Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The crypto crash was fast and not very sad. The LLM crash will be long and slow and painful and a lot of beguiled suckers will have a decade of their life pulled out from underneath them when the free compute dries up and the platform logic switches from seize territory to exploit

I don't normally ask for boosts, but I have just LEAPED out of my comfort zone and set up my own gamejam, specifically for users of the Fediverse, and I'm scared shitless that nobody else will join, turning this into one giant embarrassment for me.

So if you want to do me a giant favor, please boost (and even better: join!) this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@fedi_jam/113035512940511485 PLEASE! 🥺 🙏

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The top 0.1% wealthiest Americans control about $20 trillion in assets.

A tax on them would raise $340 billion and never touch anyone worth less than $50 million.

If you're worth less than $50 million and opposed, you might ask yourself why and who you are furthering the interests of. https://esq.social/@andrew/113033909325519493

some people might need this reminder sometimes, i know i do

A mild case of a disability is still a disability

if you feel bad for "claiming" the title of disabled because your case is "mild" and "others have it way worse", remember that even your "mild" disability is vastly different from the healthy/abled experience, you have more in common with those that have it worse than with those that aren't disabled at all

Laptop in de klas: Goedkoop voor de school, duur voor de ouders.

Scholen gooien hiermee niet alleen de kosten de schutting, ook de hele strijd om de data en privacy komt bij de ouders op het bord.

Waar scholen samen met Sivon, Kennisnet en de Rijksoverheid eindelijk BigTech aan de AVG houden (soortvan), kunnen ouders dit nu opnieuw gaan doen. Terwijl scholen vaak een WindowsPC of Google Chromebook voorschrijven: "Klik maar even op OK"

#nieuwsuur #schoolspullen #opensource #GratisLaptop

If I ran a dentist practice in 2024 I would simply advertise that we're ADHD-friendly and say up-front that we would just see you and treat you, and would never, ever remark on or shame you for the state of your teeth or how long it's been since you've last seen a dentist

what are some problems you've run into in the terminal with folders? so far I have:

* accidentally putting 1 million files in a folder, so it's impossible / very slow to list
* you deleted a folder while you're still in it in the terminal, and everything gets weird
* something about symlinks (what?)

what am I missing? (only problems related to folders please!)

Maybe the answer to everything here isn't really "the web sucks at DX", because it genuinely, truly, honestly has been making enormous strides in that aspect, but "we need better education/documentation on how to develop things end-to-end"

MDN actually does a really good job of this! But maybe we need more focused guides that are less technology-centered and more task/application-shape-oriented.

big question that's been popping through my head recently is:

so we're acknowledging that the obsession with DX has been a driving force behind the JS industrial complex or whatever, and the increasing bloat of webapps at the expense of users.

But should we put some of the blame on the web platform itself for not centering DX in such a way that doing the right thing is, in fact, most easily done through native APIs and plain HTML/CSS? Are web standards still moving too slow on that front? Are they still a bit too gun-shy?

Dumping responsibility on developers for trying to make their own lives easier when the tools you give them by default, as good as they are, still require them to jump through some hoops to do the right thing, seems like a losing strategy in the long run, no?

I've been having a lot of fun relearning and reevaluating a lot of my assumptions around web dev, but it's been a lot of work and there's really not a lot of easy, centralized education/documentation on how to put all these disparate pieces together into something cohesive. I just kinda have a bunch of lego blocks that got dumped in front of me and told to make a fancy, progressively enhanced, low-JS MOC millenium falcon out of it.

And I'm JS/TS developer with 15+ years of experience who works in FAANG and is really passionate about this stuff. I don't think I'd be able/willing to do all this otherwise.

it's interesting how like every well known indie ttrpg is built around the idea that your character is Doomed somehow

hope is such an incredibly important thing

we would like very much for it to be more common for it to co-exist with a realistic world view

And even if you’re SUPER PURE along one vector, you’re always going to miss some other one someone feels very motivated to discipline you about.

And this must be okay for some people! But I try very hard to live in a state of at least partial uncertainty, because the alternative is a real vulnerability to Going Bad without realizing it. The downside of that stance is that shit just doesn’t roll off. This is true for a lot of us, I think—maybe artists most of all, bc art requires sensitivity.

I think one of the hard things about fedi, culturally, is that a whole lot (most??) of us are here because we are refusers of norms. And which norms and which levels of refusal differ.

So even if you’re at the 80th to 99th percentile of resistance to corporate social media OR mainstream party politics OR mainstream journalism OR cars OR the normalization of repeat covid infections, there will always be people popping up to tell you that by not being completely pure, you’re killing everyone.