New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
@emelie I have no direct experience, but it's clear the mojo is strong with @godotengine and I know many people currently learning game dev from scratch who are enjoying Godot. (But with the caveat that many tutorials are for v3, not the new v4)
@russss so my curmudgeon view of “the market insists we limit cross-org tracking, but we can't just give it up entirely" should be amended to “…at least partially because of neoliberal governments”?
Is there any generous way to interpret the surveillance advertising capabilities Google is rolling into Chrome and Android as good-faith efforts?
With my current understanding, I'm disgusted to see them framed as privacy features.
"During the 7 years following the Paris Agreement, the world’s top 60 private-sector banks pumped $5.5 trillion into fossil fuels." Is you bank one of them?
https://bank.green/
#banking #deGrowth #climateChange #sustainability
@codinghorror that’s a very “teenager using John Galt as a pseudonym” stance 🙄
@dctrud sorry, I was trying to make a joke about landlords. Nothing against the shop or the cat!
ICYMI - #ElonMusk is now agreeing with Geert Wilders and putting the Great Replacement as his pinned tweet.
@dctrud what kind of neoliberal monster would buy that tent out from under the demo cat?
Strong “self-driving cars by 2020” vibe here https://mixed-news.com/en/bosworth-orion-ar-glasses-2024/
Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at https://rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility :)
I wish we’d listened to Adam Bosworth https://adambosworth.net/2005/07/10/speaking-up/
@paulrobertlloyd …and before I go ahead and make ill-considered choices 😆
@lisyarus I haven’t seen it often used with organic forms like these nice rolling hills
@lisyarus you said style would come later, but you're really on to something beautiful already
@paulrobertlloyd I'm curious about even your structure for storing the assets and meta in your source repo, though. Just because you seem to think like I do and are using similar tools!
@paulrobertlloyd once IndieKit can send media elsewhere (e.g. CDN) I think the server side of posting will be great. But I miss something like Drafts on macOS for helping me go from “this poorly-tagged photo in my huge library" to a nice asset+metadata upload. :-|
@RickiTarr (and +1 for You’re Wrong About, 99pi, and If Books Could Kill)
@RickiTarr not as academic as it appears: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/philosophy-for-tough-times/102466536
On August 22, 1985, a British airplane experienced an engine failure and subsequent fire on the runway. The pilots aborted the takeoff, fire services responded promptly, flight attendants ran the evacuation with heartbreaking heroism - and the incident shocked the world when 55 people died, even though the plane had never left the ground.
In consequence, worldwide, we:
* changed cabin materials to be safer in the event of fire
* added emergency lighting guiding people toward exits
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