Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 4

I fucking hate this thing in tech when people preach "accessibility" and "usability" but design EVERYTHING for macOS using San Francisco and require a 4G or better network. Delete the word "accessibility" and "inclusive" from y'all vocab.

Psst once I wrote a gonzo pirate adventure with carnivorous mermaids, poor impulse control, evil Swedish sorcery, and ludicrously difficult puzzles!

It just might be your jam! http://lucysmokeheart.com

50% off all Payhip purchases for government workers with the code SHUTDOWN >_>

It's so weird to think that re-runs were a /thing/ that had to be invented.

But, no! Instead of being a weird special event, TV was performed live when it got started, and video recordings were bad enough that they got the nickname of 'wobbly television' and were unused for some time.

REPAIR is WAR ON ENTROPY :D

I found it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/a8plkq/repair_dont_replace/

Actual source: http://ifixit.com

Every day I get angrier that some idiot named it the uncanny valley instead of Curious Gorge

You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast http://tonsky.me/blog/pwa/

Canada's Directive on Management of IT Dec 2018 update requires open standards and open source software to be used as a first option where possible #opensource

Learning about running untrusted JS:

- can't expose your other JS so use VM2
- but VM2 will probably leak and doesn't protect against while(true) so run in a container
- but then you read containers can't be trusted! Kernel exploits galore! For real security use full virtualization
- But KVM might have bugs too! The real way to go is bare metal.
- You're gonna airgap that, right?

I was a supporter of Sandstorm.io's kickstarter. Here's what I think now:

- They wanted to avoid the "empty app store" problem by letting you run existing apps. However apps had to be forked and modified to run on sandstorm. It can be quite hard to coerce a codebase to use Sandstorm's APIs and paradigms without introducing bugs. The result is many apps in the store were several versions behind and buggy.

(con't)

Sandstorm.io is kicking off its free users because it can't afford to host them. The cheapest paid plan is $9/month. For a consumer product, that's expensive. On par with music services and netflix, you'd have to get hours of use daily to justify. That's a high bar.

The solution is make it easier to self-host, but until that happens we need to figure out how to run services without losing money while charging $5 to $30 *per year*

Snails having lunch. #aquarium

Hey @pinafore - is there a way to bind a Pinafore install to a single Mastodon instance - something like "add instance" is pre-filled, and not editable? Or provide a list of permitted instances as a selection?

Essentials of Linguistics, an Open Access intro linguistics textbook by @candersHamilton https://t.co/1S6ViMEunh #linguistics