Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Not a lot of mention of funding libraries, middleware, and critical infrastructure though. I guess most folks just assume that's someone else's problem

It seems like applications that people interact with directly have the best shot at being funded through a pay-what-you-want or donation based model. Within that, games have a bit of an advantage over regular applications by more commonly having an end date to their development without being considered "abandoned".

Lots of people also unsurprisingly strongly prefer one-off donations or payments instead of recurring ones to support long term development, but are also often vocal about how they are entitled to updates and improvements long term. That seems to imply that "growth" is the unsaid expectation of how a project should be funded long term.

I think it is probably safe to call it here. The overwhelming majority of you support the development of software you use to varying degrees of "sometimes", which is pretty cool.

From the replies to this thread, I gather it's relatively common for people to only support projects that are already relatively mature and popular, which is an interesting chicken and egg problem. Also you don't get anything if you don't ask, but it works better if the asking doesn't feel extractive. Not surprising

Jesus christ, we really need an actual proper community-run browser project.

"Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym [...] Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base, many ardent ad-blockers among them, will oppose Anonym, a spokesperson for the Firefox house told The Register advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone, though there's still room for improvement."

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/

#security #gender

"It's good that I don't know what's going on, because that way I can't bias the results" - quote from a lab member that both reassures and scares me

Can I just say that the option to mute people on here for 24 hours to 7 days, rather than either muting them forever or blocking them is a wonderful feature that I wish more social media had? It was designed for muting people if they are doing something like livecasting some show you don't care about... but it works well for suspected trolls too. It allows you to become non-responsive with little effort without alerting the target that you got mad and blocked them.

Kitten, free to a good home

I just released The Cluster, my experimental 2.5D exploration platformer set in an open world that's carefully procedurally planned and generated.

Get it for free on Itch:
https://runevision.itch.io/the-cluster

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #ProcGen

Google maps reviews of parking garages is very funny. It’s full of people complaining how their SUV doesn’t fit and leaving one star reviews. Well, maybe, you shouldn’t have bought a giant shitbox, have you considered that?

Jongens dit is gewoon crimineel. En het is niet uniek, dit gebeurt al jaren en men blijft maar de verantwoordelijkheid ontlopen. Ben WOEST.

Er is al van alles geïnformeerd, juridisch loket wordt binnenkort benaderd maar alle advies en tips zijn welkom. Ze zijn aan het eind van hun latijn en ze maken zich zorgen om de gezondheid van hun baby.

Ben of ken je iemand met verstand van huurrecht? Laat me weten. RT: graag, met liefde 💜

Vandaag verhaal gehoord van een collega, jonge vader van kindje van 1, werkt zich helemaal over de kop voor z'n gezin, bijna klaar met inburgering, gaat bijna aan HBO-opleiding beginnen. Er is alleen één groot probleem: zijn huurhuis zit helemaal vol schimmel. En de woningbouw zegt: jouw probleem.

Buren hebben ook schimmel in huis, CJG heeft rapport vol zorg om gezondheid opgetekend. Woningbouw: niet ons probleem zet maar een raampje open.

i wish PC tech reviewers (and the market at large) gave more of a crap about power efficiency

twice the power consumption for being 10% faster than a competing part is criticised in passing, but ultimately treated like no big deal; a new generation bringing just a 5% performance uplift at 33% lower power is a "missed opportunity"

Remembering when some user managed to rename their Mac to have the network host name "localhost" and the ensuing application outage from invalid lookups. Took time to find that root cause.

Tech:

“Dafukk with these goddamn engineers always trying to rewrite our code in the latest shiny for the glorification of their résumés and conference speaker side hustles.”

Also tech:

“Sorry, although you have an amazing amount of experience shipping working software and generating massive returns for investors, you haven’t worked with the latest shiny and we simply don’t have the patience for you to get up to speed. No hire.”

🎩 @jasongorman

“blakewatson.com - Neglecting the scrollbar: a costly trend in UI design”

https://blakewatson.com/journal/neglecting-the-scrollbar-a-costly-trend-in-ui-design/

IMO, what's happened to the scrollbar over the years is evidence that the software industry is deeply unserious about UX and in fact makes all of it money through oligopoly market manipulation.

If UX and software quality mattered at all—had even the slightest effect on business outcomes—a widget as singularly productive as the scrollbar wouldn’t have been degraded to the extent it has