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

FWIW, I love Firefox and it is one of like ... 3 definitively good applications I enjoy on a regular basis (along with Emacs and SBCL and, okay 4, Lollypop as a music player).

But whoo boy, you can tell that the leadership of the org has _for a long time_ had no idea how to generate revenue from its Actual Technopolitical/Engineering Value as opposed to "eyeballs".

great news:

preparations to make StreetComplete available on iOS are now considered complete

"Let's stop talking about preparing stuff for a potential iOS port that may or may not be developed, but ... actually do it! Let's try to achieve a working version of StreetComplete for iOS. It could be a minimum viable product at first, and then we will move from there."
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/1892#issuecomment-1865140170

so the "real work" starts now: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

it's weird how well that trick works when you're writing something in your editor and you've been looking at the words for so long that you can't really read them meaningfully but then you render it in a different font in the browser and suddenly it's like a whole new document

this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

wow, you can really get anything on delivery apps these days huh

You can request this at your municipality; be aware that they will probably talk you out of it, in my case they said "well this only matters to the church and you arent with a church" (false)

life pro tip if you are a Dutch citizen or permanent resident, you can request 'secrecy' on your personal records at the municipality you are registered at. this means that organisations that don't absolutely must have your personal data will not be able to request it.

according to www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/privacy-en-persoonsgegevens/vraag-en-antwoord/waar-vraag-ik-geheimhouding-van-mijn-persoonsgegevens-aan

Have you requested your municipality to stop giving your personal details? It may then no longer give your information to:
- the Interchurch Member Admnistration foundation (Stichting Interkerkelijke Ledenadministratie; SILA)
- Organisations providing care to patients in a institution
- Organisations performing judicial work
- Organizations to which a municipality would want to give personal data based on a municipal ordinance. For example, a sports club or a charity, such as the Red CrossThis seems, in my opinion, to be a good idea in the current times. Especially given the fact that I'd rather not trust the IT of a church or a small town sports club, for instance.

thinking about that one time when deutsche bahn managed to be so late there weren't any more connecting trains going that day, so they paid for a taxi that drove me 112 km to my final destination

Nice, the European Union has officially stated that accessible overlays do not work. This isn't news to most of us, but it's always nice to have something official to point at!

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-guide/design-content-and-development/accessibility/testing-early-and-regularly/accessibility-overlays_en

#a11y #accessibility #accessibledesign

YouTube started recommending me some videos about EDC stuff (Everyday carry) and from what I can tell so far it's mostly silly guys getting silly gadgets and trying to justify it to themselves by making it seem like they're serious tools that they might need at any time and it's actually super cool and not at all silly or unnecessary!
No Jarred, you don't need to carry a premium titanium flashlight-screwdriver-fidget-toy-knife combo tool with you every day. It's totally fine if you do! You're allowed to have nice silly things that you like. You really don't have to try so hard to be manly and cool about it though!
I feel like most people would never even fully utilize the most basic Victorinox tbh ^^'

people will really join a decentralised social network and then be like "admins please don't make your own moderation decisions"

Holyyyyyyy, it seems sterilizing vaccines might actually happen? If this ends up working out, it’ll be huge. This would mean vaccines which actually meaningfully stop transmission!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04003-4