Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I have a bunch of projects in the air at once. I work on one of them until I'm too mad at the problem to continue, then I take a break and work on something I'm not mad at

Dear non-US universities who are planning to hold conferences in the US:
please do not
it is not safe

@eniko one of the things that makes me sad about the "don't make your own engine" popular advice is how much it cuts down on the possibility space, as it is often like saying "don't make games that don't fit within the limitations of off the shelf engines"

hmm

Panic! At The Kernel

I hereby release this into the world. Do with it as you will.

#FuckMusk #TeslaTakedown #BurnBabyBurn

anyway look forward to the next exciting chapter of Harp Turns Into Her Parents where i just straight-up steal my dad's compsci lecture about how an important aspect of programming and user experience to consider is that machines should not be rude

i realize that i'm preaching to a rather choir-shaped audience here on mastodon - i feel like you don't end up on the fediverse without being at least unintimidated by some of the nitty gritty on display, and it's fundamentally an open-source ecosystem where Go Program It Yourself If You Want is the set modus operandi. there's a higher than average amount of computer science degrees kicking around here, basically.

but surely i can't be the only one who has noticed this lack of support for the middling sort of knowledge in consumer technology. or maybe i am who knows lol. but it really does feel like the push for 'user friendliness' means that things are getting squeezed to the two extremes of support. the daily user gets increasingly dumbed-down, overly-friendly, "haha nooo you can't see the error report we're shyyy" cloying in uselessness treatment... and your other option is just one sneeze short of hoping the person trying to troubleshoot speaks fluent assembly.

and either which way the official response to problems is often a company sitting on hands. they have to make the official update triple-mummified in bubble wrap, and then the red tape means it gets pushed on down the line with "eh it'll get out there someday!". if you need a fix sooner? well... it's just assumed you'll go program it yourself, so the company again doesn't need to do anything about it.

...

yeah i am a bit grumpy, how could you tell,

i need a word in german that expresses the meaning of "frustration at technology where the middling knowledge is left completely in the cold; you either get Oopsie Poopsie! We Did A Boo-Boo! infantilization that tells you nothing about the problem and actively prevents you from trying to fix it, or you are expected to have three computer science degrees already and therefore you will be coding your own fix and installing it on linux; if you know a substantial amount but are not at a professional level of knowledge, prepare to be endlessly aggravated as both the culture around the technology and the official guides expect you to be happy with either extreme and nothing else - and the two extremes both mean the company gets to do jack shit about an official fix because users are either considered too stupid to be worthy of it working or users will have already made their own fix"

...it'll be a very long word, but i trust in german to get it done. it's the language that has eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher in there, after all, i have faith

This is the new treatment guidelines for trans minors, finally released after years of delays, and it's all good in there actually. I can't believe they finally figured it out. https://register.awmf.org/de/leitlinien/detail/028-014
#trans

Hey peeps, if you're still using #GitLab and #GitHub and you're twitching a bit because they're fellating fascists, I want to point to the sign that says you can self-host @forgejo - a project which is also working on decentralisation and federation.

Failing that, @Codeberg also exists, are a European non-profit that also supports the development of Forgejo.

Hope that helps

you might think these are empty words, but i mean them. why do you think militaries care so much about troop morale? despair is an effective weapon. it's a tempting tool. why fight an enemy when you can make them give up? of course they'd use it.

if defeat was inevitable, they wouldn't need to use propaganda