Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

@Wolf480pl @alcinnz @freakazoid @enkiv2 @dwaltiz Design *for* committee is nearly as bad as design *by* committee.

@fitheach @alcinnz @codesections That's true, I think the big thing I'm noticing though is that ActivityPub is making it so you can follow many different content types which is good if you like everything in one place but you have the microblogging posts pushing all of your articles, audio, and video content into oblivion. We need a way to separate them somehow so we can have the best of all worlds. I suppose for now though and RSS reader that integrates Fediverse sharing will suffice.

If you need background noises, soundscapes, white noise whatever stuff of that kind to work or concentrate or just to chill and usually get this from YouTube there's a website called mynoise.net where you can chose from a huge selection of different kinds of noises, soundscapes etc!! It's my fav website to help me concentrate and even helped to calm me down during anxiety attacks and sensory overload in the past

Creating a lot of servers these days 🤓 Today after my DNS server I'm trying out kibou https://git.cybre.club/kibouproject/kibou a #rustlang #activitypub server to see how it compares to #honk

@freakazoid @enkiv2 @Wolf480pl @dwaltiz

As a FOSS dev, I'll admit to a certain level of arrogance and selfishness, but I think "not listening" is a bit of an oversimplification, no?

Correction: 5.13g is not what 28 trees absorbs in a year. Rather the WebsiteCarbon calculator reckons that 28 trees worth of carbon is what Teamhuman.fm emits in an average year, based on that per-page footprint.
#MeaCulpa

@alcinnz @freakazoid @enkiv2 @dwaltiz

Yeah, developing for yourself is fine, as long as you're honest about it.

It guarantees that there will be at least *one* real person for whom the software is well suited. Possibly more, if there are people similar to you.

OTOH, if you develop for an imaginary model user you don't know, or for a statistical user aggregated from metrics, it's likely that there is no single person who would be happy with the choices you make this way.

@revkellyn
The approach to content by RSS and microblogging platforms differs both by approach and scale. My RSS feeds are limited to about 60 sites, and most only have a handful of articles every day. Keeping copies of that data isn't unfeasible. On the other hand it isn't unusual for people to follow thousands of other users on microblogging platforms, sometimes with each doing hundreds of posts per day.

@alcinnz @codesections

@nitox wait Does it #TIL. Thank you for the info 😉.
I use Chrome mostly because of Sync, But I am slowly moving away from it to Firefox.

@izaya
TCP over TCP, because anything but port 80 is firewalled.

Reminder that #Kotlin is a fantastic language if you fancy yourself some Rust 🦀 but work in enterprise / development

"Change is not a sprint, but change is also not a marathon, it's a relay."
- #YanceyStrickler, founder of #Kickstarter, interviewed on #TeamHuman. I highly recommend this episode, one of the best for ages.
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-142-yancey-strickler-a-more-generous-world/

#NoteToSelf: point out to #DouglasRushkoff that according to the #WebsiteCarbon calculator, the Team Human website currently results in about 5.13g of CO2 emissions every time someone visits it:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/teamhuman-fm/

Apparently that's roughly the amount of carbon that 28 trees absorb in a year.

webdevelopment is bad actually & ios safari is a piece of shit

I'm still hoping for a massive solar flare that destroys all tech, so i don't have to deal with weird webAudio bugs

My follow up post explaining why I chose gopass is now live. Feedback is always welcome. https://blog.trashcat.xyz/2019/12/my-password-manager-gopass-pt.-ii/

... and there comes Chrome with integration with HaveIBeenPwned, claiming "password protection".

... a thing Firefox had for a week already, if not more.

To bolster the credibility of the IPCC, the government invited a team of international experts. They are now resigning with some pretty scathing criticism of how the IPCC operates.

This is a huge setback for Lam and her cabinet.

www.straitstimes.com/asia/east…

I FIXED IT!
SCREW YOU TIM COOK

Did you know that if you use
the webAudio api on mobile safari after playing a video from a video element, it will silently change the sample rate of the audiocontext without telling you (if the samplerate of the vid is different), causing weird distortion on all subsequent webAudio.

Current 'solution': make sure the samplerate on all videos / audio files is 44100hz

@FirstProgenitor consider downloading the videos you would like to watch if you can. Coping with media does not have to involve streaming it live, directly. You can watch YouTube videos with invidious (an alternate YouTube frontend that gives you access to the same content) without giving YouTube views or ad revenue as well. You can also just cope with something aside from YouTube videos, using a different service altogether for just 3 days...

If neither of those options are good enough, well, sorry, but I simply don't see how this is ableist. Neurotypical people can use YouTube to cope in the same way for other reasons but that's still not an excuse to cross a picket line. Its not exactly like there is a dependence specific to certain kinds of neurodiverse people in a media boycott compared to something involving medication, mobility assisting devices, or psychiatric care. This just sounds like a lazy excuse to be a scab without even looking at workarounds or asking for help with getting through the boycott.

Consider first voicing that you find it difficult as a way to ask for help or advice on what to do before instantly resorting to calling it ableist. When you use it like this you are diluting its significance and devaluing comparatively much more significant issues. Besides, if we are really trying to be intersectional, reach out first, don't burn bridges immediately.