning but they're all stuck waiting for a few unavailable objects.

This is unacceptable, I don't know how IPFS hopes to become popular with UX this bad.

/rant

"The only way to make big tech accountable is to make it small tech." - @doctorow at #fitctoronto (src: https://twitter.com/phirephoenix/status/1122874501765763073) 🐘

@nightpool @fribbledom

@nightpool @fribbledom

That's a not an excuse for using #discord. There are a lot of open source chats with equal or better accessibility:
* #RocketChat​
* #MatterMost​
* #Martix​
* ...

Also free and open source software is about basic rights and not "purity" as you put it.

Also proprietary software is an accessibility barrier for privacy and security conscious users.

Finally, a name for that sickening media fascination with documenting poor people's struggles to cope when the system fails them without questioning why & how the system has failed them: perseverance porn.

Www.fair.org/home/medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-porn/

Every relationship changes you in some way. How could it *not*? You expose yourself to another person almost completely. Your most intimate feelings, desires, dislikes, etc. all shared with another person. That takes a profound level of trust not found with most friendships.

Given that, why consider a relationship unsuccessful just because you broke up, if you learned something about yourself from it?

Doesn't mean the breakup is any easier, but once the dust settles, one can make it positive.

Amazons digitaler Sprachassistent #Alexa hört ständig mit und Konversationen mit dem Gerät werden als Audio- und Textdateien unbegrenzt gespeichert......denn das #Innenministerium möchte, dass Ermittler Alexa künftig für ihre Arbeit nutzen können. Deutsche Nachrichtendienste können schon heute... auf Alexa-Abhörmaterial zugreifen. Gleiches gilt naturlich auch für Apples #Siri und Googles #OKGoogle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R93mqIYEBa4 #BND #MAD #Verfassungsschutz #abhören

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/9875590

again we have a much too dry spring.

I became a bakers apprentice in 2003. I have been baking since then and it has become worse and worse. We have not had a good grain harvest since 4 years. It has become a sad thing to get on the phone with the farmer who farms our grains. The next harvest is already in danger.

it has begun! and all I hear from people is: "the climate is changing naturally anyway"

#climatecrisis

A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome's adoption.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/

As I learn to sew as an adult, four things come together to irk me:

- I was, through society and directly, not taught anything coded as feminine;
- sewing, and all crafting, is coded as feminine;
- all things coded as feminine, including crafting, is considered lessor;
- living sustainability and outside of consumerism is, often, a form of crafting.

I see what we did there, and I won't stand for it!

#Hyperboria is community of hackers running "a peer-to-peer IPv6 network with automatic end-to-end encryption, distributed IP address allocation, and DHT-based Source Routing."
https://hyperboria.net/

Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/

Good morning. Please remember that weaponizing parts of your identity (that white supremacist capitalist patriarchy attempts to destroy/capitalize on) in order to silence or control another 'minority' is talking about something is not the way forward.

If I'm talking about race, don't bring up class to negate my points. Also, these things are always linked together as well and there's time and a place for nuanced discourse.

ok? ok.