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chucker

@chucker@norden.social

#SoftwareDeveloper in 🇩🇪 #Bremen

Some #politics, some #tech (esp. #Mac), #StarTrek 🖖🏻, #music, occasional #photography, #Myst

I also develop a fork of #Mastonaut, a macOS native Mastodon client: https://github.com/chucker/Mastonaut

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chucker, to random
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From https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon:

“You can recover from bad product design choices by changing things,”

You often can’t, though. Especially when you have a public API dozens of apps have adopted. Once you introduce a certain design, changing it becomes much harder.

balrogboogie, to random

but what about international men's day voice but what about International Boss Day???

chucker,
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@balrogboogie Managers’ Rights Activists

chucker, to random
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Found through that season 2 has started airing. 👀

Thanks for the reminder, @film_girl

chucker,
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Oh, it’s not on German Disney+ yet. 🙄

But, has a notification feature. Fingers crossed they’ll e-mail me when the show becomes available.

chucker,
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is much better than at international day one releases. Multiple dubs and subs, or the original language, if you prefer.

uliwitness, to random
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I have a soft spot for late 80ies text mode GUI applications.

You know, where they used the graphical characters to draw window borders, the mouse pointer was an inverted ♦︎character, and you had a menu bar that would fold out text-drawn menus.

chucker,
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@uliwitness https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui/ 😍

chucker, to random
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Lots of sun yesterday

My legs on a deck chair, facing the sun. There’s a patio with various plants
Various walkways and patches of grass next to a river, facing the evening sun

timbray, to random
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Erin Kissane https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

Wise and well-written words from @kissane on That Thing Everybody Is Talking About.

chucker,
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@peepstein @timbray @kissane

> If messages get dropped somewhere in the network entirely, that’s not a decentralized, federated network.

Why not? If something has a firewall, it’s still a network. I don’t see how this is different.

chucker,
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@aeischeid @kissane @timbray

The analogy doesn’t seem so bad

• it mostly gets the job done
• there’s a lot of infighting (are QTs good or bad? Is Eugen the best or worst person of all time?)
• it’s hard for a new user to know where to start (do you go with Mastodon.social? Do you choose an instance thoughtfully? Do you not use Mastodon at all but rather Misskey, Hometown, etc.?)
• some are elitist (if you don’t grok it, perhaps you’re not hardcore enough!) and others try to help

chucker, to random
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This — but individual articles from news sites; Twitter facilitates the transaction and gets a 10% cut — is the first time I feel Musk might be doing something right with Twitter. It’s a way to generate revenue (not much, but it’s a start), and something people have been clamoring for for a long time. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/30/twitter-to-let-publishers-charge-users-per-article-read-says-elon-musk

chucker,
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@atrus I dunno. I run into the “this could be a worthwhile read but I’m not gonna subscribe just for one article” thing all the time.

chucker,
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@atrus

> Especially considering the sort of audience they're trying to gather on twitter these days.

Yup. Seems… not the right fit for paying to read an in-depth article. 😐

chucker, to random
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Rhubarb pie 🥧

chucker, to random
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The sun was really showing off today

dangillmor, to random
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The US economy is performing amazingly well, but as Bloomberg's Matthew Winkler notes, the public overall doesn't realize that. Why?

He alludes to the key reason for the public's lack of understanding, but doesn't make clear what it is, so allow me to be clear that "media narrative" doesn't explain who's primarily at fault.

The culprit is Big Journalism, again utterly failing to do its job.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-25/biden-s-economy-deserves-more-appreciation-from-americans

chucker,
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@dangillmor @vmstan would a society whose economy “is performing amazingly well” have people who go into medical bankruptcy? Doesn’t sound amazing to me. Maybe it’s doing “OK, all things considered”.

chucker,
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@loke @dangillmor @vmstan I guess my point is that we don’t have to agree to those measurements or economic success. We can redefine it to mean “the Gini coefficient is improving”, or “people find their careers more fulfilling”, or “the economy has produced new innovative approaches at tackling climate change”, etc.

