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shnizmuffin , 1 day ago

Did you read the article? What are you trying to say?

Just after Summer Game Fest finished, the anti-woke gamers found a new target: a report at IGN, which credibly and comprehensively lays out a history of sexism at the developer of upcoming Planet-of-the-Apes-meets-Sekiro action game Black Myth: Wukong. The response – surprise! – was to go after the woman who wrote it, while also spinning up a ludicrous conspiracy theory that IGN was blackmailing the developer.

Targeted harassment of a journalist isn't, "reviewing products poorly." I went to go find an example of exactly what was being slung their way, but they took their whole profile private.

shnizmuffin , 2 days ago

Fucking hell. Teach me more money spells, wizard.

(I already know about Scotty Time, framing sexy upgrades as "tech debt reduction," and fending off trendy frameworks as "lacking maturity.")

shnizmuffin , 2 days ago

If I have a closet with two Raspberry Pis running Docker Swarm, it's a Private Cloud.

shnizmuffin , 6 days ago

We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando.

Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time.

The cool thing about distributed version control is that it's distributed. It sounds like GitHub will just be a public remote, rather than the place where active development happens.

shnizmuffin , 10 days ago

so always compatible and up-to-date with the server development

@dessalines is this true? Do you release Jerboa in tandem with Lemmy versions?

shnizmuffin , 13 days ago

his first instinct is to go to Reddit or do a google search, which turns up with results from Reddit. He then maybe sees an answer to the question he was looking for, but he also sees unneeded hate directed towards the game he loves.

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

"Don't."

shnizmuffin , 13 days ago

Criticizing China on lemmy.ml goes about as well as evangelizing crypto on awful.systems. Join an instance that shares your values or roll your own. Know your audience or get the hammer.

It's like a huge chunk of the population out here has never experienced a forum before.

shnizmuffin , 13 days ago

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shnizmuffin , 14 days ago

Krita looks nice.

shnizmuffin , 17 days ago

If we remove just 1 county from each state, Trump would have won.

Yeah, the more people you disenfranchise, the easier it is for fascists to gain power. That being said, this is sort of like saying, "The USA would be Republican if it weren't for New York and California!"

shnizmuffin , 17 days ago

"Running from within a motherboard BIOS" is waaaaay different than running from BIOS (aka Direct Boot). Before Windows, many games were playable by booting directly into them.

shnizmuffin , 20 days ago

We call the things that, "sit in the middle," Middleware.

shnizmuffin , 24 days ago

Did you use Shoelace, or is the name a coincidence?

shnizmuffin , 26 days ago

Prabhakar Raghavan is Search Engine syphilis.

shnizmuffin , 29 days ago

Source?

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

Interactive tool: thetruesize.com.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

I would describe this as an uncool GitHub project. Federation isn't the answer to every problem.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

You should take a look at Mermaid.

Edit: words are hard.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

Do it.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

CHALK!

Chock-full.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

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shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

This is cool, good news. However, I feel like it's dishonest to not normalize the Y-axis on the charts that are percentage-based. To have "Girls in School" and "Protected Nature" occupy the same absolute top-right position is misleading.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

"No."

User requests come through ombi and I'll reject whichever ones I feel like. No explanations, I just don't.

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Conservapedia is an Ouroboros, except instead of eating itself, it crawls into its own asshole.

Edit: spelling

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

Home Assistant can track device location using the companion app (iOS and Android). It would take a little work to save more than the default amount of information, but it's extremely do-able.

Here's my yesterday:

https://lemmy.inbutts.lol/pictrs/image/8a45f635-a48f-4357-b1d5-d73079858f43.png

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

So, I tried using Google Bard Gemini to help write one-line Character Background descriptions for a 5e supplement I'm trying to write. I specifically feed it the longform descriptions and features I've already written and ask it to summarize. The output I get is so foreign and detached from my "voice," it's totally unusable.

Even when giving it more than you want to get out, it can't produce acceptable results. I can only imagine the drek this lady is being inundated with, and it makes me sad.

The only success I've had so far is telling it, "pluralize X in this paragraph," in places where I wrote something like, "A Painter paints for a living," and want it to be, "Painters paint for a living." (I'm pretty sure Microsoft Word could do this shit in the 90s.)

shnizmuffin , 1 month ago

Butts. It hosts web applications. The public ones are on the domain "InButts.LOL" where the subdomain is more or less the application name.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

I don't think the USA is at the point where we should all worry about arbitrary arrests.

Wrong!

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

In 1974, Bill Hoyt, part of the original Blackmoor Bunch, started playing Dungeons & Dragons, which he'd got at Gary Gygax's house. Soon after, he began his own campaign.

These are rare maps and campaign notes from the very beginning of D&D.

Note: This download is pretty hefty, because it contains large scans of the original campaign map, as well as a modern redrawing.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Multiple prompts lead to the same response. No variance.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

TLDR - Threads made Facebook-y decisions right out of the gate.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

I like to start my party off immediately after they failed their first quest. Session 1 is explaining the consequences of that failure, what that quest was, and how it went wrong.

