Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Hey! Please don't push yourself too far!

is anyone here really good at fontforge scripting or something

I need to add 300 glyphs to a font that are 10 diacritics on top of 31 different base characters (10 of them are already in the font)

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/