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

If the thing you’re making wouldn’t exist if people had to opt in instead of having to opt out, maybe the thing you’re making shouldn’t exist.

#technology #humanRights #consent #respect

the instruction "leave meat to rest after cooking" was invented by pets to increase their chances

A bit more teasing, then... ​

Little tip: in the little meatballs menu (three lil dots) on each post you see on your feed there should be a "filter this post" option. You can use that to yeet that post into the void never to grace your feed again. Very useful when you've seen a post boosted for the umpteenth time and are getting sick of it, or there's an upsetting post that's managing to sneak by your filters

today i'm pissed off at: people using pepe emoji and saying ''it's totally not a nazi thing i swear, the symbol is what you make of it"

it's That Easy to stop using one fucking meme but you're really gonna go to bat for the ugliest fuckin pictures because... what. what value is there in the nazi frog. like actually what. why would you die on this hill

Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.

Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:

They will contact you for comment.

If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.

If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.

I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.

They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."

They're not gonna say that.

I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.

The piece never ran.

If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.

Went outside

How the fuck do I turn off HDR help

@ticky The NTP server knows what time it is, because it knows what time it isn't. By subtracting the time it knows from the time it isn't, or the time it isn't from the time it knows, whichever is greater, it calculates a difference, or time deviation. The synchronization subsystem uses these deviations to generate corrective adjustments to move the server from a time where it is to a time where it isn't, and upon arriving at a time where it wasn't, it now is.

girl who pronounces EEPROM as "eepy ROM"

Well, let's finally try this 'horny on main' thing then :p

This is just to tease... should I post the rest? ​

If you'd like to contribute to #OpenStreetMap but feel lost and unsure where to begin, I can recommend getting StreetComplete, which turns filling out OSM data fields into a game of completing quests in your local area. You'll get questions like "What's the road surface here?" or "What are the opening times for this shop?" or "What's the house number of this house?" and can just go there and check and then answer. Very convenient for me who don't understand GIS and OSM!

Furthermore, I encourage any FOSS projects who have accounts on fosstodon.org to either move to an instance of their own where feasible or move to a better FOSS oriented instance.

The FOSS community at large deserves better than what fossotodon.org can deliver.

Like do you really want your FOSS project's account on a instance where the admin behaves like *that*? or where it is policy that all posting must be in English.

Last time I checked, FOSS is supposed to be for everyone, not just people who speak English.

Clarification edit - FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software.

I dunno toot something good or something what did you expect

Jira needs a relationship for "kinda fucks up" and "is kinda fucked up by" for issues which cause problems for but don't necessarily outright block other issues.

Yes I've been reading house of leaves,1 why do you ask?7

1 House of leaves is a book famous for having weird layouts and being hard to read,2 including having lots of footnotes, text with footnotes missing3 footnotes within footnotes,5 foot notes within footnotes writen by other people,6 and just all in all being horrible to read.

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4 Footnotes with text missing,

5 Like this,

6 Fuck Johnny I don't care about Johnny shut up about all the sex and drugs dude I don't care!

7 rhetorical