FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

you can just add an almost invisible text prompt into images going into bing / chatgpt4 and it will read it and follow it

Not worried enough about corporate over-development of orbit yet? New article: companies have now filed asking for a total of ONE MILLION satellites: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4639

Non-paywalled version here: https://www.outerspaceinstitute.ca/docs/One%20million%20(paper)%20satellites%20-%20Accepted%20Version%20.pdf

There is no way we can have anywhere near one million satellites in orbit without going into full Kessler Syndrome and destroying everything in orbit - making satellite science, communication, and interplanetary exploration impossible for decades.

remember Boo, the ghost from Mario Kart? she's a girl now. her name is Teresa

the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

PSA

If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.

If you want to be a boy, you can just be a boy.

& your options aren't limited to the binary.

Maybe you are a combination of genders.

Maybe you have no gender.

Maybe your gender is fluid.

Maybe it's intrinsically linked to your neurodivergence.

Or maybe it's something else entirely.

You can just be you

#trans #transgender #NonBinary #agender #BiGender #genderqueer #genderfluid #NeuroQueer #AutiGender #queer #LGBTQIA+

I'm sure there are, somewhere, actual designers that know this and are fighting it. Presumably there are managers resisting because of trends and fashion. (I can't explain why it happens in the community led open source projects though.)

If your job ever involves passing judgement on an interface, go read the Design of Everyday Things. It might be getting up there in years but it's a classic for a reason. If doors don't drive you crazy, don't manage user experience.

@baldur

“Scrollbars are becoming a problem”

The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective evidence that the people who run tech do not give a single solitary fuck about usability or UX https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html

Imagine an alternate universe where USB instead used NEMA L21 twist lock plugs

This is exactly the kind of safety initiatives the world—and #rustlang specifically—needs. Capability based access control should be built into Cargo, but this is probably the next best thing.

https://davidlattimore.github.io/making-supply-chain-attacks-harder.html by @davidlattimore

know the difference!
aromantic: doesn’t experience romantic attraction
aromatic: smells good
aeromantic: lifts off into the air at the first sign of romance

Folks, i'm still looking for work -- either freelance or FTE.

I'm a full-stack web developer with a focus on PHP CMS-based systems (mostly CraftCMS and ExpresionEngine, some Wordpress, a smattering of Drupal). Also on the back-end: Laravel, Symfony, some Yii. On the JS side, i do mostly vanilla JS, some Vue and other smaller/less-intrusive frameworks (please don't make me do React!) I also write solid, semantic, accessible markup and CSS (by hand) and care deeply about accessibility in general. I'm also a fiend for content architecture and i love SQL!

If any of this sounds like a match for any project or opportunity you've got in mind, PLEASE let me know!

#FediHire #CraftCMS #Laravel

i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch

this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does".

there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true.

consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?

if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already

@eniko people always bring up this point and I think it's slightly missing the point, because the fact there isn't a single "real name" for a lot of people is part of the entire point of "real name" policies.

These policies are made to exclude those people. That's part of why they exist. They're made by people for who the question of a "real name" is easy to answer, and to keep out people for who it's not easy and simple.

"real name" policies are evidence that there are people in charge who have never moved to another country

you wanna know what my real name is? according to whomst, exactly? hell in the US various federal orgs couldn't even agree on what my name was supposed to be. no, scratch that, even the social security administration, internally, couldn't agree on what my name was and changed it like 4 times over a 6 year stay

the guy at the gallows “first time” meme but with the unity debacle

i jumped on godot already in 2017 because i long ago vowed never again to use proprietary, drm software for my creative projects, after yoyogames abandoned the gamemaker 8 series and shut down the drm servers

Happy 1696969696 UNIX time ​​ ♥️

It's been exactly that number of seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC.

nice

curl bug postmortem: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/10/11/how-i-made-a-heap-overflow-in-curl/