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  Here's a fun ublock rule (not a link): youtube.com##yt-live-chat-banner-chat-summary-renderer:upward(3)

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  Putting this out there because i've struck out on my own search: Looking for a pixel font in the style of Arial or Tahoma for old Windows 3.1 ~ XP UI text. The catch is that I need it to support CJK and Cyrillic, and ideally be an actual pixel font. Multiple fonts that I can mash together are acceptable as long as they're a similar baseline size. Ideally with bold variants but I can mostly make do without if need be.

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  wow they run TCL on TVs now, truly the language of the future

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  i'm so tired dude.

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  Jax H. is this anything?

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  the US state department reverted the gender marker on my passport. I'd had F for 10 years.

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  hey who decided it was in any way appropriate to have an AI "interviewer" handle applicants before they spoke with a human being this should be illegal

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  @baldur@toot.cafe If there's any organizing in this space that you're aware of I'd love to be part of it. Unclear how much leverage I'd have at the moment but in case more voices are needed for the class solidarity argument, I'm game.

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  @rl_dane@polymaths.social @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @baldur@toot.cafe basically that yeah. a lot of PIPs also come with orders to not tell anyone about it, which serves to isolate people. sometimes i suspect we may be entering the age of "everyone is on a PIP all the time" - we would never really know

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  read ducks by kate beaton

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  Because employers decided that programmers had too much leverage, laid off half of us, and they are left disproportionately with those who didn't speak out for whatever reason. It wasn't caught because catching this sort of thing is not valued by managers. https://bsky.app/profile/majormcdoom.bsky.social/post/3mkwqjjmyvs2u

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  @thomasfuchs i very much appreciate it :]. i've been looking for ways to talk more about tool design like this - it's something that feels very obvious to me but definitely isn't in general. the more i struggle to find employment in this industry (2 years of looking...) the more i feel like i just have to write.

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  "i will save time by skipping the boilerplate" actualy just statistical error. most code is not boilerplate. Boilerplate Georg, who assumes that all code written by other people is boilerplate, is a statistical anomaly and should not have been counted

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  framework guy i'm so sorry but you gotta go back to the drawing board with calling it "in-cell touch design"

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  half the point of programming-tool design is to reduce the need for hypervigilance on the user. if we're designing tools that require you to be *more* hypervigilant, legitimately what use are they?

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  social media sites should have a "compose with AI✨" button but if you press it you're immediately permabanned

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  i don't know what to say about an industry where every company says they're hiring and not one company is actually hiring why is this the way that it is

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  how to make programming terrible for everyone https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

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  RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149 i've seen a couple of people (not on here) make a pretty surprising accusation in response to this piece - namely that i must only ever work on "fun" or "interesting" code, and don't understand slog, glue code, or minor updates and revisions. yall, i maintain *rouge*