@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​oh yes, this. What's your privacy policy? "Don't give me your data, I don't want it. I want to know absolutely nothing about you that isn't completely necessary to provide the service I'm offering."

The GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional is coming together.

Nailed it 👨‍🍳 💕

I'm doing enough stuff with enough people via VisualInk that I've decided to split off my posting about it into a separate account that people interested in #interactivefiction and #visualnovels in education can follow without confusing things with the rest of my posts. That said, for the moment I'm probably going to repost most VI stuff via my main account as well - I'm kind of assuming that following me means you want to know about what I'm doing on at least some level, while following @VisualInk is more about you being interested in the project.

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

Look on the bright side - it's a DORK TOWER THURSDAY! Contemplative new strip up now, at the Mothership:

https://www.dorktower.com/2025/11/19/19784/

Repost, Reblog/Re-whatevs/Repeat, please and thank you!

@[email protected] ​Ouch. Harsh.

@[email protected] ​"kumquats do not cause walnuts" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled it out... :sigh:

I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪

The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.

No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.

My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.

Yours shouldn't either.

#Privacy #Cookies #PrivacyLaw

By student request, the next lesson of our Coding Games with a Story course will reveal the GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional as the setting for a daring recovery from space disaster!

#visualnovel #interactivefiction

"People are especially attuned to the beliefs and behavior of powerful others in their environment"

- Muenks et al., 2020: "Does my professor think my ability can change? Students' perceptions of their STEM professors' mindset beliefs predict their psychological vulnerability, engagement, and performance in class"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32378957/

"people look to situational cues in their local environment to determine what is valued there. These situational cues can be communicated verbally—in group or one-on-one interactions—and nonverbally—by the materials, policies, and practices created by powerful people in a setting"

The outages will continue until decentralisation improves.

browsers should be allowed to display the <li> in a <ul> in whatever order they like

So I got up this morning and thought: I know, today would be a good day to set up my own Activity Pub host.

So I did that, and then I found out Cloudflare is yoyo-ing destruction across the internet, and now I have no idea at all whether the slightly alarming failures rates are me not having a clue or somebody else's problem.

I mean - some things are working some of the time so it's probably not me, maybe?

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.

Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation

@[email protected] ​He was called out by name in the next all hands as an example of the work ethic we should all aspire to, when in reality he was at best a minor driver in the team making any progress at all and frequently caused other team members to be late delivering things due to having to clean up after him.

@[email protected] ​I've had the unfortunate experience of working in a team where the tech lead (who's priority on paper was managing, not coding) used this position to "get stuff done" by lobbing low quality work over the wall and relying on the teams under him to tidy it up, fix the bugs, add the tests, etc.

I found out via an irate bug report from a customer one Monday morning that he had released a whole new feature over the weekend without code review (because, well, no one else was online...), and I was now responsible for second line support on it.

Whelp, new account time. With much thanks to the folks at the SDF, I decided that it was time to spin up my own host as I'm starting some projects that I'm hoping to build communities around - some of which will be somewhat private.

As such, I'm trying out bonfirenetworks.org/ in its social flavour, as it gives a much wider selection of tools to manage groups and privacy - and it means that I'm able to take direct responsibility for the personal data of people who decide to join the community via creating an account on this server.

That said: next time I'm being paid again, the SDF will be getting a donation from me. It's a great organization, and they've been great hosts on my fediverse journey.