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jalcine

@jalcine@todon.eu

My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf/about.
I'm most likely reading, ranting or starting shit offline.
I was a mod for PlayVicious, so yeah. I talk politics a lot.

pfp: myself wearing gold rimmed sunglasses with a durag looking into the camera

header: myself at karaoke taken by https://union.place/@betsyvr

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jalcine, to random
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(inhales) you do NOT need javascript to submit a form in 2023 (or 2013, or in 2003) using the defaults that have been around. please please please stop making it a requirement. your PMs are lying to you. The CSR team is lying to you. please make the Web normal again and not just a fucking runtime. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/GJ8l)

jalcine, to random
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I'm tempted to auto-generate friendly for mobile reading version of content from articles I find useful information from. For example, workers.org keeps me appraised but I'd like to pull the information onto my eReader so I don't have to be on my computer a lot. I can see this being a script made from the weekly issues (either just pulling the PDFs or finding the matching HTML articles and convert them into a bundled ePub). It'd make it easier to read (for… https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/beZy

jalcine, to random
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Before the xenophobic comments come up, mind you that America's spent that kind of money on NYPD easily in two years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuba-to-host-secret-chinese-spy-base-focusing-on-u-s-b2fed0e0. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/_Jxo)

jalcine, to random
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The more I work on Koype (the thing I use to power Micropub on my site), the more I wonder if writing it in Rust was a bad idea. I want it to be easy to run anywhere, but I also want to heavily encourage modification without having to need a compiler. I could work on opening up parts of its system to run in a scriptable language (like LuaJIT) which would open up doors to a lot of other functionality. But then the core system itself would be still locked to Rust. I've… https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/-HKo

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I'm really thinking about implementing a WebDAV client for this project, so I can let people bring their own storage systems for this project because I don't want to only keep it on the local file system, but doing this in Rust means that I really do have to implement the client from scratch and I don't wanna do that. I could wrap one from C++ but also lol, I don't want to do that. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/ne9s)

jalcine,
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Of course, there's a few object storage client libraries out there. That would be a shoo-in as a wrapper for the vfs crate (though I need it to finish my PR for random access support). But people don't just share out authenticated object storage URLs for applications to use. I really might have to implement this client. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/Y0u4)

jalcine,
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It could live on the Web! I'm thinking about something that I could use my own existing infrastructure as well as making it easy for those using things like Box or Dropbox - for those who don't manage their own infrastructure.

I'll check out remoteStorage, it looks pretty straightforward! (https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/4WMm)

baldur, to random
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I wish I was more optimistic about large language models, but everything I’m seeing at the moment leads me to think that the best case scenario is a massive acceleration of Silicon Valley’s worst instincts and an ongoing degradation of our software ecosystem.

jalcine,
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That's truly the only lever for it, right now at least.

jalcine, to random
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Real question: who's working on a visual editor that could rival things like Instagram or TikTok? I know this is the text land, but this space is going to (slowly) die out in twenty years if it doesn't try to align with the graphical space that we're in when it comes to sharing media. I picked up Instagram today and the simple means of making a text post or overlaying it over a video felt more … it felt way more human. You can hear my voice and see my face (though just my voice makes it more human IMO). Having auto-transcriptions/captioning is a big boon as well. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/op9G)

jalcine, to random
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I'm going to switch to digest mode for the SWICG mailing list. Despite's Evan earnest (and successful) attempts to move it back into a functional state, there are other folks (mainly one, Melvin) on there that have been passively pulling in the kind of ideas and technology that run counter to a safe Web. Because they also have a louder voice (and the passive backing of a [abuse-enabling built system, IMO]), it's not worth engaging it anymore.

