Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

“Where do you get your ideas from? - by Joel Morris”

https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from

> So if you put out an episode once a week, and you make it to being one of the world’s most successful podcasts… you’ll be paid enough for a pizza per episode, provided you don’t go for any side dishes.

The modern media economy is unsustainable

I have been playing with a new term: "slop huckster"

A slop huckster is more than someone who likes to play with generative AI, or has some arguments for why they've been able to use it productively

Slop hucksters argue that generative AI means you should stop doing creative and productive things, kind of likes to rub it in your face that they can make creative persuits useless

The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy

I guess it's possible the issue gets accidentally fixed or becomes irrelevant, but something about *closing* a perfectly valid issue report because nobody from the project has checked it out rubs me the wrong way. Similar to closing an issue as WONTFIX does versus a more precise “out of scope” or “design conflict.”

It really turns me off as a potential contributor who is trying to help, and makes it less likely that I would actually stick around and help with that much needed issue triage.

I get that issue trackers are hard, but I feel like stale bots that *close issues* come off as so hostile. I shouldn't have to come back to the issue tracker every month to confirm, “Yes, this is still an issue!” to prevent the issue from getting closed.

Tag an issue as “stale” for easier triage—that’s fine! But “oops you aren’t engaged enough, sorry, your issue doesn’t exist anymore” feels like a bit of a slap in the face. Especially if it gets closed as “not planned.”

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"

the entire point of that idiom was that you *can't*, it's straight-up impossible

"Just one bad apple"

. . . spoils the rest of the barrel; it's the *opposite* of an isolated problem

Any other idioms we've gotten completely backwards?

nerdy folks who like talking about their interests

I hope nobody is ever sending me legitimate messages on Signal that start out like this, because I block all of these instantly. Obviously I can't ask without first accepting, so you better tell me why you're reaching out if you want to chat 🤣

remember when I asked for a replacement for #disqus and then ranted about how none of the available solutions would also integrate with #mastodon?

Well shit. I did it again and scratched my own itch and barfed out another open source project.

Introducing: Meh..

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comment_system

* single install serves as many sites as you want
* can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend)
* imports Disqus
* fetches Mastodon replies as comments
* supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de)
* probably has bugs

#opensource #opensourcesoftware #comments

idk i just think it's okay for things to not be intuitive so long as there's a clear path to learning it

idk about you but i read the manuals for stuff i buy (assuming it actually has one), even "obvious" things like a microwave

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#krita

Reminder: Misogyny in #VideoGames is a skill issue 😆

Source for the study summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Male_behavior_towards_female_gamers

Re-posting with content warning:

As always in #uspol, what’s controversial here is not that an American bomb leveled an entire apartment building in #Yemen killing 53 people (both Republicans and Democrats believe such operations are permissible), only that the plans to do so were discussed on an unsecured chat #signal #signalgate

source = https://spore.social/@abshlimon/114229476401590873

#MutualAid #Solidarity #Anarchy