Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

This quote about #graphql very much applies to a lot of the "modern" #javascript ecosystem. It's a good illustration of how concerns change when you become responsible for your code. Mind boggling!

"as the years have gone on and I have had the opportunity to deploy to environments where non functional requirements like security, performance, and maintainability were more of a concern"

https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

Twenty-five years of Krita today! Join us for a trip down memory lane -- KImageShop, Krayon, Krita through a quarter century with Halla @halla, the Krita maintainer:

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/

Dear computer friends - as information workers on strike at #UAW4811, im trying to think of some digital picketing strategies. Ways of incurring additional costs and disruptions to operation that are within the bounds of the law. One of the biggest levers we have is grading, and UCLA uses a fork (?) of Canvas (bruinlearn). Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to run up a cloud bill? Something along the lines of uploading enormous files to course pages, asking students to download a directory with millions of files as a .zip, that kinda thing. Something thats an arms length shy of CFAA but something that could let our students and remote colleagues help with the strike. Any ideas? Boosts welcome. (I do not speak for or represent UAW 4811 in any way as a rank and file member)

Edit: dm me for my signal if you are curious about such a topic and are not necessarily volunteering any information in the affirmative or negative

a casual "fuck you!" to all those brands who put german flags on their products (presumably because of some soccer bullshit event).

#nationalism brings death and oppression and isn't a fun marketing gimmick.

(i'm a super fun person, i know…)

I'm not sure what kind of music this is, but it's... nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU91m_mmec

Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families in the countrysides of those who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄

At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because of its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/30/1092988/ai-directed-drones-could-help-find-lost-hikers-faster/

The world is not self correcting. Saying “don’t get upset about things, things will fix themselves” is useless. Things only get fixed because people got upset

Putting this here bc I too am tired of the term "enshittification" and its erasures.

Like for example when inauthentic accounts on Twitter were imitating Black ppl or being used to stoke GamerGate we didn't hear about "enshittification"

But when everyone else started getting porn bots under their every tweet oh NOW the platform is "degrading"

💯

I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?

#accessibility #foss #linux

June is almost here and the #kink at #pride discourse is back! If you're thinking "gosh, this sounds familiar", I've got the historical survey for you. Leather, drag, and kids at pride, from 1969 to 1995. The interplay of radical & reactionary forces within queer circles and broader society. Pride as polyvocal celebration & prefigurative counterpublic! Moral panic! The Lesbian Sex Wars!

I spent months researching this history for y'all. I hope you enjoy it.

https://aphyr.com/posts/358-a-history-of-leather-at-pride-1965-1995

i honestly find the marvel-ification of cybercrime police operations quite disgusting, turning things like the lockbit operation and operation endgames into entertainment spectacles is quite dystopian, not funny and doesn't even really serve the purpose of intimidation.

it's just the peak of corporate and government cybersecurity folks thinking they're the protagonists in some sort of sci-fi action movie when in fact they're just turning themselves into comically pathetic cyberpunk villains

you're the plague, not crash & burn

A shout out to librarians, libraries and library science -- and the practices of care, community and service which make up their democratizing force.

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/information-access-as-a-public-good/

If riding an ebike is "cheating" compared to other exercise, why do my ebike rides have such a profound effect on my happiness and physical well-being? Why do I have measurably better health and get dramatically more minutes of activity compared to when I was riding a non-electric bike? Why can't I find a single downside to this form of exercise other than cost?

If it walks like exercise and quacks like exercise, maybe just call it exercise and leave off the judgment.

#BikeTooter #EBikes

Last night the new neighbors who moved in last weekend rang our doorbell to introduce themselves, without masks on ofc. In general we would really appreciate this, very much so even, because in this house people live in such an estranged manner that they don't even greet in the staircase. But when they rang yesterday we were too overwhelmed to open the door and pretended not to be home.

Simple things like these become stressful when trying to live #COVIDSafe.

There are a handful of childrens' toys that for some reason get idealized in American media: slingshots, slinkies, the etch-a-sketch, silly putty, etc. I got the chance to play with most of these at some point as a kid and they were collectively the most disappointing and unimpressive toys of my childhood.