Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@eniko congratulations!! Monumental achievements.

Just as an FYI for those who don't know why is this important. What is known behind steam publishing is that getting a 500 overwhelmingly positive rating puts a game in a select pile on steam. It "unlocks stuff and visibility skyrockets", so to speak.

Probably steam reps will not agree, but from anecdotal accounts things do change a lot for a game when this happens.

The again congrats eniko for this achievements. Well deserved 🦊 🎊

One of the reasons I don't like and don't use "enshittification" is that it's inherently agentless and undescriptive

an opinion I feel is validated as I've seen its usage drift into "things getting worse over time" rather than the active thing-being-done by the capital holders

The more I research into it, the more I think people should be grabbing their FA archives immediately.

Unfortunately the states involved in the legals don't just give you free access to business data like I'm used to, so I can't be entirely sure. Only mostly.

a preschool was having a shutting down sale and I got a bunch of cheap string and paper but also these vintage stickers and a rubber stamp sets

How the hell do you use the command line
https://highlysuspect.agency/posts/command_line/

So I’ve been using Microsoft Stream at work to auto-caption videos. Part of my job is quality assurance so I double-check the captions for errors.

One recent annoyance is that the captioning software censors some words, replacing them with asterisks. One word in particular that has been a thorn in my side is the word “nipple”. I have had to work on several BREASTFEEDING videos. Needless to say, I’ve been retyping in the word “nipple” a lot.

Come to today, I’m working on a video about transgender and non-binary folks. The speaker said, “There is no such thing as straight sex and gay sex.” Lo and behold Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to censor the words “gay sex”. “Straight sex” is uncensored.

I’m fucking livid, but I have no real way to contact Microsoft on this. But, mark it down and spread the word, Microsoft are fucking homophobic prudes.

and another esp32 hack, the same board (esp32-c3 super mini) enabling pm2,5 logging from an ikea vindrikting oh and added a 100 and 460 ohm resistor in parallel with eachother and with the fan to actually slow it down and make it quiet (5V, 40mA fan, so should be running at 3.3Vish now)

this sort of soldering is super nightmarishly fiddly with our motor skills, but we managed it, do need to get some more helper clips and the like

hoping the leds aren't too bright for the bedroom

oh and while we're at it, what are some good (and cheap) FFP 2 or 3 masks? need some for events etc (and wanting to socialise with people who do not even mask in public transport) and since i want to switch them at least every 6-8 i need quite a lot (and i do not have a lot of money)

pls boost? ><

Do you know anyone who works in a press office?

Ask them "Why do so many press offices give their exclusives to X? Why not post to X on, like, a 6 hour time delay (or not at all... though this might be too much for them)"

We gotta stop news from "breaking" on there. Break it on blueSky, break it on tumblr I don't even care (though really break it here please and thank u)

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.