@[email protected] @[email protected] I cringed this morning when I saw somebody saying 'oh, I'd love to set up my own blog but I'm not sure how' because I'm sure that at least 15 helpful IT professionals have now convinced them it is impossible.

(Although also, hats off to people like @[email protected] who are actually doing the hard work of writing guides that make sense to the rest of the population)

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have been promoted repeatedly in my career for being mediocre at translating between my fellow IT professionals and ... well, anyone else.

Yeap. I've been thinking about this as well. Maybe especially because of my #adhd (which - let's face it - is not rare in the industry) I'm keenly aware that scanning walls of existing code for bugs and existing test suites for holes is way, way harder and more error prone than writing the same code/test cases yourself. Which is why we ask devs to produce small, scoped, change requests and try and spread the review load.

mastodon.online/users/pseudo... ​

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​...and have the scars and the tears to prove it

@[email protected] ​Although she's not based in Italy right now, @[email protected] might know some groups it would be good to pass this on to?

@[email protected] ​Fun fact: my mother has expert card shuffling skills because as the daughter of a merchant navy captain she was one of the only people the sailors trusted to deal for money games in or out of port (she would have been around 10 at the time and didn't normally travel with the ship). The captain, of course, couldn't be involved but the crew preferred having relatives of the captain run the game than the local casino.

@[email protected] it feels like the only common point across everyone using Codeberg will be version control and the usage restrictions set by server policy. "Shared history for open projects"? ​

The next train on platform 2 is going to Errore XSLT @[email protected]

@[email protected] In Jackie Chan's Gorgeous the character in this role actually states he's now a commentator for sports matches​; he likes being behind the microphone because with his knowledge from training 'he sounds like he's invincible' but he fell so far behind the lead character's skills he now hires people to fight him and comments on the fight instead of trying to fight him himself. So I think the film makers are pretty aware of the similarities!

I'm not quite sure how, but somehow this video manages to be a mind blowing display of skill, a hilarious display of grown men making fart noises into microphones, and an absolute banger of a tune all at the same time. Well played, Hiss and H-has. Well played.

youtube.com/watch?v=zdTzaWIc...

@[email protected] @[email protected] I second this message, and basically everything else in this thread. Realising you're badly dehydrated and need to pee and then going back to what you were​ doing before you manage to do anything about it is... well. It is, I suppose.

@[email protected] vlc added its very own anti memetic? ​

Brutal political commentary from a madlib generator.

chaos.social/users/weirdunit... ​

Even great stories start from humble beginnings. In the first session of a new round of Coding Games with a Story, some of our authors (9-11 year olds) successfully got a story up and running with a scene, background music, images of the person speaking... and a decision point.

#writing #interactivefiction

@[email protected] @[email protected] arrrgh. That would have made a vastly superior punch line and I missed it. tips hat​

@[email protected] yeap. Unless you think that young children should be responsible for reading and perfectly understanding the implications of the t&cs, and the elderly, and the people learning the local language, and the expert carpenter who happened not to get a formal education, and... oh, anyone who's vulnerable in pretty much any way, and everybody who isn't better at lawyering on the fly than a corporate legal department with as much time as they want @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​

@[email protected]

"See, the Staircase of the Monarchs!"

"So if you make it to the top it proves you're the rightful heir?"

"​No, no. But we gave it a name that makes it sound like that to filter out the stupid and those vulnerable to peer pressure. And it's pretty."

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Isn't there basically no mathematical difference between ​GMI and UBI if you have a means based income tax system (which nearly everywhere does)? It seems like as long as you're calculating both things at the same time, you'd end up with the same answers. The only "bad" option would seem to be assessing income given and income taxed with two different systems which might be politically necessary in the short term, but is self-evidental more expensive to manage.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​(for context, NextCloud can be self hosted and is open source but the fact they offered paid for enterprise options to schools and universities suggests they think it can take the place of classroom in at least some ways)

@[email protected] @[email protected] To get the ball rolling, NextCloud do offer an education product (including a hosted option) and are based in Germany, I believe. That said, I haven't used it and I don't know where the hosting happens. nextcloud.com/education/