Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Today’s meeting is canceled because one participant has been asked by their son to go to the park and we all agree that’s more important.

OH: You see it's labeled for Germans so they don't accidentally buy something spicy

so is part of the services valve provides as part of taking 30% of my revenue arbitrarily withholding the button that i need to push in order to get it officially steam deck reviewed even though our game is going to likely hit overwhelmingly positive in its first week of launch? 🤔

and yes. you read that right. developers on steam are randomly awarded the magic button that lets us *request* a steam deck compatibility review. so unless you win the steam deck review button lottery, you literally cannot do it

lol reconnected with a friend from the netherlands. told them i wouldn't be traveling down there anytime soon cause of covid and got the puzzled "covid has been over here for years cause everyone's had 3 shots" response

and this is why i dont reconnect with old friends

this tar shit serious

hahaha yes, I successfully triggered the iOS "your NFC secure element is too full, please delete some cards" UI!

for the unaware, Apple Wallet cards are really Java Card programs stored on an embedded Secure Element chip, separate from the main processor

this chip has limited storage! if you overfill it — say, by wasting $40 on TAP transit cards — it forces you to make room for more with this rarely-seen popup

We need a comma version of the exclamation point and question mark.

The most common car occupancy isn't actually 1. If you count all the cars on the street, not just the moving ones, it's usually 0. Most cars are empty at any given moment.

Please boost for reach!

A friend of mine (currently based in NL) is looking for a remote job. They're looking for something related to web development, or maintenance of legacy codebases (web or otherwise).

They have experience with web/software development (Java, JS, assorted other web things), as well as reverse-engineering Java software, but no employment experience yet. Also a few years of basic NixOS experience.

They can pick up and learn new things very quickly, but they do need a work environment that is friendly to queer neurodivergent folks.

If you have a suitable job available (or something that's close enough - they're flexible!), please send me either a DM on here, or an e-mail at admin@cryto.net. I'll get you in touch with them.

#Java #JavaScript #NixOS #GetFediHired #FediHired #job #jobs

Shower thought: One of the major reasons why the internet fucking sucks now is that with the consolidation of internet activity into a few cyclopean scale social media networks of various stripes, there is no place for anyone to have limited scope participation anymore.

For example, Instead of thousands of smaller, unconnected forums, it is just reddit. And everything you do on reddit can be cross-checked. The network effects of having everything on one thing means that it is incredibly easy for a bad actor to leverage your participation in various activities, your information, toward a bad end.

So a lot of people just don't. Don't make themselves vulnerable. At least on the open internet. All the forests and thickets have been burnt away, leaving you cold and alone on the tundra.

Which is also why I think Discord is kinda abused by people to try to replicate the forums, chatrooms, and small wikis of yesteryear. The open internet has no shelter anymore. The open internet is the dead internet because people die without shelter.

I'm reviewing a code change at work, and I think this dev actually ported an entire .NET application to PowerShell. It has classes, service architecture, and even a fucking Program class to mimic .NET's startup process.

I'm astounded and actually a little impressed tbh ​​

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #CSharp #DotNet #PowerShell

Affordable USB microphone for speech (basically, talking over a screen share)? Don't need broadcast quality, would like an upgrade on the mic in my cheap webcam.

Blue snowball seems to be the de facto standard, other products in the same price range I should consider?

Reminder to organize and be gay and do crime and do your part supporting each other through the Polycrisis in legal ways or otherwise

But do the "spicy" stuff off the grid and not on Fedi

That's how they catch you

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

Remember when plug and play was a thing on computers and you didn't have to install a driver for each individual thing like you did in the 90s? Cause it really feels like the pre-plug and play era came back but in the form of needing a proprietary app for everything to make it work >.>

I wanted to see what my mouse's DPI is by plugging it into my brother's Windows PC... but he has an identical mouse so the SteelSeries utility just overwrote my settings with his and because I did a firmware update I can't even change the colour anymore, it was set to a trans flag but now it's stuck in "pulsating between blue and purple" mode 🙃

@timnitGebru @freedomtux it is strange to me, when people who are not racialized talk about not personally experiencing racism. It's like a man saying he does not experience misogyny, or an able person saying they don't experience ablism & haven't had issues with accessibility.
It is difficult to see such solipsistic myopia as anything other than malignant and intentional: a choice to center one's limited self and identity... A failure to extend and grow, serving short-sighted emotional ends