Notices by Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)

maybe i was meant to be born in the late carboniferous period. to live among the giant lizards and millipedes. i wouldn't need glasses to read because there'd be nothing to read. i wouldn't need a CPAP machine because the atmosphere would be so oxygen rich. i would never have to see the grub rescue> prompt again

/r/twosentencehorror

"What do you think of this year's hacker conference," I asked my cool and epic robot wife.

She looked into my eyes and said "Bluetooth pairing request accepted."

just learned there's an accent of english that pronounces a word in a way differently to mine. has this ever happened before?

words/pronunciations i could see myself using if i ever moved to the UK, in decreasing order of likelihood:

• lorry VS truck (a delightful word)
• crisps VS chips (aussie english using the same word for potato chips and hot chips is dumb)
• trousers VS pants (based and wallacepilled)
• pants VS underpants (this is going to get confusing so i should probably adapt quickly)
• whaʔ VS what (very fun to say)
• /ˈpastə/ VS /ˈpɐːstə/ (unpleasant to my ears but i could maybe one day get used to it)
• aubergine VS eggplant (removes the amusing mental imagery of a half-egg, half-plant hybrid)
• dayta VS dahta (i am NOT calling it a daytabase.)
• yoggert VS yo-ghurt (the british pronunciation sounds like a speech synthesiser that doesn't have a rule for yoghurt and is falling back to a flawed "default" mode)
• tacko VS tahco (what? why)
• flip-flops/sandals VS thongs (i don't care if people double-take when i tell them my thong fell off in the macca's parking lot. i will take this word with me to the grave)
• speedos VS budgie smugglers (self explanatory)
• lemon-lime beverage VS lemonade (why is australia the only country in the world to get this right?!)

if there are any #GNOME designers/artists (gnomes? gnome heads? gnomish sourcerers? gnaphic gnesigners?) seeing this, does it comply with the HIG in your opinion? what would you suggest changing if not?

the cheesecrater icon uses the standard rustacean image, which doesn't have that smooth, rounded look the HIG usually suggests, but i lack the skill to make a "blobby" version of ferris. :ferris_og:

the crates browser, with its triple-pane layout (third screenshot), is the most complicated of them, but it's based on the design of the crates.io website, which displays the readme alongside a right-aligned "metadata" pane.

(also: either it's very hard to write descriptive alt text for UI design screenshots, or i am very bad at it. possibly both.)

#design #adwaita

working on a little GUI for browsing crates.io. i've spent about a week on it and this is what i've got so far

would you believe me if i told you that getting an icon to appear in this dropdown menu involved several hours of reading GTK forum posts, documentation, and examples in both rust and C, with more than one null pointer dereference along the way :unsafe_ferris:

progress! #rust #GTK

mad respect to the gtk-rs people, but the inline type docs could be slightly more helpful

this is absolute bullshit. it's one thing for Jerry's Crochet Patterns Dot Wordpress Dot Com to display prices without GST because jerry made a genuine mistake and has never dealt with the logistics of international sales before. i'm not mad at jerry for "US defaultism" or whatever.

i AM mad at massive corporations who can't be fucked to add if (country == "AU) { price = price * 1.1 } to their shitty website. "oh but we're an american company, in america you don't need to include tax" i don't care. you're selling to australians, you're listing prices in australian dollars, you have a fucking ABN, you need to comply with australian price display laws.

YOU CANNOT DISPLAY PRICES WITHOUT GST. you cannot have a page that says "this costs $20" and proceed to charge anything but $20. you cannot say "$5, plus GST" or "$8, plus local sales tax".

i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:

Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.

here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.

#australia

i went to america once, and while i enjoyed the trip overall, i hated that every single time i bought something i was actually paying 10% more, or 8% more, or fucking 7.5% more or some shit.

the one time -- the one time -- i remembered this was a thing while shopping over there, i googled the sales tax rate for the state i was in, and used my fucking phone calculator to work it out. i had the payment ready down to the cent, dimes and nickels and pennies and all. i was told that this was a museum gift shop, which was obviously tax exempt, and therefore i had wasted my time. at that point, i just gave up, and accepted that whenever i bought something, my $5.78 of items would actually be $6.24 or whatever.

don't bring that shit to australia.

reddit music fans: ok but you do realise that's objectively their worst album? if you put Dark Tango above Flyin' Wheels there is genuinely something wrong with your brain. Dark Tango is C tier at best, even if you ignore the horrendous outro "song".

tumblr music fans: why did nobody tell me about this artist before 😭 i am liTERALLY SCREAMING this is perfect!! if you're not into wagstop you're gonna want to mute me for the next hour because i will NOT shut up about this so help me aphrodite

