Notices by Siph :siph:‍:bzh: (siph@meemu.org), page 2

:boost_ok: Are you an indie game developer? Would you like your game localized in French? Hire me!

* I go beyond simple translation and try my best to match tone and cultural references for a francophone audience
* I hold queer and especially non-binary representation to utmost importance and will use non-standard writing forms and neopronouns to bend the strongly binary gendered French language into respecting and communicating your characters' gender identities
* I pay attention to UI design and try my best to make sure text fits the spaces it's in and is appropriate with its context
* As this is not an occupation I depend on, I am willing to discuss rates to fit your budget and remain accessible

Portfolio:

FAITH Chapter I, fan-translation with fully localized graphics and digitized voices
https://traduction.faith

SNAKE FARM, commercially released on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2491640/SNAKE_FARM/

DMs open, e-mail pro [a t] siphonay [d o t] fr

#indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #localization

Attention game devs. Not everybody in the world uses a QWERTY layout. Entire countries use AZERTY for example, and that’s millions of people. While more marginal there’s also a bunch of people using ergonomic layout. Juggling keyboard layouts is a pain.

If you’re not going to let us rebind keys because you’re convinced you know what’s best for everyone at least use keyboard events that are independent from the layout

Just found about a French MP with a slash in her last name : Emeline K/Bidi. I’ve never seen that before! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeline_K/Bidi

One more concrete example for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article

Hello, thank you so much for all the donations. I’m sorry I don’t have the mental bandwidth to thank each and everyone of you like I would like, but know you have my absolute gratitude.

I upped the goal from 1000€ to 3100€. The reason for this is that while 1000€ is enough to get me out of being beyond my allowed overdraft and paying this months’ rent, I still have 6 months of 700€ rent behind. 2100€ additional euros would pay for three of them and would be a show of good faith to placate my landlord, and I can work on stabilizing my finances and pay him the rest a little month by month. I will try my best to do that.

It’s a huge goal, and I understand if it sounds unreasonable. As with the first one, I would not complain if I don’t reach it. But it would be a great service to me so I can fill up the hole I’m currently in.

Thank you so much, again.

Hey there

I’m once again having financial issues. I’m struggling to catch up and will probably look into taking another loan long-term to fix the more immediate problems that I have

In the mean time I’m several months late on rent, including this one. I haven’t been paid yet for the month, and when I will, it will be less than half my salary because I asked for an advance last month

I’m drowning in overdraft fees and my bank still refuses to renegotiate my student loan repayments even though I’ve made clear it’s not sustainable for me

My landlord has noticed the late rent and is getting on my case. I would like to pay at least this month so I don’t look to him like I’m taking him for a fool

Idk what to say. I know I fucked up to get myself in this kind of situation. I’m really desperate, please help

1316,91/3100€
updated goal, see replies. thx for reaching the original of 1k€

https://paypal.me/SiphonayAV
#mutualaid @mutualaid

I also have ko-fi if you can’t do PayPal. It takes credit card through Stripe though please prioritize PayPal as there are no or fewer fees and the money reaches me immediately vs. 1 week or more for Stripe
https://ko-fi.com/Siphonay

Peu importe toutes les critiques que j'ai pu et pourrait partager et formuler à son égard je souhaite exprimer mon soutien total et inconditionnel à Marlène Schiappa face à ce qu'elle a subi en étant en poste au gouvernement.

Aucune femme, ni personne d'autre mérite d'être victime d'agression sexuelle, et peu importe comment elle a accompli ce rôle, faire subir ça à la personne en charge de ce type de questions au sein d'un gouvernement est d'une cruauté misogyne qui m'estomaque.

macron [redacted]

tonight on "things I haven’t reposted on this account yet" I present to you… The UK version of the Game Boy Color

Okay I may have had my criticisms but holy hell. Rest in peace Dragoneer. That's a horrible way to go. Fuck the US healthcare system

is there something similar to pronoun.is that still exists? pronouns.page has way too much stuff for my taste, I just want pronoun usage examples

I understand the "weird" strategy actually work but I don’t like the underlying ideology and implications of "weird" being "bad". I’m not a fascist or a conspiracy theorist but I’m certainly not "normal". I’m "weird" and I like to take pride in it. What’s that gonna look like when it successfully and irrevocably being associated with republicans (misogynists, fascists, eugenicists, white supremacists?), what will "keep furry weird" look like?

I’m not normal and I’m never going to be so I’d rather be my weird self. But I don’t want to be in the same bag as them.

It’s like they actually listened to the advice of "don’t call your political adversaries racists" and decided to call them sexual deviants instead. But you know, many people still consider queer people that.

Idk if I’m articulating this well but hopefully you see what I mean

all in all maybe it’s not that big of a deal? I just hope smug liberals or social media teenagers don’t come at me like "why do you identify with fascists" for calling myself weird

Casting this into the void: if anybody here has an old Acer Aspire 5738Z or similar model and if by miracle you never wiped the original hard drive, I would be super interested in helping you dump and upload the recovery partition that can restore the OEM Windows Vista/7 installation. If you think you can help, hit me up! #retrocomputing :boost_ok:

Did you know Lidl has fanboys? I found out when they started sending me threats

Something I love bringing up again from time to time: a little more than five years ago a friend and I found a functional microphone in a smart kitchen appliance that wasn't advertised to have one. The product in question was being promoted hard by Lidl because they sold it at a fraction of the price of similar devices.

https://www.numerama.com/tech/525214-monsieur-cuisine-connect-micro-cache-android-non-securise-les-dessous-du-robot-cuisine-de-lidl.html

It made national & european news and I was interviewed by the biggest TV news show at prime time.

All we wanted was run Doom on the thing. We installed Discord on it and hopped into a call because we thought it would be funny and fell off our chairs when it turned out the person on the other side could hear us just fine

Nouveau Front Pouler 🐓

It's literally been a thing for like a decade

I want to show good faith and note that SerenityOS did end up merging a commit to remove exclusionary language https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

I'm not a fan of the excuse "the writer was unfamiliar with English and didn't know better" when the initial response was "this change is political and we adhere to norms that stipulates 'he' should be defaulted to as a natural pronoun" but hey I guess that was just one person and that they're trying to put out that fire right now

If you're disappointed about The New Browser Everybody Talks About having shitass developers (edit to clarify: I mean Ladybird. Sorry for being obtuse) and still want less hegemony then check out and support Servo https://servo.org