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My favorite content warning I've ever seen on Mastodon is "non-SI units"

The post about representation in cyberpunk settings that I just boosted reminded me of an idea I had not long ago: It would be cool if someone made a game similar to System Shock, but as an audio game. For those not familiar with System Shock, Jimmy Maher covered it well: filfre.net/2021/03/system-shoc… 1/2

» System Shock The Digital Antiquarian

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Now, in System Shock, what Maher calls the diegetic UI is explained in-world by having the player character outfitted with a neural implant in the backstory. So in an audiogame remake, the hacker could be blind, and then the implant, rather than giving them sight, gives them a new audio UI to their world. 2/2
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BTW, someone wrote a complete fan novelization of System Shock, called Free Radical: shamusyoung.com/shocked/ Obviously they made the story their own, filling in details that aren't fleshed out in the game, especially details about the backstory. Regardless, I appreciated being able to enjoy a version of the story aspect of one of the many games I'll likely never be able to play.

Free Radical Chapter 0: Foreword

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If your cyberpunk setting doesn’t have gay furry hackers I don’t want it

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Wow, in #nvda, you can now press NVDA+ctrl+escape to enable/disable screen curtain. #accessibility #blind
#Accessibility #blind #nvda

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You sure can! I just shared your post - nice little tip for people :)
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I've had this mapped to NVDA plus printscreen for ages. Seemed a far more sensible shortcut

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Aquí intentando utilizar el nuevo Outlook para Windows. Aprovechando que #NVDA indica que se corrigieron algunos fallos con el mismo y que mozilla thundervird se está poniendo algo molesto con mostrarme recordatorios cada 5 minutos; es la oportunidad perfecta para echarle un vistazo.
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Gracias. Infórmanos si tienes algún problema con NVDA y Outlook.

Thank you - do let us know if you hit any issues with NVDA and Outlook.

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just found out that Qi wireless charging involves X.509 somehow

Please friends, use hashtags or at least content warnings in political posts. Yes, I know this moment is crucial but I just can’t do the snark and pointless sniping from any side or angle. Respectfully: make it easier for those of us who want or need to opt out. Maybe it’s naive or unrealistic but I’m trying to make my feed be a haven of beauty and wisdom.

I agree with everything Scott Hanselman writes in this post.

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#crowdstrike #microsoft #dei #softwaredevelopment

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEl hiring Here's the thing folks. I've been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it's an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can "git blame" and point to a human and it's awful. But it's the testing, the CI/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It's always one line of code but it's NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist.
Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn't a "git gud C++ is hard" issue and it damn well isn't an DEl one. 口参O 12,698 417

Scott Hanselman on LinkedIn: #crowdstrike | 452 comments

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens… | 452 comments on LinkedIn
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#microsoft #softwaredevelopment #DEI #crowdstrike

a gentle ask to be kind, to consider tagging and/or cw'ing political/uspol discussion.

Perfect. As a web #developer, no notes.

#webdev #memes

Two panels from Simpsons where Homer is holding a picture of a perfectly built firepit ("localhost") and the next panel is reality - a mess ("production").
#webdev #developer #memes

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BREAKING: President Biden steps down from presidential race. Trump continues to be 78–year-old convicted fraud and rapist who stole classified documents from White House and incited an insurrection to overthrow an American election.

Do you like the US Supreme Court?

Reminder that you're voting for who gets the #SCOTUS seats of Thomas and Alito in this election.

That's the legacy at stake here.

#SCOTUS

GUADEC talks are complete but BoFs and Workshops start tomorrow 15:00 UTC, check the schedule for more details and links:
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Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices witho…

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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.
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You hear that? That’s the sound of a thousand “Biden must go” newspaper editorials being hastily rewritten as “With Biden gone, Democrats are still in trouble.”

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@ppatel Ideally, we should stop worrying about what just happened and start concentrating on fixing what is to happen.
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We're excited to share that GUADEC 2025 will take place in Brescia, Italy! We look forward to working with the local team and we hope to see you all in Brescia next year!

#GUADEC #GUADEC2025 #GNOME

GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy
#gnome #GUADEC #guadec2025

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awessome. Some of our team members are thinking to join. Are there any dates yet?

And the world watches the US with bated breath.

Please don’t fuck this up.

Have the media started yet to cover Trump being the oldest presidential candidate in history and being in extreme mental decline

OK, now we can stop talking about how icky it is that people get old and focus on the fact that the GOP candidate is a rapist and Russian dupe who fantasizes about screwing his daughter, mass deportations, and Hannibal Lecter, and should already be dying in prison for high crimes including treason.

Y'all can panic all you want.

Me? I'm getting back on the get-out-the-vote effort with Vote Forward tomorrow, and every day through the next two and a half months.

LFG!

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#uspol #gotv

#GUADEC2024 talks are complete, join us for the conference closing in Track 1! youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc?f…

GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1

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Every single person I've run into railing against "DEI hires" or whatever is some absolute fuckhead who *absolutely* would never have been hired without their immense privilege.

In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.

BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:

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There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:

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Breaking: Trump weighing whether his first critique of Biden endorsing Harris will be racist or sexist.
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Utterance*. It probably won’t make it to full “sentence” status.
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I'm helping an open source project by stepping in for a bit, as the Interim Executive Director for GNOME. Looking forward to helping GNOME grow.

foundation.gnome.org/2024/07/1…

GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director – The GNOME Foundation

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If this doesn’t energize the party, literally nothing will. We need to be running this ad non-stop on every available screen in the country.

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Can we put this on Youtube to make it easier to distribute? Or is the video already there?

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This is epic. Apparently, in 2011 Donald Trump donated to Harris's campaign. Here is the post with an image of the check! :). x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1…
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Newsflash: other people exist!

For the love of God, don’t block the sidewalk for wheelchair users and people with strollers or suitcases or whatever. Some massive main character syndrome on display here.

#frustration #antisocial #ableism #accessibility

Picture of a grey Vespa blocking the sidewalk in between parked cars and buildings.
#Accessibility #ableism #antisocial #frustration
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This is selfless leadership. We’ve seen leaders put themselves over the country for too long. Trump is doing that right now. Now it’s time to find the candidate who can end Trump’s political career. nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/poli…

This is going to be exactly the boost America’s struggling yard sign and bumper sticker industries have been waiting for.

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Joe Biden will go down historically as an extremely underrated president, especially if Trump is defeated again in November

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Joe Biden's underrated presidency

He's achieved a lot — with the notable exception of popularity.
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