Notices by brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com), page 3

@m455 @technomancy @aw rST _seems_ like a nice design, but in practice i had to placate sphinx for a while and i'm never going to touch it again if i can help it.

@technomancy @huertanix "ignoring this bullshit until it's supplanted by some other bullshit" has its limitations, but it's clearly one of the most durable strategies in technology if you can afford the timeframe.

@ieure @technomancy you say that like it's a bad thing

@technomancy @robey "look, we're not google! (plz ignore megacorporation behind the curtain)" has had more legs as a business plan than i would really have expected.

@tess the thing that google+ actually got right: the idea of circles[0].

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B#Circles

@checkervest this piece of string walks into a bar, tries to order a drink.

the bartender just looks at him and goes "we don't serve your kind in here."

piece of string walks out to the alley behind the bar, rolls around on the ground, gets real messed up, frizzy bits of string sticking all over the place, goes back into the bar and orders a drink

bartender squints at the string and says "aren't you that piece of string who just tried to order a minute ago?"

string says "i'm a frayed knot!"

@srol the thought just now that if i could somehow add up the wasted $billions and years of person-time due to this alone, i'd find that slack is in fact a faithful ally on the war against the tech industry actually doing anything.

tangential to my earlier ranting about matrix, it's similarly too bad that the energy and resources that have gone into creating a gitlab didn't instead build something that was a) actually open, and b) in any way fit for purpose.

@djsundog i know there are people getting some value out of it, but my entire experience of matrix + all the meta around it have led to me placing it firmly in the "this thing is a large part of why we lack a better solution to the problem space it allegedly addresses" column.

@djsundog does it ever.

@erinbee i know it's petty, but every time i see an image of one of these things, all i can think is "i'm sorry, but that is not a truck".

the "serial" in USB is actually in there for the practice of serially inventing another version of the bus.

@technomancy oh, those are super rad. just sort of like visual emphasis for the title?

today's pretty good symbol:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%BC%84

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i don't remember who originally showed me this:

https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/

safety sign generator. useful for actual safety signs, but also good for posting.

(they also have what seems like a useful set of guidelines for writing sign text.)

@cwebber @Eramdam hard to imagine how you could possibly implement something like that, would require an entire standard and you'd have to add it to a bunch of publishing software

@technomancy i think some layout conventions like typical ctrl placement exacerbate the problem for sure, but the underlying theme seems pretty consistent. at least for "one hand is depressing multiple keys". i notice the same kind of strain while e.g. fingering actual chords on a guitar.

@technomancy (not, i should be clear, that i do more than jangle about on a guitar occasionally. i'm sure i'm Doing It Wrong.)

1. chording kills. pressing more than one key at once is nearly always worse than a single key or sequence. making the unavoidable chords easier helps too. (stuff like "using your function keys is good, actually" falls out of this.)

2. switching your keyboard every now and then seems like it helps.

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@garbados i am learning to fear this experience.