Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"Gender is one of the oldest and most established systems for controlling people. And if you think the youth fucking with it is annoying that's probably because it's messing with a power structure that benefits you"

👆 this.

(source doesn't want to be mentioned)

#Gender

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

(Credit: source unknown)

I hate when I play the dinosaur game, make good progress and suddenly have internet again

A voluntary peer review system, but for pull requests. Instead of throwing money around, having meta discussions on how to run FOSS better, keep it simple. A group of people, including some real experts for the truly weird cases. Let’s call it the s-express (security express, and yes, when you remember the song, all the better). When you as maintainer receive a pull request that looks dodgy, you can forward it to s-express, who will take a look and report back with a first assessment in 24 hours

Proposal:
- Legally require all consumer products to specify an expected lifespan in all their marketing materials.
- Extend the "legal guarantee" in EU to cover whatever the claimed expected lifespan is, under the same terms as are used now (but no shorter than the existing minimums).

I bet that this would cause a significant industry shift towards durability. Because making something much more durable is often only slightly more expensive, but unless corner-cutting manufacturers are required to be transparent about their corner-cutting, price is often the only thing that products are judged by.

Bosch/Siemens: How should we name our proprietary data bus inside washing machines etc.?
Nobody:
B/S: Yeah, let's call it D-Bus!
https://github.com/hn/bsh-home-appliances?tab=readme-ov-file#d-bus

#dbus #bosch #siemens

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

Firefighters value property when lives are in danger about as highly as cops value lives when property is in danger.

"If you make your own engine you'll never ship a game"

I'm here to tell you this is BS. Kitsune Tails uses a custom engine built on a custom framework all made from the ground up by yours truly. Neither of these were even remotely the bottleneck for development duration. Turns out that the thing that takes the most time when you're developing a game is all the stuff that is hyper specific to that game and can't be generalized anyway

Not to mention all the, you know, actual content that sits on top of the engine. I can write a json parser and serializer from the ground up in a day or two, but all the cutscenes I had to script for KT took many weeks

Then there's the fact that if I'd used an out of the box physics solution for Kitsune Tails I'm fairly certain I'd never have been able to nail the game feel it has, which is the most core thing to the whole experience

You don't *have* to make an engine but quit pretending doing it is the hard part of making a game. It fucking ain't

Six-year-old Ami's idea of putting numbers in #order was unusual. She wrote
0 6 9 3 8 2 5 4 7 1.
and explained it like this:
"It's an order from soft & curved to sharp and straight. Zero is a whole soft oval. 6 & 9 try to make curls, & 3 makes double curls. 8 connects the doubles! Then 2 starts to uncurl & makes a sharp point. 5 has that, plus more straight parts. With 4, the curve is gone, & then it gets simpler for 7 & then down to just 1." #wss366 #microfiction #numbers