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tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: Biologists discover four new octopus species

Imagine human beings farmed for food by an alien civilisation that has "debates" on whether it's ethical or not to eat homo-sapiens.

They have centuries and centuries to settle the question while rearing and killing billions of human beings each year.

N.B. The price of baby meat is higher because it's more tender or whatever.

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

> I lose trust in Mozilla

Why did you lose trust in Mozilla? What other browser would you recommend instead?

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective

I don't think that people "far removed from tech" are "sub-90 IQ" (a "delicate" euphemism for "stupid").

And I don't think that people on facebook, youtube or tick tock are "sub-90 IQ".

Thanks for making clear that it's what was implied by the original commenter.

That's lack of empathy coupled with sheer, crass ignorance.

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective

> a panel of users with sub-90 IQ who were in a stressful environment and trying to complete other tasks at the same time, blind users, deaf users, et c.

For me, the first task would be to make absolutely sure that I block any apps designed by you. Such lack of empathy in your wording proves that you cannot possibly be a decent, half-decent, or even mediocre UI designer.

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: Damn Small Linux 2024

What are some use cases of Damn Small Linux?

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: The two cultures of mathematics and biology (2014)

> Status didn't matter

Allow me to doubt that mathematics departments are immune to status competition.

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint

Question to keyboard enthusiasts: Are ergo column staggered keyboards that much more ergonomic, comfortable?

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab

We often confuse Free and Open Source with "free beer". We have been using pfsense for years without paying a dime; if we could we would gladly have done it. It's simple fairness.

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: Why Kundera never went home

Could you point to this evidence? And how do you know that that is what kept him from returning to his country?

tbitrust | 2 years ago | on: The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension (2018)

Purely anecdotal, but I choose not to read the literature on the ethics of animal exploitation because I was still eating meat. But I decided to take the plunge, and now I cannot go back to eating meat.