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Jessica🏳️🌈there may be no ethical consumption under capitalism but *boy* are there degrees of harm
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Any pronoun is fine. Writer, programmer, musician, reverse engineer, electrical engineer, hobbyist sysadmin, gamer, and adventurous with foods.
By the same token, I could release an episode of Expedition Sasquatch that is all rights reserved, or an ES novel that is all rights reserved without violating the license on the CC-BY-SA episodes, because I am the original author.
But I probably won't, because that's not my goal.
My goal is to provide a platform upon which other creatives can produce new material without enriching a distant billionaire.
I would love for someone to make a lot of money on the back of one of my creative projects, even if I personally don't.
Because, if someone else makes money from something I couldn't, while actively allowing full remixing and free re-distribution of their creative work *and* linking back to the thing I produced that they remixed, that means they've brought something to the table that I couldn't bring, and they've earned that money.
That's great. The fact that I got to play a role in that is great. And the fact that, so long as they continue to be successful, more people will continue to find the thing I produced that inspired them, is great.
Icy ΘΔ&Is there any way on Mastodon to automatically filter out image posts with no alt text?
Edit: think I've got my answer- thanks y'all!
Edit 2: Copy-pasting my reply to compile the solutions from the comments: The best solution for my usecase (mobile on iOS) is Martin Wenisch's fork of Phanpy (https://mastodon.cesko.digital/@mwenisch/116249807965211752) 
but if you're on Android the Moshidon app client is also an option and if you're on PC there's uBlock and Tampermokey scripts (https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/02/suppressing-posts-containing-images-with-no-alt-text-in-the-mastodon-advanced-web-ui-via-ublock-origin/ & https://social.jpoesen.com/@jpoesen/116250073497451531)
Martin Wenisch (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I did a quick fork of Phanpy (web client) that hides posts with images without alt text. It's on the client side: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/compare/main...martinwenisch:phanpy:main I wonder if this would be an option. It'll be hard to push it to the upstream, as it's out of their scope. But if enough people would use it, I'd polish it with a settings switch and try. Deployment of the changes here: https://phanpy.muhu.digital
Dan Fixes Coin-Opsinstalling newbie-flavoured linux is like the ultimate Fiddling In The Settings Menu, it's a Big Fiddle but you do it once and then you're done for a good long while
until you realise you're an irredeemable computer perv who actually MISSES messing around in settings, and then you can install a non-newbie linux flavour and roll around in computer to your heart's content
dmi 💽 judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct
- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.
- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online
- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
Simon TathamWhen to automate a repetitive task:
NO-BRAINER: "This is obviously going to be faster to automate than to do it by hand _even once_. Let's automate it right now, and not do it by hand at all."
FORESIGHTED: "Doing it once by hand is faster than automating it, but I'm going to have to do it a lot of times, so it still saves time to automate it first."
NEED A RUN-UP: "I don't yet understand this task well enough to automate it, so I'll do it a few times by hand first to get the idea."
RAN OFF THE RUNWAY: "Great, now I've done this by hand a few times, I think I can automate it reliably! Oh, oops, turned out I only had one more case of it left to do."
TERRIFIED OF RUNNING OFF THE RUNWAY: "This is a one-off, so it would be a waste of time to automate it, I'll just do it manually."
[next day] "Oh, oops, I made a mistake and have to do it again. But it should be fine this time."
[a month later] "Even though I've had to redo it 25 times already, surely _this_ is the last time? So it would still be a waste of time to automate it."
Michael B. JohnsonDuring production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?
3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.
Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?
No.
IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.
So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.
It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.
Plenty for Finding Nemo.
𝙉𝙤𝙖𝙝 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛You ever pause and think about how the label “high-functioning” that gets applied to #ActuallyAutistic, #AudHD, #ADHD, and other #neurodivergent folks is just sotto voce, “It’s way harder for you to do certain things than it is for other people and you’re pretty fantastic at keeping that struggle completely invisible to outside scrutiny.”
Some days I’m thankful for masking. Other days I wish I could just shine a spotlight and say, “See? I’m expending triathlon level energy just to accomplish what you can at a brisk walk.”
It’s a spectrum. Just because you’re not at the far point of that spectrum doesn’t mean that everything is sunshine, lemon drops, and rainbows.
@packmusicShare this if you know an independent musician working hard for very little return.
I experienced some rather bizarre phenomena today. I have some LED bulbs in my light in my room, and it seems one is going out on me, but in an unusual way I've not seen before. With my light on, the bulb remains dark, unlike the other two, but when I turn off my light, the dark bulb flickers on and off briefly, then goes bright and fades out. Is this some sort of capacitive effect or something?