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

Developers, I'm *begging* you. If your app or site runs in an environment where there's a detectable user preference for a light or dark system theme, *please use it* instead of just going "hey I think dark mode looks cool" and making me hunt around in a bunch of menus I can barely read to find where you've hidden a dropdown list to let me change it.

This is basic #accessibility stuff, folks. These settings exist at a system level for a reason.

inventing a programming language where all keywords have diacritics and watching americans struggle to understand where all the syntax errors come from

I cannot accept being robbed by someone richer and more powerful than me.
Same goes for my peers.
#Landlords are some of the worst, I keep hearing stories about their tricks to not give back the security deposit (is this the proper name? I'm from Italy).
I have yet to meet a landlord who couldn't afford a meal because of a tenant missing payments, typically is the other way around, and even if it happened, being a landlord is not a job and guaranteeing a living to a landlord is not the tenant's job! [I support universal basic income, in general]
In Italy by law the landlord must give back the security deposit and then sue the tenant so that the judge can verify the cost of any damage; one can keep the security deposit if and only if the damage is unpaid rent, other costs don't apply.
Yet I hear about hundreds of euros kept and months of delay for things such as "stains caused by adhesive plastilins for wall posters" and "cleaning".
Because the tenant to should sue and risk losing (and paying) the lawsuit, just to have her money.
This is one of the most common and institutionalized instances of class abuse that comes to my mind, at least for Italy.
The housing problem here is big and bigger, especially for students and young workers, who are treated very poorly compared to countries of similar GDP etc.

This is from a FEMA earthquake preparedness doc and I gotta say, these are good rules to live by

u know what? fuck u

*re-serifs ur comic*

@storm There's precedent for libcs calling perl: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d/gen/wordexp.c#L192

#SleepTober challenge

On 4 October 2023 at 07:00 UTC, the DNSSEC signatures in the version of the root zone from 21 September expired.

Two weeks and nobody noticed not a single update succeeded. This is tedu levels of availability monitoring.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/

Corrections / additional:
- @alexhelvetica pointed out that I missed the carve out for Alpurrurulam NT (4825)
- @simon_w raised another fallacy that you can't treat postcodes as numbers (0872 would become 872)
- @Dangerous_beans mentioned that postcodes can't be mapped to other geographic coding schemes like LGAs
- @ChlorideCull / @devopscats points out that postcodes can move / change
- @whyrl fallacy: A postcode can be mapped to a geographical location (see e.g. defence force personnel codes)

Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

In a lot of ways, Facebook has a classic IBM problem

1. Won big early, and accumulated a war chest that let them absorb hits instead of adapting
2. Facilitated genocide

normalize emailing strangers to tell them they did a good job

normalize giving positive feedback online in general

I am an #obsidian user, I've read about the #zettelkasten method, and so on (I'm also curious about Luhmann systems theory per se).
But what a rabbit hole it is!
I stumbled so often into people showing workflows and how-to's, without ever fixing in my memory what they were working on amd what they actually achieved through such workflows.
May we call it productivity porn?

I'd love to see some great examples of apps and projects enabled by those tools, that are not "Here's how I used Obsidian to write this longform on how to build a Zettelkasten".

[You'll maybe see one from me whenever I publish something...]

netflic. just the one.

We have been made aware of #Nintendo's plans to shut down #NintendoNetwork in April. We have begun discussing our development road map internally to accommodate this.

Parent on Facebook: <shares smug post about how only people with children can understand tiredness>
Me: <comments with a screen-grab of my schedule of early morning meetings>
Parent: <replies, paraphrasing> "Don't spoil my smugness!"