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"Medical device company Medtronic released designs for one of their ventilators to open source for use in the COVID-19 pandemic."

"The design details released today are for their PB560 model, which was originally launched in 2010 by a company called Covidien, before it merged with Medtronic, so we’re already starting with a device design that’s a decade old. But it’s also a design that has proven itself through widespread use, and this data dump gives us a great look at what actually goes into one of these machines."

The article notes the information isn't yet complete; my guess is it's still in the process of being collated.

https://hackaday.com/2020/03/30/professional-ventilator-design-open-sourced-today-by-medtronic/

I keep having to re-learn this: queue your yaks, don't stack them.

If you find a new bug while debugging something, file an issue, and continue with your debugging, Don't complicate things by trying to do many things at a time.

We've had ☝🏽 - a quote from the Innuendo Studios video on the harassment of Phil Fish - pinned for a while, and it's been there to say something we haven't tried to find a way to say explicitly. Somewhere between what Ian Danskin had to say about the attacks on Phil Fish, what Anil Dash had to say about online abuse - https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-online-abuse-playbook-575648c9f798 - what we've heard YouTube essayists talk quietly about, and what we've seen from people on Tumblr and on the fediverse, there's a pattern.

...I think the pattern is interpreting the facts towards "this person is evil".

People round the facts towards "this person is evil". Screenshots of the nineteenth tweet in a twenty-two tweet thread out of context. Chains of association - person A participated in person B's video, which also included person C, who years ago said something problematic - that assume everyone involved knows everything and is making deliberate choices about all of it. These two fictional characters, both of whom are canonically adults, having a relationship? Makes someone uncomfortable because the characters have a major age difference that can in the real world reflect a power differential that opens the potential for abuse ... and therefore this fictional relationship is pro-pedophilia propaganda and this real-world person who said they liked the movie with those characters in it is a pedophile.

And sometimes people will take those ideas are already interpretations-towards-evil and do the same process again.

And sometimes the harassment people do because of these ideas will get interpreted towards being innocuous. We saw someone who'd sent vicious DMs at their target describe those DMs as a joke, as part of a meme, and leave out the venom they filled that stock template with.

I want people to recoil when they see someone they hate being spoken of with this kind of intellectual dishonesty. When they see people making the facts worse than they are. We've seen a callout performed with careful, precise language that acknowledges in detail the ambiguity of the situation ... and be completely successful in meeting what I see as two of the three goals one might hope for from a callout: figuring out as a community what the truth is and getting an unrepentant bad actor in a community out of the community. (The third is "get a well-meaning person to learn something and do better", which I think in that case a lot of people tried and failed to accomplish.) There is /no cause/ to approach a callout by distorting the facts.

And, look: you, us, anyone, can't choose where strangers take our words when we point out bad ideas or bad behavior from people. But if we model due diligence and humility, I think we will have a different impact on the people listening to us than if we model axe-grinding, ire-raising, arrogance, and fury.

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