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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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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.
Joined Aug 2019
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK
@silvermoon82 I've evaluated it a few times over the years and it has never taken me more than, say, 30 minutes, to run into a significant problem, and I don't even need very many accessibility accommodations.
I'm sure they have better 'accessibility' in a very narrowly-defined sense (assistive tool integration, that sort of thing) but I absolutely would not say that they are 'designing for accessibility' in a broader sense
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK (2)
I don't really know how people expect me to take a desktop environment seriously that defaults to a narrow font and doesn't let you change it without some absurd hackery
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK
The usability of the new-ish GNOME/GTK stuff is great! ... unless you need literally any kind of disability accommodation, ever
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
I'm joining the war on scrollbars, on the side of the scrollbars
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Vind iemand die naar je kijkt zoals de huisgenoot keek toen hij erachter kwam dat we bijna door de vieze biologische koffie van de goedkope aanbieding heen zijn
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Moderation related pet-peeve
Whenever some moderator goes "some person shouldn't be doing this to staff member/moderator" I die a little.
There aren't a lot of things that shouldn't be done to member of moderation, that can be done to anyone else in a community. Implying moderation/staff is some protected class deserving more protection from rule breaking behavior is simply disgusting. If someone is harassing or behaving rude - it doesn't matter if its done to a community member or a moderator. You moderate it just the same.
Separating creatures into staff/non staff creates double standards and it's awful. Bleh.
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Haiku domain PSA
The domain of the Haiku Project (haiku-os.org) domain has just expired, due to autorenewal failure. Do not visit links from the main site or any associated subdomains until the domain has been renewed.
I made this PSA in Haiku Community Discord earlier today too, but I've been seeing people in the Fediverse asking about this so it's posted here too.
In the meantime, there is still the official Haiku IRC/Matrix channel on OFTC (#haiku:oftc.net) and the various unofficial Haiku communities:
Discord: https://discord.gg/8KsjHbW
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/haikuosgroup/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=165215
reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haikuOS/
Vk: https://vk.com/haiku_os
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/haiku-os/
Telegram: https://t.me/haiku_os
@being Would be very situationally dependent. I would primarily be grateful, though uncomfortable if I got the impression that they rifled through private things without asking. I guess whether that's the case depends on what 'deep cleaning' is understood as.
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layoffs
And like, I'm not saying that "big names getting laid off" is some kind of perfect indicator of anything, it's just that they seemed to be the last ones still standing after the past few waves of firings
layoffs
Cannot help but notice that even the 'big names', those well-known in the community, etc. in a lot of tech places are starting to get laid off with barely any notice, in addition to just about everyone else, and am now wondering who tech companies are actually still employing
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Friendly reminder, if you stopped masking due to social pressure, anxiety, or for any other reason, and you wanna mask up again, you absolutely can! Lots of folks never stopped masking and some folks are starting again because of the cold and flu season on top of national COVID spikes.
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp
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#poll for folks who make art regularly as a hobby: how long do you usually spend working on a given art project?
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Went through my notes and pictures of my two recent hikes in Wallonia and found a couple of benches and picknick tables not in Openstreetmap. So, added those. I love public picknick tables. I should primary focus on adding those to the map when I see one.
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de To clarify on the Alklanet thing, it looks expensive but that's because it's commercial cleaner, much more strongly concentrated than typical supermarket stuff, so you just spray it and use much less of it. In the end it's cheaper even if a bottle costs more. Replaces general-purpose cleaners and window cleaners pretty much entirely, you can also replicate it very closely yourself: https://revspace.nl/Klarinet
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de Alklanet and microfiber cloths (with thanks to Revspace where I borrowed this approach from), but honestly all-purpose cleaner + descaler + arbitrary cleaning cloth will also work fine with a bit more effort (most bath/kitchen cleaners are literally just generic cleaner + descaler mix + you pay a good amount of money for the privilege of it being combined)
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@th give someone one clock and they will always know the time, give someone two clocks and they will never know the time
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Amazing. So looks like (in all Blink browsers on Windows since relatively recently) reading a user-selected File with a FileReader, and then putting the same file in FormData and sending it, crashes the tab.
I'll just work around this, can't be arsed to make a demo and figure out where to file the bug.
But yeah "file upload crashes browser" certainly aligns with the overall state of software these days.
Edit: I have not verified there are no additional circumstances involved. Just reports from multiple people about this particular internal tool consistently crashing in the last week or so. And yes, uploading a new Blob with the just-read contents fixes it.
Edit 2: fwiw I've tried to reproduce it outside of the environment and failed, so probably depends on some other weird shit I do, of which there's lots.
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I did this drawing of myself the other day. I like how it turned out, even if it's not what I was aiming for at the beginning 
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.
Joined Aug 2019
