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this is awesome: See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS subtls.pages.dev/

@f0x@gts-dev.pixie.town check out the new GTS video player and media spoilers :3 (work in progress)

project management / issue tracker advice 

Don't try to minimize the amount of open issues in your issue tracker! Issues are *contributions* from users, telling you about problems that you were not aware of yet - they're not pests to get rid of.

Closing issues without either solving them or a good(!) reason why they won't be fixed - for *any* reason, including stalebots - will just sour people on your project. They won't tell you that; they'll just stop showing up. And the issue still won't be fixed.

Instead, treat your issue tracker like a priority queue: accept that you're never going to get to zero, accept that some issues will remain open a long time because they are not urgent, and find a good way to order the list by your criteria of importance.

Work on things as time permits, in order of importance, communicate this to users, and establish a good rhythm of bugfixes that users are happy with even if *their* specific bug isn't fixed yet.

There are a lot more useful thoughts on this topic in this article: apenwarr.ca/log/20171213

wait what the fuck i knew Paw Patrol was just kids' copaganda, but it also features a child billionaire that provides the town with all the emergency responder puppies!?!?

5% discount with no minimum spend and arms strong enough to carry two value buckets of armstead trade matt emulsion... where are you...

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If you give a man a software, you torment him for a day.

If you teach a man to software you torment him for a lifetime.

Baseball is a really fucking weird sport, or: Let's talk about baseballs. Like, the physical object. - pt 1 

, when I talk to non-fans about baseball, one of the things that surprises them the most is that an average baseball game goes through something like 80-120 balls per game. After a ball has been used, it's either send down to be used in minor league games, used in batting practise, sold to fans, or occasionally caught by a fan directly, so it's not *entirely* wasteful, but that's still a lot, roughly 40 pounds of baseballs.

the HTML details/summary elment is so fuckin awesome

violence 

gee i wonder why they're called executives

adhd 

anyone with adhd (or not) do this thing where they don't just mentally defocus on the task, but physicallly unfocus their eyes too

about posting "news" for "awareness", especially for allies 

Things you should ask yourself before posting "news" articles about negative subjects in particular:

1. Is this something that nobody saw coming?
2. Is this an article that provides an actionable step forward, some sort of concrete way to deal with the problem?
3. Does this article elevate a perspective of a marginalized group that isn't normally covered?

If you can't answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, *do not* post it.

It's ragebait, it's not useful, and it won't make anyone aware of anything they're not already aware of - all it'll do is make people feel more depressed. It's worse than doing nothing.

If you *can* answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, then post it - but with an appropriate CW, because a lot of us don't always have the energy to deal with negative news.

chatgpt 

chatgpt is really being used as the new "i copied your question into Google and copy-pasted the first result with no verification or any value". I want off mr bones' wild ride

bank shit 

fucking hell i added a recurring bank transfer of 5 whole euros a month to my German N26 account, because it has a mastercard number I can use with Backblaze, and now I have to fill in a form because they're worried I might be doing international tax evasion, with explicit focus on if I'm totally sure im not secretly a US citizen that's required to pay taxes to them??

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