Notices by Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town), page 3

i would like to emphasise
user friendly UI is for everyone
not just “beginners” and “dummies”

17 year old me:
learns gameboy rom hacking in a week cos it seemed fun
41 year old me:
what did I open this laptop to do?

@clacke not just his own assassin, but his own mother, father and lover.

@clacke It's based on a short story called "all you zombies".
to give a tiny spoiler, it's a trans story. To give a huge spoiler, next toot.

it feels almost impossible to avoid michael jackson.

in terms of pop culture it’s like avoiding the letter e. the guy is woven into everything

@clacke @eniko @SmallisBeautiful feels like you’d want money to follow some laws of physics, like preservation of volume

@tobiasdm @sdw @halide the issue here clearly isn’t what they are doing- it’s that they lied about it in advertising

@eniko where does money go when a bank makes it disappear?

@stufromoz @elronxenu @MattHatton also a legacy of the previous government.

feels like labor is going “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”. if the APS guidelines are a problem, change them!

there are two wolves inside you, one figures it’s fine to make two wolves jokes since a white preacher made up the parable to exploit racist ideas about native americans and these jokes are a kind of making fun of white racism and reclaiming the phrase

the other wolf realises you’re white and it ain’t your shit to reclaim, and these jokes do kind of come off as a mockery of native culture no matter what the intent was. ironic racism is still racism

there are two wolves inside you. one is cultural appropriation and the other is decolonisation

there are two wolves inside you [lewd]

there are 10 wolves inside you. they count in binary

there are two hard wolves inside you
naming things, and cache invalidation

why is the only slightly usable cad program old versions of sketchup? what’s gone haywire in that realm?

@akkartik this is because privacy from *sites* is not the use case for incognito mode, privacy from other users of that computer is the use case

@akkartik incognito mode actually does a pretty terrible job masking your identity from sites - if that were the point of it; but it isn’t.

@akkartik the purpose is hiding your porn from your wife, to put it indelicately

mastodon is not above reproach, it is not perfect software.
but I swear I have no sympathy for those who insist it should add twitter like features to appeal to more “normal people”, like algorithms.

it’s gentrification, you explicitly want to push out the weirdos like me to make it more comfortable for *you*.