Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Note to self: having test tickets open on your phone when the conductor comes round to scan tickets results in many questions if they scan a ticket you didn’t intend to show them

Help wanted!

Have you worked with the glitch-soc frontend code before? Do you want to do it again, because you just love fiddling with JS + React + Redux projects? Do you also like GoToSocial?

Well, good news for you then! The GtS fork of the Iceshrimp fork of the Glitch-Soc fork of the Mastodon frontend (which is deployed here: https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org) needs people to help add GtS-specific features, and adapt existing glitch-soc frontend features to work with the GtS API.

There's three issues open right now that need some attention:

Only 4 pictures displayed per post -- Since GtS by default has a limit of being able to upload 6 attachments (and this limit is tweakable in the settings file), it would be very useful if the client could display more than 4 attachments!
Local-only statuses not actually local -- Glitch-soc indicates local only posts by appending an eye emoji to the post. But GtS has a specific local_only boolean that can be set to true when submitting statuses. So to make local-only posts submittable via the client, it needs to be tweaked to use the boolean rather than the eyeball (what a sentence).
Nicer index.html page, with cute styling + link to source code -- Currently the landing page of the frontend is just a super barebones HTML page, it would be lovely if this was a bit nicer and more welcoming, and had links to the source etc.

Interested in volunteering? For no money?? For some reason??? You can just comment on one of the issues that you're gonna work on it, and get poking. Then everyone who uses the masto-fe can enjoy the fruits of your labors (including me, I use it every day). That's it :) Thanks for reading!

One of my friends forgot what Protogen were called at the pub the other day so now they're "Beep Boop Foxes"

I love the high-rise density

Endlich sieht die Küchenmaschine so aus wie es sein sollte.

hey mozilla how is your legal department so bad that you start your acceptable use policy with "follow all laws" and about halfway down there's "don't harass people" and everything else in there is something that sounds close to a law but is misworded in such a way that it basically makes all online communication illegal

today i learned: KDE has open species documentation

https://community.kde.org/Konqi

You wouldn't believe how common it is for software companies to literally make it impossible for me to give them money either because of a consistent software error or an outright design flaw.

A recurring thing I've been encountering over the past few months is SaaS pages erroring out when I try to pay them because nobody in-house seems to be testing whether non-US orders work.

"This browser isn't from one of the countries in our list. Let's just say it's in the US."

"Oh, no. Your payment method is from a different region than the account. Please choose a different payment method."

Then everything 500s all over the place once you try to change the account region.

The courts aren't working. They have no enforcement mechanism against the executive branch. Democrats are not going to sort this at the midterms. Don't wait for that!

There are still options aside from taking up arms. (Fighting MAGA and the army is likely to go badly.) Major go slows - just do /everything/ really slowly. General strike. Major protests.

It's possible to overturn a system by just refusing to participate in the old one.

Like if Mozilla had spent half the money they basically set on fire by working on useless, unwanted shit all this time, they would have probably had enough resources to outcompete blink

Just so many failures that were clearly expensive, unlikely hail maries