Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

When you click on a CW

might make this my new homepage

https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/

Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:

Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon

It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”

It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.

Here goes: https://searchtodon.social

Disabling copy/paste into passwords fields is a Red Flag™ that tells me your Product Owner doesn't understand security.

It leads me to wonder what other aspects of security they've fucked up.

🎥⭐ New Video ⭐🎥
First Look at #Picotron. The future of #Pico8 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8LXpPwW3FI

Harvest fish as a penguin in this turn-based dungeon crawler! Made in 48h for #LudumDare52 🐧 #pico8 #gamedev #ludumdare #ldjam
https://meepmoop.itch.io/water-under-the-bridge

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Weird social media observation …

I may just be feeling burned-out, but since I started on Mastdon on November 5th I've spent little to no time on twitter (maybe 1-2 RT's/day, 1-2 original tweets/week). But for some reason—possibly the reduction in anger-engagement—I feel far less inclination to toot than to tweet (previous to the Muskpocalypse).

Twitter's forced-engagement model was a profound psychological irritant.

And some devs want to trust this AI to write production quality code or do some real life stuff 🤣

Scientists discovered why Roman buildings have survived so long. It's because they included an ingredient in their concrete – once thought to be from shoddy mixing – that helps the concrete self-heal as it cracks over time. The discovery may help future concrete mixes become self-healing and last longer.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add1602

#Science #History #Architecture

"You can't hoard princesses!" the knights shouted.
"I don't," said the dragon. "Tima, for instance, is a farmer."
"That's not what... You keep them looked in!"
"The lock is on the inside."
"What?"
"They're not locked in. You're locked out."
"They can't do that!"
"I see why, now."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

If anyone ever tries to convince you that your nation would be better served by a private health insurance system, rather than having government managed healthcare, that person is your enemy. They are trying to kill you.

Sincerely,
Someone paying 10x as much for Insulin.

I made the mistake of jokingly pronouncing LGBT as "el jibbity" and I guess that's just how I say it now

In a couple of different places on Mastodon this week I’ve seen people saying something to the effect of “what does visible alt text matter, it’s for screen readers.”

Here are just a few scenarios why people might want to view alt text visually:

1. “I made the post and I want to double check the alt text I wrote.”
2. “I did not make the post but I want to learn how other people write alt text so I can write better descriptions.”
3. “I’m having trouble making sense of the image but I think a written description would help.”
4. “My vision is enough to read text at my preferred font size but not in a tiny screenshot with jpeg compression.”
5. “This is what works best for me because of reasons I don’t want to get into.”

Accessibility is for everyone. Try not to make assumptions.

This is what team meetings with @wendynather and her crew sound like in my head.

*stares at this forever* I..... ok wow

PM is committing one of my highest crimes: wasting precious researcher funds AND making me do unnecessary work. He may force the point but I’m going to make it uncomfortable like sex in the back of a Volkswagen.

An AI test from 1971 shows you need to adjust your #ChatGPT expectations.

In 1971, Terry Winograd devised the Winograd Schemas, simple sentence understanding tasks that require the use of knowledge and commonsense reasoning. Humans understand them easily. ChatGPT... not so much.