Notices by scy (scy@chaos.social)

@foone I've thought about this multiple times, but the thing is, alt texts for one and the same image might be hugely different based upon the context in which it is used.

I mean, sure, embedding _something_ is probably helpful nevertheless, but it's not that simple to consider all requirements.

@foone Oh, so _that_ is where Baz Luhrmann got his name from!

@foone If the front says "foone", does the back say "boone"?

The latest @vkc video is about the lost art of computer manuals:

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/f7NFFTdHMUHTLdgC7JU2Mw
https://youtu.be/4lUiUQOvRHQ
(22 min)

And I thought "wait, didn't @mntmn's MNT Reform have a great Operator Handbook"? So I went and looked it up, and damn! It's even better than I thought.

Not only does it explain how to charge the laptop and turn it on. It introduces you to Linux, has exploded-view drawings of components, includes schematics and even a bill of materials! Magnificent.

https://mntre.com/docs-reform.html

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

@aral In Germany, we have a rule: Don't compare things to the Holocaust. In fact, it's a law.

And it's a good law.

It keeps people from saying tasteless shit like this.

"Create your account to continue reading."

yeah how about i just close the tab instead

A few days ago, my groovebox, the #SynthstromDeluge, running the new and awesome community-built firmware, crashed, which was very cool.

Not that it crashed, but what happened next: It displayed a colorful pattern on its pads.

That's a stack trace. It's listing the last steps the code made before crashing. The devs have asked to be sent photos of these, to help them find bugs.

I've pasted it on Discord, and there's a _bot_ that recognizes these images and decodes them into addresses!

fun game idea: every time someone shouts FUCK, fuck

this may or may not have been inspired by @foone debugging shit

"You need passion! You need ambition!" – "Ich könnt noch ambition weiterschlafen…"

@foone So we're talking logistics, not accommodation. 👍

"Buchung" can be
• a bookkeeping entry or financial transaction,
• a booking, as in reservation of a room or other resource,
• the act of ordering something

"Zustand" means state, condition, situation.

It's most definitely a rather domain-specific term. Googling shows me meanings like "has this been entered in the shipment tracking system", "has sth. been transferred to/from a warehouse storage", etc.

hth, lmk if I can help you further

@foone German here. Do you have some more context? It's a compound word, yeah. "booking status" or "reservation state", but I'm not sure what that's supposed to _be_.

Holy shit I think I’m in love.

#Protomaps, a way to serve vector #maps of the entire world using a single static file and HTTP range requests.

It’s basically a static site generator for interactive maps. Tile servers are pretty much obsolete now. No database needed, you can run your interactive, smooth-zooming vector map from any HTTP storage. S3, Caddy running on your Wi-Fi router, even GitHub pages.

https://protomaps.com/

It’s open source & free to use. Wow. 🤯

via https://chaos.social/@djh/111280447304607540

the existence of Cisco implies the existence of oh wait never mind

So @element took part in the European Police Congress in Berlin, had a booth and presentation there, and is proudly posting on the fedi about it.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110304013472307767
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110310853505977058

I’m currently paying them $11.90 a month to host my homeserver on their EMS platform.

My payment in April will have been the last.

It’s one thing to provide FLOSS comms to the government. It’s another to proudly support our fucked up police system.

@aral I can’t quite pinpoint it, but to me there’s a difference between “my Mastodon instance is full, you need to find another place to create an account on, if you want to comment on my toots” and “my forge is full, you need to dig around to find another one (that’s federating with it) to tell me about a security issue in my code”.