Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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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
@clarfonthey Right, I agree that the verbiage could be better. Probably something like "Things you might want to know about this app" would work better.
@pascaline Tjonge. Dat is toch ook geen hogere wiskunde, zeg, die bladeroptie bestaat al minstens sinds Windows 3.1... nu ben ik toch wel benieuwd welke gedachtengang er bij de betreffende programmeur achter zat om zoiets basaals niet te gebruiken!
@clarfonthey Assuming that's F-Droid, I don't think that "this app is bad" is what that section means? Rather it lists anything and everything that people *might* object to (licensing-related or otherwise) to accommodate those that have specific needs/requirements of their software.
(If the app were considered bad, it wouldn't be listed on F-Droid in the first place, AFAIK)
@smveerman Hmm, what would such a system normally be used for?
@pascaline Die had ik nog niet eerder gehoord 🙂 Ik zou inderdaad vermoeden dat dat oorspronkelijk was om een verbrande mond te voorkomen, en dat dochterlief het opgepikt heeft als "blijkbaar is dat hoe het hoort"...
Ik kom het zelf binnen de softwareontwikkeling ook vaak tegen. Dan beweert iemand bij hoog en laag dat een bepaalde methode 'beter' of 'sneller' of zelfs 'nodig' is, en dan ga je doorvragen, en dan blijkt dat ze nooit iets anders hebben geprobeerd, niets gemeten hebben, en niet eens uit kunnen leggen waarom het beter zou zijn. Ze hadden het gewoon zo geleerd, en iemand had ooit beweerd dat het beter was, met net zo weinig bewijs...
Bijzonder fenomeen blijft het, hoe dat soort dingen blijkbaar generaties lang door kunnen blijven waren zonder dat iemand zich ooit afvraagt "huh, maar waarom dan?"...
@pascaline Yep. Ik krijg toch het idee dat dat "maar dat hoort niet" een nogal neurotypisch dingetje is, en weinig tot niets te maken heeft met praktische overwegingen die iemand gemaakt heeft...
Meestal is het gelukkig niet meer dan een gek dingetje. Het wordt pas echt vervelend wanneer mensen het als een verwachting aan je op gaan leggen, zoals met slaapritmes enzo (maar ik zag dat die in een andere toot van je ook al voorbij kwam)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"Wat doe jij nou?"
"Ik laat even het spoelwater van de sla weglopen."
"Maar dat moet in een vergiet."
"Dit kan ook."
"Nee, dat is de korf van de slacentrifuge!"
"Weet ik."
"Dat moet gewoon in een vergiet."
"Nee hoor."
Mensen: dit is toch gewoon handig???
@pascaline Ik heb al zo vaak van dat soort discussies gehad... "maar daar is het niet voor gemaakt!" - ja, en? Het werkt toch echt beter dan het ding dat er wel voor gemaakt zou zijn 🙃
@serge (Caveat: I don't 100% know how it fetches the replacement data; whether it requests on a per-video basis, which would leak metadata, or a prefix search, which wouldn't, or a local copy of the database)
@serge For what it's worth, there's a browser plugin that does this for YouTube already, based on crowd-sourced submissions: https://dearrow.ajay.app/ (similar to how SponsorBlock works). Don't think it works on any sites other than YouTube though.
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The guy in front of me on Caltrain works at OpenAI and the fact that he’s spent the last ten minutes on Google writing queries with “site:reddit.com” after them tells me everything I want to know about the state of this industry
@dentangle@chaos.social Some arguments can be made about not dogfooding your own website, but the ticket systems for a lot of providers directly integrate with their e-mail system and so an outage of the e-mail system would also affect ability to communicate with customers *directly*. Plus if e-mail isn't your core business, there's deliverability to worry about.
I'm sure other architectural choices are a possibility, just trying to illustrate reasons why one might decide to host their e-mail off site that aren't just "lack of confidence".
None of that excuses the Cloudflare part, of course.
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@dentangle@chaos.social The one legitimate reason I can think of is this being a result of the "do not host your own site on your own infrastructure" policy that a lot of providers follow (as then you cannot communicate with customers during infra outages); and Cloudflare being seen as an additional availability safeguard.
(Whether it actually is one is, uh, very much in question, but I know that that's a widely-held belief...)
@Heidentweet Oh yeah, that should definitely be read in scarequotes voice 🙂
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@q extracting vectors from obscure PDFs on the Wayback Machine is one of my hobbies
Also, you know what speaker is typically used for speaker mode, which some people - like me - need to be able to make *any* call at all?
Exactly.
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Don't. Even. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.
I mean, I know a LOT of people love dark mode, and given the benefits that darkening interfaces provides... I get it.
But there are some people (like me) who may be visually impaired. Astigmatism, for example, can make reading text that is white on dark a real PITA. An effect known as "halation" occurs, where each letter behaves as if it were a flashlight, gaining its own halo of light and making all text read more blurry than normal.
No matter how good your glasses are, astigmatism still causes you to see a little blurry—it's something you get used to. But this damn effect makes all the text read as if you don't have your glasses on, or even worse, leading to much more tired eyes or even pain.
For everyone's sake, if you really care about accessibility, respect user preferences. If you want a dark interface by default, offer a light version if the user specifies it (in web design, this would be prefers-color-scheme: light). The same goes for light interfaces.
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“Study finds 94% of business spreadsheets have critical errors”
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-business-spreadsheets-critical-errors.html
this_is_fine.gif 😬
@baldur Probably doesn't help how so many people refuse to acknowledge that spreadsheets can indeed be a legitimate form of programming...
Good to see more research into this and how to address it.
- 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
