Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Open Database of Design Salaries: a list of salaries of designer, across industries, experience level and geographic location.
There’s less data outside of North America, so people, they need you to participate!

https://designx.community/salary/

Premier van alle Nederlanders zijn is zoiets als de beste ergens in zijn: als je het erbij moet vertellen, ben je het niet.

Question: I know titles like "Doctor" are considered protected terms and you need certain qualifications to use them.
Is "mister" in some way protected? Like, if someone who is not male picked it from the dropdown on a credit application, is that in some way fraud? Or can just anyone pick the title that's more likely to be approved?

Regarding last boost, you may recall I have warned people to be wary of any accessibility content in posts at Google’s web•dev.

My simplest example is this 1½-year-old report on an egregiously wrong tool-tips post that its author, and site editors, have chosen to simply ignore:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298296173

Last boost:
https://yatil.social/@yatil/112523179509422934

#a11y #accessibility #Google

Good morning amazing people!!! :)

It’s Wednesday, the midpoint of the week. The weekend will be upon us in a few more days.

Always remember to be kind to yourself and your loved ones. Check on the people you haven’t talk to in a while.

Today we are gonna be talking about water displacement.

Water displacement is the phenomenon that occurs when an object is placed in water and the water moves to make space for the object. This happens due to a fundamental principle of physics called Archimedes’ Principle. When an object is placed in water, it pushes aside an equal volume of water. This is because liquids have the ability to flow and adjust their shape to accommodate the object. The water that is displaced exerts an upward force on the object, called buoyant force. This force is equal to the weight of the water that has been displaced. If the buoyant force is greater than the weight of the object, the object will float. If the buoyant force is less than the weight of the object, it will sink. The amount of water displaced depends on the size and shape of the object. Larger or more irregularly shaped objects will displace more water than smaller or smoother objects.

i think a lot about the ephemerality of the internet.

one of my favorite personal sites full of wonderful therian writings, Thébaïde (https://akhila.feralscribes.org/), appears to have gone down in the last couple months. hopefully it comes up again, and despite this, it is well archived on the internet archive.

except... the internet archive has been intermittently down the last few days from a DDOS attack. while i trust they'll continue to hold out for quite some time, they are still a single point of failure as an organization, subject to regulatory whims, and if people bother to utilize it before it becomes needed. it's one great resource but shouldn't be the only one.

anyone who wants to reliably back something up knows having one point of failure is bad news, even if it's pretty reliable. even if you've got redundant hard drives, that won't protect you from a power surge, so you get a surge protector, which won't protect you from a house fire. so you make offsite backups to supplement your local ones, and then you can be reasonably certain you've got most bases covered.

i've got local backups of Thébaïde and other sites, and i encourage others to do similar for things they value online. this is doubly important if you are part of a niche or marginalized community - you might be the only one who has one, and you might be the one who ends up preserving community history.

the furry community ran into this recently with VCL, which was archived, but for a short time it looked as if years of artwork might've simply vanished. you don't have to make a hoard, but every bit helps slow the inevitable entropy of link rot.

Ik snap niet hoevaak we nog tegen voorbeelden van "de zorg is geen markt" aan kunnen lopen voor dat het een keer doordringt?

Medicijntekorten raakt mensen meteen, zoals ikzelf letterlijk vorige maand nog heb meegemaakt.

https://nos.nl/l/2522291

Weirdos who had unrestricted access online growing up in the 1990s/2000s: "The children need to have their internet snooped and logged! Evil pedos on every corner! Shock sites! It's an outrage!"

Me when my parents watched my every move online: "If I look one thing up they don't approve of they'll lock me out of my only way of talking to social peers in this rural area. I'm not even allowed to have a screensaver with a password. A flash drive they didn't know about was near treason."

Me whenever I didn't have that spy shit: "Oh wow, this explains a lot to challenge what I was told by them. This explains the concepts of sex better than the books. This tells me the history of the world my family didn't know or didn't want me to know. No wonder they only wanted approved media, it fed me lies they wanted to use."

Also me: ha ha funny pony show they didn't like :3

I deeply cannot express enough that if your family (or any hierarchy for that matter) wants to lock down what you can see, say, or do, disobey them.

You *might* fuck up, but it's better to be free and learn mistakes than repressed or held back and socially outcast from your peers.

Your parents aren't cops. Your boss isn't a cop. The cops are fuckin dipshits. Fuck em all.

#anarchism

Today's site photo! No new tents today but things are coming along inside them.

One of my favorite challenges in any metroidvania is "get from point A to point B while special conditions apply"

Things like, I can't jump, I'm carrying a heavy object, there's a time limit, a monster is chasing me.

Challenges that requires me to understand the world, think about the spaces, plan a route, weigh different choices, and finally execute my plan.

It's incredibly satisfying, and very underused.

@joepie91 definitely! While this means the Efteling doesn't always make the most logical choices, it sure means it's a park where just making a profit doesn't dictate all policies and plans. One of the core goals of the Efteling is still to be affordable to the biggest group of people, which I just love 💜