Sumana Harihareswara @brainwane@mastodon.social

Ooh new "offline not meaning 'off the internet' " sighting:

"And then a lot of the conversations happens OFFLINE, in groupchats, and Discords, and like, ..."
00:23:50, in Fansplaining podcast ep. 128 "The K-Pop Narratives", said by Keidra Chaney.

reading through code comments that use first-person pronouns like finding a worn, unsigned diary, on the beach of a forgotten island, that gives me hints to the next puzzle

On the eve of the Fourth of July, as America watches Hamilton, I want to talk about my book America Inc. and what it’s about for really real, and why I wrote it.

Is there a company that makes good Linux laptops that has a company culture that's pro-diversity and anti-harassment as opposed to "we're a bunch of straight white men who think free speech trumps everything"?

Asking for a friend

The friend is me the next time I upgrade my comp

Does anyone still use Stylus/Stylish extensions for their browsers?

I wanted to try out some recently but the userstyles.org service is constantly giving me 504s/timeouts.

:/

Any advice for inclusive video calls for people who are hard of hearing or deaf? Currently trying to secure funding for captioning and/or sign interpreters, but would be grateful for boosts, links to useful resources and signing/captioning services too.

Bonus if they have experience with open science domains and concepts, but I'm possibly asking for a bit too much there.

vegan diner name: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes

My main Audacity tip is to learn to use the multi-tool. It is a mode of interaction where you can hold down keyboard buttons to toggle what the mouse/trackpad does. Learning it took a few minutes, getting comfortable with it took a few hours, and it increased my working speed roughly 2X.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/multi_tool.html

Just want to give a shout-out to Audacity, which as far as I'm concerned is the open source creative tool that actually achieves the promise of open source creative tools. It gets significantly better every release and releases every few months, and the UI gets better and better (the key thing most open source tools don't achieve). If you tried Audacity a few years ago or more and decided it was unstable or clunky to use, download the latest version. You might be pleasantly surprised.

this says a lot about our society.

Do you remember when the iPhone came out and everyone said “wow this is amazing it’s so easy to use” and never once thought to themselves, “I’ve been bombarded with training videos for this disguised as commercials for the last six months, of course I know how to use it?” That's what Github has done to discussions about version control.

I enjoy the Fallout series (at least 3 and up) and especially 4 and 76 which have settlement building mechanics that are fun.

But it might be nice to have a similar chill exploration and building experience that doesn't come with lots of combat and brutal violence.

Any recommendations? Xbox-friendly preferred but PC ok too.

I'm thinking also of my wife who likes to watch me play Fallout but doesn't like to play FPS shooters herself.

The only reason gif won't die is h.264's weird patent licensing status never being fully resolved