🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

extremely long forehead

@BennettTomlin@twitter.com now do yours

Triune

extremely tired of running into this idea that the solution to online bigotry is hiding that you're a woman/person of color/LGBTQ/etc.

I feel like I, upon discovering Mastodon, found the total, like, 5–6 people I wanted to follow and've just stuck with them for the last 3 years so I don't know how effective asking the greater Fediverse will be but

Does anyone know of any artists on here who either can do ASCII art or, while not the medium they usually inhabit, are willing to give creating it a try? 'Working on an all-text video game and could use someone who's open for commissions, right now.

#art #ASCIIart #commissions

Furry universe where every species uses a different system of traditional length units based on their body parts, forcing programmers to maintain complex tables listing the ratio of e.g. wingspans (hooded crow) to kneetops (elephant (asian))

21. Gall’s Law:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

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i ❤️ rss

Kitty portraits 😺

This week I:

🛰️ spent ages talking to journalists about the DART Mission, only for them to either not credit me or call my boss and quote him instead.

🏆 won a competition round and placed in another to now become an Australian representative at a large International competition, but got no press about it.

📡 was scrubbed from or not mentioned in all media releases about a huge grant project I spearheaded at work that is based almost entirely on my labour.

Most weeks it doesn’t get to me, but sometimes it is pretty depressingly thankless to be a young woman in academia.

@helene @7 it IS a technical problem, software engineers overcomplicating things for sake of "protecting the user".

The problem: in shared filesystem malicious app could and would snoop on filesystem, steal cookies etc.

The "solution" - no app should have access to shared filesystem, everything should be sandboxed/containerize, then we implement overcomplicated UI/UX to link several apps together to have shared spaces or have obnoxious "share" feature that somehow instead was primarily desinged for sharing links on social media.

The reality - malicious apps either find exploit to bypass sandboxing or user willingly lets malware access his data due to not knowing better

The solution - shared filesystem is convenient, share feature is cool to quickly send stuff between place as a one-off, all while apps can have their own private "vaults" for storing sensitive data. For fuck's sake, KeePassXC already has support for dbus secrets service, and if user really needs it they can have encrypted partitions and such.

Better UX is a myth, but adding more UI for sake of more UI isn't getting it closer to reality, not to mention exponential increase in complexity.