Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

dual-booting is just giving your computer a new headmate

Today on the blog! A controversy spreads across the fediverse. One dev and his team refuse to acknowledge women/transgender people in their source code (by referring to the OS operator as “he” only), and then they attempt to bury their actions while the conversation most definitely continues via Mastodon.

#serenityOS #ladybird #neonazis-in-tech

https://cmdr-nova.online/2024/07/03/serenityos-and-ladybird/

CDC: COVID is a health threat that can surge all year round.

NY Democrats: The pandemic is over, let's ban masks!

The mask ban is anti-science, anti-public health, anti-safety.

Take action to stop the mask ban⬇️
https://covidadvocacyny.org

BREAKING: In addition to upcasting and downcasting, C++26 will introduce topcasting, bottomcasting, strangecasting and charmcasting.

Barcelona has banned Airbnb.

"The decision is designed to solve what Collboni described as "Barcelona's biggest problem" – the housing crisis that has seen residents and workers priced out of the market – by returning the 10,000 apartments currently listed as short-term rentals on Airbnb and other platforms into the housing market. "

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240701-what-does-a-world-without-airbnb-look-like

As a city sim enthusiast, this is very good satire. I hate it https://www.pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/in-this-satirical-city-builder-your-goal-is-to-convert-walkable-cities-into-parking-lots-and-use-propaganda-to-convince-everyone-its-what-they-want/

“We often dismiss skills that are not societally valued by pretending they are not skills. Or, sure, maybe they're skills, but they're mysterious and ineffable!
“You reinforce this idea each time you say ‘soft skills’ instead of working to enumerate them. Perhaps you mean ‘interpersonal skills,’ ‘leadership skills,’ or ‘communication skills.’ These are all technical skills, and they all have names.” - Sasha Laundy 🔥🔥🔥
⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112722455355582173

summer

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #glibc #summer #fediart #monochrome

picoCAD surpasses 1000 wishlists on Steam! ❤️
Check it out and jump on the bandwagon ☺️
👉 https://bit.ly/picoCAD

#gamedev #pixelart

Do you think Color Clash would work best as an abstract game, or would be better with animated characters?

asking the Magic 8 Ball which email program to use

fedi is really just a competition to see who can come up with the most ridiculous domain name.

"no politics zone"

generally speaking,

winds up meaning "no politics the dominant group dislikes zone"

and in some cases,

the dominant group in question considers whole-assed identities to be "politics" for whatever bullshit reason.

it's fine to have places to decompress from the onslaught of dire headlines. just be sure that's what you're doing, and not that other thing I just described.

much to-do about nothing