Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Can't stop thinking about the Deckintosh

Finally a keyboard for me and my ADHD!

"we have added AI to our product": the 7 magic words to get rid of half your userbase

“We’ve implemented end-to-end encryption.”

Hurray!

“With OpenPGP.”

Oh no.

Hey, transfeminine folks! I had a convo with my (very trans-friendly) audiologist, and she asked an interesting question based on some anecdotal observations:

Have any of you noticed a correlation between feminizing HRT and hearing loss?

I'm not a good example, as I had hearing loss long before I started HRT in November 2020, but she's consulted with other audiologists who've noticed a similar trend. This may be a fluke, or confirmation bias, or related to something completely unrelated to HRT, e.g. transfems also tend to listen to really loud noisecore hyperpop or whatever, but I said I'd reach out to get some more anecdotal information. 😊 Thanks!

Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.

"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.

Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.

if you see this post you must take a sip of water. that's the rules

#pixelart #mastoart #art

Wait no, postcards are FREE while the app is in beta

Dude. No. You shouldn’t have told me about your app. This is like when they didn’t have ordering limits on USPS flat rate boxes so as a teen I ordered 10,000 flat rate boxes to my house and the local post office in my rural Iowa town had to shut down for the day to process them all. Something like that might happen.

Fedi has a bunch of plural critters, so let me ask here:

How would I, as one part of a system, unambiguously refer to a pre-plural self? Both "I" or "we" seem off there, and writing it out all the time sucks.
Context: System is a split with two headmates.

Links to external resources are also welcome.

i think about this image a lot

Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)

Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.

Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.

#deregulation #reagan #corruption

🎨 today we're doing literature collection for a meeting with my boss to try to get covid protections in the office. if you have articles or especially studies on long covid or on testing false negatives, i would *love* to hear from you

The rationale given by the academic integrity office for dismissing the exonerating evidence (that it, too, "could have been produced using AI") is REALLY alarming to me. I'm very troubled about how much AI is destroying our ability to trust each other. And if students do all the right things, document their process, keep artifacts like notes and recordings, only to be told "we can't know those aren't AI", then they have literally NO way to defend themselves once accused. It's a witch hunt.

It sometimes feels like some of the "just use native browser features instead of frameworks" people are not so much arguing against frameworks, as they are arguing for browsers to be the only blessed framework going forward...

Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.

But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...

Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?