Notices by Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune (enkiv2@niu.moe), page 5

via our friend, @willrad

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT THE RED HAT LOGO IS ACTUALLY A T-REX PUNCHING A TRICERATOPS

https://mobile.twitter.com/willrad/status/607737190735618049 https://witches.town/media/dMSLMS4B-4J9LVzZsiA

Everyone has a bot, hosts it on *their own server* and it's working like it works.

No, instead now.sh users have to buy a 10 $ droplet just to do nothing.

https://t.co/URtIG2UigH

I believe in free speech, but fascists don't, so by denying them their free speech, I'm only showing them respect for their ideology.

https://t.co/LMPsZp6ywz

Basically, many computers do not prioritize the User, resulting in a negative experience.

This is true both in Performance, and in Security.

So when I say "computers are bad" I mean "certain aspects of modern computers lead to an overall negative user experience." which is mostly the same thing.

This is the same stuff I talk about all the time.

- Client side code execution for networked applications isn't great.

- Computers should prioritize responsiveness, more or less at the expense of everything else, unless I tell it otherwise.

- The pace of technological progress is so fast that developers are building software for next years computers (this has always been the case) while users are running that software on last *decade*'s computers.

Backwards compatibility!

This is a big one for me. I love our digital history. I view backwards compatibility as a *very* good thing.

But it's also ruining computers.

We get stuck dealing with yesterday's short sighted decisions. We get stuck making sure that our new hardware is saddled with the technical debt of our old software.

This introduces additional complexity, and additional security problems, and additional losses of performance.

On older machines, I needed to keep local chat apps, and a local email program. This was because my internet connection wasn't fast enough to justify web apps.

The end result, though, aws a system that could multitask very well.

At this point, I am unsure that most of the services I use even Have desktop apps.

I could move to other services, or I could find ways to do the tasks I need from native applications.

But that would only solve the problem for me.

mastodon meal name policy: HE HUNGERS FOR NAMES, HIS GAPING MAW SALIVATING, SURROUNDED BY A MINDLESS CACOPHONY OF PIPING WITHOUT HARMONY OR RHYTHM

HEY KIDS GET ON MY GODDAMNED LAWN I'M MAKING HOT DOGS AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE A GOOD TIME

@cypnk
There's a high fantasy series about a software engineer who gets transported to a world that runs on magic & writes a forth repl in incantations.

Reminder:
If you would like your #FollowFriday to have more of a random element, I wrote a bot that (if you follow it) will add you to a pool of potential recommended followers.

@FollowFriday posts a recommendation every friday, and will DM you a single recommendation if you tag her. (Such convenience!)

qotd: "language never had the ability to contain facts of the kind your dad’s friends publicly mourn in Facebook posts."

GET RICH QUICK by running a piece of open source software on a rented machine for free and hoping some of your users will volunteer to support you on patreon because you had to quit your job to do admin work full-time and also pay other full-time admins.