Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

@j3s as you know, I strongly disagree with this...

The pervasive unusability of Linux, server side / "production" software is a consequence of capital driving all "mass-usable" software development for the past 40 years.

Big capital created the computer usability industry, and they maintain a monopoly on it to this day...

Regardless of where it came from, I wouldn't be here without computer usability. I think most of us wouldn't. I still see potential good coming from computers, I don't want them to be like gas meters where only a fraction of a percent of the population ever uses them.

https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/lol.mp4

Whoever keeps sending faxes to my cell phone #, pls stop

If I get drafted, u can put me in the Navel Lintfantry battalion

@brainblasted I learned this stuff by trying to write code for games. I was able to make enough stuff to motivate myself to keep going by copy and pasting other peoples scripts and reading the unity game engine documentation. Tbh the unity documentation was some of the best I've ever seen, it had a complete code example on every page.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150208112941/http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.TransformDirection.html

I can't believe it but they actually cut some of those old code examples 😮😥

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.TransformDirection.html

Back then there was no free and good ide but they shipped it with a text editor that had a keyboard shortcut to "I'm feeling lucky" search the docs for the highlighted word. Being able to navigate a hypertext like that, of other peoples example code and the other mostly-in-context examples + descriptions from the unity docs, helped me learn a lot about the math and the way all the parts worked together

@tante

I think where the software runs (hardware), and who runs it, matters much more than license, and can even matter more than source availability

@vkc if you just want a quick matrix account that you can use right away, I can make you one on cyberia.club's matrix server. We also host element web at chat.cyberia.club

I was gonna try this with pinafore but life happens and now I'm working full time again

@dumpsterqueer What do you think about this one? https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

As far as I know no one has yet copied the mastodon frontend to try to separate it from the mastodon server

@jakintosh @j3s

The main reason OC sucks for us is because we use our own bank acct for it instead of using their bank account.

That means every non-donation txn has to be entered manually, the ui is optimized for the version where OC holds your money for you. So its less intuitive for us. We have to create fake OC accounts to represent the entities we pay bills to like landlord, gas company, etc.

The ultimate slap in the face is that OC represents the donations to us as Individual txns but in the bank acct they show up in batched deposits that represent multiple ppls donations.

So if we want to "balance" the accounts ala double entry bookkeeping, we have to solve the (NP complete BTW) bin packing problem / "cafe problem"

At our scale this is "fine", I wrote a tool for it that works, in practice its not that messy and an automated tool can solve it... Its just annoying that this is even a thing

https://git.cyberia.club/cyberia/layerzero-account-balance

So I'd say if you arent comfortable with letting oc handle all the money, if you can get recurring donations set up and working w/ your own stripe account that will be better in the long term

And if you've never done double entry bookkeeping get ready to learn, if u wanna use OC with your own bank acct