floof.org
i think one of the most offensive problems with bedrock edition is that you are FREQUENTLY exposed to things that you cannot ever make yourself, which defeats the whole point of being a game centred around creation i think
the featured servers? all of the custom menus and 3d models you see cant be replicated the content on the minecraft store? you cant make any of it yourself the 15th anniversary map? does a bunch of stuff that normal players cant make
the most advanced thing a bedrock player can do is screw around with the flawed broken redstone. you have you to sign an nda with microsoft to have access to the developer edition, which straight up just lets you make almost anything, and none of it can be done in vanilla bedrock edition
in java edition, if you see it, you can make it. everything you see on the most popular java edition servers, maps, texture packs, mods, can be MADE by ANYONE with enough passion, skill, and motivation. hell, you yourself could put together a team and build a competitor to hypixel, the most powerful and popular server in java edition, FOR FREE, with off the shelf tools
the fact that roblox gives typical users more development freedom than minecraft bedrock edition is just seriously sad. fuck bedrock editon, fuck microsoft, fuck microsoft studios, and fuck mojang redmond
A 10 minute compilation of videos I took during ConFuzzled 2012.
There’s a watermark as I used a free online editor to merge the clips.
Also, noise warning for the exterior scenes as my camera microphone couldn’t deal with the wind.
In 1945, a woman named Lucy Hicks Anderson was arrested for the crime of marrying her husband, Reuben Anderson, a soldier in the US Army.
Lucy Lawson seemingly always knew exactly who she was. In 1886, a beautiful black baby was born to Bill and Nancy Lawson of Waddy, KY. While this child was identified as male, she insisted that she was a girl. She chose the name Lucy and informed her parents that she would be wearing dresses to school.
At this point in history, the term 'transgender' had not yet been coined, and public knowledge about trans people was sadly lacking. Confounded, her mother and father took her to see the local doctor who advised them to raise her as they would any other little girl. Bill and Nancy did just that. And by all accounts, Lucy's childhood and school years were uneventful and happy.
At age 15, Lucy left home, taking domestic work to support herself, then moved west, first to Texas then to New Mexico where she married her first husband, a man named Clarence Hicks, in Silver City, NM. The couple settled in Oxnard, CA, a wealthy community about an hour up the coast from Los Angeles. There, Lucy's culinary skills opened doors for her, and she began to cater elaborate parties for Oxnard's rich and elite. Her rolls and fruitcakes reportedly won many local contests and awards. Lucy worked diligently and tirelessly, and saved nearly every penny she earned from her employment as a domestic worker, a nanny, and a cook. And in 1920, at the age of 34, Lucy managed to save enough to purchase business property — a local brothel.
Lucy's brothel operated between 1920 and 1933, a period in American history known as Prohibition. During this time, selling alcohol was illegal. But as a brothel madam, Lucy had already skipped merrily over the lines of propriety, so she served her customers alcohol anyway.
In 1929, Lucy divorced Clarence Hicks. Not much is known about her marriage or divorce to Clarence, so we can infer that the separation was mutual and uncontested by either party. Lucy kept her business, and kept bootlegging alcohol.
She was busted a few times, but her numerous social connections with wealthy socialites allowed her to avoid any aggressive prosecution. Rumor has it that one wealthy banker even posted her bail so that she could cater his party that evening.
In 1944, Lucy fell in love a second time. At 58 years old, she met and married the love of her life, Reuben Anderson. Reuben was a soldier stationed in Long Island, NY. But their happiness was not to last.
Just one year after their marriage, a sailor claimed he had caught a venereal disease from one of the women at Lucy's brothel. At that time, the law required all sex workers to undergo a medical examination, and the Ventura County examiner insisted on including Lucy. It was at this time that her trans identity was revealed, and subsequently made public. He chose to put her on trial for perjury, arguing that she lied on her marriage licence, impersonated a woman, and stole VA benefits to which military spouses were entitled. After the story ran in a small Pacific coast newspaper, Time Magazine ran an article on Lucy, exposing her as a trans woman to the entire nation.
During her trial, Lucy stated in her defense, "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman". However, the court convicted both her and Reuben of perjury, and they were both sentenced to incarceration in a male prison. Lucy in particular was court ordered not to wear women's clothes.
Reuben and Lucy's relationship survived these indignities, somehow. After serving ten long years in a male penitentiary, Lucy and her beloved Reuben retired to Los Angeles, where they quietly lived out the remainder of their lives together. At age 68, Lucy Hicks Anderson died and was mourned by all who knew her.
Lucy Hicks Anderson was not an activist. She was not even known as a trans woman for the vast majority of her life. She simply wanted to live her life, love her loves, and pursue the projects and interests that made her happy. Lucy wanted only one thing out of life, and that was to be the woman she knew herself to be. And it turns out she was willing to fight for that.
Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory
We went to eat at a Little Caesars (cheap American pizza chain, usually to pick up and go, but this particular one had seats), they gave us a lot of napkins and many triangular cardboard plates, more than we may need. When we finished, I decided to take the napkins with me to have them at home, and my friends mock at me asking me if I wanted also to take the cardboard plates with me. I joked that indeed I was going to need them, I may use them as canvas for a painting. Which happened to be a good idea.
So I used one of the cardboards as palette, and the other one as the actual canvas to paint a skunk, using as reference a stock image on internet. Skunks are cool!
This original piece will be exhibited at the Anthrocon's Art Show.
Traditional. Acrylics over cheap cardboard pizza plate.
Until Western influences and complaints about the inability to translate "she" into Chinese, the Chinese language did not have a gendered pronoun.
他 was used for male, female, and even animals and objects. It was simply a generic 'it'.
Then Westerners came in and insisted that the patriarchy get even more so and eventually the word 她 started to come into use (but with much debate and some resistance).
Today as we celebrate our non binary friends and as the English language struggles with having a non gendered pronoun, there is a movement to ditch the 她 and go back to simply using 他 for everyone.
Another thing Western colonialism ruined
Happy pride month!
https://www.harvard-yenching.org/research/cultural-history-of-the-chinese-character-ta/
Huang Xingtao 黄兴涛 Fuzhou: Fujian jiaoyu chubanshe, 2009 Reviewed by Zhang Yun (PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Fellow) Early-twentieth-century China witnessed a surge of invented or reformulated terms and concepts that reinte…Harvard-Yenching Institute
Y'all know I am a deeply anti-LLM person. But this is an actually solid use case for one. We know alt-text is an issue. People won't suddenly start creating it. This model runs locally and is small. Of all the ways Firefox could integrate LLMs, this is probably the most useful and least harmful.
Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/
Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
It’s historic: Mexico has elected its first-ever female as President — Claudia Sheinbaum — in its 200 year history who is ALSO a climate scientist!
Sheinbaum’s has a Ph.D. in #energy engineering & has promised to invest nearly $14 billion in clean energy & boost electric buses & trains.
Sheinbaum also worked unpaid on two major reports issued by the IPCC.
In an era of climate consequence we also see rays of hope shining through!
#climate #climatechange #environment #nature #sustainability
Article link for your ease of reference 😁: https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/06/03/mexico-elects-a-climate-scientist-as-president-but-will-politics-temper-her-green-ambition/
Mastodon Family:
My page is all about solutions & you can help me help YOU by receiving my 💯 FREE newsletter (“Greentech For Good”)!
Don’t let apps & algorithms decide whether you recieve important info! Please subscribe now! 👇🏼
https://forms.gle/EfC7zJCkYC9BjBht8
#climate #climatechange #nature #earth #environment
Incoming president Claudia Sheinbaum will need to break with the fossil fuel-friendly policies of close ally AMLO, analysts sayDaisy Clague (Climate Home)
Way to go #Mexico
First woman President who's also a climate scientist and a lady from the left.
More of this please.
🇲🇽
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp4475gwny1o
Claudia Sheinbaum has beaten her rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, by a landslide to become Mexico's next leader.Vanessa Buschschlüter (BBC News)
Oh god, this. Yesterday, I went looking for stuff to self-host a little spreadsheety-type thing to share with a client, so I can just point them at a web page with a list of domains and they can tick off the ones to renew or allow-to-expire or whatever, without having to send actual spreadsheets or CSV files back and forth over and over. But everything seems to be so heavy; full Excel clones and the like. And when I finally decided to look into one in more detail (nocodb I think) it turns out not to have sane installation instructions — which seems to be getting more and more common these days.
Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks it's insane that everything requires docker or pip or npm or whatever the hell other custom packaging system to mess around with my system these days and doesn't have instructions on how to just… y'know, run the program? Like, you have to either have the developers' whole f'ing laptop running on your server, or allow some weird packaging system to download random files that may have been updated with malware since last time the upstream author looked and squirrel away files god-knows-where on a live server? Plus when I looked at the build script the first thing it does it *stop and destroy* a container!? What if there's data in there? What if it's not named the same on this machine? Everything these days feels so absolutely *horrible* in the name of making things "simple" for the utterly clueless to run stuff they haven't the faintest idea how to run, who will then talk to other utterly clueless people on forums and cargo-cult their way into blowing up their entire machine trying to make something work again after they make a simple mistake or the overly-simplified instructions fail to perfectly align with their system.
What I *want* from an install document is:
1. What pieces there are
2. How to run those pieces
3. How to configure those pieces to talk to each other and/or other equivalent/substitutable pieces
I don't want some script, docker thingy, etc that tries to do it all for me and potentially screws up the whole server.
