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@mcc For other folks like me who don't know what the Stern-Gerlach experiment was / is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experiment

Older geeks:
What happened to shareware? I feel like it died _before_ app stores but i don’t know _why_.

Anyone know what happened?

Am i wrong about the timing? Did app stores kill shareware?

#security #gender

Dear trans 🏳️⚧️ ladies:
You are more beautiful than you realize.

Dear trans 🏳️⚧️ guys:
You are handsome as fuck.

Dear enby folks:
You are the beautifully handsome chaos this world needs right now.

All of you:
Thank you for sharing yourselves and reminding the rest of us that we’re not alone.

#transgender #nonbinary

Buster is a browser extension that solves captchas for you.

It leverages the fact that blind people should be allowed to use the web too.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

I love this for 2 reasons:

1. Fuck Captchas
2. Fuck Captcha Companies getting free labor from people to train AI.

I hate this because i fear if it catches on this will negatively impact blind people's ability to use the web.

See also points 1 & 2 re EVERYONE.

@aral yeah. Like everything else AI it LOOKS like it could be useful, but it's ultimately just making everything worse.

Ok, maybe that's giving too much credit to AI people. The INITIAL stuff looked useful, now so much of it is "but why would anyone want that?!"

just cancelled my GitHub copilot subscription.

The straw that broke the camel's back was creating yet another variable named that looked right, but was subtly wrong and broke things.

If i have to fucking proofreed and double check the name of every variable and environment key you generate... just ARGH no. fuck this. Too much time wasted cleaning up for copilot's stupidity.

@babe I've never undertood the FOSSbro thinking that you're some sort of hypocrite if you complain about something but don't pitch in to fix it.

A carpenter can reasonably complain about a badly constructed stone wall, but that doesn't mean they have the knowledge, skills, or materials (time in the OSS case) to fix it.

So many FOSSbros don't get that.

Tell me you're a self-centered fuck who doesn't give two shits about other people's struggles without telling me...

via the Pale Moon browser's docs. https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml

#accessibility

@ruin it sounds like you’re using sarcasm to try and defend their decision. Having limited human resources is NEVER an acceptable reason to explicitly remove accessibility accommodations or to explicitly avoid including them.

It is ONLY an excuse for why you haven’t gotten around to it.

@ruin no developer of anything approaching the broad usage patterns of a browser can EVER test everything.

I didn’t have devices / time is NO excuse. You do your best. You reach out for help where needed.

For context i have almost 30yrs of coding for a living. Avoidind & removing accessibility because you’re a small team says that disabled people aren’t valued equally to non-disabled people.

You prioritize that work over the next whiz-bang feature that isntrely needed. It’s not hard.

@thomasfuchs "these apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images" .... how did these EVER make it past app review?

@aral is love that you didn’t JUST make error messages useful, but also made them cute with fun colors

Why is it that when the typical ball point pen sold in USA runs out of ink I have to replace the entire thing: the body, the ink tube, the tip, the clicker, and the 2 springs?

Yet, when my pretty unremarkable Japanese ball-point pen runs out I just grab a replacement ink tube & tip?

When my lowbrow Lamy Safari fountain pen runs out I just replace the ink cartridge?

Why is pen stuff so needlessly wasteful?

#environment

Yes, I said "lowbrow fountain pen". Trust me. It's ~$30 with $5 boxes of 5 replaceable plastic ink cartridges.

https://www.jetpens.com/search?q=LAMY+Safari+Fountain+Pen&v=2

It's incredibly easy to use, and produces a wonderful line. If you've been curious about fountain pens i highly recommend it. I use a medium "nib" (tip), and it produces a nice thick line equivalent to the more heavy flow consumer pens like the Uniball Vision.

Alas, I can't find my Safari right now. 😿

#FountainPens

#3DPrinting I try to be a good pet-momma, but no matter how well you house train your filament-babies‡, sometimes there will be poop related accidents.

‡ "filament-babies" ... 🤢 😉
#BambuLabs

For the last few jobs this has been literally every single weekday evening for me. I've never heard anyone articulate it as A Thing™ before, but YES. So much YES.

#TechWriters matter

Discord is NOT documentation

found on reddit.

#transgender 🏳️⚧️

PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“

Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.

These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.

Please spread this knowledge.

Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.