Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Ink and Switch wrote a nice blogpost recently talking about "Malleable Software" https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

It resonated with me a lot. The idea of building software that has an on-ramp that keeps on-ramping, guiding a user to not only become an expert, but to make the software their own, really resonated with me.

It's felt for a long time that Gnome has gone in the opposite direction. Trying to make something easy and clean, but end users aren't part of that journey.

How come we call them fursuit makers when we could be calling them tailers send toot

have you ever considered multi-colour STN-Displays? They look fantastic and make for great macro shots!

If I’m not fully mistaken this is a so called CCSTN display that doesn’t use a filter to colour the pixels, but rather an optical effect called birefringence. This display does not dim when a different voltages are applied across its pixels, but change colour! So cool and such weird tones :3

Depending on the camera and light angles used, the colours and contrast fully change

Seems some folks could use a bit of a reminder

This just in: mild protests and a couple of fires don't have the destructive capacity to level Los Angeles

this article is objectively the truth: "Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network"

https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network

Pl@ntNet far outperforms iNaturalist anyway both in identification success and in being generally usable and nice (e.g. doesn't pressure you to log in unless you want to submit stuff, doesn't do shady AI, publishes papers on their machine learning models and makes the API available, etc.).

one of the few remaning apps on my phone that I enjoy using. I only open iNaturalist when i want to identify something which is not a plant, but 95% of the time I'm looking at plants so

i think some people on fedi just haven't realised the fact that they haven't healed from twitter. i openly admit that fact. in fact, i will do so now. i still have trauma relating to twitter that makes me feel physically sick every time i encounter it. i also still have the thing where i have to reply to people who are blatantly wrong (i'm getting better at it though). at least i understand it and try to deal with it healthily, whereas some people use fedi as a direct replacement to twitter minus fascists. they still use quotes to make fun of people, and still misinterpret people's arguments on purpose so they can ratio them because they hold interaction count higher than genuine interaction which is what the whole point of me talking to people on this is

In de wandelgangen rond om Amelisweerd of op de bospaden er doorheen wordt weer gesproken over een nieuwe klimtraining. Deze zal georganiseerd worden klimmers van een klimgroep en wat meer autonome klimmers.

De datum is nog niet bekend, maar het zal na het broedseisoen zijn. De natuur moet ook zijn rust hebben.