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project stuff 

Who needs an ORM when you already have a graph API with a database source mapping

re: bad sleep 

Hello from "have slept maybe 2 hours last night if I'm lucky, and then spent several hours in bed trying to fall asleep again to no avail"

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Remember, before getting into a frustrated debate with that relative, if their absurd points which defy any sense of reason count as valid arguments then so does "counterpoint: no."

here’s a thing I wish cis people understood better:

That we didn’t suddenly decide to transition on a whim. That, most of us agonise our whole lives over the decision and its consequences

that one of those consequences that we did anticipate is being expected to constantly explain and justify our existence to other people

that explaining ourselves to you is not something you are owed

merry cismas fuckersss

I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.

I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.

Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."

Stop censoring our content!

#Subtitles #ClosedCaption #Censorship

Every time you redesign your app, you vaporize all the experience built up by everyone who's been using the current version. It better be fucking worth it.

@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"

hackernews, sort of meta 

HN commenters are very busy deliberating over how weird it is that all of the alternative social networks are just Twitter clones, and nobody is doing more experimental UX stuff

In the same thread where people are complaining about how fedi stuff and federation and all that is just so *difficult*

Gee I wonder why you're only finding Twitter clones

Heads-up: I will likely be gone from fedi and Matrix for a few days, as I try to unfuck my sleep schedule.

Redux, bonus hot take 

Composability that only works with first-party code is not really composability

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Redux, hot take 

Redux is very composable in theory but extremely poorly composable in practice; it is very difficult to combine the subtrees of different third-party utilities in a way where the utilities are aware of their location in the tree, without resorting to a variety of different hacks (that are different for each utility)

And they do *need* to know their location in the tree, if you want those utilities to be mountable at arbitrary positions and able to manage their own state, and then you still need to figure out how to isolate the utility-specific action types too

nilered liveposting 

"I wanted a ring made of purple gold"

(picture of purple ring on screen, with caption AI-generated with DALL-E 3)

nigel, my fellow sibling in science, have you ever heard of blender. did you know you can grow your own cylinders in the same amount of time you can commit stealing

re: venting about shitty software devs 

Off to look for a different Redux query management library now, I guess

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venting about shitty software devs 

Some days you can just smell from a mile away that the author of a piece of software is 100% someone who would build a deportation system because "well, the tech is cool", and today is one of those days

You are only temporarily abled.

This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.

Edit: Glad this is seeing so much resonance. If you've got any cash to spare, please check my pinned posts for my mutual aid request.

works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:

Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.

And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.

meta over politieke toots 

Ik zou zo graag zien dat meer van de politiek actieve en activistische Nederlandse gebruikers ook CWs en alt text gaan gebruiken voor hun politieke posts.

Nog even los van dat ook dat gewoon een onderdeel is van inclusiviteit, zie ik nu heel veel dingen langskomen waar ik eigenlijk niets mee kan; ik boost geen dingen zonder alt text(-verzoek), en ik ben heel selectief met welke politiek-zonder-CW ik boost om de mensen die mij volgen niet te overladen.

Dat is zonde, want er zit een hoop goeds en belangrijks tussen, maar ik heb ook niet de energie om alles *zelf* van alt text en CWs te gaan voorzien... dus dan gebeurt er uiteindelijk niets mee. Dat kan beter, toch?

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