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@parisba@cloudisland.nz Off topic, but I took the opportunity to block all the accounts who blamed you for not being FOSS-enough.
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @ksylor@front-end.social I’ve been thinking this for a couple of years. “Introducing AI” is a far easier message to deliver to shareholders than “we don’t have enough customers to justify our current headcount.”
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@puppy Does Ruby Central have the expertise and resources to maintain RubyGems. I made a donation once to rubygems, but being just a weekend hobbyist had to look up Ruby Central to find out who they were. Our build infrastructure is now a conference organiser?
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@GottaLaff@mstdn.social I guess when every call you get comes from a burner phone, you have to pick up unknown numbers?
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I am not a lawyer but I imagine Judge Diane Goodstein would have a pretty good claim for political asylum?
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web
If even partly true, it is staggering to me that this corruption was missed until now.
I have never tried the recreational and harder drugs. No speed, cocaine, no ecstasy (ask your parents, if you haven't heard of ecstasy).
But I have eaten chocolate, and I have to say that can be a wild ride.
Toyota spent $10 billion to invent… town planning? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/inside-toyotas-10b-private-utopia-big-ideas-few-people-cameras-everywhere/
I hope, if anyone ever gives me $10 billion, I would spend it to build the world something it otherwise wouldn’t have.
(Statistics refer to USA) “Since 2005, more than 270,000 newspaper jobs — 75% of the total — have been lost, Northwestern University’s Medill Journalism School calculated last year. Nearly 3,500 newspapers — about 40% of the total — have vanished over that same time.“
https://washingtonsun.com/perspectives/dana-milbank-the-washington-sun-rises-today-i-hope-youll-join-our-orbit
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@lumendecens@mastodon.ie I’m no expert so this is just a personal list…
- Quality of the help pages. Pick a relatively advanced task and attempt to follow the help instructions step-by-step. Do the instructions actually match the software as implemented?
- Does the software implement the standard keyboard shortcuts recommended by the operating system?
- Discoverability. Are items in the UI that respond to mouse clicks actually drawn to look like items that respond to mouse clicks? When items are drawn to look like they respond to mouse clicks, does the illustration reliably indicate how the item will respond?
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@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social “Note that our hammer has a connected app, and I urge everyone to install it now before I get started here!”