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i think steven universe and harry anderson egbert would get along

New art by @softgoat :3

Just saw 3 mobility scooters on the bike path on my 10 minute bike ride, including one used by a minor with their guardian walking beside them. There’s lots more to do for disability access but excellent bike infrastructure is an important step

And then for people for whom taxis or private cars are still the best option, guess what! The roads aren’t clogged with a bunch of people going very slowly, being angry with each other, and transporting giant useless hunks of metal everywhere. Unload your wheelchair or mobility scooter near one of the many curb cuts without a huge line of cars honking behind you. Bike-friendly infrastructure is disability-friendly infrastructure; most apparent conflict comes from car-first infrastructure.

Bike-friendly infrastructure goes hand in hand with public transit, which can and should be wheelchair accessible, much more than taxis or private cars. And then e-bikes add a whole class of people who can’t comfortably ride a regular bike but aren’t ready to use a mobility scooter to the group of people who can zip around the city independently. I’ve seen so many disability accommodations on bikes here, even bikes driven by arm power as well as recumbent and tricycle bikes.

It’s weird to me when people frame calls for bike-friendly infrastructure as in conflict with disability accommodation. Make a city good for biking requires lots of smooth curbless bike paths that are perfect for mobility scooters, much better than trying to use your scooter on the road or the sidewalk. I see people zipping around on their mobility scooters everywhere in Amsterdam. They also have these tiny little cars for people with disabilities that are allowed to use all bike infrastructure

#wikipedia

to be clear i'm mad at suv owners and the social arrangement we have where public transit has to operate secondary to a completely superfluous swarm of needlessly gargantuan personal vehicles

i fucking hate cars

the only difference between the "draw proton"/"draw duke" functions is what base address they draw from.

YOU CAN PASS ADDRESSES TO FUNCTIONS, TODD

todd replogle: look, I know programmers who use function parameters and data-driven design, and they're all cowards

Next Friday is the settlement deadline for the Facebook privacy lawsuit. Without knowing what the net settlement is, it's impossible to know what you might get, but i don't say know to free money. And the longer you had a Facebook account during that time period, the greater your payout will be https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

@arisunz this issue exists in lots of places!! should be talked about more

on Windows, compiling an executable in most languages will probably make the linker embed the absolute path to the pdb inside your executable (which might contain your system username)

with Rust, it will embed the compiler version into your binary: If you’re using rustup then the absolute path to the compiler version is inside your user folder

in C and Cpp, if your build system gives the compiler an absolute path to a compilation unit, the __FILE__ macro will expand to this absolute path (and therefore may end up embedded in the binary in lots of forms). also if you don’t have -no-canonical-prefixes and you use a compiler version inside your home folder, you might end up with your username embedded in paths to compiler-internal headers in the debug symbols (not sure about the binary itself)

definitely something to be aware of if you’re shipping binaries for anything

oh cool, Rust embeds your full username in binaries no matter what flags you use, even in release builds, and even after stripping symbols with strip

the suggested "solution"? build in a docker container or change your username 🤡 🤡

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mfax64/remove_username_from_binary_for_privacy/?rdt=57488

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/75263

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/40552#issuecomment-809012730

What the Hachette v. Internet Archive decision means for our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ #DigitalRightsForLibraries

@emma It is vastly cheaper to give a benefit to everyone and then tax that amount from rich people than it is to run the massive bureaucracy of means testing.