Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Cool to see a company whose annual revenue is $250B announce a $1.25M open source security fund (that’s about three *minutes* of revenue), in a press release that without blinking or apparent irony (1) says maintainers need more time and (2) requires maintainers to take a multi-week, many-hour training program.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/

#alt4me because i don't have the spoons and also nobody cares about my posts anyway

I'm really struggling to find a certain #monospace #font. I have seen it somewhere online. The special feature was the number characters, which were designed to visually represent the character's value by the area the ink covers of the rectangle around the character. E.g. "1" was very thin, covering 10% of the background, "4" covered 40%, "9" was reaaly bold and covered 90% of the background, and so on.

Does anyone know of this font? I saw it posted in the context of #dataviz #heatmaps #rstats

This applies to other more tangentially related stuff too. For example, I will be really excited about writing a book, and then put it off. Because why??

Because I don't deserve the fun it will bring? Because I'm savoring it?

Savoring something by hoarding it and tucking it away is joyless.

I'm not doing that anymore. I pick me and I pick joy.

I save far too many things for "a rainy day" and meanwhile it's a goddamn monsoon outside.

I save a show thinking I shall treasure it, and only watch it when I'm ready (read: deserve the joy). Then I forget about it and move on, and instead have filled the time with something less awesome.

If you, like me, struggle with scarcity mindset then this coming week pick one thing and choose joy over hoarding. We can do it.

@lynnesbian haha oh nooooo

we've never worked for Microsoft but it kind of sounds like five different teams each decided to "solve" the problem by making it someone else's

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

Here's a question for people in the US. When I was working for Big Human Rights(tm), one of the things I did was train activists in how to keep themselves as safe as they could while doing work that could put them at risk (e.g., LGBTI activists from countries that criminalised both homosexuality and public protest). A *lot* of resources already exist to help people know how to protect themselves...

When clams retract into their shell from threats, that has a cost. They can't eat or breathe new O2, and pulling the shell closed uses energy while staying open is "free". Many clams can habituate to repeated stimuli. It is a cost-benefit analysis that is always happening. Clams in captivity may stop closing altogether. I found that giant clams stay open in daylight to maximize photosynthesis of their symbionts, closing at night to protect themselves from predators. #clamFacts

Please tell me accounts who make really good alttexts. So, not only the bare minimum, but those who put joy and creativity into it.
Hit me!

Edit: I will add accounts under this toot subsequently for making outstanding alttexts (and not being shitty in other ways) as follow recommendations. Please feel free to do the same!

Edit 2: Translated whole toot to english

#OutstandingAlttexts
#Alttext

Dear publishers: It's simple... Hire transgender reporters to cover transgender stories.