DottyMay® music fans (the premier social network for dot matrix printers): BEEP vzzt vzzzzt WHR chk. skrrrsKRREEEeeEEEEEeEEE bip EEeeEE vzz vzz kEEeEEErrrgkEEEeeEEEE whrrrr skrEEeeeeEEEEE EEeEEEE chk chk vzzzz

downsides of non-american spelling:

• default autocorrect settings will besiege you with red squiggles
• it is technically incorrect to describe your oestrogen pills as "E"
• apnoea has too many vowels
• if you're using Oxford English, you have to know whether the word you're writing is derived from greek in order to correctly use -ise/-ize (this is not a joke)
• "aluminium" is both spelt and pronounced differently to its american counterpart - and in this specific case, you can't smugly correct the foolish yankee spelling because it's the original, "correct" form of the word
• you WILL be laughed at for saying "computer programme"
• everybody will correct your usage of "orientated" (as they should)

benefits of non-american spelling:

• "aesthetic" looks way nicer than "esthetic"
• aeons is far cooler than eons
• you get to use œ and æ
• nobody outside of boston pronounces "mom" in a way that rhymes with "bomb", making "mum" (rhymes with "gum") the objectively superior spelling
• you can take screenshots of software using the wrong spellings at post it to your country's subreddit to have a very productive conversation about patriotism and american hegemony

is there anything more demeaning than having to look how a word like "diarrhoea" or "synaesthesia" is spelt so the people you're talking to know that you use a variety of english uncorrupted by w*bster

there's a certain visual poetry to my badly written code

we need british tabloids for technology

"I WAS IN TEARS" - liverpool mum SHOCKED by APALLING UI CHANGES in POPULAR EMAIL CLIENT - are YOU affected?

NOT SO ZEN: critics SLAM new ryzen chips in TELL-ALL BENCHMARKS - nutty AMD engineers go for "energy efficiency"! PLUS: VEXING AVX-512!

CRONTAB CATASTROPHE - how one simple command could WIPE your CRONTAB

YOU DOT EXE? COPING WITH COPILOT - it can WRITE YOUR EMAILS, ATTEND YOUR MEETINGS... is meddling microsoft planning to replace brits with AI VERSIONS of THEMSELVES?

"I COULD HAVE LOST IT ALL": how a BALMY BTRFS CONFIG nearly RUINED BARRY'S LIFE

The Bear is losing MILLIONS by not being called Bear. every day, hundreds of people press "clear" instead of space on their TV keyboards and give up trying to watch it and just watch reruns of seinfeld (one word) instead.

that guy in the facebook movie was right all along: drop the "the".

conspiracy theory: what if the reason so many movies and shows have single word names nowadays (severance, conclave, wicked, oppenheimer, silo) is because the studios know how awful it is to type long names into streaming services on your TV

every time i have to type something in on a TV with an on-screen keyboard i'm amazed that it still sucks as much now as it did five, ten, fifteen years ago.

how has nobody thought of anything better than moving a cursor around to click individual letters? how have some interfaces made it worse by using five rows of alphabetically ordered keys?

i've watched my parents hit "search" instead of space on android TV's youtube keyboard multiple times. i've done it myself multiple times. i've hit "clear" instead of "search" at least twice.

the PSP had qwerty or T9. T9 with a d-pad sucks, but it at least sucks a bit less. the PS5 has qwerty or qwerty with motion controls.

nearly ten years ago, steam input gave us the daisy wheel keyboard. yesterday, i typed "evil" and hit search on my xbox controller, because scrolling through pages of games with "evil" in their names to find the one i was looking for was a more appealing prospect than typing "the evil within" on that God awful on-screen keyboard.

dumb phones gave us T9. PDAs gave us handwriting recognition. smartphones gave us swipe typing. TVs gave us an experience so painful that there's an app to connect your phone to your TV just so you can use its keyboard instead of the TV's.

if LG can make their remote a wiimote, and google can put a microphone and speaker in theirs, and everyone can find the space for a fucking netflix button, why can nobody put some sort of typing interface on a TV remote?

if an xbox or playstation or switch controller has fifteen buttons and two analogue sticks and a d-pad, why does typing have to be limited to moving a cursor around a qwerty board?

xbox has a feature where you can PIN protect your account, and you enter your pin by using ten different buttons on the controller to input the ten different digits. that way, nobody can see what you're typing as you're typing it. that's genuinely clever design! why didn't they spend some of that brainpower on the fucking keyboard!!!