Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Just wondering: is there a law that prescribes that the year of construction needs to visible in an elevator, or is this just something all manufacturers decided: well, that's a good idea!

This is weird. I apparently have the NFSU2 soundtrack in FLAC format, and it has an EAC ripping log, describing how it was ripped from a 2CD release.

There's just one problem: to my knowledge, there has never existed a CD release of the NFSU2 soundtrack!

i find "computers should just be good which means you dont need to know anything to use them" to just be a really individualistic standpoint.

not that computers couldn't or shouldn't be better but wishing for liberation from the material reality that all data lives on a computer somewhere sucks.

you either get a computer that's constantly trying to get into your wallet or a computer that requires you to deal with the real people making it work. those are your only two options.

Endermen aren't evil, they just have ADHD! They pick up random blocks near them because they find them interesting, wander around aimlessly while fidgeting and then drop them again when they find a new shiny block somewhere else.

(They're also autistic and don't like being wet for sensory reasons, and they don't like eye contact)

Thanks to the hard work of @cdn0x12, #GoToSocial v0. 18.x includes automated light mode / dark mode switching based on your system light mode / dark mode configuration.

This means visitors to the web view of your profile will be able to read your silly posts in whatever form they're most comfortable with. This works for the settings panel too! The auto switching also applies to "auto" profile themes with separate light and dark modes (not every theme has both dark + light mode counterparts at this point).

Big thank you to @cdn0x12 for this <3

Some screenshots!

If I were to make a modular creative management game, what should the first few "sets" be? Vote for three or fewer. Or more. I'm a poll, not a cop.

Or reply if you have a better or worse idea.

So grey outside. If you need some sunlight and colour, here's the rest of those 550nm #infrared photos from #Ostia Antica not already posted in December's Art Advent Calender -> https://mastodon.art/@eyeling/113579323904934952

#FotoMontag #archeology #architecture #ruins #rome

ancient technology
#PixelArt

Edit: It might be done !!!

Original question follows for reference ...

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Here's a really long shot ...

Back in the dark ages ... 1990 ... I published a joint paper with Ron Read, but I'm unable to locate my paper copy, and I'm not sure it ever made it to a digital copy.

Does anyone here have a copy of:

R.C. Read, C.D. Wright,
Computing with three-colourable graphs: a survey,
Ars Combin. 29 (1990)225–234

All information gratefully received.

Thank you.

(If you're interested I can tell you what it was about)

Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that's so jank it'll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what's the first thing you do?

You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go "Where the hell have they hidden it this time" until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don't end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell's going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?

Most people don't do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don't even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says "Sometimes I'm sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg," nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.

I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples' experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.

If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won't change anything, won't help anything, won't do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you're outnumbered a hundred to one.

Meet people where they are FFS.