Jacek @jacek@mastodon.technology

Context is:

- there is a child sexual abuse problem in Poland in context of Catholic Church;
- we don't know the scale cause nobody cares to count abuse instances (well some people do care but government does not*)
- getting damages money is super hard; cause priests have no property and church does not acknowledge responsibility;
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* arguably current party is just hostile to church child abuse survivors. But previous didn't care either.
#Poland #CatholicChurch

Nationalists (or facists) would say that #Poland was attacked in World War 2 by (choose from the list below):

* Atheists
* Communists (of course S in NSDAP stands for Socialism)
* German nation & Russian Nation

What they omit is that we were rather attacked by two nationalistic regimes (N stands for National). Soviet Russia was somwhat cosmopolitan, but in practice being a Russian in Poland was somewhat a priveledged position too.

Right now we have very big "Black Protest" marches, as ruling party decided to enforce (already very strict) abortion restrictions in Poland.

Basically woman would be forced to birth with severe defects (even ones that will die in first day of life).

They also started using terms like: "unborn human", "unborn patient".

This is all to appease to Catholic Church (after bishops publicly urged the government to hasten this legislation)

#poland #politics

Całe oprogramowanie trzyma się na ślinę i gumę do żucia.

Trafiłęm właśnie na buga w #ansible który powoduje że zmienne JSON tj:

> VAR: '{"foo": []}'

konwertowane są do niepoprawnego JSON tak:

> {'foo': []}

kiedy np. trafiają do szablonów.

Legitne rozwiązanie (poza upgrade ansible i grzebaniem po globalnej konfiguracji dla projektu) to zmienić zmienną na:

> VAR: ' {"foo": []}'

Wtedy ansible/Jinja2 nie wykrywa że to JSON więc go nie psuje.

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This is a reference to two things:

1. Bioshock I and II games, that take place on underwater city Rapture, where small won't contrain the weak (it doesn't end well);

2. Musk tweets (real!) where he suggests people sent to Mars will work off their loans for transit fare.

Here is the direct link https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1217991853615677440 .

Building Rapture on Mars is not impossible, it is impossible to build Rapture anywhere else.

#Poland #NCBJ

I was on an excursion to real working reactor today! It turned out you can just call them, and schedule a visit with a group of friends for couple of hundred PLN.

It was cool.

I was kinda disappointed that after serious investment whole installation lost it's vintage look straight from "communist" Poland ;) When I was working there, there was a plaque: "Inter-City telephone that way".

#Poland #Polska #NCBJ

Byłem dziś na wycieczce w reaktorze w Świerku.

Plan wycieczki był taki: Najpierw wykład o energetyce i reaktorach, potem wejście do hali reaktora i oglądanie działającego reaktora i tyle.

Oprowadzajacy był kompetentny i nie robił błędów merytorycznych (nie dowiedziałem się niczego nowego, ale mam magistra z tego tematu więc nie oczekiwałem tego). Oprowadzający był w dobrej normie polskich starszawych naukowców.

Wycieczka trwa ok 3h, i kosztuje 300 złotych za grupę.

I'm doing a project for a friend. Where he needs to orchestrate couple of hundreds of devices over radio (not via GSM). I'm happy that I don't need to do the actual radio/electronic part. However designing protocols over unreliable media, with stringent packet size requirements is something new to me.

We use LoRaWAN as network layer and need to have some resend and gluing packets together.

So basically I feel as I'm designing TCP.

Hacker News is a mind opening place.

1. Apparently you'll be able to bankrupt on university debt in USA.
2. Which leads to problem: how to keep tuition rates sky high when people could bankrupt debt.
3. Someone compared being human to being a startup (bankrupting is OK).
4. Someone else said that you could get equity on person.
5. Someone else compared it to slavery.

Capitalism is a system that solves all* problems (* problems that occur only in capitalism).

4. In far future there will be "low level" errors in "spam detection frameworks" with automatic low level spam production (including spam Internet packets)

Most convincing vision of the Internet was in Neal Stephenson books (more than one).

1. We basically start like things are now;
2. Some rich guy open sources automation of creating fake news;
3. No one accesses the Internet without news curators. And eg. Maps would display radically different things depending on your beliefs. (like Crimea but more - Crimea is Russian or Ukrainian on Internet maps depending on where you access them)

Obviously dragons are fur covered cause its cold high up.

Some thread reminded me of "Tkacz Iluzji" a Polish (not translated) Fantasy novel series including fluffy (as in covered by fur) dragons. Dragons were shapeshifters also. Weird disabled mages (cause having half of brain dedicated to to magic could kill important parts of it).

It also had non-monogamic and non heterosexual heroes. Which was a lot at the time.

Good Times!