Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

This chatbot could’ve been a form

Why are there laundry appliances in some kitchens, when it's way more practical to put them in the bathroom? I find it gross, to the point I wouldn't willingly live in a place with a combined kitchen/ bathroom.

#FreudianTypoOfTheWeek

Platfirms (n.): Companies that run social media servers.

10 Build something on a proprietary platform

20 Get pushed out by the platform's money grabbing stunt

30 Learn about awesome free and open platforms that could full the void

40 Ignore all that and find new proprietary platform

50 goto 10

How about we move beyond the metaphors of both economic "growth" and "degrowth" and talk about economic "health"? Healthy being a state where an economy is fulfilling its core purpose; helping us get the resources we need both to survive - including a livable planet - and to thrive.

Wellbeing indicators are one way to measure that. Are there others?

#economics #EconomicGrowth #deGrowth #GreenGrowth

Looking for a (php) job.

Full remote or bicycle accessible (<16 km by ride).

If you need a senior backend developer (+20y of php / 43yo 😅).
Hire me only if you need high quality, precise, human readable code.

I am en engineer before being a developer, loving simple (≠ easy), reliable, sustainable architectures.

If you don't need me, but know someone else who can be interested, feel free to foward.

🇫🇷 French accent when speaking english, but open to the world.

The most unrealistic thing about intergalactic space whales with biological warp drives was that they hadn't all already been hunted to extinction.

The thing the Unity Incident has highlighted for me is confirmation of the kind of brainrot @neauoire talks about: people are learning the tool, not the craft. I see people all over talking about how they can't just switch because they *know* Unity (ongoing/in-dev projects aside, of course).
"Game design" is a skill. Unity is not a skill, it's a tool. The ability to carry a skill to another tool is something that modern software companies are actively trying to stop you doing. Do not let them.

Bounties damage open source projects.

https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-projects/

I have tested today the Mailer from #haikuos and need to say -> that I fall in love with it.
I ask my self "why is this concept not finding on #linux or other platforms"
The usage of the file systems attributes is very interesting and that the service that will send and pull mails are split off from the tool to write and read, is great
That let me think about a different way how applications should build for a desktop, or not ? ☺️

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-email.html

@marutks Yes, but like why would you pretend to have an anti-feature?

A person I will never stop talking about, mostly because he did much of his signature work in my hometown: industrial engineer Thomas Midgley, Jr., a man who one historian said "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

In the 1920s, his employer, General Motors, had a problem. Car motors of the time tended to violently backfire, or "knock," which could be disconcerting for the people in the car. Adding ethanol to gasoline solved the problem, but since ethanol already existed, General Motors couldn't patent it.

Midgley solved the problem by inventing a compound called tetraethyllead (TEL), better known as "leaded gasoline." He gave himself lead poisoning in the process, and TEL would go on to poison the rest of the world over the next sixty years. But GM could patent it, so by using their muscle to make it the standard, they got paid every time someone filled their tank.

After that glorious success, GM sent Midgley to their Frigidaire division to work on another problem. Refrigerators were in their infancy, and they depended on refrigerants that were toxic or explosive. This made them hard to sell to nervous hausfraus. Frigidaire wanted a safe, stable refrigerant.

Midgley solved that problem, too. He invented a new type of refrigerant that was dubbed a "chlorofluorocarbon," or CFC for short. You may be more familiar with it by its brand name: Freon. Freon didn't catch fire or explode, so Frigidaire was thrilled. But it would end up opening a giant hole in the ozone layer.

In 1940, Midgley contracted polio. He invented a complex system of ropes and pulleys to help him get in and out of bed. On November 2, 1944, he was found dead in his home. His contraption had strangled him.

I work in tech. Tech is full of Thomas Midgleys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

This person Blocked me right after posting this:

https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/111050105241412872

Not just Muted, Blocked. Because I disagreed with them and gave a reference with disconfirming evidence. No attempt to back up their claims in any way, or persuade me.

Tells you everything you need to know about the quality of their "thinking" on the subject.

Stallman isn't the only person subject to this kind of Stalinist dogpiling either, eg;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Details_on_the_Cancellation_of_Michel_Bauwens

@weirdwriter @trisquel @jcsteh @devinprater @fsf

Companies that give you a lifetime guarantee are incentivized to kill you.

Yet there are people who casually throw the word "apartheid" around to describe examples of Tino Rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination). Things like self-management of media, health, education services, open to all. Recognition of mana whenua in local government. Māori co-governance of public services.

I find it curious how these same people are horrified by the supposed "misuse" of "apartheid" to describe the treatment of Palestinians by the state of Israel;

https://newint.org/features/2023/06/05/big-story-palestine-accord-apartheid-occupation-israel

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