Irina @irina@wandering.shop
Reader, writer, church music wrangler, roleplayer, baker, chaotic-good cook. She/her, don't object to they. Blog: https://valdyas.org/irina/fo3
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
Spouse suggested joining his phone plan (lots of data, unlimited calls) but that would mean paying in SIX WEEKS what I pay in a year now. Even if I buy a 4 or 6 euro data package whenever I go abroad for a couple of days. I don't need unlimited calls; hardly ever use the phone to call anyway, just to use wifi. And to play MergeDragons.
I found the pink-and-orange dupatta (goes with my dark red dress) that I thought I'd left in church and had been taken away by someone more covetous than is seemly. Now, of course, it's too warm to wear my dark red dress to church.
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region." WTF, website, what do you lose if someone from a little country in Europe reads your article?
I don't care if ads are personalised or not; I ignore them anyway. I just wish apps had "never show me ads with sound" and "never show me moving ads" options. I might even whitelist sites if I could be sure I'd never get gratuitous sound or motion.
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Dear Google, I've always had my interface and results in English, Why the sudden switch to Dutch?
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Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!
Why do lots of sites (here's looking at you, birdsite) have "Sign up" very prominent and "Log in" in tiny hard-to-find letters in a corner?
I should perhaps have CW'ed that last toot with "bible" or "religion" but I was running out of space already :-(
Wow, this is a splendid Bible scholarship site https://gegrammena.wordpress.com/ (in Dutch). Found it while looking for a Dutch Septuagint translation, which doesn't seem to exist. Too eager to be precise in the article I'm translating (from English; the author *does* have a Septuagint translation). None of the Dutch Bible translations I know will do. If I didn't see a deadline looming (Thursday) I might try to do my own translation from Greek. (He's pointing out diffs btw Greek and Hebrew versions)
Argh I was already faintly angry (world against me) but now I've stumbled on a series of articles telling parents how to spy on their kids. I wish I knew some teens to point to it so they'd be warned.
Dear game: when I turn the sound off I want the sound OFF. Also in the ads.
Having books by the same author grouped looks useful in theory but I have fanfic in the same collection as canon, and it's decoupled now. (Still got my collections, but harder to get at.)
Suppose someone came into your house and rearranged your bookshelves unasked? Kobo just did that to my ereader. While WiFi was OFF. It was DISABLED. And I still got an unstoppable update. Much harder to find things the way I arranged them, much more geared for buying books from the store. (I do buy books for the ereader; I just don't buy them *with* the ereader.) Also, I don't want recommendations, thank you very much.
New blog post: Procession! https://valdyas.org/irina/fo3/life/procession/
