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gonna take down mastodon and upgrade it to latest soon(tm), it's been a while :>

here we go migrating synapse media :3
(already ran an rsync before this, so only needs to copy over the very latest changes while it's actually down)

I tend to transfer a lot of media/info between platforms, like oh person x on platform y will like this
and it regulary occurs that I copy something, get distracted, then try remember
1. what did I even put on my clipboard
2. who was I even gonna send that to

Very good read for anyone working on accessibility:

Avoiding the engineer-saviour trap - Jenny List, Hackaday
hackaday.com/2017/08/03/avoidi

"And in that moment, I almost fell into a trap. I was setting myself up to be the Engineer-Saviour, riding in on my white charger to deliver the users of the room from the ceaseless hell into which its designers had put them. The overwhelming smugness of Helping Someone Less Fortunate Than Myself was reaching out to envelop me, and it was time to put the thought down and back away real slow."

mh? ~ 

woke up and got out of bed quite quick, feeling really driven, can't wait for something to come along and fuck that up

ffs Lebara won't let me call the hotline number even tho texting worked just fine

the mastodon hotline was a mistake and I love it

pretty sad to see that most of the SBC exodus seems to go (back) to mastodon.social...

holy fuck the Apashe music videos are such aesthetic goals, wonderful production and colorgrade

and of course the music just bangs :DD

: Apashe ft Instasamka - Uebik (Gotta Run)
youtube.com/watch?v=286jXjwdst

block recc, transphobia, victim blaming etc 

noticed them reply-guying in a thread about the harassment women receive in tech, go to their profile and find shit like this
(transphobia, anti-sexworker) mastodon.social/@Rick_B_/10375

alc 

Malibu in coffee is really fucking good aaaaaa why didn't I do this before

I suppose the next logical step is write a bot that sends all @hotline@hellsite.site posts to the hotline number for INFINITE RECURSION

@goat@hellsite.site the hellsite hotline should transcribe the audio posts! (this is totally not going to make it worse)

defending electron on main 

electron kinda sucks but like, what else is there for cross platform GUI development? GTK is a messy pain in the ass to get working (especially on windows) qt has weirdly restrictive (and slowly becoming more restrictive) licensing policies as well as being somewhat tied to C++ (somewhat, not totally - i've made a python project in qt before, but ended up having to use the C++ documentation and figure out how to "pythonise" the information), java swing looks gross and requires the JVM, tk and wxwidgets are undercooked and lacking basic important features...

and then there's electron. sure it's bloated, but it works everywhere, with many many languages, has very few OS-specific quirks, uses a design and markup language that many people are already familiar with, doesn't restrict you exclusively to the "native" widgets, supports a bunch of cool UI features out of the box (animations, gradients, flex/grid...), and can even be made into a webapp with ease

also electron is definitely bloated, but given that my decade+ old eeePC could run vscode, a browser, and discord at the same time, i find it hard to believe that a single electron app brings your whole system to its knees

maybe all the people complaining about being unable to run discord really are on 15 year old netbooks

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