varx (social aspect)
@klaatu So maybe what people actually want is a git code review tool design that allows easy participation from the submitter on the recipient's platform of choice.
Simplistic answer: Allow sending a login URL to the commit author's email that allows them to come onto the site and respond to feedback without creating an account. Could easily be added to many git web tools.
varx (social aspect)
rain ports (rain pants shorts)
It's too hot out today for rain pants.
josef
the colour of ESPN tuned to a dead sport
heather "hthrflwrs" flowers
trans ppl with a healthy grip on things: i was always my gender, it just took me a while to understand it
me, lying face-down in an ikea parking lot: the old me is dead, i killed him with my own two hands and stole his body
varx (social aspect)
@cosine git's rerere feature might help, for that matter.
If the software is made in a more modular way, that helps too, but it's hard to know *what parts* need to be modular to begin with.
In my experience, even cherry-picking a single feature from a decent-quality codebase is nontrivial if there has been any divergence in the meantime if there's any degree of non-locality to the changes.
varx (social aspect)
tooting from the porch in the rain (in the rain)
tooting from the porch in the rain
varx (social aspect)
@cosine You'd end up with basically infinite merge conflicts, though. D-:
varx (social aspect)
Grrr, Cloudflare is so annoying with its "protected email" every time there's anything with an @ sign in it.
In this case I'm using Lynx, so there's no Javascript allowed ever. But I also see it on random sites in Firefox with NoScript enabled, and Cloudflare will hide things that aren't email addresses, too—not just Mastodon usernames, but even version strings for software, e.g. "some-lib@1.0.4"
varx (social aspect)
@amphetamine fake butts on dogs, what is this world coming to
varx (social aspect)
@amphetamine go back to sleep: corgis
varx (social aspect)
Having a hard time not yelling at people today over conflicting expectations of what Mastodon can/should be and do.
...and it's not really people's fault, not entirely. There's a nasty tradeoff every platform (and every user) has to make around privacy, and it's mostly not the fault of the users that they don't have good options to choose from.
I feel like I know part of the path to a better solution, but not the whole thing.
lovecraft in brooklyn
it's a nice feeling when your heart relaxes
like your fist, it's not good to keep it clenched all the time
varx (social aspect)
It's noteworthy that he's explaining how the mouse works, and having his colleague show off the tracking wheels.
When they show the side-by-side of the tracking point moving with the mouse, and then again while manipulating the wheels on the flipped-over mouse, it demystifies the whole thing.
These days, designers seem to work hard to hide the mechanism. I wonder what penalty this has on user empowerment.
varx (social aspect)
Oh heh, he just used the word "bootstrapping". I guess that word is older than I thought.
varx (social aspect)
@ajroach42 Oh, like a collection of clips, which can be combined MIDI-style?
Watching this more, I think the computer is giving him feedback in an interesting way -- there's the "boop" of "you clicked a thing" (or maybe executed a command) but also there seems to be a background drone that changes to lower pitch and louder volume when he's in the middle of some command sequence and it's waiting for additional input.
Not entirely sure. Seems cool though.
varx (social aspect)
Currently watching The Mother of All Demos (Doug Engelbart, 1968) and wishing I could just have an audio extract of all the boops and bleeps the computer makes.
Tsundoku Psychohazard
publisher's clearinghouse sweepstakes envelopes, but instead of "you may have already won" they say "it may already be too late.
varx (social aspect)
@apg @technomancy Yeah, that was news to me. But their forums are full of people saying "where is my money or CHIP?" and apparently basically all the employees are working elsewhere...
I don't know why they're bothering to keep the lights on and pretend they're coming back.
☆ Dmitri ☭
Apple has been collecting browsing history of Safari users for years
D Dino
> haha, remember computers?
< yes, with varying degrees of nostalgia and spite
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