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@wmd@chaos.social it's a techbro-ism from terms like internationalization getting shortened to i18n, to much dismay from most actual accessibility advocates I've seen

@haskal I think both types of opensource projects should exist.

If I just write some neat one-off script to do a thing, I don't think I should have to support it beyond what I need from it. I'll just open source it to give others who want similar things an easier starting point.

If I build an app or a library that I actually want other people to use, it is my responsibility to make sure it's as accessible as it can be

uni / group work 

@futurebird @welshpixie I'm more on the adhd side of things, where group work *can* help by providing more outside motivation to keep me on track instead of postponing everything to the deadline, but there are also numerous cases where I would've much preferred to do the same assignment on my own. The social dynamics on finding your own group members when you aren't randomly assigned are also horrible

on bad necrocomputing takes 

Sometimes I see takes like "computers used to be able to do the same job using way less resources, software is shit nowadays"

And I can only wonder whether they've ever developed software back when real-time compositing was unaffordably expensive, and so was proper process isolation, and a million other 'modern conveniences' that make software, y'know, not suck

guess i'll do a timed mute till it's off my timeline....

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@thufie pff who needs reconfiguration that my NixOS server roams across moving perfectly fine

Another week, another hip "twice as fast as React" library where the fine print is that it doesn't handle edgecases

How to draw foxes! Tip no. 1:
Foxes are just shapes.

Including and especially the truncated great icosahedron.

@FuchsiaShock oof same for me, 25.6° Hope it cools down before I get home

@gwenprime but can you put "no thoughts" in an empty head, or will that make it no longer empty

drugs shitpost 

Remote Coke Execution (RCE)

This week really needs another reminder that ‘respect for the dead’ is demanded by the oppressor, but not given in return. To not speak ill is another form of ‘being nice’, of decorum imposed by a white supremacist society.

Celebrating the death of evil men is a form of punching up, a final form of accountability that they eluded in life, and a speaking out against which their privileged position can no longer protect them.

Rejoice in their passing. The blood on their hands demands it.

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