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

Me: shoveling endless piles of stinky useless garbage into your home via the living room window

You, shouting: "Aggghhh stop!! Why!! What are you doing!! I don't want this!!"

Me, shouting back as I continue to hurl shovels of shit through your window: "That's right! We have different opinions! Healthy debate! This is democracy in action!!"

The fediverse is much more than Mastodon™ gGmbH.

The fediverse does not have, nor does it need, a CEO.

It just needs principled people willing to defend its ideals and the safety and wellbeing of the people who use it.

Welp. Someone found a small regression in librsvg. That bit of code has 100% test coverage, and 100% branch coverage (eyeballed; rustc doesn't emit that yet). But the interactions between the possible values of the objects which the code is handling... are handled wrong.

An easy fix, and I'm adding a few tests, but it gets me thinking.

"that was a fun trip through the Fediverse" i say closing my app, before immediately reopening it due to an accident of muscle memory

Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed.

"Social networks are fluid. They come, they go. For commercial social networks, the success is defined by: "do they earn enough money to make investors happy ?" There’s no metric of success for non-commercial ones. They simply exist as long as at least two users are using them to communicate. Which is why criticisms like "Mastodon could never raise enough money" or "the Fediverse will never succeed" totally miss the point."

https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html

Asking about consent is hot🔥
Especially throughout a play session, letting you know that your sub loves what you're doing and wants more

This is a fun time.

For all of their resources and political clout, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit are adjusting to us.

The inexplicable rise of the fediverse as an independent player has the Big Tech spots scared. They see the shift that is happening and are scrambling to adapt.

They'll do what corporations do to protect their interests: put out mediocre products and lean on their brand recognition to re-capture people into their ecosystems because they have the resources to wait out the hard times.

But we're here, and we are not burdened by the decision-making of people that are out of touch about what makes the web a great place. We have the ability to build and adapt faster and leaner, responding to the needs of various communities in real-time.

This is the space where real innovation happens. This is the space where we make huge jumps forward into the realm of what is possible instead of settling for what is.

This is going to be exciting.

so my stereo still has the major fault, but I’m not sure how to diagnose - basically after hours of playing it will make loud popping sounds and intermittently cut out. anybody know where to start with that one?

I didn’t make it out to the sunrise this morning, so here’s a shot of my favorite beach yesterday. I took this photo while sitting on a small picnic bench that’s set up under these trees.

I've recently read a comment saying "Bigotry is an emotional attachment to ignorance" and now I can't stop thinking about it

One of the most irritating things is people acting like calling out racism is "unscholarly." I'm supposed to say, "oh I suppose we disagree." "Lets agree to disagree."

Okay this is going to sound sort of weird: if you're interested in making a small amount of money *and* telling off researchers doing a bad job with their trans rights and racism research, I highly suggest applying to Prolific Research coming up.

Prolific's a hub for academic researchers who pay out for surveys, and most are fine. Logic puzzles, reviewing bad ads, making fun of cryptocurrency biz bros. But there's a *lot* of badly designed trans rights and racism related research going on right now that needs more folks with the spoons to say "how on earth was this approved." (Sheesh, even the number of "'transgender' is not a standalone gender please stop" messages I've sent is too many.)

Yes, these universities should then properly pay for your time as a consultant, I'm not remotely arguing that. I'm saying that it pays out quickly and this research is happening now whether we like it or not. And some of you could probably do research on this research.