Minoru @minoru@functional.cafe

I'm #reading a self-help book where all inset quotes are by women, and examples are heavily geared towards women too (e.g. it's not "napkin scribbles", it's "napkin scribbles in lipstick"). This despite the fact that the topic is not specific to any particular gender - the book's advice so far made total sense to me, a man.

It's funny how slightly uncomfortable that makes me. It's as if the book gently pushes me away, kind of excludes me from consideration. As if only a woman could make a mess of her notes! The fact that I'm even aware of this tells me that this approach is very much not the norm, at least not in my reading.

Is this how my normal reading would feel to a woman? If I have any female followers: did a book ever make you feel like it's written only for men, despite the topic's gender neutrality?

It's interesting how everyone's answer to https://bsd.network/@solene/105496981720415737 is "not unless you have both parties' consent", while my answer would be "yes, since the medium doesn't give any guarantees of who can receive the signal". I believe the former is legally correct, while the latter is more like technically correct.

I also wonder if this difference is the root of all the privacy problems on the Internet. Seems like people's common sense is aligned with laws, not tech, so they expect their communications to be private even when technologically they aren't.

This is a fresh take on command-line calculators: https://danso.ca/blog/happy-space/index.html I feel like this is something I needed without realizing it. Installed, we'll see how handy it is in practice.

Over 30 minutes of code archaeology to remove 9 misleading words from the documentation. About to spend 30 more in a hope of correcting 1 (one, i.e. a single) word more.

Writing documentation is pretty easy compared to keeping it in sync with the product.

Let's Encrypt came up with a hack to make old Android phones trust LE's certificates beyond 2021. It all hinges on the fact that Android doesn't check the expiration dates of its "trust anchors". Pretty sweet! https://letsencrypt.org/2020/12/21/extending-android-compatibility.html

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