Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@aud right??? like nobody's saying it's easy, but if it's an important problem, we have to start by assuming we're going to succeed. that reduces it to the task of figuring out HOW.

is this a large effect? well, it depends on the subject matter

is this the only thing that's needed to bring about change? almost never

is it a big deal that helps a lot? yes, definitely

the world is just a collection of people who talk to each other. we all, including ourselves, tend to default to mirroring the attitudes we see around us back at others unless we've specifically taken the time to self-reflect and choose otherwise.

therefore, the way we talk about problems affects the people around us, which affects the world.

please remember, always: the future is not written, and we all have the power to change it.

it is not inevitable that something will keep happening just because it has been happening.

when we talk about large-scale problems in public, it's probably a good idea to talk in ways that remind everyone of our own ability to choose, of the options we have, that express hope.

The way software development's shifted from people wanting to do it better to people wanting to get rich reminds me of how contemporary music schools shifted from people wanting to get better at making music to people wanting to get famous.

There's a real X Factor feel to the common discourse, with lots of folks obsessing over levels of commercial success they're never going to experience - too busy preparing for hypothetical stadium tours to learn scales.

https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/112969540678197342

Useful information:

There is a difference between

a company that provides a product or service which requires money to continue providing that product or service,
and a company that accumulates money which requires making a product or service.

What they have in common is that both will present themselves as the former.

Part 4: The Way Out

Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

Is there an alternative to Grafana that is snappy, fast, pretty? We can have triple A games render a gazillion polygons at 240fps yet I can't display 200k data points without my browser tab crashing. There must be something better out there no?

went in a dessert shop earlier and they had the menu up on 2 screens but they had more than 2 screens worth of menu so if someone wanted like a milkshake the worker had to reach up and manually page through to the milkshake page with the buttons on the monitor. good system

Everyone excited for #gmtkjam
? I'm kind of nervous for the theme announcement

If you need music or fonts for your game I have plenty of 100% free CC0 options for you - a 🧵

I love it so much!

Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.

Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)

You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)

Fancy that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

#chrome #ublock #adblockers

Normale mensen kopen een zak Wilhelmina of een rol King in de winkel als ze pepermunt willen.

Maar ik ben niet echt een normaal mens, ik maak er een volledig pepermuntweekend van. Tijd voor een weekend met een #Pepermuntje