Vincent Tunru

Karaoke is a great example of how a lack of privacy influences people's behaviour.

It's way more fun when everyone feels free to make a fool of themselves, but try doing that with a camera trained on you.

I spent the day working at the library, and though I already knew, I'm feeling it even stronger now: what an amazing place. I'm glad they still exist.

Most of the time, I'm actually fairly happy with the state of the frontend ecosystem.

These are not such times.

Guys, guys, hear me about. What if...

Micro$lop.

Too much?

Excerpt from Satya Nadella's blog post, highlighting his only mention of the term "slop", saying: "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication".

Look at this poor man literally *begging* us to stop using the term slop. Keep using it, that'll teach him!

Remember when we consistently spelled it Micro$oft? Not only was that ruthless humiliation incredibly clever, but as we all know, it eventually brought us the year of the Linux Desktop.

Now if we just stick with Microslop a little longer, then I'm sure Satya Nadella will course correct any day now.

I love that you can be a gatekeeping grumpy old man about memes now. What a time to be alive.

I love that Rickrolling is still a thing. They don't make memes like that anymore.

The boiling frog metaphor may or may not be an urban legend, but I'm pretty sure the boiling Vincent metaphor is 100% true. In fact, I'd gradually turn up the water to boiling temperature myself if only my shower would cooperate.

Screenshot of a warning: "Due to the large number of changes in this pull request, only one file is being shown at a time."

Dear GitHub, I understand that this is a challenge, but could you at least show me, like, 5 or 10 files at a time? Just the prospect of pressing "Next file" hundreds of times is daunting already, let alone properly reviewing them.

Has anyone figured out how to run Home Manager on Fedora Silverblue yet? I've been unsuccessful so far and would appreciate some pointers.

#Fedora #Silverblue #HomeManager #Nix #NixOS

AI-generated picture of a taped body outline as seen on crime scenes, except it's on the front of an SUV. It's the size of a small child.

I kinda wish someone printed these as stickers for people to stick onto oversized SUVs as a guerilla campaign.

@fuckcars @citylife #SafeStreets #Urbanism #VisionZero

Screenshot of a dropdown labelled "Accessibility", containing entries to change the font size, reduce animations, switch to dark mode, and increase contrast.

Sure the headings might consist of images with purple-on-purple text with an empty alt attribute, but luckily the AI made sure to make this website accessible by shoving this menu in there.

(Of course, it's not actually marked up as a menu. And the browser's […]

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21st century life skill:

Whenever you feel outraged, ask yourself: "am I just being used as fuel for the engagement machine?"

Everyone keeps arguing about how to pronounce GIF, but you know what? You're all wrong.

Here's how the Dutch pronounce it. (This is not a joke — this is actually how we pronounce it.)

Vandaag stemmen! Voor het overzicht, de kandidaten met IT-expertise:

PVV
39. Jan Valize

GroenLinks-PvdA
32. Barbara Kathmann

D66
19. Sarah El Boujdaini

CDA
26. Hemin Hawezy

VVD
34. Martijn Buijsse

PvdD
20. Cynthia Pallandt

Volt
11. Erik Kemp @erikkemp

Met dank aan https://nerdvote.nl en […]

So far my NixOS adventure is going swimmingly. I mean, sure, my touchpad doesn't work. An yeah, my webcam doesn't work either. Oh, and of course I can't setup the fingerprint reader. And at the moment is doesn't even boot at all.

But it's so nice that it's all reproducible though.

Someone help me I've installed NixOS.

Has anyone made an esoteric programming language yet that mimics cringy LinkedIn posts?

Currently at Fronteers Dark Mode, and it's such a cozy little conference. And I love the number of folks I've spoken to who say accessibility is their main focus.

#Fronteers #Darkmode

@plwt Oooh, my first open source contributions were to Xubuntu! My first Linux distro, that I stuck with for quite a few years. I'll always have fondness for it.

Three GitHub issue notifications, from gitcoinfoundation/gitcoin-developer-fund, aavenotifications/aave-notification, and notification-hub/gitcoin.

@krosylight I got three different notifications in the past couple of days... They all got deleted, but the messages were in my inbox already, so I'm guessing I'll be getting more.

I appreciate how Playwright gives us `test.slow()` to hide the magic number, so we don't have to feel as bad that we're just bumping the default test timeout.

https://playwright.dev/docs/test-timeouts#set-timeout-for-a-single-test

Whenever you feel the urge to use the word "utilise", consider if "use" will do as well.

(Hint: it always will.)

You can't tell by my actual blog, but I've written so many imaginary blog posts while in the shower.

Add the ability to suppress self-boosts · Issue #21632 · mastodon/mastodon Pitch I would love the ability to suppress self-boosts in my feed either on a case-by-case or global basis. I define a self-boost to be an account boosting a toot they have made previously. Motivat...

Of course there's an actual official feature request already: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21632

Mastodon feature request: hide self-boosts.

#Mastodon

Heh, refreshing the page gives you different locations.

Haha OK, this is a pretty funny way to promote your VPN.

A sign-up form with an email field, and a checkbox with a label that includes a "Privacy Policy" link that stands out. On closer inspection, the label reads: Auth0 may contact me with marketing communications. Opt-out details in (link:) Privacy Policy.

This is some top-notch deceptive design. Everyone knows most people breeze through sign-up forms: enter email, accept the terms, submit.

Now take a closer look.

Informed consent my ass. Clever though.

Via @shtrom

#DeceptiveDesign