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Socialism, inflation Show more

RT @CastleMacSteven@twitter.com
You... want to... hide in plain sight on the steps? Sure... roll stealth.

Rogue: Rolls a 20.

Hey so, it's that time again. 3 slots open, $200-$225 (depending on complexity & character count). Full-color, background, multi-character (limit 3). How about it?

Attached examples are mostly NSFW, but more or less representative of what you'll get in terms of finish (linework and method used to color may vary per the examples, but the amount of polish-and-pop will be the same).

Please boost!

The #Comcast outage today is a great reminder at how terribly centralized and hierarchical connections are. #P2P all the things!

#decentralization #mesh

Smoothly-zoomable font C++ library Show more

Smoothly-zoomable font C++ library Show more

I've had a couple of pretty terrifying hypnagogic hallucinations or night terrors, too. One involving zombies coming out of my nightstand and another involving some kind of creature dressed in a wizard's robe and hat but with three glowing spheres in place of a head. The former happened about 10 years ago and the latter when I was in my early 20s, around the same time as the only time I've experienced hag syndrome; I was certain I was being abducted by aliens.

Erlang & Nomad & Consul, oh my! Show more

Erlang & Nomad & Consul, oh my! Show more

us pol Show more

(I like how I live in a state where comcast *left* because the regulatory environment was hostile toward their policies of taking customers for everything they have and then giving them horrible service afterward)

One thing I love about React/Redux development is having a single source of truth for application state.

But, from a decentralized web perspective, I *hate* how this pushes state out of the HTML. In my view, HTML should have all content, and state is (often) part of content; "view source" should mean something.

Would it be possible to invent an alternative paradigm that keeps all state in the HTML, maybe using data attributes? Or does that paradigm already exist?

#webdev #react #redux

@lordbowlich Yeah, but from a biz perspective I'm worried about privacy trolls emerging as a business-bankrupting force.

I think this will lead to more in-house, dumb IT work so biz people can confidently say that they collect nothing. Large bizs would have yet more of an advantage here over little bizs, due to having more resources for documenting info collection and use.

Did you notice how Google's "learn more" links almost never take you to useful information? For example, Google tells me my GCE instance is overutilized. Clicking on "learn more" doesn't tell me anything about what they mean by "overutilized", just how to follow their suggestion to increase the size of the instance.

Yet another of their "dark patterns".

weird network outage Show more

Showing up to a project and telling folks they're not using tools that you feel they should be using is akin to showing up to a protest and refusing to participate because you can't stand the smell of the markers.

"In order to make any meaningful progress, we must at least agree that the Googles and the Facebooks of the world are not forces for good. On the contrary, they are threats to our human rights and democracy. We must at least agree that they are not our partners, sponsors, and friends, but our adversaries. Even today, we are not at this point. Even today, institutions that purport to advocate for human rights and democracy feature Google and Facebook as partners and sponsors."

A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.

gargron told me if this post gets ten thousand boosts he'll give me the website and i will become the new gargron