finity -> infosec.exchange @finity@qoto.org

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

Okay, I've made a video game and it's called Gunther O'Brian's Pitching Simulator and it's a game where you try to help Gunther, who is a penguin who doesn't know anything about blaseball, throw the ball better.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39390

@finity @cwebber I've got just the thing for you! https://html5zombo.com/

I remembered to check the modern #diversity guidance on accommodating people's names
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

before committing too far with a database schema that disrespects #HumanRights.

Now I can go to battle (again) to rip out the annoyingly persistent default person name `{'first_name', 'last_name'}` bullshit.

When are we going to have website frameworks drop that parochial crap, and set up our person model with `{'short_name', 'full_name'}` by default with no extra effort?

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

> If designing a form or database […] you should ask yourself whether you really need to have separate fields for given name and family name.

Yep, I've asked and answered that many times; the answer has universally bee “nope, we don't need that”.

(The last time, for me, that a database actually needed split given-name–surname schema, was more than a decade and a half ago.)

The app frameworks need to recognise this, urgently now if not ten years ago.

procedural-muck vs. aberration (seed 3185153098)

#lol

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