Catherine Winters

@catherineomega
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Doing virtual reality and digital humanities in education. You may know me via #Unity, #DigitalHumanities, VR/AR/XR, #Drupal, #SecondLife, or just saw one of my manifestos about typography nailed to a telephone pole.
Lal just died. Good, I’m glad she’s dead. She can no longer hurt innocent people! President GUL DUKAT
#StarTrek #Sisko197

RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116227393625717779

Quick summary: tech bros are fascist misogynist arseholes.
Incidentally, the same summary can be applied to any story about #BigTech.

@marginalia @ploum And I think another factor is that many people's questions during that 2014-2017(ish) period were already answered by people in 2009-2014, which meant they didn't get asked. But starting in the mid-to-late 2010s, we also see the toolset for PHP and JS-driven apps start to become a lot more complicated. StackOverflow's PHP section was great for developers editing their WordPress plugin over FTP. Both the PHP dev ecosystem and questions asked are a lot more complicated today.

Internet age verification kills anonymity and risks your data. It's a terrible idea, and the fact the UK and the most conservative parts of the US were the first to embrace it should tell you that. The EU shouldn't let this bad idea infect you. https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115621195342074414

You shouldn't need a driver's license to speak.

@mcc gotta be honest, it is fairly low at the moment.
I like my Linux laptop that crashes once or twice a day. I like my Mastodon account where you can't really talk to anyone about anything but webdev or Rust. I like my Lenovo tablet that sometimes switches into Japanese for no reason. I like my Steam Deck that needs unique settings fiddling per game. I'm willing to put up with some friction & frustration from my computers & software. But what I can't ~abide~, and will twist my life into pretzels to avoid from my computers & software, is *malice*.

Hey! Happy #screenshotsaturday! 🎉
I’m working on my next #unrealengine5 plugin: SimpleAttributes

It lets you easily define and manage attributes like Health, Mana, Strength, Agility, etc. No boilerplate code needed.

Here’s a preview of the editor tab.

#unrealengine #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Six months ago I moved some of my retirement money into a CD at a local bank, #EasternBank, at 4.21%. That CD matured yesterday and I called today (during the "grace period") to find out what the rate was going to be for the new rollover CD.
They said that since I called and asked, they can roll it over into a new CD with the same rate if I want, but if I hadn't called it would have rolled over into a CD at 0.05%.
yhgtbfkmwts
#banking #darkPatterns #scam
HEY SHITPOSTERS: what servers should I tell the bluesky trans shitposters to apply for? They are all mad and I think we should steal them. I'm just going to link this post over there.