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masukomi

@masukomi@connectified.com

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans, and Geeky Programmer.

Queer friend of Camellia Sinensis.

If you want to hear my ramblings about Tabletop Role Playing Games check out my other account: https://dice.camp/@masukomi

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masukomi, to random
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I can't get excited about this Kickstarter update at all, because it 100% feels like

We got sick of sitting around for years while Backerkit took all the money we left on the table.

So, we copied all their stuff.

the thing about better surveys is just fucking insulting, because that's been a major problem for creators for years & they just KEPT ignoring it despite it being pretty damn easy to fix.

masukomi, to github
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TIL you can set a "Social preview" for your repo.

It's under settings, and setting one should make the preview of your repo not be completely useless when you link to it on sites like this.

Let's try it out...

[edit...uh. I'm just seeing the normal default preview. Please fill in poll in reply]

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi, (edited )
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this post is a reply to a post with a link to a repo.

That repo has a "Social Preview" image set.

Do you see the default GitHub repo preview there or a screenshot of an app?

masukomi, to random
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TIL that Herman Miller has made a "for-realzies" gaming chair. As opposed to the “let's change the color of the Embody” and call it a gaming chair.

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-furniture/vantum-gaming-chair.html

Wifey & think of ergonomics as a form of insurance. Invest in the good stuff now, so that you don't need to see a doctor later.

Our Embody chairs have absolutely proven their worth over the years.

masukomi, to random
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I am a naturally loud person. Not just volume, though, I am usually either talking to myself, to the dogs, singing something, or having echolalia with a nearby appliance.

On the occasions where I become aware of the fact that I am currently being loud my mind always harkens back to a moment in The Crying Game where Forest Whitaker is telling the story of the scorpion and the frog. The last line is “I can’t hept it. It’s in my nature.”

masukomi,
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Sidenote: holy shit The Crying Game is an amazing movie. Great writing. Great casting. Great acting. Great directing.

It’s been ages since I’ve seen it, but so many parts of it live rent free in my mind.

Side side note: it what is nominated for six Oscars and won one for Best Writing.

It also won 21 other awards .

You should definitely see it. Just know that it is not a light film.

masukomi, to accessibility
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I've just pushed a bunch of #accessibility changes for screen readers to the main branch of FediThready. ( It makes long texts into post sized chunks)

I've run through it with #VoiceOver and it seems ok. HOWEVER it all feels like it's "usable" instead of "good".

If there's a #a11y geek out there who uses screen readers regularly I would REALLY appreciate some suggestions on how to make this actually feel good for folks who rely on screen readers.

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

Binder, to random
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Stop looking in my direction w/e anyone says “fat fingering” at work challenge 2024

masukomi,
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@Sorl @Binder it's a pretty common term amongst USian geeks.

Also, I literally don't know anyone who doesn't magically loose half of their typing skill the moment someone is watching their screen.

Although in practice "fat fingering" generally refers to someone making an innocent typo into a form or accidentally clicking a nearby button. Stuff like that.

masukomi, to esperanto
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Last night i left a little rant about how 's lack of explanations for anything made it impossible to derive when or why you'd use some observable rules AND that it made it impossible to know if it the sentence was correct or an AI generated fuck-up.

It was Perfect fodder for "reply guys", but instead 2 folks showed why i love They stepped up helped. One dug out a helpful link, another explained things in detail that took time.

Thanks Esperanto folks. 🙇‍♀️

masukomi,
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@number6 Yeah, i've got lots of resources where i can get help. There's a subreddit and a stack exchange for Esperanto & probably many mailing lists and other things. There's even an esperanto mastodon host ( https://esperanto.masto.host )

My concern is more that it's not JUST missing key information, but that I ALSO don't trust that it's giving me valid examples anymore. Without the grammar material i have no way to confirm or deny any of my suspicions without going elsewhere.

masukomi, to random
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I only JUST took my ADHD meds, & there's a lot going on in my brain, & i need to get it out so... sorry.

You can mute me for a bit. I won't mind. ;)

masukomi, to random
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letting the dogs out for one last pee before bed.

The frogs sound like banjo players, plucking randomly at instruments, strung with rubber-bands.

masukomi, to esperanto
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I'm seriously thinking about quitting Duolingo, because the more advanced the conjugations get the less clue i have what the fuck is going on because they literally Never explain Anything.

Ex. In "el" means "from" & "de" means "of"

I came FROM the United States
Mi venis EL Usono.

The House OF Usher
La domo DE Usher.

and yet, it's insisting that when you go FROM France to Germany it's

...DE Francio al Germanio

and that EL Franco is definitely wrong.

WHY?!

masukomi,
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In writing all this down I realize that I simply can't consider Duolingo to be a trustworthy source.

Originally the Esperanto course was entirely volunteer created - AFAIK -but every time they expand it / change it I encounter things that make increasingly less sense & seem to contradict prior lessons.

the more advanced things become the less you can derive from context. It just becomes rote memorization without understanding.

Ditto for non-literal colloquialisms.

masukomi,
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@jrdnzr a) thanks b) they literally don’t explain anything anymore. It used to be that if you went to the website, there was a brief intro to each lesson. It was never enough, but it was something.

They never thought it was worth putting into the phone and then they removed it entirely, and I hate them for it.

masukomi,
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@jrdnzr ugh. Reading that one page has removed so much effing confusion. 🙇‍♀️

For ages, I have just been thinking that I was just incapable of grasping the concept of a “direct object”, because so many things ended in “n” that didn’t make any sense to me.

masukomi,
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@hakanto Thank you for that detailed response 🙇‍♀️

masukomi, to random
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As long as I am unemployed, I am trying to be a good house spouse.

The thing is, we long ago determined that am incapable of cooking or preparing food without making a mess. It doesn’t matter how hard I try.

That’s just frustrating. Frustrating to try and be clean, but then make the mess anyways. Frustrating to have to clean it up afterwards.

If we were rich, we would 100% hire a personal chef.

masukomi,
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@dachary personal trainers make you exercise!

Minions of satan!

masukomi,
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@dachary

personal trainers WOULD say that. They have a vested interest in you paying for training.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!

masukomi,
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@dachary Wall-E (the documentary sent back through time) showed us that our true future lies in hover-chairs on intergalactic space cruisers!

masukomi,
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@dachary alternately.... maybe i just really don't enjoy exercise. ;)

masukomi,
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@dachary they tempt you with cute snuggles!

gvy_dvpont, to random
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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

masukomi,
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@reconbot @MLE_online @timonsku

A) i absolutely love this solution
B) the engineer who made that alarm, & the manager(s) that approved it should all be fired.
C) one of my favorite features of my Zojirushi rice cooker is that it plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to let you know it's done. ❤️

masukomi,
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@MLE_online

I have a roughly 30 year old version of this one https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/nslgc

I think the only thing that's changed on this model is the tint of the metal. ;)

I love it so much, but I will admit to being tempted by the unnecessarily awesome $$$ ones they have. Alas, i was tempted by a CNC more, so that's not going to happen. ;)

masukomi,
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@MLE_online Ah... i see. You have friends who come over to eat with you. ;)

[edit: OOOH there's a hello-kitty version of yours now. https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/nsrpc10kt ]

masukomi,
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@MLE_online oh.

Yeah, that's a good use too. I tend to make large quantites of rice when making batches of dog food, but I'm so used to doing it with my wee 3 cup one that I forget i could just get a bigger one.

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