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miclgael

@miclgael@hachyderm.io

Official toot-space of the front-end specialist with a beard and glasses, living and working on Boonwurrung country. (he/him)

📮 Migrated from https://mastodon.au/@miclgael
🦌 Using https://elk.zone
♻️ Only boosting images with descriptions
🧠 Neurospicy
🎵 Running a record label → ohsilence.com

Avatar alt: photo of Michael laughing, against a colourful wall.

Hero alt: a colourful wall, painted with cool toned geometric shapes.

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cory, to random
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Oh cool thanks!

miclgael,
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@cory -_-

miclgael, to auspol
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“Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?”
—NIN (2005)

cory, (edited ) to random
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Now: a personal assistant in your pocket.

Soon: a used car salesman in your pocket.

miclgael,
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@cory both of those became my phone in June of 2010 (iPhone 4)

joelanman, to random
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cmd q to quit an app is poor design, when cmd w (close) cmd 1 (select first tab) cmd a (select all) cmd s (save) are all so close.

I've remapped cmd q to something else at a system level

miclgael,
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@joelanman 🧠

miclgael, to random
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> "*The guilty don't feel guilty - they learn not to." *

  • NOFX

Nothing is ever going to change, so everything needs to change.

miclgael, to random
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Thinking about this Benn Jordan video again as Spotify phases out monetization for songs with under 1000 plays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU

miclgael,
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@calhoon2005 @StudChud ahh the unhomed millions must feel nice and cosy at the thought of some space technology

cory, to ai
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🔗: Blockin' bots on Netlify https://www.jeremiak.com/blog/block-bots-netlify-edge-functions/

miclgael,
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@cory A reminder if my content is found to have been used for training I am owed one million dollars;

https://www.michaelgale.dev/privacy#on-ai-and-machine-learning

miclgael, to ai
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To turn off "duck assist" you can go to settings#duckassist and switch it off manually. Doing so will set 2x cookies; "be" and "bd" in your browser.

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

miclgael, to random
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I now know of 4 friends who left Optus and got prepaid aldi sims. 3 immediately after the big breach, and one waited out their contracts and has just left recently.

You can opt to keep your number, but I chose to start fresh (given the breach and all) - and it’s my preference because it stops scams dead in their tracks.

You’re really mostly getting scam calls / texts because your number has been on the dark web for years and years. And probably is marked as “answers” or “replies”

miclgael,
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That breach was a great thing for me, because it forced me to look at different options and think about how I use this device differently.

I went from a high data $80/month contract to a $15/month low data, leave whenever I want burner.

Change is seems scary but it can be done!

miclgael,
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  • a few years ago I left one of the major banks for a smaller one. Great move, no regrets.
  • I changed ISP’s. Great move, no
    Regrets.
  • I’m boycotting Coles and Woolworths. Great move, no regrets.
  • I self-host my music and media apps.*

I started thinking about this stuff more after listening to the Pineapple Project a few years ago. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-pineapple-project/the-psychology-of-money/101655370

*edited because this one has been a big one over the last 6 months.

JoeRess, (edited ) to random
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I couldn't resist. (sound required)

miclgael,
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@JoeRess What is the sound? For those that don’t know?

miclgael,
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@JoeRess Ah that is the missing context 👌

That might be a better alt text too - since that’s what’s in the video that you can’t see. ❤️

timrichards, to auspol
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There's something deeply wrong with Labor's careerist politicians, if they think this is a reasonable way to act against asylum seekers. Sick tabloid-obsessed people.

"Marketing yourself as 'tougher' than Dutton, as someone keen to be more punitive than Dutton, more eager to rob people of their liberty than Dutton, is base politics. It does O’Neil no credit."

Labor’s migration bill: Marketing herself as ‘tougher’ than Dutton is a mistake by Clare O’Neil https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/marketing-herself-as-tougher-than-dutton-is-a-mistake-by-clare-o-neil-20240401-p5fgki.html

(maybe paywalled)

miclgael,
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@timrichards maybe it is a marketing mistake but at least it’s honest.

ajsadauskas, to climate
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General rule of thumb: Low gross emissions are better than net zero or net negative emissions.

Especially when those low gross emissions are across scope one (on premises), two (off-site energy), and three (supply chain).

Doubly so if those net zero/negative emissions are due to carbon offsets.

@green

miclgael,
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@ajsadauskas @green Holding my thumb up to a toot to gauge things from now on

stvfrnzl, to music
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I know I don't really have a crowd here, but here's some content anyway! Recently I got into the rabbit hole and after some digging, I decided to pull the trigger on the

https://www.gear4music.de/de/Gitarre-and-Bass/G4M-638-Bariton-E-Gitarre-Tobacco-Sunburst/2NR9

A cheap instrument, but after some minor upgrades it plays like a dream. 😍 This is what I've done so far:

miclgael,
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@stvfrnzl Looks rad! Like an even longer jazzmaster.

@ayo alert

burgerdrome, to random
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"we were previously wasting shit-tons of energy blasting cold air into the world, but money is no longer free so we've re-discovered 'fridges with doors on them'. hopefully this big sign reduces the amount of sheer bafflement you experience at having to open a door"

miclgael,
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@ajsadauskas @LanguageMan1 @burgerdrome Eat my shit Coles

miclgael,
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@Jakra @LanguageMan1 @ajsadauskas @burgerdrome And that’s ok. You can only do what you can reasonably do, ya know?

cory, to webdev
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Really got these artist matched emojis down if (normalizedArtist === "thrice") return "👨‍🎨🚑";

miclgael,
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@cory vheissu 🫥

ayo, to random
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if following a I think the hashtag followed should be prominent when you see a post with it in your feed -- this instantly answers: "why am I seeing this?"

miclgael,
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@ayo related to any Elk PR? 🤔

timrichards, to art
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Interesting discrimination case involving Hobart's cutting-edge art gallery. I can see the arguments on both sides.

Mona sued by male lawyer over women’s-only ‘Ladies Lounge’

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/male-lawyer-sues-mona-over-women-s-only-ladies-lounge-20240319-p5fdil.html

miclgael,
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@timrichards Just seems like a real stupid man who doesn't get it to me.

mitch, to random
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no, no. that isn't a raspberry pi in my basement running docker. no, see, these days, we call those 'microservices'.

miclgael,
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My lil baby micro services are growing by the day 🥹

miclgael, to CSS
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You want border-color: transparent; not border: none;

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/you-want-border-color-transparent-not-border-none/

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

miclgael,
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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Enter /r/datahoarder ?

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