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

i did a funny

nintendo told steam to remove dolphin from their store, allegedly due to it's hardcoded inclusion of the wii common key

so here's a flag that represents the wii's common key, in hexadecimal form :)

EDIT: oops inkscape fucked it up in the export, i fixed it now lol
EDIT 2: fix'd info, everyone was wrong apparantly! doesn't change much but still

I think it's time that I give up on the JS ecosystem.

The CJS/ESM shitshow is clearly never going to get fixed despite the now several years of confusion and compatibility issues, it's become a competition for who can build the shiniest monolithic framework, and not enough people in the JS world even still care about having a public commons to sustain the ecosystem.

The worst part is that there are no plausible alternatives I know of; basically everything else has a *worse* dependency climate. I guess I'll have to focus on my own language/ecosystem project instead.

(This is NOT an invitation to complain at me about npm, node_modules, leftpad, your personal hatred for JS as a language, etc.)

Omg it worked

Good article this https://kconrod.medium.com/the-right-doesnt-care-what-a-pronoun-is-540cc4cab79d

TIL that the EU (EPSO) has joined the bandwagon of discriminatory, privacy-invading 'remotely proctored tests':

https://europa.eu/epso/application/CotoFiles/file/AD%20382-20/CBT/Instructions%20for%20RP%20EEAS%20EN%20-%20FINAL%20(1).pdf

✓ Must show face on webcam at all times
✓ Must show ankles (???), inside of pockets and 360 degree view of room
✓ Must have an empty, dedicated room
✓ Cannot fidget/move/stand up
✓ Cannot use anything other than 100% zoom
✓ Recent macOS/Windows and Chrome only
✓ Must give your data and admin access to your computer to some random US company

It genuinely freaks me the fuck out how fascistic this country is becoming. Between all the book banning, the overturn of Roe V. Wade, the continous anti-science rhetoric in regards to COVID-19, and all the queerphobic shit going down in Florida right now. It's seriously hard to believe that this is the same country that touts itself as being "land of the free" which is such a hunk of bullshit if you ask me. I seriously gotta get away from the South quickly by next year.

"AI-augmented", "AI-powered", "AI-supercharged", "AI-based" all sound more and more like red flags: "beware of bullshit."

no true nazi

Litte reminder: If you censor words in your posts with asterisks or anything, please don't. A lot of people work with filters, that posts containing these words are not shown. They don't work with the censored variants, because everytime it get censored in another way. Thank you

Heya, we did the thing!

GoToSocial v0.9.0 Spicy Sloth is out now 🌶️ 🔥

This release was fun to work on, and we hope you enjoy using it! The project is slowly and steadily maturing and getting better

Big thank you to all contributors, folks who opened issues, instance admins who let us know weird stuff was happening, people who seem to like the code, and people who give us money to write the code!

You can get the release from here: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Highlights:

PROFILE FIELDS will now be federated. This means you can set key/value fields on your profile, just like other Fedi softwares already have, and they will federate in and out properly! It may take up to 2 days to start seeing fields on remote profiles, be patient ;)
Kickass new layout for web view of profiles, including fields!
Initial support for request tracing (https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/main/docs/configuration/observability.md)
"Subscribe" to an account you follow to receive notifications when they create a new post! (AKA "click the bell" functionality.) Very useful for catching posts of followed accounts who don't post very often.
Automatic remote status refetching to get up-to-date replies + edits.
Performance improvements for message sending: you can now configure the rate at which messages will be federated outwards, better spacing out CPU usage and avoiding issues with rate-limiting.
Lots of caching performance improvements; things should feel generally snappier.
Suspend accounts from right within the admin panel by clicking through from reports.
We added a whole bunch of trans rights to the code 🏳️‍⚧️ The code has so much trans rights in it now. If you don't like trans rights, you won't like this code.

I have been given access to the lab safety sign generator

*German word for being interested by the title of an article in your RSS feed, only to find when clicking through that it is in fact a podcast*

When you have the experience of fighting bigotry in your own family, the volume of anything outside of that gets turned down a bit.

I'm not gonna lie, it does get scary sometimes. I've physically fought white nationalists before, and don't even get me started about how police constantly use the threat of violence to terrorize communities.

But when you're in the middle, you realize these fools are just people. They are not some powerfully organized civic masterminds that are unbeatable. They are far from that.

And once you've stared down a cop or two with their hand on their weapon, you realize they are more afraid of you.

Get in the habit of being problematic and dangerous because most bigots are cowards at the end of the day.

please, I'm seriously begging. CW your anti-trans news posts.