Edwin Groothuis

@mavetju@aus.social
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@catsalad

Very real
Very.
Very daily.

@fraggle @spiralganglion

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"
God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

Child: "You can have one of the muffins I made. Just put them in the microwave to heat them up".
Me: "Nice. How long?"
Child: "I don't know."
Me: "10 seconds? 20? 30?"
Child: "I DON'T KNOW"
Me: "Okay I'll do 30 seconds as that is the shortest time".
[...]
Me: "Oh man, that's hot. That was way too long."
Child: "Oh normally I do only 15 seconds."

#children #muffins

ironic that we live in a time where everybody owns a computer with a mandatory button that spawns a supposed "magical genie", except for computer witches & wizards who specifically do *not* have such a button anywhere, nor do they wish to have one
you are a fucking EMAIL CLIENT you can't say that shit

When the lights flicker in my house, I got to the AusGrid outages website.

First minute: Nothing.
Second minute: a bit a red blob, 10 sites affected.
Third minute: a large blob, 2108 sites affected.

#ausgrid #outage #dataisbeautiful

This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.

This seems valuable for all public spaces.

#Blind #Accessibility

@kauer yeah I found out that I didn’t have the httpd RPM package, only the httpd-core and httpd-utils. Imagine….
Aha I only had the httpd-core, not the httpd RPM package. Happiness now!