Jordi @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

@ColinTheMathmo I lived in Mexico City from birth until I was 18, then again from the ages of 23-30. I went for 12 years to a posh English-language school where all classes were in English except some requirements like Mexican history and Spanish literature. So I am native in both Spanish and English.

I haved lived in Montreal for close to a decade, so I picked up French informally from the streets. I also studied a bit of Russian because I dated a couple of Russians, in both my cities.

Alright, let's try doing one of these #introductions.

I'm a #Mexican #expat in #Canada (can I call myself that or should I call myself an immigrant?). I like #mathematics, #knitting, #swimming, #skating, and #linguistics, none of which I do professionally. I am officially still a #GNU maintainer for #Octave (free #Matlab replacement).

Professionally, I work on #greenhousegas assessments and #environmental #mapping. The details of which are rather boring.

Let me just say this loud and clear: if there is anything I am doing or saying that is causing you any kind of grief or discomfort, please just let me know so I can amend my conduct. I want to be nice to people, and I can't always tell when I am not being nice.

A colleague sent an internal release email saying we have a new version of our software for our computors. And linked to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=vh3tuL_DVsE

#COMPUTORS!!!

Francophones often pronounce my name as if it were it in English.

I think I need more moogles in my life.

Hey, #Canada, does anyone know if your #bank will allow you to use its web portals without requiring the use of a pocket computer? Maybe the situation is better with other banks besides the Toronto Dominion.

Pocket computers make me so anxious. I've been able to opt out of them so far, and I really hope that society will allow me this opting out for a long time. I hate the idea of having a universal tracking device glued to every human.

This is really the first time I'm locked out of something somewhat important because I don't have a pocket computer. I am a little afraid of this getting worse.

I can hardly argue that any accessibility was violated, can I? The web portal is just a convenience and there are other ways for me to interact with them.

I was like, okay, fine, I don't want no trouble, just take my personal information.

They help me log in, creating a username and password for me.

Then I'm immediately greeted with a security screen that tries to make me agree to give them a phone number so they can text me 2FA codes to.

I don't have a phone number. Exasperated, I just tell them, "well, I guess I can't use this online portal. Thanks, and bye."

And that was that.

So, I tried to call them to sign up for online insurance bank (re: https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH/100289198520327046 )

First they ask me over the phone to consent to giving them my personal information and telling me that they will send me the terms and conditions over email.

Were they asking me to consent to something I haven't read yet? I don't know. They were asking me to give them my personal information but wouldn't specify over the phone what that would be (and the phone operator was getting annoyed).

Okay, fine, by unpopular demand...

In 1933, people asked the Jews to be more understanding of the Nazis and said that boycotting Nazis was as cruel as war, even if it was bloodless:

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/15/archives/urges-good-will-by-jews-for-nazis-prof-cadbury-of-society-of.html

Blegh, I hate banks so much. >.<

Dammit. You win this round, you silly banking website. I should not have challenged you.

I'm not mangling my "foreign" surnames just because you're using [A-Za-z] in your regexp, you silly banking website!

I want to toot pol stuff but you can already get all of that stuff elsewhere, so why bother, right?

Does anyone else ever have this thing where if you actually think about what your password/PIN/access code actually *is*... you can't type it or punch it in?

I start doubting myself. Wait, was it lowercase or uppercase? Did it have numbers? How did I spell it? Was it an odd or an even number? Did it have special significance?

God, the momentary panic when I think I've forgotten my password/locker combination/PIN and can't access the thing...