Notices by     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)

Confound it I just had a great idea for a Mastodon bot, and I have so many other things I have to be doing..

Okay, back to seething with absolute outrage.

I momentarily do not absolutely hate JavaScript.

(apropos of nothing happening on the internet today; I've been hunkered down trying to complete a demo for a couple of days. Just logging this fact for the sake of the long arc of human history which, as is widely known, trends away from JavaScript.)

(...and I appended that particular link because it does a good job of explaining in plain terms that "operating income" is not some esoteric, meaningless statistic cherry-picked for the purpose of making this point. Selling & shipping socks has a margin of < 2%; selling CPU time and disk quotas, > 30%.)

I'm getting tired of software developers berating normal people for buying everyday household items on Amazon, considering that 3/4 of its operating income comes from the cloud computing services it sells to software developers.

(read it here when you feel all haughty, nerds: https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/10/amazon-e-commerce-company-74-profit-this-instead/ )

So far, I have not seen an actual lawyer give an analysis of the newly-announced #Firefox #TOS thing and, to be frank, the hottakes that I have seen boosted by all yall here have not met my standard for "this person is doing a careful assessment".

Instead, there is a whole lot of "this undoubtedly verifies what I always secretly expected" or "everything in these sorts of statements in a trojan horse intended to cause harm."

So, please: If/when you do see some analysis by a lawyer, boost that.

Does anybody create their own custom, possibly local-only XDG (or not, I guess) URL-scheme handlers?

I know it's doable; I just never hear about it.

The Calendar app thing has reminded me that I meant to do that for a handful of #selfhosted applications.

@mattdm No no; what I meant was the "16.0%" etc, which are peculiar values to be specific about, and which are unevenly spaced. (Also, what the top-most & bottom-most numbers are, like is it 0%–16% or is it 12.7%–16%). And the color saturations/brightnesses don't seem to line up to the numbers....

Those are kinda red flags for me; they smack of charts generated by Excel with a bunch of settings left at defaults.

(doesn't mean the source is wrong, tbs; I just get antsy about viz misleadingness)

@mattdm I have questions about how that numeric range was split up into those really oddball percentage-bins....
#PTSDfromHavingToDoDatavizMyself

@3janeTA You might be using your faucet differently than I do....

Tech dudes will literally post a rant that all the local plumbers have Facebook pages and should "learn to make and own their website" but they won't consider learning to fix a leaky faucet themselves.

@wjt If you can't afford having an AI do all your creative work for you, then I GUESS hiring an artist is okay....

Funny how I saw a loooooooooooot of people in my feed post (or retweet) that "ICE agents" had gone to a school in Chicago, a 'the outrage!' headline, but so far I have not seen a single one of those same people post that it turns out that it wasn't ICE at all.

Why? Because you don't read actual journalism on social media, and if you don't make the effort to do so, then you're doing more harm than good when you amplify slop.

#DontDoMoreHarmThanGood
#HashtagsIShouldntHaveToNeed
#ButApparently

@garrett with light enough (tonally) pigeons, perhaps we could dispense with the paper? #hasthisbeentried

I'm annoyed that this mysteriously failed to post, three times (meaning that the android client popped up an error message to explicitly say that, in those words, without further detail), and then for whatever reason it started posting itself automatically more than once, just to make me look weird. This is why open source is a technological dead-end with no hope to offer humanity, btw, and we will all end up having to go back to AIM

#vivalarevolucion

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#vivalarevolucion
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@emmadavidson There were puns? I didn't use any consciously I promise!

Maybe it just happens.... #worrying

Audience member: "Hi, I have a three-part question..."

No, you don't. You have a rambling stream of consciousness and they handed you a microphone.

Great job, everybody!

Really; just top notch work from all angles & all players involved.