Joel @cincodenada@cybre.space

The "CW" icon on Mastodon stands for "Content Warning". The contents of the post is hidden, and you have to click on the warning to see the contents.

It was originally introduced so people could hide potentially upsetting topics, but it can be used for any purpose.

Many people hide political posts with a "Pol" content warning, while others use CWs to hide spoilers on posts about films.

Some use CWs to tell a joke in the warning, with the punchline revealed in the contents.

#MastoTips

"Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry"

-- Ted Nelson

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3096290/he-invented-karaoke-saw-it-take-then-walked-away-daisuke What a legend

just a little reminder to folks: Indian English is the second most spoken dialect of English *in the world*, with multiple times more speakers than British English itself, and second only to US English. (Nigerian English a close third).

Still proud of how nice of a little language http://kdl.dev turned out to be and sad at how little opportunity I have to use it right now cause I still loves it.

This 1983 intro to computers book for young children has as much detail in a few colorful pages as a college hardware architecture class. https://archive.org/details/Usborne_Guide_to_Computer_Jargon_1983_Usborne_Publishing/mode/2up

#Mozilla #CommonVoice wishes to gain 500000 new contributions by July 20th. Sounds huge to me, but maybe it can happen!
Common Voice is a really cool project attempting to collect recordings from people of all ages, genders, dialects, etc. so that future speech recognition can become more reliable, and so that we do not need to depend on things like Google's captioning service. If you care about #accessibility, #privacy or just like reading out or listening to random sentences, please optionally make an account (to help make the data more easily searchable) and contribute.
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
This absolutely does not go just for English speakers, BTW. English is doing just fine. If you speak any other languages, please help add, record and sort sentences in it, instead. For example, the Slovenian database is growing, slowly but surely!
Edit: Fixing typos. Sorry!

lmfao

this website has taught me a lot about computers and the lesson i've learned is that they are very very bad

OMFG.
see the blurry laptop in the banner image on this page?
try selecting text on it.
https://developer.bbc.com/login-required

I will never forget that video I saw about talking to cops. It was like an hour and a half split between a lawyer, making the case that you shouldn't talk to cops, and a cop, arguing that you should. The lawyer's argument featured all the standard things - you have the right to a lawyer, the lawyer knows the system better than you, the cops can and will lie to you, they might pin something on you even if you're innocent, etc.. He made some really cogent arguments and stated them well.

But what stuck with me was the cop's argument. It basically boiled down to two points: first, don't worry about it! Second, I shit you not, he made the argument that everyone breaks the law in small ways all the time, so you've done something wrong, and if you get on the cops' bad side they can lock you up if they want.

I saw this when I was a baby liberal in college, and I think that cop's terrible, evil argument singlehandedly radicalized me

Check out the (ridiculously huge and cheap) Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid. 1000 games for as little as USD $5, including one from yours truly. Lots of good ones in here. https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid