Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

signwriter: is your new shop sign good for your business?
pharmacist: yeah it's a big plus

Is there a tool that let's you narrow down food suggestions based on a series of questions about of what you are and are not currently capable of making and consuming?

New type of mask interaction today, when I had to go to the hospital for a yearly check-up (sadly unavoidable). Nobody wore a mask, not even medical personnel when they had to physically interact with patients. There was still disinfectant gel around, but I was the only one using it.

An unmasked nurse came to pick me up from the waiting room and when she dropped me off at the room, she pointed at my mask and said: "Miss?! Do you have corona?!"

I explained: "No, I'm trying to prevent it."

Her: "So you don't have any symptoms?"

Me: "No, none, just wearing this to protect myself."

Her: "Are you vulnerable?"

Me: "Yes."

Her: "Sorry about that, I just have to check when I see something, you know? With these new guidelines, anyone could be having corona anywhere! And most don't even wear a mask!"

Me: "True, I heard the coughing in the waiting room."

Her: "Yes! And they don't stay at home! They don't even mask! I bet people like you could use people like them like a tooth ache!"

Me: "Indeed, I wish people wore masks."

Her: "Unbelievable, such people!!! Coming here of all places!!! Anyway, I'll get the doctor, be right back."

I was kind of surprised that she felt so strongly about unmasked sick people (I'm used to everyone minimizing the severity or covid or claiming it's gone), but I was also annoyed that she wasn't masked herself either. I don't have energy for those types of conversations anymore though, I'm just trying to get in and out of the building as quickly as possible.

A little while later I was waiting in the treatment room for the doctor to arrive, when I saw the door open a tiny bit. I heard the same nurse explain to someone: "The patient is wearing a mask, but I checked and she doesn't have covid, she's just one of those vulnerables, you know? So don't worry, she's not sick."

Then the doctor came in, unmasked, and no further comment was made about my mask.

If only there was a simple way for all these medical people in the hospital to prevent the spread of covid to themselves and their patients... 🤡

#covid #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

What is something you have learned you wish you could have told your younger self... but, you also know your younger self would never believe you?

Here are mine:

* Even if you are a smarty pants you still need to study, probably a lot.
* Brush your teeth twice a day. Not once. TWICE.
* The few things about your appearance you have (some) control over are not very important in romance.
* No, you really do need to sleep.
* Don't just study what's hard & impressive study what fascinates you.

OK... Hey, Microsoft. Yes, you, the big tech company. We need to have a chat. Now, I'm not mad... I'm just a bit confused.

So. You have this feature in Windows 11 Pro, "Windows Sandbox", which basically spins up a quick disposable Win 11 VM. Now... no, listen, I'm not angry this exists, it's a neat idea. I quite like it. But I've been having an odd bug that I... NO, I am not done talking, do not start pointing me towards your support pages. I know what's happening, I just have some questions.

I'm sorry for raising my voice, you just... I just need you to listen for a minute, OK? OK.

So, you decided that the standard, official way to get files into and out of that sandbox is copy-and-paste between that and the host. And, hey, I get that, makes sense. But I've been having some weird behaviour and ahh ahh ahh ahh - Stop. We just talked about this. Not after support. I just have questions.

I kept finding that sometimes, while copying files out, the transfer would just suddenly stop, just an error bing (no pun intended) and an "Error Not Specified" message. What's odd is I could never catch it in the act, it always happened when I was doing something else. Do you know what it was, Microsoft?

...No, it wasn't a hard drive failing. ...No, turning it off and on didn't help. ...No, I,... OK, stop it, it was a rhetorical question. What it was was that it would fail the moment I tried copy-pasting anything else at the same time.

Microsoft... did you design this thinking that no-one would ever try to use the clipboard while transferring files between the host and guest OSs? You didn't think about it? Well, do we agree that, perhaps, that was a bit of an oversight?

