It's kind of funny to me how when I first discovered the furry fandom in the 90s it's because I believed myself to be an animal in a human body and most folks in the fandom were like "nah that isn't a thing" and since then I've come to accept that I'm human and fast forward 25 years and now there's a big and growing movement where it's like most furries seem to identify as nonhuman at a spiritual level and it's weird to be the outlier who *doesn't*
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.
Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I donāt really use it yet.
Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.
I want to see my friendsā posts.
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I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friendsā posts again.
My instance admins get in a fight.
Friendsā instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections Iāve lost.
I want to see my friendsā posts.
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A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friendsā posts again.
A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.
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I just want to see my friendsā posts.
Am I wrong to want that?
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https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/
As more and more of my friends with ADHD get diagnosed with autism, I can't help but wonder if one of these my number is going to come up too :thinkingcat:
#ADHD #Autism #AuDHD
@sphakos@toot.cat "It's almost like neuro-spicy folks like to hang out with each other..."
Right?! š Seems to happen on other dimensions of identity too! Like, genuinely shocking numbers of people I've formed strong ties with have ultimately been diagnosed as neurospicy, and/or with EDS, and/or come out as queer/trans.
Love that we find each other even before we self-identify these ways.
(...so yea I'm definitely thinking a lot more about autism rn...)
Kids today live in a world where horribly pixelated graphics were just a cute stylistic choice and David Lynch had a coherent plan for Twin Peaks all along.
2023 was a decent year for me. With the kids now 1 and 3 I think I finally started to realize Iām a dad (!!) with all the responsibilities that come with that, and I started to adapt (way less travel, etc). Professionally, Iām really happy with what me and @charlieegan3 have accomplished during quite a turbulent year. And of course #Regal, the linter for #Rego that I started work on in January, and which now has a small community of users and contributors. Happy new year everyone! š„ā¤ļø
With 2023 quickly ending, I wanted to share five life lessons I learnt over the last 12 months. This is theĀ eighthĀ year I have written a ālessons learntā post. If you want to return in tiā¦
@jwz@mastodon.social @foxhkron@cybre.club while the conclusions are correct, I do ponder whether we should be driving traffic to Bryan Lunduke, who is basically an alt-right tech personality.
@ariadne@treehouse.systems @jwz@mastodon.social @foxhkron@cybre.club also, If Lunduke writes something, it's probably a carefully curated set of facts garnished with bias
Tool to achieve policy driven vetting of open source dependencies - GitHub - safedep/vet: Tool to achieve policy driven vetting of open source dependencies
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I don't think we'll ever get private offices again because tech workers are uniquely stupid when it comes to recognizing their own lack of individual power and too proud and full of hubris to admit that they would benefit from the power of collective bargaining
Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives: Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization -- and it did not include Firefox. The focus for the future of Mozilla -- according to Mozilla -- is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services. In fact, Mozilla leadership stated, quite plainly, that they ...
āI just had this weird feeling that my money wasnāt safe here anymore.ā ā Sneakers
Some people wondered about my vague microblog post last week. I didnāt post the details because I didnāt know ā¦
Nitpick with some modern web services: I donāt like the trend of expiring URLs, like temp S3 resources for profile photos. It makes caching more difficult. In everything I design, I assume that a ā¦
In the 14+ years weāve been making The Changelog podcast, it has never gone viral. Iām not here to complain about that! Weāve had tons of success with our shows and Iām super grateful that we get to make awesome developer pods for a living. I do think the fact is interesting, though, and worth exploring. Hopefully this...
I work at a standing desk, which has done great things for my back and neck.
But it leads me to say things like "I can't write any more today because my legs are tired," which is a funny sentence.
This is in no way a brag, but in reference to my earlier thread on take Covid seriously: I just paid 200 quid to move my trip to Berlin (thatās supposed to start tomorrow) back five days in the hope that Esther will not be testing negative after her Covid then rebound Covid.
And if she is still, then I am unable to get a refund.
We havenāt seen each other since October, weāve both spent the holidays alone, and live alone. My mental health is affected and surely hers is too. But going there whilst sheās sick just gets me sick and then people on the plane sick.
This is not a post about how good I am, this a post to say hey yeah I get it itās fucking frustrating that this debilitating virus is still fucking our lives up four years later. But by taking care, I can stop myself and others from getting sick.
Obviously I can afford it, but Iām afraid that even if you canāt afford to reschedule, going would cost you in other ways.
wanna teach people the difference between "open source contributions" and "unpaid internships for tech monopolies and or vc backed startups"
assuming i can find one
Jamie Tanna
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