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rainbowmverse··on The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
I think a lot of people's brains throw an exception on the title, as you can see in replies. There is no point where he calls for reparations!

People just won't click through, give it a skim, and see he's only giving an extensive history and suggesting a study to identify and (if needed) correct lingering effects of slavery and ongoing effects of racism. I learned so much about the past and present of racism back when it was published.

rainbowmverse··on Medium abruptly cancels membership programs of 21 subscription publishers
Hitting random paywalls was why I stopped clicking Medium links. Some of the stuff on there was interesting to read, but not enough worth paying for.
rainbowmverse··on Tidal Accused of Falsifying Beyonce and Kanye West Streaming Numbers
I meant Tidal specifically. DistroKid isn't the problem. I'm sure they send it to the store almost instantly.
rainbowmverse··on Tidal Accused of Falsifying Beyonce and Kanye West Streaming Numbers
Tidal was one of the sites I submitted music to last time I tried DistroKid. They took 6 months to get it up (vs the 1-7 days for every other store), and it had worse results than even the already weak results of the others.
rainbowmverse··on Arecibo message
A lot of that is fancy algorithms and not much distance compared to telling an encoded, attenuated interstellar broadcast apart from the background radiation.
rainbowmverse··on Arecibo message
Most broadcasts quickly attenuate into noise.
rainbowmverse··on Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US
This whole site screams "obnoxious quack." I'm surprised I don't see an eBook pitch. I don't know who this doctor is or why he's somehow more credible than the CDC.
rainbowmverse··on Slow ideas (2013)
>> It’s become fashionable to take potshots at Christianity, justified or otherwise.

Taking potshots at powerful ideologies, especially those with domineering factions, has always been in fashion.

rainbowmverse··on Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
I assume they mean General Purpose Computing.
rainbowmverse··on Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
This is only available on older accounts and doesn't seem to work anyway.
rainbowmverse··on The Shirky Principle (2010)
>> If you want pharma companies to make cures, inventivize them to do so.

You stopped just short of a breakthrough. The institution of for-profit healthcare is something we could do without. No one should suffer or die because they couldn't get rich enough before facing a life-limiting illness or injury.

rainbowmverse··on Go's New Brand
Compare to clang's website, which has the same aesthetic and is half as busy (visually): https://clang.llvm.org/
rainbowmverse··on Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books (2017)
Georgia already has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(software)
rainbowmverse··on “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers
Both of these appear to be aimed at developers.
rainbowmverse··on “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers
They're working on it: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/pull/517
rainbowmverse··on “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers
Publii looks promising, but while it's "open source," the source is all wrapped up in an Electron app that could easily be reclosed at a later date.

There's also Netlify CMS, but I haven't done much with it. I think the GitHub requirement puts people off, and work on the GitLab--which has free private repositories--support issue is slow.

What we need is something like Publii that's not packaged in a way that's obviously meant to make closing the source easy. That story is too old, and too common, to believe their intentions are good.

rainbowmverse··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
>> I don't hear people wanting a human readable text representation of their audio, video or images.

This is, in fact, a huge concern for people who think about accessibility.

rainbowmverse··on ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
Switter was back online with a new CDN within a day because it's run from and (previous CDN aside) hosted in places where sex work isn't seen as a crime. They grew to tens of thousands quickly because they could tap into the existing federation, so they didn't need a marketing budget or sales team like Twitter.

People can make their own thing under their own geography-bound laws while still connecting with a global network. That's really neat.

rainbowmverse··on Lea Kissner's job is making sure Google products protect the privacy of users
I don't know if it's related or even on the right place in the timeline, but at some point Chrome started doing virus scans on Windows.
rainbowmverse··on Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Alpha_Trainer#Alpha_...

>> Pipistrel introduced an electric version called the Alpha Electro in 2015 at a price of 69,000 euros,[3] with technology from the Pipistrel WATTsUP proof of concept design, for short training. It has energy for one flight hour plus reserves, and can recharge in 45 minutes or have its batteries replaced in 5 minutes.[4] Instead of 78 lb (35.5 kg) of fuel, it has 277 pounds (126 kg) of LiPo cells, however the water cooled electric motor weighs 11 kg;[5] much less than the gasoline engine. It has a useful load of 380 lb, whereas a Cessna 152 has between 350-480 lb useful load.[6][7]

rainbowmverse··on Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants
Can you expand on this? I'm not well-versed in the geopolitics of aircraft maintenance.
rainbowmverse··on North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
I like the original Klingon version: "Only Picard could go to Qo'noS."
rainbowmverse··on North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
The paper has been around for 28 years, so you can probably find strong opinions on its credibility if you look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munhwa_Ilbo
rainbowmverse··on Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
Just a misread of the data by a well-intentioned scientist and some meddling humans.
rainbowmverse··on The State Pension Funding Gap
The whole point of a pension is to accept lower pay today to not have to worry about tomorrow. It's a structural way of dealing with the fact that most people don't know how to plan for the future and, before, just ended up dying in the streets in their 60s.
rainbowmverse··on Last satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched
There's a wiki on the various ways to guide a missile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_guidance
rainbowmverse··on Why undertakers are worried
"this country" lacks sufficient resolution on an international forum.
rainbowmverse··on Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
I've had this vague sense all year that someone gave it a term and wrote a post on it and I read it, but it never reached the level of consciousness where I'd actually look it up. Thanks for pointing the way.
rainbowmverse··on Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
You might like this Mastodon instance: https://photog.social
rainbowmverse··on Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
I think we just had a misunderstanding. Had my parents listened to all the advice given to them about me, I'd have ended up in conversion therapy, so I do understand. When it comes to advice, some people (maybe most) just want to bloviate, not elucidate.

It sounds like you are being proactive (acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes).

The reason I suggested Minecraft modding and video-making in particular is:

1: It turns his current passive engagement with it into an active, creator role. Most Minecraft mods and media seem to be made by kids, or at least people who started when they were kids. I've read more than a few accounts from people who ended up in CS careers because of Minecraft.

2: Java and A/V are great skills to learn for a variety of possible career paths. Java also translates easily enough to C# and .NET, which also has plenty of career paths.

I don't have kids, but I know enough parents to know how insecure they get when they realize how woefully unprepared their parents and society left them for it, and how often people give lots of useless unsolicited advice. I tried not to do that, but I can see how it might come off that way if you're constantly fending off useless, unwelcome advice and criticisms.

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