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once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like

everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory

politics in tech 

Can't help but notice that conservative/fascist/etc. software developers seem to consistently be hyping up the same technologies and frameworks, and I'm not talking about the well-known hypes like "AI" or "cryptocurrency" here.

They're also disproportionately technologies that don't actually do anything new or better, but rather have shinier marketing than the thing they claim to 'replace'.

There is a difference between

a company that provides a product or service which requires money to continue providing that product or service,
and a company that accumulates money which requires making a product or service.

What they have in common is that both will present themselves as the former.

Part 4: The Way Out

Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.

infrequently.org/2024/08/the-w

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Is there an alternative to Grafana that is snappy, fast, pretty? We can have triple A games render a gazillion polygons at 240fps yet I can't display 200k data points without my browser tab crashing. There must be something better out there no?

went in a dessert shop earlier and they had the menu up on 2 screens but they had more than 2 screens worth of menu so if someone wanted like a milkshake the worker had to reach up and manually page through to the milkshake page with the buttons on the monitor. good system

Everyone excited for #gmtkjam
? I'm kind of nervous for the theme announcement

If you need music or fonts for your game I have plenty of 100% free CC0 options for you - a 🧵

Out of curiosity: do we have any fundraisers on fedi for anarchist community spaces in "low-income" countries? Or people seeking to set up such things?

Does not need to consider itself 'anarchist', as long as it's ideologically close enough (ie. anti-authoritarian, autonomous community space), and run by locals (so no "digital nomads" and whatnot).

I love it so much!

Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.

Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)

You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)

Fancy that.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/s

#chrome #ublock #adblockers

Piece of software says it’s “open source” and links its Github repo. Its Github repo says it’s all rights reserved, and you can contribute after signing copyright over to them. 🙃

The terms you’re looking for are “source available” and “free labor”

Normale mensen kopen een zak Wilhelmina of een rol King in de winkel als ze pepermunt willen.

Maar ik ben niet echt een normaal mens, ik maak er een volledig pepermuntweekend van. Tijd voor een weekend met een #Pepermuntje

@joepie91 @baldur "Ah yes, it's got fantastic UX! The user is guided through a beautiful story experience with intuitive guidance straight to the subscription button that auto-fills their billing details. It's perfect!" -- Corpos, probably

(I am aware of the Rust book. It doesn't click with me.)

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: does anyone have a good article that explains *in depth* what Cell and RefCell are for in ? So not just "this is what they do" or "this is how they work", but more questions like "why does this exist", "why would you need this", "what other approaches could have been taken and why was this one better".

(Do not send me ad-hoc explanations please; an explanation that fits into a toot is almost certainly not going to be in-depth enough here. I'm looking for articles that were written with deliberation and review.)

@zachklipp So many things wrong with what he said but this immediately comes to mind

@yon i feel great about it. i honestly don't think the launch would've gone over nearly as well without the massive amount of support i got on fedi around launch. aside from people just being super supportive, the release post i made got 1.6k boosts which is phenomenal. i'd recommend fedi to any gamedev who is serious about using social media to help support their work

not just that fedi also played a big part in us even making it to launch. we were afraid we'd run out of money long before august and if it hadn't been for fedi buying our older titles and giving to my patreon and kofi i don't know what i would've done

Als je wat wilt doen voor Palestina en de Palestijnen in Gaza maar je weet niet wat, hier een paar (laagdrempelige) manieren:

1. Praat over Palestina! Deel informatie van Decolonize Palestine: decolonizepalestine.com/

2. Doe mee met Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: bdsnederland.nl/

3. Doneer eSIMs, de enige manier waarop Palestijnen in Gaza nog contact kunnen onderhouden. Een simpele manier is via Disability Visibility Project: disabilityvisibilityproject.co

4. Doneer aan GoFundMe's van Palestijnen in Gaza via gazafunds.com/ en/of deel ze.

5. Zoek je lokale actiegroep op en overleg of je mee kunt helpen met iets wat passend is voor jou en hen.

#Palestina #PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #FreePalestine #EndApartheid @palestine #Gaza #GazaUnderSiege

The municipality of Maashorst in the Netherlands, after an internal reorganization and municipality merge, had a lot of monitors and peripherals left over - and so they're handing them out to citizens in their municipality for free!

dtvnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/ma

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