Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

In today's episode of "bug looking probably more interesting than the effect I was building" ... #tic80 #demoscene

"Don’t sweat about being 'behind the times'. If it works, it’s stable, and it’s performant, your tech stack is fine." - @Meyerweb

This. SO MUCH THIS.

It's true for work, but it's quadruply true for personal projects.

Stone study !
(That’s a drawing for those who ask ^^)

#art #MastoArt

just spent several hours debugging a "tcp connect error: network is unreachable"

turns out the network was perfectly reachable and it was, as is always, DNS

"Why do people keep tweeting about COVID? We can't just --" Yes, you can. Because immunocompromised and disabled people have been implicitly sentenced to do whatever that is for our whole lives. That's why we're tweeting.

I think the AliExpress graphic designer quit...

Look at this! This is in a local library. It's a place to sit in for children, shaped like a spaceship. This is awesome decoration.

@soatok
I generally can't understand why anyone trusts about 90% of security products on the market. Honestly the bare minimum I expect is a transparent, open source implementation of their protocols. I see that basic lack of engagement with the wider research community as a massive red flag. Bug bounty programs are nice, but too many companies just have them as a check-box item.

Too much of that fear of loosing their special sauce by being open about evolving best practices. Too much security-through-obscurity with extra steps. As if the core robustness of their product is tangential to their market development >.> <.<

Remember, bigots cannot have a reasonable conversation because hating someone you don't know is inherently absurd.

They bitterly complain about being blocked and isolated because they know they are incapable of swaying people with their ideas, so they rely on violence and ignore boundaries.

Een NV is een naamloze vennootschap. Een BV is een besloten vennootschap.

Maar wat doen we met het woord ‘vennootschap’? Waar ligt de klemtoon: op ‘ven’ (eerste lettergreep) of op ‘noot’ (tweede)?

Zoek het niet op, maar stem spontaan – graag apart voor Nederland 🇳🇱 en België 🇧🇪.

(Je moet een keuze maken want er zijn maar vier opties mogelijk bij een poll, dus ‘Allebei prima’ kon ik niet opnemen.)

Eens kijken of dat soort polls ook op Mastodon werken. Boosts zijn heel welkom. Alvast dank! 🙏

[enters the room] "I have some bad news, the printer is haunted"

Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees

So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it

Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

The LGBT Flag but it's compiling the Linux kernel on Gentoo

@phire it sure does seem like large corporations can excuse a lot of activity under the fear of the recession we've been hearing about for over a year but never manages to arrive.

Further update - oof this one's a rollercoaster XD You may want to keep a block in place for this instance.

https://soc.ua-fediland.de/@wiler/109689922553648953

'pidaras' is a homophobic slur in slavic languages.

The red black flag also has a nationalist and nazi-adjacent history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banderite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army

(See the reply below re. the flag)