LibSkrat @libskrat@mastodon.social
Librarian and educator. Fat vegetarian from the Frozen North. She/her/her.
Somebody has to have done the supercut of Selim Bayraktar saying "Sultanem." Kills me that I can't find it. Somebody MUST have.
The shade getting thrown at Google right now seems like what happens when your lawyers don't actually understand the business they're working for.
Google deserves every iota of shade they're getting and then some, of course. Pass the popcorn.
When you tell somebody on birdsite that you didn't get the Ph.D in part because you just Could Not with theory...
... and then across your birdsite feed comes a conference ad of exactly the kind of theory-to-the-max shit that makes you go OH HECK NAW
Also guilt over blown deadlines. *sigh*
End-of-semester stress finally getting to me. Too much to do, not enough time; too many opportunities, not enough clarity about which ones to say yes to.
(Though that second one is a pretty great problem to have.)
This isn't an arts&humanities style debate on 'who owns the work, really?' This is a question of maintaining the fundamental security of the web. These annotation services violate dozens of the web's basic security principles, injecting code that potentially tracks users, proxying sites while stripping your security measures (like CSP headers) out. As implemented these services are an active, continuous hazard and if they grow, they'll become a threat to the web itself.
Marginalia in other media is by its nature private. Private to whoever has the copy, to that classroom, or to your group of friends. Public unmoderated annotation of a website is a vehicle for abuse and harassment and enabling it is absolutely irresponsible. It's a tool for creating an abusive sub-reddit for every site out there. It needs to be opt-in.
If you want public unmoderated annotation, the responsible thing to do is to publish them elsewhere, separate from the original context/page.
"I find the idea that someone would use a service like Hypothes.is to annotate my work on my websites particularly frustrating." http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/26/no-annotations-thanks-bye
I find the behaviour of annotation organisations like Hypothesis and Genius to be particularly irresponsible. Not only are they enabling potentially abusive public, unmoderated comments at scale, they often proxy your content or inject code into your site in the process, breaking it & injecting bugs
@libskrat I gave it a whirl https://inkdroid.org/2017/04/23/robots/
While I understand the spirit of the change, abandoning any contract between web publishers and web archives seems like a step backwards.
Shifting A/V gear all day because Monday I'm getting a SERVER RACK to put it in!
... just let's not talk about the state my back is in right now.
Well, one neat thing, anyway.
The neat thing about the earlyish days of a social network is following-back people you don't know just for the hell of it, and because they're probably not creeps or trolls.
Thursdays. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Finnsie wishes you to know that SOME leadfooted oaf of a housemonkey stepped on her TAIL FLOOF and she is OUTRAGED. 😾
(she isn't really 😺 )
The previous toot brought to you by yet another deadline I'm prolly gonna miss.
The last few years have been conference-speaking years. This year is conspicuously a writing year by comparison.
This of course means I AM PERENNIALLY BEHIND ON DEADLINES DAMN IT.
I hate professional writing so, so much.
The last season of The Musketeers is awful so far.
Where are my delightful women and Men in Awesome Hats? What is all this grimdark BS?
I want my show back. 😞
I wonder how hard it would be to make a mastodon-mokum connection.
