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.

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 01, 2023, 00:44

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**ksyu** @ksyu@mastodon.art · Mar 01, 2023, 00:44

Mar 01, 2023, 00:44

ksyu @ksyu@mastodon.art

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

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**Jons Mostovojs** · Nov 06, 2022, 11:37

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**agatha, fangs gf 🎀** @AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe · Nov 06, 2022, 11:37

Nov 06, 2022, 11:37

agatha, fangs gf 🎀 @AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe

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"

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**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 01, 2023, 12:40

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**Kookie 🍪🇵🇸** @spacekookie@octodon.social · Mar 01, 2023, 12:40

Mar 01, 2023, 12:40

Kookie 🍪🇵🇸 @spacekookie@octodon.social

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

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 01, 2023, 13:45

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**Fred Hebert** @mononcqc@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2023, 13:45

Mar 01, 2023, 13:45

Fred Hebert @mononcqc@hachyderm.io

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/)

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**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 01, 2023, 04:05

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**Asahi Linux** @AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems · Mar 01, 2023, 04:05

Mar 01, 2023, 04:05

Asahi Linux @AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems

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.

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 06:36

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 06:36

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Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Very good #wasm into https://piped.video/watch?v=niukrWbyhB4 #howto

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 03:47

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 03:47

Mar 01, 2023, 03:47

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Night skate in #London.

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**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 01:37

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 01:37

Mar 01, 2023, 01:37

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Let me use an analogy for non-technical people to understand it.

ActivityPub is kind making glass doors and huge street signs.

Mastodon figured that some people get very upset and hurt by seeing certain things behind glass doors, so they made special doors out of the huge street signs.

So my dialogues with ActivityPub purists normally go like this:

Me: "On Mastodon, we use street signs as non-transparent doors"

ActivityPub purist: "That's a wrong way to use street signs, you have to write something on it and point to a glass door"

Me: "No, people here took what you produced and fashioned it in a way to increase the safety of this space"

ActivityPub purist: "You don't understand anythin, signs are for writing, doors are for opening, we figured it out in our club so you have to deal with it".

I hope that the analogy is clear. I had a lot of conversations like this, so now I'm aggressively muting people who are misusing CWs. Yeah.

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**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 01:28

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 01, 2023, 01:28

Mar 01, 2023, 01:28

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Answered to a person who misuses content warnings as topic line. Then I remembered that it defeats the purpose of CW and that it's disregarding to the safety tools put in place by masto authors to help people with trauma have a pleasant experience on social networks, deleted the toot and muted them proactively.

So I guess it's your bi-annual reminder that CWs aren't topic lines no matter what fedi standard devs tell you.