re: bad sleep
Hello from "have slept maybe 2 hours last night if I'm lucky, and then spent several hours in bed trying to fall asleep again to no avail"
here’s a thing I wish cis people understood better:
That we didn’t suddenly decide to transition on a whim. That, most of us agonise our whole lives over the decision and its consequences
that one of those consequences that we did anticipate is being expected to constantly explain and justify our existence to other people
that explaining ourselves to you is not something you are owed
merry cismas fuckersss
I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.
I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.
Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."
Stop censoring our content!
@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033317.html really feels like Old Internet (read the entire thread, it's amazing)
hackernews, sort of meta
HN commenters are very busy deliberating over how weird it is that all of the alternative social networks are just Twitter clones, and nobody is doing more experimental UX stuff
In the same thread where people are complaining about how fedi stuff and federation and all that is just so *difficult*
Gee I wonder why you're only finding Twitter clones
Redux, bonus hot take
Composability that only works with first-party code is not really composability
Redux, hot take
Redux is very composable in theory but extremely poorly composable in practice; it is very difficult to combine the subtrees of different third-party utilities in a way where the utilities are aware of their location in the tree, without resorting to a variety of different hacks (that are different for each utility)
And they do *need* to know their location in the tree, if you want those utilities to be mountable at arbitrary positions and able to manage their own state, and then you still need to figure out how to isolate the utility-specific action types too
re: venting about shitty software devs
Off to look for a different Redux query management library now, I guess
#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
meta over politieke toots
Ik zou zo graag zien dat meer van de politiek actieve en activistische Nederlandse gebruikers ook CWs en alt text gaan gebruiken voor hun politieke posts.
Nog even los van dat ook dat gewoon een onderdeel is van inclusiviteit, zie ik nu heel veel dingen langskomen waar ik eigenlijk niets mee kan; ik boost geen dingen zonder alt text(-verzoek), en ik ben heel selectief met welke politiek-zonder-CW ik boost om de mensen die mij volgen niet te overladen.
Dat is zonde, want er zit een hoop goeds en belangrijks tussen, maar ik heb ook niet de energie om alles *zelf* van alt text en CWs te gaan voorzien... dus dan gebeurt er uiteindelijk niets mee. Dat kan beter, toch?
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.