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personamatters

@personamatters@ohai.social

Captain of the ship that already sailed. Communications specialist and occasional scholar.

#Bouldering, #cycling, #videogames, speculative fiction, and Japanese pop culture.

Cats, cats, cats!

PhD dissertation on Pokémon and mediated intimacy
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-9366-6

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jussi_og, to random Finnish
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Olen sanonut tämän ennenkin, mutta tulevaisuudessa taustatöitä tekevät kollegani palaavat vanhoihin käytänteisiin: ottavat yhteyttä suoraan substanssiosaajiin ja käyvät paljon enemmän kirjastossa plaraamassa erinäisiä hakuteoksia ja kyselevät taas enemmän toisiltaan. Pitäisiköhän minun aktivoitua Kontekstissa ja Translatissa? Olen toki tilannut niitä kaikki mämä vuodet, ja kaikki kääntäjien viestit ovat tallessa Gmailissa. Yksi syy siihen, etten tule koskaan kokonaan luopumaan Gmailista: hakutoiminnon päässä on ainakin parinkymmenen vuoden kysymykset ja vastaukset. Se saattaa olla jossain vaiheessa arvokkaampi kuin G:n varsinainen hakukone.

Hakukoneiden kulta-aika tulee olemaan kirjallisuuden kääntämisen pitkässä historiassa silmänräpäys, pelkkä mitätön blip, joka jonain kauniina päivänä kuulostaa täysin järjettömältä – riitti kun kirjoitti hakukentään hyvin muotoillun loitsun niin vastaus oli siinä. Se oli melkein kuin taikuutta. Voi voi, voi voi.

personamatters,
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@jussi_og Vähän tuosta hyvän pohdingsin liepeiltä huutelen, että vuosikymmenten viestiarkisto on tosi helppo siirtää Gmailista muulle alustalle, joko webmailiin tai omalle koneelle. Ja hakukin toimii aika hyvin, vaikkei Googlen magiaa enää käytäkään!

Ei tee autuaaksi, mutta Gmail-exit on mahdollinen!

personamatters,
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@jussi_og Tässä yhteydessä Gmailin suosiosta on se etu, että monissa sähköpostipalveluissa on tosi hyvin suunnitellut ja ohjeistetut polut juuri Gmailista vaihtaville! He tietysti ovat juuri se kohderyhmä, jota todennäköisimmin kannattaa kosiskella ja jonka kynnystä kannattaa madaltaa.

Päätös siirtyä oli iso, mutta itse vaihto meni todella helposti! @antti

jhilden, to books
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Just finished the Dune trilogy. I read somewhere that ”Children of Dune” is considered a slog, but I found it quite entertaining, after an arguably slow start. The books hold up surprisingly well, considering how problematic a character Herbert was!

Also interesting to note how much Hayao Miyazaki paraphrased Dune in the Nausicaä manga.

personamatters,
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@jhilden I was chipping away at the slow start of CoD when the new movie came out. Now I’m reading other books and waiting for the 6 people ahead of me in the ebook library queue to be done with the book.

Should’ve renewed earlier! But I admit I wasn’t in a hurry because I wasn’t quite that captivated by the early chapters.

Glad to hear you liked it! 🪱🏜

personamatters, to accessibility
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Do you have experience with interactive PDFs and accessibility?

Is there something one should take into account in terms of accessibility when creating them? Are there obvious pitfalls to avoid?

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/how-to-make-a-pdf-interactive.html

personamatters, to random
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Lately I've been thinking about the concept of "brown design patterns." 💩

You know how dark patterns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern) are carefully designed to trick or mislead users? Well, brown patterns are sort of the same but accidental:

A brown pattern misleads or obfuscates through the carelessness or ineptitude of the designer.

It's just bad design, sure, but there's often patterns to these bad designs just like there are patterns to intentionally deceptive designs.

personamatters,
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A recent example of a brown design pattern: the Helsinki winter maintentance survey (https://app.maptionnaire.com/q/7au7ley4nd39) that asks you to input your postal code via a horizontally scrolling radio button list of around 80 postal codes.

It’s what it is probably because the author of the questionnaire didn’t know any better or didn’t care / have time to find another solution. Or perhaps the survey tool is just bad.

In any case, these kinds of weirdly exhaustive lists are a common mistake in questionnaires!

jhilden, to random
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Crowdsourced algorithm test: hit me up with some music recommendation?
The more unexpected the better.
On the lines of experimental, fourth world, early music, non-western, electronic, contemporary composition… ok literally the Wire mag stuff basically :D

personamatters,
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@jhilden
Brian ja Helvetin Peruna: Rantalomalle Syyriaan (Finnish punk rock)

Akira Terao: Reflections (Japanese cigarette pop)

Psy ・ S: Non-Fiction (Japanese synth pop)

Flipper's Guitar: Camera Talk (japanese alt pop rock)

The whole library of satellite radio St. GIGA's Tide of Sound over at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/stgigaarchive (japanese and worldwide '90s ambient)

jhilden, to random
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Kid had a friend coming over and and they specifically called me after school to ask if I could come and pick them up with the cargo bike, because said friend wanted to ride in it. Was working from home so couldn’t be bothered. They are soon 10 years and still haven’t grown out of finding it fun apparently :D

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@jhilden Heck, I’m almost 40 and still think bikes are cool and riding one is the best. If I had someone to pedal me across the city I’d ask them for a ride too!

jhilden, to random
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Our little agency just got awarded graphic designer of the year. This was a great honor and a pleasant surprise to us! Information design—in Finland at least—tends to be somewhat overlooked in the graphic design field.

https://mstdn.social/@koponenhilden/111849985227795424

personamatters,
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@jhilden Congratulations! A well-deserved win!

