Reading the news:

Zweite Kasse geöffnet: Supermarktkundin bricht Weltrekord im Sprint https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/05/zweite-kasse.html

@foone
Not trivial with the error correction and redundency in QR codes. This is a working QR code after all.

Java to Javascript is like Blade to Blade Runner. Both are for nerds but that's where the similarities end.

I am surprised by 4chan's approach to complying with the UK's Online Safety Act.

@taavi Ah, good enough. We can advertise temp account and so one once they become default.

@taavi Temporary accounts can be enabled. Dark mode? Parsoid for read?

@taavi The web installer is redesigned. database footprint will be much smaller. Default skin is the new vector. Let me think a bit more. I think there are more.

@rail_

I admit this is perfect:

🖥️📊 The December 2024 @wikimediafoundation developer satisfaction survey results have been published!

💻This survey is used by the #WikimediaFoundation to measure developer satisfaction in the #WikiMedia and #MediaWiki communities, & determine where to invest resources in the future.

ℹ️ Read it, Analyse the Results, Talk about it, And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2025

Haha, good one!

#Cryptography

> If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

@demoographics That includes thumbnails too

Context for these drops are even funnier, in the past months I have been cataloging our tables in production and going around asking "why table X is in production while the code for it got undeployed 10 years ago?"

Dropping tables on master database of English Wikipedia

@ishambard I have a diversified enterprise, from mushrooms, to mines, to fishing, to cows, to pickles, to tree tapers ... I don't know why I torture myself 😭

@taavi @legoktm lol that's true unfortunately

The biggest time sink I have seen in my life is Stardew Valley. At six pm, you say to yourself "I'm gonna play for ten minutes" and you play for a couple of minutes but you look up and it's 6 am, the sun is up, birds are singing and now you have to go to work.