Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I just received flowers for the first time 🥺

Even if you don't celebrate Valentine's Day yourself, if you have any trans women in your life, you can probably make them feel pretty damn good by the being the first person to send them any.

I'm going to run a one-shot of Black Sword Hack: Utimate Chaos Edition this week, so I translated the character sheet to French (unproductive rant on Creative Commons in #TTRPG included in the blog post 🤷).

https://www.whidou.fr/fiche-bsh-en.html

@ttrpg #OSR #BSH

Yep, because “woke AI” was the problem.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival

Do not use this asshole’s social network. Do not buy this asshole’s cars. Lobby the EU to regulate the absolute shit out of this asshole’s businesses. Do not let your governments give this asshole even one cent of your taxes.

#elonMusk #fascist #billionaire #douchebag

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

"If you are a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, I beseech you to decline these prorated refunds. It’s a couple of bucks for you, but in the aggregate, this amounts to an existential sum of *already booked revenue* for these two companies, both exemplars of the indie iOS and Mac community.

"Reinstall the app if you’ve already deleted it. Tap that ‘I Don’t Need a Refund’ button and feel good about it. We have a month. Spread the word.”

– @gruber

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff

I, uhh, need a Canadian to help me out. Please PM!

I wonder how many great and useful interactive programs made by people who know what they're doing would be ten times more popular if they had goddamn context menus or at least a hotkey to show all the hotkeys.

Seriously, it's amazing that you made this terminal emulator / window manager / editor / client for this or that, and based on the cute website with build instructions you actually care that people try it, so why does all that nicety stop the moment I actually run the thing.

No one owes me anything, absolutely, but I just honestly don't get why it be like that.

I am working on a new lino print - Moon Princess. Still a few places to tidy up.

this is not a "we are forcing normal people to understand scary programming things" problem. this is a "corporations are doing everything to make people so strongly anti-learning and so against trying new things that they voluntarily refuse to use anything except for their own product" problem

it's very intentional and absolutely not something that just happened on its own. it's a lot easier and more convenient to keep your users using your product if you turn them against the fundamental concept of "learning other things"

Oh hey my talk from London is online.

Do you like #Rust and want to know how to do more clever things with your concurrent datastructures? Watch this ✨ (or don't, I'm not your boss)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-2siR9Ki84

If you ever needed a single image that encapsulates the blame game around socio-technical systems often shifting towards operators, it would be harder to achieve better than this article did on one of its earlier versions:

Human error [...] manual signalling was in use due to broken electronic systems.

(source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/01/greece-train-crash-sixteen-people-dead-dozens-injured-collision/)

Another common comment we're also seeing a lot of is "I thought the GPU drivers weren't ready". They are! You can have a fully accelerated Linux desktop experience today.

They are opt-in simply because technically software rendering still provides higher compatibility.

This is also tied to the display controller driver (which a lot of you know for brightness control support) only because installing *only* the display controller driver, without the GPU driver, will actually regress software rendering performance due to technicalities.

The next major update coming soon will significantly increase GPU performance across the board, as well as compatibility.

But even the current version already renders some games better than macOS, because it has fewer bugs for those features which are already supported.