Today is a "wouldn't life be way more enjoyable if we were all together as orange juice in a bottle" kind of day #theVent + #theStudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ

Computer history museum has an event tied to the 50th anniversary of the Alto, but I'm skeptical about the panel invited and some of the questions posed in the description.
Attempting to map today's "innovations" nonsense onto the amazing creativity that happened at PARC seems to miss the point entirely. #theVent

it's sometimes really annoying that I have to submit reproductions for bugs to open source maintainers in order to be believed.

I 100% understand why and it is very necessary to help them fix stuff.

What I find irritating is that some will insist that bugs I'm looking at on my screen *do not exist*.

Of course I'm the one filing bug reports and of course I'm aware of the discourse around all the free labor oss maintainers do. #theVent

Great, now I not only have popups for cookies in the browser, but popup for donation in the Signal app.

#theVent

I'm trying since many months to get my money back from UPS. They have a money back guarantee when they fail to deliver fast the fast delivery option but they make everything possible to not reimburse. :thisisfine:

#theVent

https://www.xmodtwo.com/p/do-we-live-in-a-society-without-a

We're busy optimizing the human essense out of the human experience.

#socialMedia #content #counterCulture #boringDystopia #theVent

Does anyone else have an urge to buy something, anything at a store, if the item you wanted wasn’t there?

I made a beeline for a specific item and it wasn’t in stock.

I panic, I look for something that catches my eye, buy it & then when I leave I wonder why I bought it?

It’s usually fine. Like I buy pasta when I meant to buy a sandwich… but still 😂

#theVent #Capitalism #anxiety #impulsive

Arg! My oven just blew its igniter. It's not a user replaceable part, I have to call a tech. I'd normally try myself, but, fire.

Now every single appliance that we bought with this house has failed. Every last one. At least we have a home warranty. #theVent

Online schooling software is confusing, invasive & disrespectful to people with disabilities.

D2L and the like can GTFO.

#theVent #showerThoughts

Me: Whoever built the FAFSA website needs to be fired.

FAFSA website: Proudly built by the US Government.

Me: ...my comment still stands.

#theVent

Why do orgs require you to call them to request services?!

What's wrong with PGP signed email?

Or snail mail?

Or FAX? I'll gladly set up FAX if I could use it.

So many corps, government orgs & healthcare related orgs require people to call them.

Some of us have problems talking over the phone!

Where are the disability accommodations?

Why do we have to get case managers to call for us?

*tosses phone out window*

#theVent #rant #accessibility #disability

the one thing I dislike more than The Football is when people assume I care about The Football

#theVent

I spent all night reading the equivalent of 3 books worth of content.

But the three books I could be reading feel daunting.

Why is this? :flan_confused:

#ShowerThoughts #Books #Reading #theVent

I'm pissed!

I felt save for 3 years, and this safety is gone. We sacrificed our freedom and stayed where we are. Now the just dropped everything and we got COVID!
All this for nothing just because the shortsighted decided the start of a wave of the most contagious variant was the right time to be upset.

Fuck this shit!

#theVent

The worst part of this: it's also flu season and getting COVID seriously destroys your immune system.
There's lots of people that will experience serious problems or even worse.
But yeah, why think about the old, weak and immunocompromised!

Could the government have done this whole thing different? Hell Yeah, they could have done this much different and way earlier, but here we are.
#theVent

Someone described the current situation in Beijing as going from total control to Mad Max Fury Road.

Yeah, that's what you all asked for.

In the last 3 years I constantly heard people say we should just do what the US and Europe did. Well, we are doing it now and you got sick in the first week. Stop complaining!

This is the first time in 3 years I don't feel safe.

#theVent

All ya'll web designers and devs., aria-label doesn't make the website accessible. It isn't some magical sauce to poor over a navel-gazing new wave brutalist design with parallax scrolling or some shit. If you are gonna only care about 1 thing start with focus management.

Then realize you cannot just care about 1 thing and also care about performance.

#theVent

Heh, original trip to Salisbury next week rescheduled to today because of rail strikes. Today's train cancelled last minute by Avanti (they're notorious for it), trying to get to Manchester for an alternative and am running late stuck behind another late-running service. Plus there's been a track-side fire at Wolverhampton (which I pass through) causing chaos, so later on might be more fun. #theVent

meh,
it’s one of the days I want to ragequit everything

sleep more, care less, I guess

#theVent

Full list of graphical #web browsers you can use right now on 32 bit #Guix (i686-linux):
- #Netsurf
- the webkitgtk based ones
- maybe #nyxt but it's an even bigger memory hog than the others
- that's it.
Really, #qtwebkit is failing to build because it goes out of memory at the link step on the build farm, #chromium has been borked for months, #firefox (icecat) needs rust which is not currently bootstrappable on i686.

Please think of this when building web based "native" software, thx
#theVent