I think we need a "slow software" movement.

We can look to slow food, Cittaslow (slow city), and other slow efforts.

We need to look "Generative AI" squarely in the eye, and run—not walk—the opposite direction.

We need to teach and advocate for software development practices which are *intentionally* easy to learn and require minimal maintenance.

We need best practices which encourage methodical longevity over quick band-aid fixes.

We need to put artistry over capital.

Will you join me?

World Standards Day

@emilia @anakita honestly I probably should switch apps; the main reason I even looked at Element/FluffyChat as my first option in the first place is because of the VoIP features, but I figure I'd just use Jitsi on its own anyways if at all

@emilia @anakita I use FluffyChat on iOS; idk how broken it has been since I barely use it (I'd like to use Matrix more but such is the way) but it seems fine for me? Probably better than some other clients

Sometimes I reflect on what a true miracle it is that Mozilla produced several useful and important products despite heroic efforts by their management to prevent that outcome

Why did they call it the Nintendo eShop and not Nintendo .DS_Store?

@SSM230 Scrolling through the updated Fuck FuckAdblock filter I think I saw some things about Youtube in there; on the other hand, I've heard of people I know being hit by it but idk what adblocker they're using. If I had to guess uBO is Just That Good

they call me the joker

Me when I say “conniechewah” to the cute Korean girl

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You take an arrow to the knee, and you're not an adventurer anymore.

Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Long gone. It did its work in an instant.

This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.

"Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you.

Yes, that's a thing viruses can do. Don't give this one the chance.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

Oh for fuck's sake!

My estate agent has been pestering me to comply with new fascist requirements to prove you're a UK citizen in order to continue renting a place to live, and I can't even do it in Firefox.

What is this, 1998? This is why it's bad that Chrome has been allowed to dominate the browser "market"

"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

windows 12 is just gonna be linux running microsoft edge, a bullshit ai assistant, and nothing else. all legacy apps will run in a sketchy online “classic windows emulator” and the entire UI will be web based.

following the backlash, windows 13 will be CLI only, and the cycle will begin anew.

meanwhile, mac os xi will have only one feature: displaying a pretty photograph of a mountain, rendered so inefficiently and in so much detail it takes the whole capacity of a top-of-the-line GPU. all apps will no longer be supported. hardware will be supported for 5 years of new photos every month before you have to buy a new macbook for $100,000.

before reaching 7.0, the linux kernel will split into 20 completely separate lineages, each with 10 total developers who are themselves their only users. GNOME only supports one of them. KDE is mostly buttons.

@julia it is Facebook, not Meta.

straight people are fucking crazy i just overheard someone saying “having a girl best friend while having a girlfriend is dangerous” ??????????? do they all have like severe trust issues ??? thas not how attraction works LMA

people have laughed (laughed!!) when I've suggested that privacy and security practices were important for activists and organisers, dismissing it as overkill in a relatively ~chill~ country like Australia.

but protest is *increasingly* being criminalised here and our right to protest is under threat. while obviously we can and should fight this, people can *also* do digital security community care and implement practical anti-surveillance organising tactics