Notices by Kay Ohtie (kayohtie@blimps.xyz)

@mark @soatok Used to work for a company in the armpit of healthcare, but one of the products we offered accepted input in one of a few formats with published standards.

_Industry leader_ software wasn't properly compliant with any of the standards, and I dreaded every I saw a call with a particular caller ID because I knew who'd be on the other end by first name and how she'd be saying we didn't process a file correctly... until we pointed out syntax errors every time.

It wasn't even consistent, and I was just on support, but it was wild to see _smaller_ vendors than a company who's name rhymes with Mick Esson get it right every time, and them simply throw their name around as if that meant it.

Also their software couldn't do public key auth for SFTP, only password, which we didn't permit for SFTP upload.

I'm still trying to figure out if they called all the other vendors out there with similar services to us or they just rolled their eyes and eventually coded around this vendor's lack-of-compliance, or said "fuck it" and started just taking CSV files.

@soulfirethewolf Soulfire, normally I let these slide but I think this is a nuclear take.

I think it _should_ be a right. The practicalities _currently_ make it a privilege, functionally, but that does not change that it should be a right and companies should not be allowed to become so intrinsic or insert themselves in this way.

Being able to De-Palantir my life should be a right.

Don't mistake "is currently ever present" for "is just how it is". You've got far more time than I do to help change the way these companies are strangling the world. Don't settle already like this.

@tryst @melroy @Erpel I'm very confused too cause I thought they sound like North American voices both but I see 50Hz. I was about to say if that said 60Hz even worse because it means both sides of the hot are connected, one to each @.@

Happy Pride! The results of my pride cake! It's a bit of a mess on the outside, but beautiful on the inside, and absolutely delicious! ^^

#baking

Using Firebot to automate OBS strictly within OBS is kinda cool. Found a fun stinger, interpolated to 60fps with ffmpreg, then have Firebot switch baking scenes to a luma wipe when I switch to them, and back to stinger when I switch out of of them.

Result: switching between front and oven counters now stays a luma wipe, but transitioning to either from a non-baking scene will have the stinger.

Hi.

If you reply with this to someone on your Github issues tracker, after directing folks there:

Fuck you.

Seriously fuck you.

@keirFox it's usually a shell command to import environment variables, not explicitly a binary or script. Just part of the shell, similar to how 'if' or '[[' also are (unless you're on busybox for some reason with its faux-bash)

@aral @Codeberg negging for code work is a new one. This feels identical in style to folks who neg others for a date in writing style, what the hell.

I am once again begging people to create written manuals on websites for software-y things they make, and not just video tutorials. Tutorials are not reference guides, and videos are not ctrl+F -able.

@fribbledom My justification is always "If it saves me from the potential misses of human error it's worth the time."

@blumlaut Should be part-time squeaky... that is being based on nothing other than personal bias x3

@FediTips It makes complete sense to do so, but it should definitely give warning, that's the weird part.

But the reset definitely makes sense, otherwise you could change what someone voted for, and even if others couldn't see which, they can, and it could be hurtful.

@BeAware that's why I put the word in quotes to try and convey sarcasm with it: I'm surprised it's 'playing' by AP instead of just skipping that to snag info. I'm saying "I don't know if merely blocking the domain is enough because it might be doing that to appear like there's a choice when it's actually snagging things via the API anyway". I'm trying to be even more cautious than merely blocking it in Mastodon. There is nothing polite about these things, and many folks are so "it's on the Internet I should have access" about it that a domain block in Mastodon isn't enough.

@BeAware surprised it's being that 'polite' instead of just snorfing the public API; if it had a known distinct user agent I could add it to my block at the Nginx level

@BeAware is there a known user agent?

@tchambers this may have been corrected but the apple one is Applebot-extended; the short one one just catches the normal quick indexer for previews. Fine if you're pattern matching via user agent to block but might not pass in robots.txt I think?

"Quiet Public" is just begging for "Quite Public" misreading and intense confusion over why it's a moon. Maybe it's exhibitionism? Maybe it's Maybelline.

@mathias Upcoming Masto update changes A->B

@mathias 🌔 is where after dark posts go :3

@masayume @thomasfuchs As far as I saw those "3D-printed" houses are solid concrete construction and very expensive, because that much concrete is pretty expensive. Also shit for maintenance, can't easily do wiring/piping because it can only be run either on layers and laid-over, and thus embedded, or run between drywall and the concrete. Can of course drill through but that's a long drilling distance!

We were promised cheap housing as a result but now it's more expensive than ever and being snatched up with this bullshit built-to-rent trend, with entire developments springing up marketing their new housing to rental firms with the hopes they'll be bought at even-more-inflated prices purely to rent, meanwhile often sitting empty because the prices are unafforable to so many, and those who can afford are the ones running the scams to begin with. Still waiting to see what inevitably bursts that bubble explosively, because surely CNN or whoever else will blame millenials or "the 99%" or whatever the hell scapegoat for the bad investment choices of others.

I'm just so salty about the housing in particular as I watch my town being transformed into an empty husk of a hellhole where my rent costs keep rising because new units are being built with higher rent, even though my unit hasn't got nearly the treatment to deserve those kinds of price increases. And even though I can afford it, I have friends living here who can't, and are frightened with nothing else they can really do. They already live in some of the cheapest housing in a "low-cost-of-living" area. So what do they do now?