Friendly reminder to my fellow americans:
Perfect is the enemy of good, and perfection is impossible in any system where entropy exists - such as this universe we live in.
And, just maybe, consistently choosing to improve society somewhat - no matter how small the improvement - will lead to an improved society for everyone much faster than holding out for The Perfect Solution To All Problems.
And it's not like this will stop me from indexing the site (which doesn't seem to be their goal anyway - they have an explicit allow-all robots.txt), but really this only inconveniences *them* because now their server has to handle more requests due to me indexing category-by-category??
I do not understand what they are trying to achieve here
These are small calories (cal). The large or dietary calorie (Cal) is equal to one kilocalorie (kcal), and is gradually being replaced by the latter correct term.
I did not listen to myself.
The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.
Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.
can't believe i used to joke about mastodon needing discord-style now playing music statuses when #sharkey actually legiterally had those all along lmao
medical, chronic kidney disease
@zkat Not *quite* the same thing, but I seem to be regularly baffling doctors by having 10% kidney function, correcting their assumption about me being on dialysis and saying that I'm not, and then describing my symptoms as "yeah it's a bit annoying every now and then".
Like, they're clearly expecting me to be barely functional in everyday life at my level of kidney function, and yet my biggest practical problem is the deluge of hospital appointments 🙃
The liberated zone of #Sylt!
The Guardian: *German punks launch ‘invasion’ of holiday island favoured by elite*
"Leftwingers set up protest camp on Sylt to demonstrate against far right, economic exclusion and climate crisis"
Punks from across Germany have set up a summer-long protest camp on the North Sea holiday island of Sylt to demonstrate against economic exclusion, environmental degradation and the presence of the far right in one of the country’s most exclusive areas.
For the third consecutive year, the young leftwingers with mohawks, torn T-shirts and facial piercings began descending on Sylt at the weekend, mainly by train, to disrupt the seasonal repose of the elites.
The Aktion Sylt pressure group said it aimed to make “safe retreats for fascist subsidy collectors, tax-evading Nazi heirs and backward world destroyers things of the past!”
Their presence has been registered with the authorities, who have ordered the encampment’s residents to sleep in tents, use chemical toilets and dispose of their own litter until the site is dismantled by midday on 6 September, said Hans-Martin Slopianka, a district spokesperson for North Frisia. …"
Currently listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQjHwVc8b0 #NowPlaying
Note: I will continue working on this (basically rewriting the whole thing to make it slightly faster and fix a few behaviours, like the canvas getting 'lost'), and so that page is unlikely to be functional when you look at it now
@gsuberland@chaos.social @eater Yep, that's pretty much what I would expect to happen at this stage (hence the comment about it probably only working on desktop/laptop), the page layout is still fixed currently
If you have Opinions about performance of webapps, please help me test a thing! Try interacting with the canvas here, and tell me what the performance and 'feel' is like for you, especially on older devices: http://joepie91-home.cryto.net:3500/
Scroll to zoom, hold right mouse button to drag. Work in progress; currently probably only works on desktops/laptops, and not likely to work correctly with screenreaders yet, although it *should* work correctly with assistive scrolling tools (but untested).
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.