Meredith L. Patterson @maradydd@mastodon.social
We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
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Place de la Bourse has basically turned into b-boy central and everything about that is awesome. Brussels has always been good for diegetic music, but lately it's kind of like living in a musical comedy.
There's a Reddit AMA with a copyright expert on #Art11 #Art13 today: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8ugrow/eu_copyright_ama_we_are_professors_lionel_bently/
If you're unsure what's it all about, join in and read on.
Bike trip was quite successful, about 80km in total. I took the train to Kortrijk, biked to the coast at Oostende, and camped at a campground.
Probably could have just put down any random place outside of town -- my 1-person tent is dark green and blends in well with foliage -- but there's something pleasantly decadent about stumbling out of one's tent in the morning and ambling 200m over to a cafe for coffee.
tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source
Seems like it's working, kinda.
This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no
Tomorrow I'm starting my summer off with a solo bike camping trip.
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MEP Zwiefka voted for Art13 (the copyright upload filters).
I do not think MEP Zwiefka had the explicit license from the publisher of Polityka to publish a reproduction of their article on birdsite:
https://twitter.com/TadeuszZwiefka/status/464020422221389824
Perhaps somebody should point that out to MEP Zwiefka.
So folks, the #article13 and #linktax proposals will be going soon to the EU parlaiment, and if they pass they will become a serious problem for the #Fediverse:
* To automatically filter copyrighted materials, even badly, you need a way to reference those materials. Even our largest instances probably can't afford access!
* Our instances will not be able to afford licenses to link to news sites under the new #LinkTax rules.
Go make some noise at: https://saveyourinternet.eu/
(@gargron)
Had a huddled conversation in the European Parliament with a colleague after the JURI vote trying to work out what #article13 would mean for federated/decentralized services like #mastodon and #ipfs . We’ll need to see the final text which may not be available until next week.
So I've managed to finagle a pass to the European Parliament vote on #article11 and #article13 tomorrow, and with some luck, I will be livetweeting it for EFF. It'll be at 10:30AM CET at @EFFlive@twitter.com. I'm sorry I didn't set up a Mastodon feed, but it's 3AM here now, and I've been kind of busy 😴
Current status: making a memorial video from imagemagick, ffmpeg, audacity, and piracy
Camp++, Hungary, 6-9 July (Inside an amazing XVIII century military fort, with tunnels to explore and all! <3)
Join us and submit a talk/workshop about anything cool you're passionate about (CFP still open!)
https://camp.hsbp.org/2017/pp7e1/howto.html
There will be 31337 fun, fire, palinka, soundz, and hopefully *no* Hungarian pop music from the 90s!
a mastodon instance called "red planet" where federation of posts is delayed proportional to the current light-speed distance between earth and mars. some days of the year posts appear under 5 minutes late, other times over 20 minutes
Turns out the reason no boys came to the yard was that the milkshake's attraction field was too intense. For miles around, boys were pinned to the walls closest to the milkshake, unable to move let alone reach doors and visit the yard.
Luckily, we were able to power down the milkshake before any serious injuries were sustained. All further milkshake tests will proceed in flat open areas, like salt flats or the lunar surface.
This morning I had to chase a bird out of my kitchen with a broom and a cat. It flew in from the open atrium door and couldn't find the door again. Then it flew on top of the bathrooms, whose ceilings are lower than those in the rest of the flat, so I had to put the cat up there to chase it down, and then I nudged it outside with the broom.
Yes, I got the cat down too.
Needless to say I'm awake now O_O
So I've made cold brew tea before. Does one make cold brew coffee the same way?
With this ridiculous heat wave and the rest of summer still ahead of us, I'm thinking "iced sparkling" is the proper way to take my morning coffee for the foreseeable future.
A while back my boyfriend introduced me to mustache scissors, which have curved tips so the user doesn't stab their lips. (I don't have a mustache, but my husband does.)
I found the analogue for nail care! Cuticle trimmers are stabby as all fuck, but Knipex diagonal cutters aren't.
Yes, the kind you use for hobby electrical work.