Look, I'm sure there were security reasons to handle it this way... it is a sandbox, I get not wanting to have direct host file access like that... But you have full control over the host OS, AND guest OS, AND all the software they're using to interact. Could you not have come up with something?

Like... OK, what if the guest OS exposed its file system to the host but not vice-versa, so users could push and pull files through the host file browser, but guest processes couldn't even see the host system? That should be pretty... Hang on, what's that look? What do you know?

...Seriously? Why would you do that, Microsoft? Why would you not have that as an option, but DO have an option to expose the host file systems to the sandbox? That seems like the much less secure... Yes, I know you disable it by default, that's probably a good idea, that's not my question.

But, look, anyway, my point is; you're smart, you could've come up with something better, right? Like, if copy-paste is the way to go... what if you have a parallel clipboard, just for the sandbox, so the user doesn't have to avoid using it for other things while a file is transferring? ...Oh, don't look at me like that, it would hardly be the first time you've added some specialist function for your own apps to your OS to work around limitations you put in place.

If nothing else... could you maybe fix the error message? Have it say "Clipboard contents changed during transfer, try again", so it's clear what's happening? I've been struggling with this for months.

Anyway, I just wanted to talk to you about it. It's fine for me now, I know what's happening, I can work around it, but... Just have a think about what I said, OK? OK. Now, go get 'em, champ.

...Christ. Can't believe I have to skip using the clipboard when I'm copying all those pirated videos over, what a pain in the ass. Microsoft, what a dingus.

usb-c is amazing until you plug your phone in to a usb-c power bank and your phone starts charging the power bank

one of the lessons of being an adult that suck a lot but are necessary to learn is to say "I can't do this to, simply because I don't have the additional capacity at the moment for that" ...

people need to realize that dissolving the lines between gender also means dissolving the lines between sexuality. you cannot say gender is fake and then say sexuality is strict and rigid.

there are multigender/genderfluid people who are lesbians and gay men at the same time. there are mspec lesbians/gays/straights who have a complex relationship with gender and their sexuality. there are gay men who are women and lesbians who are men because male isn't the opposite of female.

"conflicting" labels are a part of many people's queer experience, because the human experience isn't simple enough to be put into neat perfect categories. if you truly support trans and genderqueer people, you need to accept the fact that gender and sexuality is complex and there will be people whose identities you don't understand.

malicious glee at seeing the desperation in the advertorial “The History of Natural Diamond Tennis Bracelets”

because even women who are curious about the most traditional flashy diamond looks are thinking lab or moissanite more and more

Being an anarchist (and actually having studied power dynamics and decisionmaking in that process) means constantly seeing people make the same governance errors over and over again, consistently having things fail in the same ways across a wide spectrum of topics, and then being told that *you're* the naive one when you try to point out this pattern

Was just thinking again of Ibby, who decided to burn his passports and travel from Norway to Morocco on foot, without any money: https://www.shareable.net/walking-from-norway-to-africa-without-money-or-a-passport/

I met him in 2013 at an Occupy camp in NL. Very inspiring person, who pretty much lived the world in the way that so many folks imagine. Could listen to him talk for hours.

I don't know where he is now or what he's doing, but he seems to have published a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43562112-the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-not-hitchhiking - I do hope to get back in touch with him some day.

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A reminder that the most useful feedback often doesn't come from the people who love your project or the people who hate it, but from those who have serious concerns but continue using and recommending it anyway

Your periodic reminder that the root cause of slow/inefficient software is not laziness, or Javascript, or Electron, or "interpreted languages", or people not understanding how to do software development, or not understanding memory management, or libraries, or abstractions.

None of those are the root cause. The root cause is capitalism, and the incentives it creates to build software that works barely well enough to make money under impossible deadlines, often leaving developers no choice in the matter and affecting the broader software development culture.

You want to fix bad software, you need to start by addressing those capitalist incentives. Telling people that they are doing a bad job will get you nowhere, and you will likely get things wrong in the process.