It shouldn't also be lost on anyone that I've slowly moved away from open social Web things in recent years as I've gotten more involved in activism (and I do plan to return to this space because it is vital to the health of the Web) but I'll be doing it from afar. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/2CCJ)

jalcine,
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That "system" is Nostr. And frankly, I do not trust anything Jack Dorsey explicitly endorses. That man has passively caused more harm to people and the Web than most people are willing to admit (especially because he still has the ears of the celebrity class). And because of the inability to break away from these abusive systems, we're going to find new ones pop up with more of these things embedded in them, rinse the history of the past mistakes and deepen the grooves of the damages from before. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/_cUl)

exchgr, to random
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why is so much of tech media treating AI as a forgone conclusion? what am i missing here? are they bought?

jalcine,
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@exchgr tbh I kinda think they are (and are choosing to "look on the bright side" of shit too much)

jalcine, to random
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Is it possible to reimagine a Web without JavaScript? Frankly, and again, this is from a cursory observation, but this does not seem like a priority of functionality for any Web engine maker (like WebKit, Gecko, Servo or Blink). Why? (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/k10n)

jalcine, to random
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So Intuit is giving money to politicians (or lobbying as neoliberalism defines it) to fight against the work I do at Code for America around free (and open source!) tax filing. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/intuit-lobbying-taxes_n_64623a10e4b018d846bf3e59. Private companies engaging and working like this are always no good (despite the coating of goodness they give you). (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/ZR59)

jalcine, to random
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So glad this came RIGHT before I take off tonight for DC! I'm fighting the urge to start reading this now. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/KlgK)

jalcine, to random
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If you're at a company that's exhibiting abusive behaviors internally or externally, start a union, track their behaviors and let's work together to fix this shit. We cannot keep accepting these states of affairs.

jalcine, to random
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Progress in America moves at the speed of rocks. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/fda-blood-donations-gay-bisexual-men.html?. This took too. fucking. long. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/gM_X)

jalcine,
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Please don't misunderstand this as disappointment. I'm glad that I can donate blood now. But the fact that this is only possible NOW is what makes me so mad. That anger doesn't just disappear. It turns into deep disappointment. And a wave of small relief. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/A4qk)

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    jalcine,
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    More specifically, the Fediverse will be able to squelch a lot of critique if more work was spent into things like C2S (client to server), moving servers to local devices (and using relays to bridge to other network layers) and embracing more non-HTTP stacks. That's hard (hence the need to "build from scratch" in a lot of the P2P space). (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/r7-h)

    jalcine, to random
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    I hope y'all are understanding that CNN is right wing cosplaying as center now. There's way more important things to report on than that man — I haven't watched it (I don't dignify my time with State propaganda anymore) and I'm hoping y'all stop investing in outlets that do not give a fuck about y'all too. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/g0L_)

    jalcine,
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    Being "center" is no different from being right in this country (or in the world, frankly). You can't maintain the status quo without continuing the harm the status quo causes to people. Behavior and declarations like that are what people would refer to as "covert X" (where X would be sexism, transmisogyny (and transmisandry), racism, classism - all the -ism that stems from global white supremacy and hegemonic patriarchy).

    (NGL, four years ago, I would have to look up each of those words, so I'm happy to define them once globally, if that means you'd be working to help dismantle them). (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/lzEv)

    aeva, to random
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    so I'm trying to work out what the exact flags cmake is setting for gcc for a debug build, and the docs just say "the usual ones", and my searches are saturated with stackoverflow posts that are topically adjacent but unfortunately irrelevant to my problem at hand because I'm trying to work out why my debug builds have horrible numeric issues or something but my release builds don't

    and so I get the clever idea of looking at what cmake generated, and oh my god that is a lot of cmake

    jalcine,
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    @aeva man this makes me wince in cmake_commands.json heh

    jalcine, to accessibility
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    Hey! A friend, @oluOnline, is looking for their next role! Copying the body of here, https://mastodon.social/@oluoluolu/110056134293569447

    Looking for my next frontend developer role! Must be remote, I'm really interested in accessibility, maintainability and ethical, impactful work.

    Please boost, DMs open :)

    jalcine, to random
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    By 19th News: "'The world’s largest Black group chat': Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter". The last event held by Wagatwe, Danny and I had a highlight in this article. Really eager to get to work on making this less of a project and more of a reality. https://19thnews.org/2023/05/black-twitter-archive-preserve-storytelling-community/ (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/-k-U)

    heydon, to random
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    HTMX?
    What?

    jalcine,
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    @nickcolley ooooh wait okay, I see. this might be on the person using htmx versus the framework to do, after skimming https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-live

    now this is a good note (but still something that could be added as an extension) @heydon

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