Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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.

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

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 🧵

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.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

#chrome #ublock #adblockers

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

Seeing more discourse about Rust again, I want to chime in with some of my personal experiences and feelings to help illustrate how complex some of this shit is, and why the C/C++ "git gud" approach to software dev can be so grating to read both as a software developer and as someone who has left that part of my life largely behind.

Perhaps most complicated of all, though, is the question of secure for whom? In a software development world where users are as often seen as the threat as they are the beneficiary of security, having more secure software doesn't necessarily mean that *I* personally am more secure.

Taking stuff like bypassing DRM, jailbreaking, and other pro-user stuff, a lot of that depends on software being "insecure."

I would be remiss at this point, though, to not mention the immense failings of the Rust community around racism, weapons/arms contracting, cryptocurrency, and more. Some of that is endemic to all software development and something that Rust fails to challenge, and some of it is unique to the Rust community to its immense discredit.

Like I said, shit's complicated.

As a trans person in tech, the focus on inclusivity in the Rust community was also a godsend. I almost got gatekept out of software entirely by the "git gud" culture of C/C++. That's a story for another day, but suffice to say, having access to an intensely queer-friendly community was a very good thing as I was transitioning and also working as a highly skilled software developer.