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New at #SEP: Leibniz’s Philosophy of Physics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/
7 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse Yeah, that has nothing to do with fun. 😅

I was thinking back to CD players. Switching tracks took a moment, although I don’t know anymore how long exactly. IIRC, playing CDs on a computer was a bit slower than in a dedicated player.

Don’t worry, switching to the next OGG file on my disk is basically instant. 😅
13 hours ago
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dfaria.eu
Good Morning 🎧🎵 David Sylvian - Orpheus https://www.last.fm/music/David+Sylvian/_/Orpheus
20 hours ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #NWP: Lars Moen (University of Vienna), “The Republican Dilemma: Promoting Freedom in a Modern Society” https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/lars-moen-university-of-vienna-the
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse But stuff is still “mostly usable”, isn’t it? It’s not like it became impossible to write a letter because everything has gotten so slow.

That’s what I meant by “absolute” performance: A human being tolerates a system boot up time of 0.5-2 minutes, for example, so there’s an absolute/fixed duration that any task is allowed to take. Boot: 0.5-2 minutes. Opening Word: 1-10 seconds. Saving an image file: 1-10 seconds. Time until the next song starts to play when you click “next track”: 0-5 seconds. Stuff like that. As long as we don’t exceed those durations, people will be more or less happy.

Wasted potential? Ab-so-fucken-lutely.

(Maybe I’m repeating myself. I’m tired. Sorry. 😅)
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #c7kyxoa
@lyse Uhh, nice. Haven’t seen a sunset like that in a while, I think. 🤔
1 day ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #APA: APA Member Interview: Brian LePort https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/25/apa-member-interview-brian-leport/
1 day ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #SocialEpistemology: Shy Data and the Occlusion of Communism: A Reply to Yuan’s “A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberalism”, Glenn Rikowski https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/25/shy-data-and-the-occlusion-of-communism-a-reply-to-yuans-a-contemporary-marxist-critique-of-neoliberalism-glenn-rikowski/
1 day ago
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movq
What the heck is going on here today, so many messages. 😂
1 day ago
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dfaria.eu
Ministro da Ciência diz que a FCT deve ser uma agência mais independente: https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/24/ciencia/noticia/ministro-ciencia-fct-agencia-independente-2098582
1 day ago
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dfaria.eu
Good Morning 🎧🎵 Pixies - Hey https://www.last.fm/music/Pixies/_/Hey
1 day ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #APA: Devising Opposition in Feminist Philosophies of Care https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/24/devising-opposition-in-feminist-philosophies-of-care/
2 days ago
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New at #ImperfectCognitions: Function, Dysfunction, and Mental Disorders https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/07/function-dysfunction-and-mental.html
2 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #APA: Latin American Philosophy, Mariah Partida https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/24/latin-american-philosophy-mariah-partida/
2 days ago
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movq
Reply to #sderf2q
@prologic … what was that again? 🤔😅🤪
2 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #APA: Teaching as an Act of Service https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/24/teaching-as-an-act-of-service/
2 days ago
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dfaria.eu
Good Morning 🎧🎵 Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar https://www.last.fm/music/Sigur+R%C3%B3s/_/Svefn-g-englar
2 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #IEP: The Cognitive Foundations and Epistemology of Arithmetic and Geometry https://iep.utm.edu/arithmetic-and-geometry/
3 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #APA: Chasing Desire https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/23/chasing-desire/
3 days ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse I guess it’s all about “absolute” performance. Everything is *just* fast enough for you to get stuff done – no matter the underlying machine. LibreOffice today on my modern machine takes the same time to start up as StarOffice (its ancestor) on my retro machine. And working with it feels the same, everything is just as fast (or slow).

Browsing the web today feels similar to 25 years ago. Even all this wobbling that my link above demonstrates already existed back then (in a way), but it was caused by images loading so slowly. Then, for a brief moment, some browser (I don’t remember which one) had this brilliant feature of trying to keep the current scrolling position *stable* while the page was still loading. That was great. 😃 This feature then got lost again, probably because it’s too hard to do with JavaScript changing the DOM all the time. So now we’re back to the way it was before.

Corporations should give devs the slowest and oldest machines that they have. 😏 Not only would this be more sustainable, it would also force them to optimize better.
3 days ago
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dfaria.eu
Long Dark Night 🎧 Nick Cave: https://open.spotify.com/album/692UfApwZN5hJ7rRIfcSde
3 days ago
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movq
Wayland wants to make *every frame perfect*. I wish web devs had the same goal. Instead, we’re stuck with this:

https://movq.de/v/112a927861/hiccupfx/

😂😭
3 days ago
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Reply to #haiwbdq
@prologic Most of the things that cause my frustration are things that I can’t change or even avoid. There’s little benefit in complaining about it, I think. 🤔
3 days ago
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movq
I’m putting all efforts to switch to Wayland on hold for another 2 years, minimum.

As we all know, writing a Wayland compositor from scratch is next to impossible. Luckily, there’s the wlroots project which aims to build a base library for this task. Basically every compositor except for GNOME and KDE uses it. (This is good! The less fragmentation, the better.)

wlroots is still very volatile, lots of changes with every release. Downstream users (i.e., the projects that write the actual compositor) have to constantly “chase” changes in wlroots. dwl, my favorite compositor at the moment, has recently switched their `main` branch to target the wlroots *git* version instead of the latest release. My understanding is that they *have* to do this in order to keep up with wlroots (maybe I’m wrong).

