Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-- William Gibson, Count Zero - The favorite author of the exact people he was writing about.

There are a lot of dumb things my computer does but this is like… really high up there
#macOS #MacDev

@mcc
It’s unspeakable how many cryptic little icons have invaded new apps.

- little downward caret
- ellipsis
- VERTICAL ellipsis
- plus sign
- click your own profile pic to access everything important
- gear
- gear, but it does only 1 thing, which is never useful
- hamburger
- hamburger but only 5 items inside, & only 1 is useful
- ℹ️

The future is me with a big text file, 1 heading per app, saying what sequences to click for each workflow. It becomes outdated every 36 hours.

Genuinely, who is organizing progressives in Canada and how do I get involved? It feels like the center left has absolutely been asleep here since 2015 and I don’t know what the fuck to do about it.

ETA: I am looking for actual names of groups, people, organizations, not analysis. I don’t want to hear about NGOs and certified non-profits. I fucking get why this is happening and don’t need a lecture telling me what I already know, I’m looking for who’s actually working on the problem.

I hope you're all on the path to IPv6

@atax1a
Bringing back solar time
- UTC offset is now your latitude divided by 7.5 hours
- East-west travel now causes time dilation
- Standing on one of the poles approaches an event horizon where your watch hands stop and the dial spins at 0.0007 RPM

Nailing 0700 local time to sunrise:
- all of the above
- time dilation traveling north-south too
- for half of the year, all clocks in the Arctic and Antarctic Circles read NaN

BTW if you are a U.S. voter, and you try to vote today, and you are denied because of problems with your registration, be aware you may cast a provisional ballot. They put it in an envelope and count it later.

- HOW DO I DO THIS?

Ask the poll workers.

- WHAT IF THEY WON'T HELP?
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I'M ELIGIBLE?
- HOW DO I FOLLOW UP AFTERWARD?

I made an effort to research this and the only answer I can find is "call the Democrats". The Democratic Party runs a national hotline at 833-336-8683.

Study showing how Australian Aboriginal people shaped the distribution of useful plants across their lands, dispersing them in more preferable areas, etc:

"The findings call into question our whole notions of what agriculture is," said Douglas Bird, study co-author and professor of anthropology at Penn State. "Rather than thinking about the difference between agricultural societies and hunter-gatherer societies as a matter of kind, we'd be better off thinking about it as a matter of degree—that people influence plants long before they engage in what we think of as farming."" - https://phys.org/news/2024-10-landscape-effects-hunter-reshape-idea.amp

Peoples who are used to living with the environment (instead of "against" it) understand that often the best interventions are the ones that are extremely subtle. In this case, the interventions were so subtle that they didn't fit into traditional western understandings of cultivation and agriculture.

So it's good to see this kind of subtle cultivation getting more recognized by science. There are many ways to live with the environment and to place the resources you need into places that are convenient for you and your people. The more that westerners can learn that, the more possibilities open up for how to live with the land.

#indigenous #australia #cultivation #agriculture #science #gardening #gardeningau #plants #nature #environment #ecology #anthropology

One of the perks of my new job is they don't use Microsoft Teams

So...I'm from Delhi, India, and I love surveying for #OpenStreetMap. I'm a pretty active mapper and I've also done a professional field survey for Médecins Sans Frontières (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders).

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/contrapunctus/

I also like teaching people. In the past one year, I've organized 15+ mapping parties and workshops, where I taught how to use OSM and how to contribute to it.

Could I #GetFediHired to do any of this full time? Open to relocating or traveling.

#boostswelcome

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For the love of all that is holy, can you all please start using `<a>` for navigation and `<button>` for actions, not the other way around?

Please don't make me turn this into a blog post.

Signed, someone who couldn't right-click to "open in a new tab" when it mattered.

#HTML #accessibility

"Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

[...]

Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

#news #workers #labor #WorkersRights #WorkWeek #FourDayWorkWeek