For example: "Two towns hold us responsible for the bridge that collapsed in our fight with the troll, who escaped, because we didn't burn the body. We're at worst fugitives, and at best in extreme debt. The adventurer's guild is pissed that we failed, too, and is demanding their cash advance back."

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Nuke Indie is $500/yr. That's less than Adobe CC.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Edging Closer To My Router

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shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Web accessibility isn't just about compliance; it's about creating digital experiences that empower and include every user, regardless of their abilities.

Step 1: remove user agency.

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <base target="_blank" />
  </head>

I get that it's hard to come up with a good example of using <base>, but I wouldn't show a user-hostile example before ... cutting the element from Chapter 1 entirely. The only time I've ever used <base> was when I had to deploy multiple versions of a multi-page static site to a subdirectory for its staging environment, but to the public root for the production environment. Even then, the solution wasn't, "use <base>," it was, "sort shit out later with nginx."

Step 2: confuse the use case of anchors and buttons.

  <body>
    <ul>
      <li><a class="native" href="add-book">Add Book</a></li>
      <li><a class="native" href="view">View Bookshelf</a></li>
    </ul>

    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="https://example.com/dont-use-real-urls">Misery</a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="https://example.com/especially-links-to-amazon-just-pick-a-real-bookstore">Carrie</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </body>

I understand that it's just an example but it's never just an example. Use appropriate landmarks or break your snippets down to the point where it's obvious that what you're pointing out isn't the whole thing. You don't need <body> or <ul> or <li>, just split the snippet in two, like this:

<a href="/my-favorite-books">My Favorite Books</a>

<a href="https://example.com/some-book">Every Man For Himself and God Against All</a>

Step 3: Introduce Javascript to restore the native functionality you broke in step one.

  <script>
    document.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
      if (event.target.classList.contains("native")) {
        event.preventDefault();
        window.location = event.target.href;
      }
    });
  </script>

Don't do that. I mean, don't really do any of this example, but really don't do this last part. Adding class="native" is as cumbersome as adding target="_blank", while also being more brittle. [I edited out a considerable amount of swearing here.] I think this is just a symptom of a bad example gone way too far.

If the client insists on opening all external links in new tabs, get it in writing and then do this:

<base target="_blank" />

let external_links = document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="http"]');
external_links.forEach((external_link) => {
  external_link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
});

You can use querySelectorAll with a prefix attribute selector like 'a[href^="http"]' instead of a typical class selector. This lets you grab all the anchors with hrefs that start with "http" without adding extra syntax where it doesn't really belong. Once you've got your external links, iterate through that NodeList with forEach and tack on target="_blank" using setAttribute. That way, you're not re-implementing default behavior, you're only mildly annoying users with HCI devices, and if JS gets blocked all your links suddenly behave predictably.

Even this is bad! Just don't! It's so easy to not!

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Other notes

• You should probably start by explaining what an element is, then what an attribute is, then what a value is. Vocabulary is extremely important.
• When referencing elements, include the chevrons in the inline style. <meta> vs meta. If they have to guess, they'll guess wrong. Suffix with "element" to really beat them over the head with it.
• When referencing attributes, try to keep their values attached. class="foreign". If you can't, suffix it with "attribute."
• When referencing values, keep those quotes! "false".
• If it's a book about HTML, don't use JS. At all. Every time you reach for JS, stop. Like if you are about to write a self-invoking function to go and find invalid values of the rel attribute, for example, maybe don't.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Hey I love this tool but be careful if your docker run command is super long or complicated, it's not perfect.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

The title had me asking, "How is this weirdo drinking cola, that they're excited to see someone else doing it the same way?"

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

"They drink cola like me!" can be read as, "they drink the same soda as I do," as in the specific brand and flavor. It can also be read as, "they drink cola the same way I do," as in straight out of the can or in a glass with ice.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

https://lemmy.inbutts.lol/pictrs/image/657271cd-992f-445b-be1e-32d174c338b7.gif

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

You were right about score + ratio, and the complainers are a vocal minority.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

A fad? No, definitely not. TypeScript brings features (and structure) that will /should probably make their way into JS.

It's sort of like asking, "does SASS replace CSS" or "is liquid the next HTML?" They're just implementations of features FE developers want in the core spec of JS, CSS, and HTML.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Put that traitor in the microwave ... Baked Potato.

shnizmuffin , 2 months ago

Software to serve Software as a Service as a Service.

shnizmuffin , 3 months ago

Headless Plexamp.

shnizmuffin , 3 months ago

I ✈️ NY was a t-shirt for Spencer's Gifts Edgelord dipshits back in the day.

shnizmuffin , 3 months ago

No, that's Steve Jobs.

shnizmuffin , 3 months ago

True, Jobs is the worst father in history so far.

shnizmuffin , 3 months ago

You could just as easily use the article's title and save your opinions for the post body or the comments, but you didn't.

Oh no, implicit bias. Twice!