Internet-connected fridges:

What happened, Malmö?

Principle of Least Privilege - assume that your users have privacy concerns, limited time, disabilities, gaps in education, cheap and broken hardware, and other bills to pay

Wondering how my news intake would look if it was strictly limited to 1. things I can directly affect, and 2. things that directly affect me.

Feeling a bit too aware of everything.

Thinking about this post, there's a lot there. As far as I know, kids are not in greater danger from deliberate attacks by kids or adults than they used to be (but that's affected by the issue in the post, naturally).

We definitely *hear* about everything bad more than we used to.

There are of course more cars than there once were.

Expected parental behaviour has changed: if you are a parent, imagine something bad happens to your 8 year old a mile from home. Of course you would feel terrible, but also you would fully expect your fitness as a parent to be absolutely slated.

And kid ability has gone down - can an average 8 year old navigate a mile from home confidently even though they've never been allowed to before?

I don't know how we "re-wild" kids as a whole without just pulling a "didn't do us any harm" and denying responsibility.

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The thing about the Fediverse is it's like email:

designed thoughtfully with good intentions by people that didn't truly appreciate how it would be used by people with bad intentions at scale in a deeply flawed world, a world which does not treat people equally

My microwave has an "auto sensor" button. You put something in, hit the auto sensor button, and it says "soup" and you hit start.

Whatever you put in, it says "soup".

That idea that there are the Real Guys who know what they're doing is horribly pernicious in my mind. I have had the experience of being in a room where someone said, "fortunately we have an expert to help us resolve this" and thinking "oh thank fuck", then realising they were referring to me.

On the flip side of that, some of the more productive conversations I've had are when I got open and technical with someone who would count as several rungs higher up because I simply had no idea who they were - social obliviousness can be a boon!

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