I am someone who has worked professionally as both a civil engineer and a software “engineer.” When I put scare quotes around the latter, I mean them.

The difference in rigor, sense of responsibility for the public good, and especially power to push back against harmful ideas by management, is shocking.

DRM, enshittification, dark patterns, Cambridge Analytica, sneaky “telemetry:” none of that shit would be allowed to exist because it would violate professional ethical standards, if software “engineering” were a real profession that had any!

This is why real engineers (as opposed to software “engineers”) are licensed.

Is there a good, privacy-respecting service for videos?

This question is especially tragic because we have a Fediverse video service – PeerTube – but the design of it isn’t quite right for your use-case.

Something about adapting the old ways to her young, modern style.

All Flock use is misuse. Being overly focused on cops being charged for their unsanctioned use of it is almost a bad thing, because it gives a false impression of what the problem actually is (“abuse” by the proverbial ‘few bad apples’, rather than the fact that the mere existence of a panopticon is inherently evil) and of what the solution is (improving oversight of access, rather than permanently destroying the entire system).

Aldi must have a very different reputation in its native land than it does in the States.

Make no mistake, Waffle House is urban too.

Let’s be clear about this: Aaron absolutely had authorized access.

Because Swartz was merely a natural person, while Meta is an almighty corporation. Everybody knows only corporations deserve rights, duh!

Do it. Not joking.

So as not to disappoint anyone, I should be clear: the above quote was part of the caption of the Instagram video, not said directly to the asshat in person.

There’s something special about a stereotypical ‘little old lady’ appropriately using the phrase “twat nazi Mom 4 Liberty asshat.”

I’m literally one of the mods of !fuckcars, which is to say, I am painfully aware of how much better Europe in general, and the Netherlands in particular, is at this stuff.

The difference with Atlanta is that path is kinda the only one like that we have in the entire metro area. We have other trails in a network that’s gradually becoming more connected, but that’s the only part of it that’s more-or-less fully built out with pedestrian-oriented surrounding architecture, which makes it far more popular than any of the others.

Other trails look more like:

Don’t get me wrong: they’re nice, in their own way. But they don’t have nearly the appeal or ridership of the only trail with proper urbanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yz0KhZJHI

Not my video and I don’t know what day of the week it was filmed, but it’s pretty representative of ‘medium’ weekday afternoon traffic (even though the video title calls it “heavy”). Like I said in my previous comment, weekends are worse.

(I don’t endorse trying to ride as aggressively as they’re doing in the video, BTW.)

I enjoy riding bike more because the commute time is always the same. Nobody can stop you on a bike. No traffic jams, no accidents that blocks a road, no rush hour stress.

At a previous job, I used to commute on the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail. Because Atlanta is so starved for bike and pedestrian infrastructure, it was actually popular enough that it managed to slow me down with foot traffic sometimes. (And that was on weekday afternoons; it’s even busier on the weekend.)

Still infinitely better than driving, of course.

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

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

We’ve been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that’s because the Luddites were justified too!

They weren’t against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.

At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.

He was there with his girlfriend, yet he was in the arcade instead of the orgy!

a supposed cold city in a tropical country

What does that mean? High elevation, I guess?