[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 days ago

We need to stop this usage of proprietary. MS GitHub + Discord in free software. It completely undermines the philosophy.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago
[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Have you considered taking your notes on a non-corpo-social-media site that wants you to create accounts with Microsoft to interact with?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Tetris0—10 are different users. Trust me.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 week ago

Tech workers need to unionize

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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 109 points 3 months ago

Just please get us proper color management. Creators need accuracy & HDR is still a mess.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 months ago

Folks, this should inspire you to start self-hosting a federated, decentralized chat server with freely available source code by yourself or with a small community. Governments can coerce these big, usually-corpo centralized servers to give up data but good luck if there are hundreds of thousands (of millions?) of small servers with 1–10 users on it & clients not controlled by a single entity for distribution (easier now that y’all coerced Mommy Apple to let you sideload applications & use alternative package managers).

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Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or consider snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 57 points 7 months ago

Here I am self-hosting Mumble for friends & using Mumble at work. Old tech was built to actually be good on resources.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 68 points 7 months ago

My first WTF moment with British English was walking into a restaurant & the hostess asked: “are you alright?”. “Do I have a bloody nose?” I quaked. Turns out it was just how folks say “what’s up?” as a hello there.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 62 points 8 months ago

Microsoft is not your friend. GitHub is owned by thah US-based, publicly-traded, for-profit megacorporation & will do the bidding of the other megacorporate wishes like taking down youtube-dl for the music industry and so on. Get your projects & communities on another platform.

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Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t want you sharing salary information with your coworkers. I have read stories about how these documents & information can sometimes get leaked & shared on the web which is pretty sketch.

TIL about “functional résumés” which it appears are usually meant to cover up your lack of work experience, but I like the idea of covering up a lot of my specific history as it is the skills that should matter more, no? Do you give out all of your info?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 88 points 10 months ago

Church of Emacs vs. Cult of vi is the only true rivalry. Enlightenment will only be found taking one of these paths.

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A quick primer on XMPP & how/why you should host your own server for low-resource-usage, encrypted chat & other pubsub server.

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