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lishzen··on Magnifica Humanitas
Users are responsible, too
lishzen··on Piracy
pitchfork.com has RSS feeds of best new albums and best new songs
lishzen··on Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting
I was looking for an UPS replacement and found this: Anker 521 Portable Power Station. Haven't decided what brand to buy, bit $200 sounds reasonable.
lishzen··on Why GitHub won
Migadu
lishzen··on Mondragon as the new city-state
I understood from the article that workers remain working for the coop (possibly in different companies) until they retire, and then, the coop provides them with pensions; so they continue to receive value after retirement.
lishzen··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
We solved some of this by having a "src" folder with subfolders: "functions", "triggers" and "views". Then a update-src.sql script that drops all of those and recreates them from source files. This way we can track history with git and ensure a database has the latest version of them by running the script and tests (using pgtap and pg_prove).
lishzen··on New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
+1 make it per user This decision works against zulip long term, now we have to think before inviting/adding users to our server. Third rug pulled from under us in a year: zerotier, rport and now zulip.
lishzen··on Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme
Reminds me of Karma Police:

  Karma police
  Arrest this girl
  Her Hitler hairdo
  Is making me feel ill
  And we have crashed her party

  This is what you'll get
  This is what you'll get
  This is what you'll get
  When you mess with us
lishzen··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Love it! Searched for Shigeru Miyamoto and this was the third result: https://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/miyamoto-h...
lishzen··on A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
Yours is a short question to make, but it requires a very long answer, not fit for a comment box. The negative consequences of prostitution are deeply personal because the effects of sex on the participants go deeper and last longer than the effects of the act of copulation. If you want a good argument against prostitution one route could be to understand the link between sexual expression and: intimacy, self esteem, love, relationships...
lishzen··on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
You know, technology doesn't just materialize spontaneously, it is made with a human purpose and that purpose (with all the subjectivity of everyone that participates in creating and fostering the technology) is imbued in those inanimate objects. When you use technology it guides you in its intended use according to its purpose, when you open a door by its handle, when you put your headphones on.

Phones and youtube specifically are made to make money by gaining and keeping one's attention. They achieve it with tactics that trigger addiction. Some people become addicts, some not so much, but if you have a human brain you will feel the pull to abuse them.

In the case of phones and youtube the "mythical they" are the ones who profit from them and don't care about the effects of their tactics on the users. Maybe it is not warfare but it sure is asymmetric.

lishzen··on What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
Non medical placebo effect? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845699/
lishzen··on Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory
If corporations are suddenly liberated from labor regulations they are not going to reverse their decisions and sell the robots to employ more people or make part-time employees full-time. Cost cutting is a war of multiple fronts.

Labor regulation has the same effect as taxes, the money just doesn't go through the government. Higher taxes and no labor regulation would have similar consequences in corporate profit-seeking decisions, because corporations are the ones paying most taxes anyway.

Besides, there is no clean separation between government and corporations, I think it is improbable that taxes are raised after getting rid of labor regulations.

lishzen··on It’s time to give Firefox another chance
I think you're joking but it's the third time I heard someone say something like this today, so... profits don't pay your salary, your work pays for it.