mcc

mcc, 12 hours ago to random

Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

mcc, 17 hours ago to random

A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

mcc, 13 hours ago to random

A thing I hate hate hate (but always happens) is when a company distributes "Sample Code" for their API, and you open it up, and what they did was make a series of "Helpful" wrapper classes for the API then write code using the wrapper classes. Now suddenly it isn't sample code for the API, it's sample code for the helper classes. You can't just paste the sample code into your own project, unless you copy the helper classes into every project, in which case why aren't the helper classes the API?

mcc, 11 hours ago to random

An interesting statistical quirk: Notice the disjoint in these two posts. This is not rounding; Godfrey, on the left, is counting Grover Cleveland twice

mcc, 10 hours ago to random

I wonder what's happening on cable news right now

mcc, 12 hours ago to random

LOL

mcc, 16 hours ago to random

Long shot: Can anyone recommend me structureless harsh noise. I'm doing a really mind-numbing code maintenance task and I need something to blast all thought out of my head

Currently I'm listening to https://impermanence.bandcamp.com/track/ii and if I can't find a good thing to switch to after that I'm going with this YouTube asmr recording of a washing machine

mcc, 15 hours ago to random

Sam Anon, the protagonist of Christine Love's pixelart roadtrip RPG "Get in the Car Loser", is now going to be a plushie https://mastodon.social/@christinelove/112530982622829969

mcc, 10 hours ago to random

Today in novel uses of the Mastodon content warning

mcc, 15 hours ago to random

Woo the IRS "direct free file" pilot from last year is going to be expanded to everyone* for 2025 https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program

• Axios specifically says all states will be "invited to participate" so not clear to me if states can choose to opt out. Also not clear, do you have to be a U.S. resident. In the pilot, expatriates could not participate even if our state of last residence was in the pilot.

mcc, 12 hours ago to random

"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

mcc, 11 hours ago to random

I have had "Empire State of Mind" stuck in my head for like an hour

mcc, 11 hours ago to random

ME: Walking down the street Ah, now that I am outside I can remove my mask does so

SOME DUDE IN THE HOUSE I'M WALKING PAST: Immediately sets an angle grinder to some unknown metal, coating my throat in a fine misting of iron

mcc, 13 hours ago to random

@lambdageek Hey, hope you don't mind me asking but you seem like the best person to ask about the state of the art— is there a "good" way in VS Code on non-Windows machines (such as Mac) to do step debugging that can pass between C and C# stacks (for example when p/invoking)? Christine's got this awkward "lldb attach" vscode Task she can launch after program boot, but she can't get lldb to attach automatically.

This seems like the kinda thing Xamarin Studio used to do but that's discontinued…

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Walked past a tree and there was a Kryptonite bike lock around it in a loop as if there had previously been some object which the lock was affixing to the tree and now the object is not there anymore

mcc, 1 day ago to random

I had a dream that there was a Mastodon instance that could only be posted to from a particular building. When I was in college there was this one house just off campus that basically turned into a permanent LAN party, J.J. and his three roommates had set up a computer lab in the basement random people were playing WoW on 24/7. In my dream, a house like this had become a sort of maker space and they'd set up a Fediverse server to reject posts unless the request came from within the House's wifi.

mcc, 1 day ago to random

What happened while I was in the movie theater

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Has this ever happened to u https://botsin.space/@postcardware/112526741271589802

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Would you let her sing to you https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112525923585865855

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Sorry, you want me to what

mcc, 2 days ago to random

I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".

But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it

mcc, 2 days ago to random

"npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'matches')"

Gosh, sometimes I just really hate workign with js tooling

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Hey so @Nifflas 's game "Uurnog" is on steep sale RN and I really highly recommend it https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nifflas/112520440316710187

IMO one of the most underrated games of the last decade, especially for those of you who are game medium deconstructionists. It's surface-simple but has a lot of strange, surprising thoughts about "what is a Video Game and how do you interact with it?" simmering just underneath… it's very good at finding ways that simple mechanics can combine in ways that really surprise you.

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Oh god I didn't directly interact with systemd for one month and I totally forgot the difference between these five options in the meantime

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Another bit of indie game news: Lena Raine who you might know from the Celeste soundtrack has announced a 2D pixel RPG with elements of BULLET HELL and also EMOTION (possibly FURRIES, unconfirmed) https://cohost.org/ANOTHEREAL/post/6081598-anothereal-fact-shee

So far it's just a trailer and a Steam wishlist opportunity.

I really liked the BBS singularity visual novel Lena made ( https://radicaldreamland.itch.io/esc really interesting experience, visual novel with an emphasis on "novel" ) so I'll be looking forward to this

"You're gonna see a lot of these scary guys comin' at you" (Pictured: Little ghost dude)