I don't want to be mean but I always feel awkward about responding to a request like this. I find the whole thing vaguely offensive, but it feels unfair to blame the founders for that, they believe they are building a useful tool. And maybe sometimes for some people it even *is* useful. The best answer I can come up with — a curt "no" — feels somehow disingenuous too, because it doesn't get into the numerous reasons for refusing and doesn't make any progress either.https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12353#issuecomment-2455840366

@glyph great post! I strongly agree with your framing and "best possible future"

I can’t back this up with data *directly* but I have a firm conviction that there are at least 10x as many people like this as there are useful idiots who will vote for Jill Stein or leave the top of the ticket blank because of some esoteric backwards interpretation of Kropotkin. If you want to help in the home stretch then GOTV will be categorically more consequential than yelling at a guy you made up to get mad at (and you probably already know that) https://historians.social/@philip_cardella/113403327384181534

Bonus points if you can do something with the Heliocide ones related to <https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/5000> of course.

thinking about governance and tech nerd problems today and I really need to start (or join? is there already such a thing?) a vanity domains collective. if I'm incapacitated temporarily during a renewal window my personal domains getting jacked could cause a serious level of annoyance in my life, and I imagine many other nerds are in a similar situation.obviously we would all need a huge level of mutual trust, but this seems like a worthwhile thing to try to get started

@mcc @robryk @aeva @glyph It’s also been argued that poor user interface design in the US Navy’s Aegis Combat System led to the accidental 1988 shoot-down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser USS Vincennes, which killed all 290 people on board the airliner.http://xenon.stanford.edu/~lswartz/vincennes.pdf

@[email protected] i can't speak to ubiquiti but i can speak to leaving stuff alone with automatic unattended upgrades: only do this with systems you regularly interact with. they WILL break eventually and you probably want to be there when it happens.for stuff that you rarely interact with: no. never use unattended updates of any sort.

ladies and gentlemen, google search 2024

@glyph

Going to take a break for a few hours from talking about #SuperSwingDistricts but I did want to talk just a *little* bit about the stakes.In 2016… almost 8 years ago… I wrote this: https://blog.glyph.im/2016/11/what-are-we-afraid-of.htmlIf you're convinced, this is not an article for you to read, but it is an article for you to share, if you know someone who is not convinced that this is *serious*.I was early, but I wasn't wrong.In 2016, nobody had "mass deportations now" signs. In 2016, there were guard rails.#USPol

@glyph @xgranade Don't apologize; you're not doing anything wrong (quite the opposite).From my perspective, the two most important issues right now are the climate disaster and avoiding World War III. I don't think any US president will, on their own, "fix climate change" or "avoid WWIII" - those things are not within a US president's power.But exacerbating the climate disaster or the risk of WWIII *is* within a US president's power, which is why I really, really hope Trump loses.

@almad @glyph It's not just NPS, the data thing is real. Logged-in state doesn't evaporate in apps, notifications create a tracking vector, and available fingerprinting surface area is an order of magnitude larger.

Update to https://superswingdistricts.org today: a goal tracker, showing how much we've raised. This has been promoted other places, and we don't really have any tracking, but just based on timing it does seem clear that you folks are responsible for a pretty significant chunk of the progress so far, so THANK YOU!

@glyph that, but also check your blood pressure regularly during and after: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/covid-19-may-trigger-new-onset-high-blood-pressure

@glyph (for the people reading replies: if your model of electoral politics doesn't prioritise harm minimisation, you've got a fundamentally misguided view of electoral politics)

This has been delayed by logistical issues and various COVID infections so the site is somewhat half-baked right now, but the slate is done and you can donate so if you want you can just go ahead and do that right now: https://superswingdistricts.org

@glyph I was publishing "Stallman is bad" stories 30 years ago and he's still around, and his defenders are as vigorous as ever. It's really astonishing.It's not a close call with him. The fact that society can't even manage to get rid of the "not a close call" ones really doesn't speak well of society.

Subjects such as the appropriate criminal sanction for offenses such as statutory rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, sexual assault, are things that society needs to reckon with. That is true. But it is NEVER, EVER APPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS *ANY* OF THESE SUBJECTS IN A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT. It does not matter if your perspective is complex, nuanced, or even objectively correct. *Bringing up* these subjects in an inappropriate context is itself part of creating a hostile work environment.

@glyphOh no

Just for the record, Richard Stallman should resign in disgrace, then retire entirely from public life. Then, everyone involved in any way in reinstating him to positions of authority within FSF or GNU should also resign and apologize. If there is *any* hope for the positive elements of the movement that he tried to build to survive (for what it's worth, I think chances of that are slim) both he and the faction he represents must be removed from it entirely.