Everything is volatile and a moving target.

Why does any of this matter for me? Because I have to eventually fork dwl or at least keep a patch set, and I don’t have the stamina to constantly fiddle with this stuff. I’m running my own X11 window manager, it’s highly specialized, and using just “some Wayland compositor out there” is a *huge* step backward that I’m not willing to take. I tried, it’s just painful and annoying with *zero* benefits.

So … it was fun experimenting with Wayland a bit, but I’m now back to waiting for things to settle down considerably.
3 days ago
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On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays: https://aeon.co/essays/on-hope-philosophical-personalism-and-martin-luther-king-jr?utm_source=rss-feed
3 days ago
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New at #SocialEpistemology: A Letter to Claire Lockard: On “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression”, Part II, Kristie Dotson https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/23/a-letter-to-claire-lockard-on-conceptualizing-epistemic-oppression-part-ii-kristie-dotson/
3 days ago
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I will be taking part in the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, which will be held in Rome at the beginning of August: https://wcprome2024.com/ . https://dfaria.eu/news?archive=2024-07-21T12:13:47Z
3 days ago
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Good Morning 🎧🎵 Lambert - Sweet Apocalypse https://www.last.fm/music/Lambert/_/Sweet+Apocalypse
3 days ago
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New at #SEP: Medieval Theories of Singular Terms https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/singular-terms-medieval/
4 days ago
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Academic Publisher Sells Authors’ Work to Microsoft for AI Training - Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2024/07/22/academic-publisher-sells-authors-work-to-microsoft-for-ai-training/
4 days ago
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Exame de 2ª fase de Filosofia: veja aqui a prova e os critérios de correcção | Exames Nacionais 2024 | PÚBLICO: https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/22/sociedade/noticia/exame-2-fase-filosofia-veja-aqui-prova-criterios-correccao-2098444
4 days ago
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New at #SEP: Plato’s Aesthetics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-aesthetics/
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #lu7gjvq
@prologic @lyse It’s better this way. 😂 I don’t like all this negativity in tech. We tend to focus on bad aspects too much, imho. Then again, it’s *really easy* to focus on bad stuff, simply because there’s so much of it. 😂
4 days ago
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Today is one of those days where I’m really grumpy and have typed out lots and lots of rants. Luckily, I all deleted them in the end instead of sending them. 😂
4 days ago
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Reply to #ndodcuq
@prologic They all gave Crowdstrike root access to their machines. What could possibly go wrong? 🤷🤷🤷
4 days ago
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New at #NWP: Tyler Porter (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Manufacturing the Illusion of Epistemic Trustworthiness" https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/tyler-porter-university-of-colorado
4 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #OpenForDebate: Extreme belief systems https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/extreme-belief-systems/
4 days ago
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dfaria.eu
Good Morning 🎧🎵 Marika Takeuchi - Found https://www.last.fm/music/Marika+Takeuchi/_/Found
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #bl7a36a
@lyse Oh, ok, somehow I thought this was not your thing. 😅 Maybe I was misled by you calling them “Acca Dacca”, which felt somewhat derogative. But I just found @mckinley’s twt `gaapgna` from a while ago – so this is just normal Aussie slang for AC/DC?! 🤯🥴
5 days ago
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Haidt book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00902-2
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
I will be taking part in the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, which will be held in Rome at the beginning of August: https://wcprome2024.com/ . https://dfaria.eu/news?id=2024-07-21T12:13:47Z
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
⚠️ Jonathan Haidt: Vamos ter de retirar a maior parte da tecnologia das escolas: https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/21/impar/entrevista/jonathan-haidt-vamos-retirar-maior-parte-tecnologia-escolas-2097683
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
Academic journals are a lucrative scam: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
I will be taking part in the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, which will be held in Rome at the beginning of August: https://wcprome2024.com/ https://dfaria.eu/news?id=2024-07-21T12:13:47Z
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
I will be taking part in the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, which will be held in Rome at the beginning of August: https://wcprome2024.com/
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
The XXV World Congress of Philosophy will be held in Rome in the first days of August: https://wcprome2024.com/
5 days ago
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dfaria.eu
Good Morning 🎧🎵 Hugar - Waves (Instrumental) https://www.last.fm/music/Hugar/_/Waves+(Instrumental)
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #dk5cxea
@eldersnake

> I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time

Hmmmmmmm, I like that idea. If I could ban WhatsApp into a second profile and only switch it on every now and then, I would feel a little bit better about it.

(I don't really trust Android, though, and I suspect that apps can still install background services that are *always* active. Pure speculation and paranoid on my part, but still.)
6 days ago
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dfaria.eu
New at #1000WordPhilosophy: Moral Education: Teaching Students to Become Better People https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2024/07/18/moral-education/
6 days ago
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dfaria.eu
⚠️ De acordo com um documento de preparação do próximo ano lectivo, o Governo de Portugal quer fazer «recrutamento de bolseiros de doutoramento» para o exercício de funções docentes no ensino básico e secundário. Esta medida tem tudo para correr mal, dado que os estudantes de doutoramento não têm qualquer preparação didática e, em geral, não têm qualquer sensibilidade para dar aulas. É estranho recrutar alguém para dar aulas sem qualquer noção do que é ensinar, aprender, pedagogia, didática, etc. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RzoLzoSx0GKjFDiJcroCT7knF_sLKFfm/view
6 days ago
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