Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

recently, i've been collecting steam achievements you get for riding roombas

if anyone knows any other game where you can do this, please tell me
this is important!

@mike what was that you were saying about rack theft recently

Quick ask: GitHub + the Linux Foundation + Harvard University are partnering to research how open source is funded. We NEED more data in order to find ways to improve funding in the ecosystem

If your org/company funds OSS, could you take it please? and if you could pass it along to others: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/surveys/open-source-software-funding-survey-2024

as someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time obsessing over data remanence standards and hardware storage volatility, I have unfortunately become keenly aware that incredible amounts of sensitive data end up in the e-waste pile. most of the time as a result of negligence, or the false assumption that e-waste contractors will wipe equipment before resale, but often simply because there is no way to actually fully wipe the data on the equipment due to oversights in the design.

A shout out @SocialGaff for the use of his ingenious DIY drying rack.

#PrintMaking
#linocut
#RescueTransRescue

HEY FUN FACT: this was used as part of an Alexa/google home type thing! this is the "cloud" half, as in the part sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
It turns out every time the customer asked for something from the smart assistant, the WAV file was sent to the cloud box

where it is still stored. and I now have eleven thousand wave files

hello internet. my name is nora. i run a jewelry shop specializing in fused glass pride jewelry but i also am trying to make glass weird. a new product (the first picture) is a grab bag of strange glass bits and bobs called a kobold hoard, named for a favorite fantasy creature that loves shinies.

https://nora.jewelry/

i'm a one artist operation, though my husband helps pack orders and helps talk me through ideas. shares help me out.

#sellingonmastodon #jewelry #fusedglass

The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html

@rail_ i am always sure to not assume stuff like this, but im still always pleasantly surprised in the rare case when someone is in neither seattle nor germany lmao

"I signed an NDA" is a perfect reply to any uncomfortable question

- why didn't you take out the trash?
- NDA

Should you use CRA? Not even once.

This has always been true, but only in the last couple of years have its creators acknowledged as much. And yet, they're pulling the same shit Facebook pulled when they failed to signpost to the community the scale of infrastructure necessary to keep their baroque JS in check.

Lies by omission are still material.

A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:

We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.

Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:

https://create-react-app.dev/

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

OH: "There's never enough money to fix something right, but somehow there's always money to fix something twice."