Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

Relevant to last boosts:

Federated Social Media Is Not The Answer

https://qua.name/kittybecca-in-english/federated-social-media-is-not-the-answer

"Law of holes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes

Lisp shows up in funny places.

Just leaned that Audacity's scripting language, Nyquist, is a lisp: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/nyquist/ https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/programming_in_nyquist.html

@glitterwitch @hummingrain yeah some people seem to think the difference is “some people are racist and some aren’t” but i think a more accurate characterization is “some people reflect on their thoughts/actions and correct for underlying racist influences, while others don’t bother”

everyone is a product of their culture, and most cultures are deeply steeped in racism and racist power structures

being not racist is a literal skill to practice every day

The German Corona Warn App went live today. F-Droid cannot distribute the app for multiple reasons:

1) The core bluetooth contact tracing functionality is only implemented in Google play services and requires proprietary client libs to be included in the app.
2) The google api mentioned above is only available for use by apps which are whitelisted by google and distributed through the play store.

free and open source music composition software now with ~design~. amazing! https://musescore.org/en/MuseScore4

I've made the draft of conformally displaced arrays into a separate blog post: https://turtleware.eu/posts/Conformal-array-displacement.html

#lisp

Bethesda: We openly support social issues, but only when they benefit us in the market!

"Understanding Conspiracy Theories" has a noticeable contribution from Polish scientists based on research done in Poland. "Collective narcissism" is one of the most frequently mentioned population characteristics in this context 😂

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12568

Fellow white people, please listen to this, a lot of the people around me have yet to understand it:

"You can’t renounce your class position. Privilege is not an accusation or damnation, it’s simply an observation about your class position. White liberals understand the concept of privilege as if it is an original sin and that is pathological"

https://twitter.com/SpeaksAngie/status/1268160327360958478

If you want to migrate from #adobe After Effect for something that respect (not insult) your freedom, have a look on #natron project.

Natron is a Free and #OpenSource Compositing Software For #VFX and Motion Graphics. It is available for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.

https://natrongithub.github.io/
#FreeSoftware #FOSS #floss

Ardour 6.0 Information for our users (Yes, it's available!) https://ubuntustudio.org/2020/06/ardour-6-0-information/

I found this very useful:
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/2/21278123/being-an-ally-racism-george-floyd-protests-white-people

"How to be a good white ally, according to activists

Three experts on what it does and doesn’t mean to be an ally, now and always."

whoosh, it's fast! #lisp #clim

"Our Senior Dharma Teacher Larry Ward offers a message on how to practice when the fires of grief are burning: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tCi4vM-NvGw&t=2m15s "

via: https://twitter.com/plumvillageom/status/1267176132878774277

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