moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town
New account: @ebel
The fact that the modern internet isn't as decentralized as it used to be pisses me off.
@vfrmedia yes good point. Tricky.
Even walking around housing estates writing down house numbers used to get some OSMers confronted. So they made OSM high viz vests. Noone complains about the person in the high viz writing things down. Must be from the council.
RT @clapifyoulikeme@twitter.com: The continued existence of straight women in 2018 should utterly disprove the idea that homosexuality is a choice.
Source https://twitter.com/clapifyoulikeme/status/950946654596882434
@KindlyFire oh! I didn't know about that! And they host some big name instances, which is reassuring.
The #witches in #Discworld have to spend a lot of time looking after their local community. No one else is going to do it!
That's what we're doing here. Finding the weirdly untagged ways and cleaning them up. Find your area in #OpenStreetMap, and look after it. It's your map.
If you want to do some simple #OpenStreetMap fixups, just open up the #OSM Inspector, go to the Tagging view and look for something to fix. The "FIXME" tag one is useless, disable that, and look for another kind of error. 99.99% of the time it's an actual error, and the map data needs to be improved.
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging
RT @aisghair@twitter.com: Men: let's put it in the Irish constitution that a woman's place is in the home
Also men: it's feminists' fault that more men don't get custody of their kids
Source https://twitter.com/aisghair/status/951094071459762177
PostgreSQL Index Bloat, we meet again!
RT @EricaJoy@twitter.com: Tech peeps: Be aware that some of your coworkers that don't come from privileged backgrounds are making much more than their parents do and are possibly paying some bills "at home" because of it.
Source https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/950598083406004232
RT @HonestToddler@twitter.com: How come people who don’t believe in #racism always believe in #ReverseRacism? How does that work? That’s like believing in Santa but not in your parents.
Source https://twitter.com/HonestToddler/status/950815452766318592
"Legends of the Ancient Web" http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm
Another sobering talk from Maciej Ceglowski. He's shaping up to be a good candidate for "conscience of the tech industry."
So far, my goal of trying to do one #OpenStreetMap edit per day is working out.
RT @GreyTheTick@twitter.com: I notice the usage of "#Feminazi" has dropped off considerably now that anti-feminists have decided that the Nazis weren't all that bad actually.
Source https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/950575536748740608
toot toot
@starbreaker They'll get right on that
I'm genuinely intrigued by these calls to rebuild the future as a by-the-people-for-the-people retrocomputing DIY FOSS micro revolution, but I wonder how many folks actually understand how tough it is to support Unicode when building something from first principles of bits and bytes.
If your homebrew future tech assumes text is made up of 8-bit characters, you're building a world in which you can't communicate with most of the world and re-entrenching biases that have taken decades to overcome.
I would personally like to apologize for the antispam movement of the late 90s and early 00s. We did more harm than good. Nothing we did reduced the amount of spam significantly, and we created the centralization of email, where not only does your personal email belong to a monopolist, but to have an email newsletter, you must hire another monopolist to send it.
I'm sorry.
Theory: Corporations are toxic