I don't want *apparently* simple at the expense of everything else. I just want a basic, high-level explanation of how the parts fit together. Proper documentation and a lack of overly-complex layers of abstraction over the top of the build/install/run process would be so nice, thank you.
I suppose what I want is a standard straightforward unix-style daemon with a man page. So many of those do it right. You read the man page, it gives you full details of what it does and how to configure it to talk to anything else it needs to talk to, and you run it, and it does its thing. And you do the same for the other components. And there's usually an overview man page that tells you what components there are. It's just so nice when that happens.
I guess it's because unix was *designed* for sysadmins like me.
activitypub.ghost.org/day3/When you build an open source product, a critical factor that determines adoption is how easy it is to self-host. It is, quite possibly, the single biggest predictor of success. WordPress got this very right, and it's a big part of why it still occupies such a large part of the market today.Unfortunately, most modern apps are not straightforward to host. They're generally made up of multiple apps, servers, services, data stores, specific providers, proprietary external APIs, and often a whole other system to orchestrate everything. That's not a big problem for a centralised product which only has to be hosted in 1 place by 1 team, who built it themselves... but it's a fairly major problem when you're expecting a product to be installed and adopted by developers all over the world who have never used it before.
louder for the people in the backI think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that
The sun is shining, the BBQ is sizzling, and it's Friday — which means it's time for your weekly dose of "only-mildly-unhinged" (according to one subscriber) updates about ActivityPub in Ghost. Welcome back. First, some house keeping.Ghost (Building ActivityPub)
Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾
Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/
Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
Many, many years ago, a new specification called "XML" emerged. After a bit, people realized it was kinda useful for some stuff.
Then, something happened.
MANAGERS!
I imagine many conversations between managers / developers somewhat like this:
M: "So, what is the nice thing with #XML
D: "oh, it is a specification that simplifies stuff, since tools have a clean format to work with."
M: "So, what kinda specifications?"
D: "Oh, it can be more or less anything."
M: *starry eyed!* "an.. an... anything?"
I was teaching computer courses for companies at that point. Suddenly, my calendar was just packed with XML courses.
It is like very limited what you can teach, it is not really complex, so you talk surrounding technologies. But not...
"Our boss wants us to replace the SQL db with XML?"
"what?"
"We gonna use XML instead of MS SQL"
"... what?"
"He said XML can be used for anything..."
If you think companies with #AI plans have actual plans, with a strategy make sense, please think of this story.
This is bullshit, because:
1. You need a TFR (total fertility rate) of 2.1 to maintain stable population (no growth, no shrinkage).
2. UK's TFR is 1.75, so shrinking ~15% per generation.
3. Which means, not enough workers to support the retirees.
4. Net-positive immigration is the only thing propping our economy up.
5.The UK *NEEDS* immigrants, or we're fucked.
This is the truth, unpalatable to racists molly-coddled by generations of crooked right-wing politicians.
https://mastodon.social/@lohihilo/112546615087991583
Here we go again. BBC Politics page: 'Starmer promises to cut net migration... No timeframe or target figure has been set, as the Tories say "no one believes" the Labour leader is "serious about tackling immigration.Mastodon
People who rely on the ability to be anonymous or use pseudonyms online are not bad people, or ‘cowards’, as the prime minister would have us believe.Samantha Floreani (Overland literary journal)
Content warning: poem about nonbinary erasure called "prefer not to say"
If you're familiar with Weird Al, you may be familiar with the fun music video style of "Tacky", where a camera moves through a building and the video is smooth, done in (seemingly) one take.
I think I've found a video in that style that manages to beat that one. The choreography in the video I'm about to link is absolutely phenomenal and the song is catchy as heckie!
Let me know if you listen and/or watch the video, and if you liked it!!
Jason Mraz - Feel Like Dancing
🌈🌈🌈
#Music #MusicVideo #Dance #Fun #Catchy
Listen to my new single "I Feel Like Dancing": https://jasonmraz.lnk.to/IFeelLikeDancingIDFrom my new album 'Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride' – out ...YouTube
Online communities that can act as safe spaces for the LGBTQ+, those with autism, those who have trouble socializing and so on, are always worth defending. Even if it's just a small group of friends.
Corporate internet will never do it right, we'll continue to do it ourselves.
Maybe tech wouldn't be so hard to learn if we didn't have to keep reinventing the wheel so as to reinforce gated fiefdoms.
Twenty years ago, you only needed to learn how your DVD or VHS player worked to play videos. Now, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+ and whatever else+ each have their own video players with their own quirks and UI models.
File managers got replaced by Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive all having different UIs for no apparent reason.
Similarly e-mail, messaging, etc.
Sending a letter with just ".DS_Store" in the middle of the sheet to:
Apple Inc.
1 Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States
> Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico capitalists are like "sorry, home office isn't compatible with our company culture, you have to be at the office for productivity reasons.transmom.love
