@technomancy Ah, dang, I bet Mastodon does that too, which explains why no freaking clients have that setting as an option!

@technomancy Also curious if you’ve seen any commonalities on people having issues runner it in Docker, since that’s likely how I’ll want to run it.

@technomancy I have a feeling that eventually I will migrate over to gotosocial, but are there any clients that have the ability to restrict the timeline to only show replies to people that you follow instead of all replies from people that you follow? I have yet to find one that does that works with Akkoma, at least (or maybe I’m just unable to find the option for it in anything besides the Pleroma FE 😭).

ultra realistic colony builder on mars where no matter what you do everyone dies very quickly. the UI is full of future building upgrades that you can't unlock

Lovely article on one of the successes of government, which really go sorely underreported: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/michael-lewis-chris-marks-the-canary-who-is-government/

Today is the daaaaay

@b0rk In case you haven’t seen this, Build Your Own Text Editor taught me a lot about what’s going on under the hood in a terminal, although it really only scratches the surface. But I think if you wanted to induce some of these behaviors programmatically (not sure if that’s desired or not), the first couple sections might be interesting to look at?

free advice to people starting a discord: you do not need more than two or three channels at most

you need the "everyone is in here / general / chat" channel, you need the "ostensibly nsfw but everyone talks about trauma" channel, and you need the slow moving "i took a selfie/look at my cat" channel

i am being a little facetious but i keep bumping into places with more channels than active users

you just need to keep all the activity in one place & only split things off when it's annoying

For those that don't know, I help run a giant women in technology slack group (more than 10,000 members!)

It's not just open to software and computer folks, however much that's the main group.

If you're a woman in biotech, in industrial science, in manufacturing or engineering, any technical field or technical line of business, you're welcome to join. It's very big tent about 'tech' and 'woman' both.

HMU for an invite

representation is important. thank you unicode team.

Instead of coding exercises maybe companies should ask candidates to go through the team’s toolchain setup docs and see how they get on. If they hit a brick wall and say “Actually, thanks but no” then they pass the interview.

At the end of the day a piece of wood or a bit of an assembly line doesn't usually have an opinion about the fact that you're weighing it.*

People are not like this. People notice when they are measured. Hence, we must think carefully about how we attempt to measure the experience of people and who gets into our sample because of it.

*pragmatically speaking -- physics & philosophy discussions about uncertainty principle for another day!!

The US finally takes aim at truck bloat https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design

I need to start a TikTok channel about being a trad programmer.

One that writes code without sprints, stories, epics, reviews, specs.

Just sit down with my keyboard and compiler and watch the build output scroll by.

God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

@ProfKinyon just (adj.) a warning that the speaker is about to take something you understand and turn it into something you don't

How can I make fun of this, I would do exactly the same thing in this position

Ok but can the new airpods detect when I'm shaking my head AND rolling my eyes while on an audio call while simultaneously making non-committal "hmmm" noises?

Finally got around to disassociating the garage door relay+sensor from SmartThings to move it over to Home Assistant. I have no idea why I waited so long to do so, either - it took almost no time at all and it had long since stopped working (since Samsung deprecated the service that the previous homeowner used to integrate the relay into SmartThings), so there was not even a downside if I was unsuccessful, since it wasn’t working anyway.

Damn, Ted Chiang’s writings on LLMs are just as good as his short stories. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art