The fact you can just scroll through photos from Mars is mad.
This one was only taken 12 hours ago!
A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
As it's the start of the semester at many schools, I beg of you to wear a mask to class if you are allowed to. One of my classes is meeting in a tiny, crowded room and everyone was breathing each other's air.
If your school is trying to ban masks, demand an exemption.
#AskFedi: does anyone have any suggestions what some major categories (ie. community topics) should be on a community hosting site?
I'm going for a high-level separation; think technology/hobbies/travel/health/etc.
#AskFedi: synonyms for "DIY", as in home improvement?
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.
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.
i'm a one artist operation, though my husband helps pack orders and helps talk me through ideas. shares help me out.
food (vegan), bread recipe
New delicious salt-free flatbread recipe unlocked!
500gr flour, approximately 300ml water, something like 30g (vegan) butter, a generous dash of italian spice mix (lots of oregano!), plus rosemary and chervil. Add 1 bag of baking powder (ie. the prescribed amount for 500gr flour).
Knead until nice and stretchy, and no longer gets stuck to hands. Add flour if needed until this is true. Divide into 9-10 roughly equally sized balls or thereabouts (exact division is not super important).
Heat frying pan, add little bit of neutral oil (eg. sunflower), less than a tablespoon. Don't add more, or you'll get crackers! Use rolling pin to roll a dough ball into a flat slab, turn down heat to medium, immediately add dough slab to pan.
Wait until it's solid and not bendy anymore, and flip with spatula. Leave for a few more seconds. Ready when small brown spots have appeared (this is true for both sides). Push down flat if it bubbles in the process.
Done! Eat hot or cold. If you're well-coordinated, you can flatten the next dough ball in the time that the previous one is frying, and you can just stack the ready ones on a plate.
We're going to try to use these as pizza bottoms too, tonight. If you make them thinner (divide into more, smaller balls), you get delicious wraps! In that case they will remain bendy though.
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
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.