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I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

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I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

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So thankful to past me for transitioning to a 4 day work week 😭💜

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Gonna call it now, "cloud gaming"'s biggest value will be in making training data for AI and that's where M$ and the such are going to make the big bucks off of it.

Realistic shooting games especially sound great for all the killbots that will be deployed on civilians in the future 🤪

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Mauve 👁💜

My job is "computer programmer" but the skill I actually use is "quickly create and transform simulacra of problem spaces within my mind" which applies in other tasks too.
Code just happens to be faster to traverse and is more explicit than some other problem spaces.

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These systems are distributed AF, no CAP.

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Gonna figure out some GeoJSON stuff for work. The format is more straightforward than I expected.

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By body decided to wake me two hours too early today and my mind is paying the price 😵

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ragman

Here’s a fun SVG trick I just learned. If you set the fill or stroke properties to currentColor using CSS, your SVG will be the color of the text around it.

This is great for auto-changing light and dark modes because it means you don’t need multiple images – the SVG will just change color appropriately.

Click on the permalink for this note for a demo :D

Permalink: ragman.net/notes/24
#coding, #webdev

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Mauve 👁💜

Thinkin of getting a "travel phone" for my trip next month. Anybody have suggestions for phones that don't suck? I just need it to take a SIM and be able to set up wifi hotspots.

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Mauve 👁💜

Boosting my mental health by playing the oblivion remaster instead of ruminating on the state of things 🤪

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Kinda wish I wasn't living in interesting times, NGL.

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Tay

nanophone ❌
microphone ✅
milliphone ❌
phone ✅
kilophone ❌
megaphone ✅
gigaphone ❌

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Mauve 👁💜

It'd be cool if there were indigenous languages recognized as "official languages" in . Low key wish we had the option to learn them in school instead of (in addition to?) English or French.

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Tats

Why is it that websites refused to understand the only reason we're using ad blockers is because they upped the number of ads, blasted them everywhere, with pop-ups and sound, and movement, and flashing lights, and God knows what else.

A couple of static ads has never been a problem.

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John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️

I run uBlock Origin or other ad-blockers in every browser I use.

Sometimes I get the "hey, you're blocking ads, we can't make money" popups. From otherwise agreeable news sites.

Then I think to myself, if you just ran the ads yourself, from your own site, without the adsystem trackers involving Meta/Google/Amazon, then the ads would probably get through.

The ads themselves aren't the problem. It's that publishers want to send all the data and most of the revenue to someone else.

#ads

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dietrich

if you'll be in Berlin for @localfirstconf.com and are sticking around after... the Userandagents.com community is hosting a casual space for #localfirst people to hang / hack / chat for the Thurs/Fri after the conference! registration and more info: lu.ma/v457jxp2

USER * AGENTS * BERLIN · Luma

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Greg Egan

Great article, “How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry” in Quanta Magazine.

Here are biofilms grown by researcher Lars Dietrich, all from the same bacterium, fed different nutrients.

quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofi

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Fix: 1 line
Tests: 60 lines 🤪

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Everything is fun and games until you need to mock a function three levels deep in the class hierarchy 🤪

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Rach(el) Against The Machine

making a generic poker game for PC except calling it "Balatro Origins"

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Daniël Franke :panheart:

I "love" how we need to keep on studying things that are flat out good for society while bad things just get rolled out without the same onus of proof.

Things that need to be proven over and over and over:

- Universal Basic Income
- Walkable cities prioritising pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit
- Low speed limits for cars
- No-strings housing for homeless
- High taxes for the rich

And the list goes on and on... why do we make it so hard to improve our society while making it so easy to ruin it?

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