I'm still kicking myself for not pinching your info design book from an earlier workplace when I had the chance (they had lots of copies to spare and very little use for any of them so it was morally justified, I swear). Such a useful book!

personamatters, to random
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The cats disassembled(!) our kitchen sink stopper last night.

The stopper has threaded parts and the cats don't have opposable thumbs.

HOW?

personamatters, to random
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Just a dude being a bro.

personamatters, to Ergonomics
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Do you have experience of, or suggestions for, vertical mice – or for other types of wrist-related computer ergonomics?

As I get older, I realize a day job at the computer pairs badly with my wrist-intensive hobby of bouldering.

(Answers are welcome in Finnish too, if you prefer that!)

#ergonomics #VerticalMouse

personamatters, to random
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Went to an outdoor sports shop. They had a lot of parking space and exactly zero bike racks.

They’re also situated right next to one of the main cycling thoroughfares between East Helsinki and downtown.

A rack or two would be a small investment. For PR and brand conservation reasons if nothing else.

personamatters, to random Finnish
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“Tuu hei pois sieltä äksästä jo. Instanssilla oottelevat, että jos tulisit takas postaamaan ja toisit niitä meemejä tullessas.”

personamatters, to random
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It'd be nice if Mastodon had an option to automatically archive/hide old posts.

For me, an important aspect of blogging is that it creates what Cory Doctorow (among others) calls a memex (https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/) – an extension of memory.

A blog is kind of like a notebook but with better organization and a search function, and I see no reason to treat microblogging any differently.

And just like blogs (and notebooks!), you don't want ALL the old crap to follow you around. You self-curate.

personamatters,
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Maybe I need to embrace the ephemeral and enable automated post deletion. Nothing of great value would be lost, surely, but the me who still sometimes checks things from IRC logs dating back to the early 00s kind of resists.

Or perhaps I'll enable automated post deletion but manually export my account data every now and again.

Still, I'd prefer a fully automatic solution.

personamatters, to random Finnish
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Tiitu Takalon ja Tiina Männistö-Funkin sarjakuvateos Polkimilla (2023) on mainio pulahdus pyöräilyn kulttuurihistoriaan Suomessa!

Kirjasta jää samaan aikaan voimaantunut ja turhautunut olo: henkilökohtaisen logistiikan ongelmat oli pitkälti ratkottu jo sata vuotta sitten, mutta sitten autokeskeinen suunnittelu tuli ja kusi kaikkien muroihin.

https://www.suurikurpitsa.fi/p/polkimilla-nyt-ennen-ja-tulevaisuudessa

personamatters, to random
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Time from installing InDesign to crashing it while trying to export something: 23 minutes.

I like working in InDesign, but I swear, Adobe has built its empire on top of skeletons and buried curses and a swamp's worth of ghosts.

personamatters, to random
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Trying to learn some Lua and code and I swear, there are no written tutorials anywhere!

You think you find one, but no, it's text AND video.

(This observation is brought to you by my idiot ass forgetting to bring headphones to a public space.)

personamatters,
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@0xSim Thank you so much!

jhilden, to random
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“Helxylitoltuggummi”,
the most beautiful Swedish word

personamatters,
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@jhilden Magic!

Best wishes from Sauerstoffflasche, my love from high school German class!

aleksi, to random Finnish
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Joo se on minä ja Helsingin Sanomat taas. Sori.

Mutta viimeaikainen sitaattien hajoamisen puuska on tässä artikkelissa ihan huipussaan. Lainausmerkit sulkevat kommentteja ennen aikojaan kautta koko jutun. Mistä ihmeestä koko ilmiö on tullut, ähkin tänne tyhjyyteen. Lienevätkö lasitalon toimittajat tänne vielä vaivautuneet.

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009812779.html

personamatters,
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@aleksi Siis mitä tuossa tapahtuu? Onko tuo joku julkaisusoftan juttu vai onko toimittajanuoriso pilalla? Eikö mihinkään voi enää luottaa? Joko saa soittaa Kansanradioon? TÄSTÄKÖ SE ALKAA?

personamatters,
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@aleksi Ryhmäpuhelu Kansanradioon! Mikä oivallus! En muista koskaan kuulleeni, mutta olisi aivan formaattityypillinen toimintatapa huutaa samasta aiheesta kilpaa toinen toistemme päälle!

personamatters, to random
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I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation.

What a beautiful, unique experience. Phew.

personamatters, to pokemon
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This friday, I'll defend my phd thesis on and mediated intimacy.

If any phds here have tips on how to survive a public defense, please share. 😬

https://www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/tapahtumat/vaitos-digitaalinen-kulttuuri-fm-johannes-koski

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