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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I voted to grey it out as a default, but it would depend on context.
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@ellesaurus@toot.lgbt Cool! Thanks for pointing this out. It's probably been a few years since I've looked at that list
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I'm really sorry you get that on other platforms. I've heard similar stories from other artists and it makes me very sad. It must feel terrible to have people think your art is fake. I'm glad fedi has been treating you better! I'll continue to do my part in keeping it that way! 💜
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@cwebber so…anything the employees can persuade it say is an official quote attributable to Mark Zuckerberg, agreed? And legally binding.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange Okay team, listen, the designer told us this character needs to have a lot of complex facial expressions to sell the story. We'll need to save triangles somewhere else.
Like the background scenery?
Er, not what I had in mind.
In case anyone was still feeling sad that Tom Scott had halted almost all his regular content, he's back! And he's breaking apart a 142-year-old bell with a hammer.
Some of the roads around my home now have presence-activated lights at night. They are dim by default, but get brighter when I approach. I hate this and try to avoid them at all costs. I don't feel safe having a beacon that can be seen from far away telling everyone that I'm passing through. This is the opposite of what would make me feel safe. I don't need light where I am. I want to see what's around me. If I need light at my feet, I can use a flashlight. That also gives away my position, but I'm in control of it and it isn't shining out above rooftop level.
I'm conflicted on this because I also hate light pollution. I'd rather the lights stay dim all the time, but not everyone can use a flashlight as easily as I can (or can walk in darkness without tripping).
A 3D printer is just a way of manufacturing things using a hot glue gun.
I am wrong, but not as wrong as you wish I was.
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@cR0w 🤷♀️ People at the office get really excited about all the integrations it has and I have no idea why. And it always inevitably leads to confusion anyway. And then they think they can solve that with more integrations and sharing tutorials around. Having four different tasks show up as four different applications in my task bar feels like a feature to me, something to be celebrated. Instead, the vast majority of the time, my only two open programs are Teams and my web browser. I insist on using the browser to access SharePoint, but I even hate that.
I wish we could just get a basic messaging app that isn't secretly a web browser, opens in a (small) fraction of a second, and doesn't do anything else. But people would insist on using Teams anyway because, "it's more powerful."
I remember a time when I'd open Skype or Mumble to talk to people. I'd open a document editor to edit documents. I'd open file explorer to explore files. I'd open an email program to check and read emails. And I'd open Netscape Navigator to look at web pages. And I never had to accept cookies unless they came out of my oven.
I'm going to a conference for work. They have a website. They have an app. I'm not downloading an app just to go to a conference. I use the website on my computer. Then I try to view the webpage on my phone since I won't have my computer with me on the day. Through the power of Responsive Web Design, all I see is a banner telling me to download the app. "Request Desktop Site" removes the banner, but now I'm just looking at a blank, white page. Refreshing doesn't fix it. Shaking my phone, cursing, and refreshing again makes the website appear, but oh my is it broken. It's REALLY broken. How is it even possible to make a website that performs this badly on a small screen‽
When can we have nice things? I'm tired of this. I'm even more tired that none of this was unexpected.
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@lynnesbian Thank you for sharing this! I had a great time watching it!
The whole time Obi-Wan was trying to stay hidden on the Deathstar, I was trying to remember what the time cards in the corner were from. It seemed so familiar, but I couldn't place it. When the “Hider Found” graphic and sound bite happened, I had to pause the film to laugh for a while.
I'm now imagining an alternate universe where Obi-Wan turns the corner, sees Vader, and Vader has a lemon taped to his arm XD
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@mlevison Goodhart's law in action. Actually, I'm not sure it even is an example of Goodhart's law. Raw quantity of code output would never have correlated strongly with quality. What do they think they're doing‽
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I just glanced through the article to see how you were using the word. You even explained how you were using it and why while acknowledging that other meanings exist. I would give that an A+ for communication. I'm sorry someone decided to be mean to you. I hope one day they learn to chill out and help people instead.
I've never known or cared anything about baseball, but this is some cool datavis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJxJqAqt0Q
Good morning esteemed employee! We have exciting news! After many months of hard work and deliberation by our entire management team and the Board of Directors, we have chosen to enter into a long-term agreement with Forward Workplace Optimization Solutions LLC to help us realize the full potential of our incredible resources and enter a new phase in our journey to implement sensible data-driven optimizations to our workflow.
We have been using high-tech cameras and stationed at carefully chosen positions around the office to monitor what pieces of office resource you utilize most frequently. Starting next week, we will begin adjusting the locations of each resource to bring the most commonly used tools closest to your fingertips and reduce how often you need to access the cupboards and supply closet.
The most frequent resources after the computers have been the pens, the scratch paper, the stapler, and the tape. These will continue to be available at each workstation, but their exact positions may change week-to-week or even day-to-day to bring the one currently experiencing the greatest utilization under your fingertips.
Be advised that if you do not return these to their assigned location after each use, it may result in extra charges from our partner to correct the errors. We will be tracking who is responsible for these additional changes and you may see your paycheck adjusted accordingly.
We found that the two least-commonly-used-resources were the fire extinguisher and the AED. These resources have been moved to a storage facility offsite. If you need them, please see the email that will be sent later today with instructions on how to make a transfer request with our partner. These requests may take three business days to be completed, depending on our partner's availability.
We are confident that the productivity gains from this new partnership will eventually be felt across the workforce, but there was a significant upfront on-boarding expense, so we hope you'll understand that there will be no holiday bonuses this year.
Thank you for your enthusiasm on this matter. With your help, we are confident that our goose will now be fully valued!
@alice@lgbtqia.space Hell yeah! I opened one! I'm giddy!
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@bridget@gts.sharitt.com Sometimes I wish we had antitrust laws for social media. Also email servers—that thing where people explain federation to newbies by comparing it to email is more accurate that I'd like.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Yes! We need more people pushing for indoor air quality. I feel like I've seen greater scientific understanding during my lifetime of how badly indoor air is hurting us (even ignoring pathogens), but nothing is being done about it on any significant scale