QueerSatanic, to random

Hitler killed himself today in 1945 and the US was finally beaten by Vietnam in 1975, it's actually an especially good day for shitting on white supremacy if you feel like joining in

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@MzAprilDaniels @charli_gremlin @QueerSatanic

> was now, with American help, trying to become an independent capitalist democracy

Do we really need to get into any of the countless 20th-century examples of the US overthrowing a country’s government in order to increase control to point out how naïve and reductive this is? The Vietnam war was basically modern-day colonialism. It was either the US or the Soviets. Ideologies play second fiddle to that.

atrus, to random Italian

Oh nice, now the Federation is fine with torture and genetic experimentation on unwilling subjects in its prime research institute. The same institute that will kill visitors if they fail to provide credentials. The same institute that used a sentient android with multiple personalities as its main database and security guard.
I know the writers like a spot of dubious morality in their post-scarcity utopia, but this is verging on the ridiculous.

chucker,
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@atrus best not to think about the plot too hard. S3 is really only good at hitting nostalgia beats (you haven’t gotten to another big one yet), not at telling a good Star Trek story, or doing something interesting with JLP

chucker,
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@atrus I think early S1 had promise in terms of plot. I would’ve loved to learn more about the Romulan refugee crisis. Getting more glimpses into their culture was nice. Seeing some of Starfleet succumb to xenophobia, and seeing Picard become disillusioned was interesting.

It sadly didn’t stick the landing.

chucker, to random
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I made a little extension method for getting an NSFont with a specific weight that uses an approximation of the systemFont’s new weight behavior. So you can do:

var regularFont: NSFont
let sameFontButBolder = regularFont.withWeight(weight: .semibold)

Found that someone else on Stack Overflow seemed to have a similar problem, so I posted my code there: https://stackoverflow.com/a/76143011/1600

chucker,
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(I reverse-engineered the — rough — mapping by calling .systemFont with each weight, then fontManager.font with each weight, storing each of those as an RTF, and comparing what TextEdit says the actual rendered font is.)

chucker, to random
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Hum.

a crash that says

chucker,
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Now, on to actually working on this issue. 😒

christianselig, to random
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Set up an eSIM today and I feel so fancy

chucker,
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@mackuba @christianselig yes, if the carrier allows it.

If they do, you just go to Settings on the new phone, Add Cellular Plan, and get offered to move it from the old phone.

egghat, to random German

Was hat dieser Typ gerade in der Tagesschau für einen Plan, wenn er glaubt, dass Datenschutz die Corona-Warn-App so teuer gemacht hat? Ein kurzer Blick in die Kalkulation zeigt, dass die Betreuung und die Call Center das so teuer gemacht haben. Und nicht der Datenschutz, für den am Ende eh Google und Apple gesorgt haben.

chucker,
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@crazy2bike @egghat haben sie. Das Design der Corona-Apps (exposure notifications) kannst du die anschauen, und verhindert unter anderem, dass eine App wie CWA eine Korrelation zu Uhrzeit und Standort aufbauen kann.

chucker, to random German
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Versuch 1, VBN FahrPlaner: bietet Kreditkarte oder IBAN (SEPA-Bankeinzug). OK, IBAN. Tippe ein. Funktioniert nicht; Hinweis auf FAQ.

Versuch 2, DB Navigator: scheint nicht vorgesehen

Versuch 3, bahn.de: bietet IBAN. OK. Mehrere Schritte. „Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten“. Zwei Mails: „Buchungsbestätigung“ und „Die Aktivierung Ihres Abonnements verzögert sich“ (ja, das gilt ja auch erst ab Mai??)

Läuft.

chucker,
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So, nun ist der 1. Mai.

Die App zeigt noch nichts. Die Website ist verwirrend. Doch! Es gibt eine neue Mail. Dort wird darauf verwiesen, dass man in der App manuell ein Ticket hinzufügen kann, dort die Buchungsnummer eintippt und… tada 🎉

(Muss ich das jetzt jeden Monat machen? 😐)

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