@soatok thoughts:[minions] hehe, bottom.[frozen] "nice is different than good." ("nice guy" like megamind/titan, before incel was a term)*gasp* you have an OTHER website?happy nude deer

The Better Daemons Of Our ProfessionI've spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 trying to imagine the specific changes we technology nerds could make to improve things somewhat. Meme remix of Matt Bors's comic and Stan Kelly's Sickos Yes comic. I've shared some of my ideas and musings throughout the past year. Briefly: Ambition, the Fediverse, and Technology Freedom Some Thoughts on the Twitter Mass Exodus…http://soatok.blog/2024/12/18/the-better-daemons-of-our-profession/

@mensrea right, I was talking about purely dark patterns at that point. I'm aware of what gamification is, I was considering the union of both topics.Though some things like rewards programs requiring X amount of points to redeem can sometimes be gamified

I suppose the silver lining of being bad at art is people tell me it's ugly instead of asking "what prompt did you use?"

@soatok "cute emoji character version when?"

@soatok this has multiple layers.dGhpcyBoYXMgbXVsdGlwbGUgbGF5ZXJz

A Very 13/12 ChristmasIn the year 2031, due to years of strategic investment, software to support electronic voting has become ubiquitous. Despite an onslaught of new cryptographic attacks, the US government was poised to adopt one of these implementations--with a price tag of $100 Billion, for use in the midterm elections.However, a last minute act of sanity spearheaded by Senator Wyden preserved tech companies from overriding the objections of security and cryptography experts. Despite the sunk cost, not all was lost: the tech became a novelty in the United States.Last week, a few of your local furries decided to use one of these apps to coordinate a Secret Santa gift exchange. You decide to join in, perhaps not really understanding how all of that fancy tech works, but wanting to have a bit of fun. Today, you get a notification that the enrollment window has ended, and the assignments will happen automatically. In total, 13 of you elected to join.

@risottobiasReformed church?Who ate it in the first place?

The admin of hellspawn.gay is constantly launching accusations of "admin abuse" at the tech.lgbt admins... yet the hellspawn admin boosted one of my posts days after I blocked them.I guess it's only a violation of boundaries when someone else does something like that.

@soatok agreed, I’m not gonna block an artist sharing their new project, I do block the big box store that sent me 4 emails on Black Friday and every day since.

Don't shitpost too close to the Sun, lest you be forced to write Enterprise Java

@faz @soatok @Nulhomme a starting point for the code stuff:https://github.com/DataDog/supply-chain-firewallhttps://github.com/some-natalie/bincapz-actionhttps://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent (bincapz was renamed)

Your fursona is blue, and the protogen is green and purple. Why is that?It's the bottom of the pride flag.

I used to think wine (the thing that runs Windows executables on Linux) had to do a lot of pattern matching and rewriting of the instructions.After all, wine is fermented greps.

A joke that's been circulating:Brian Thompson’s death has gotten more coverage than United HealthCare ever provided.I don't know its provenance, but it's too good to not share.

Right-wing shitheads are posting photos of the signs advertising the Midwest Furfest HIV testing center, as if that's a slam dunk on furries or something.Anyway, I wrote about this a while ago. Here's a link you can share if you'd like to get ahead of this stupid conversation.https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/

@[email protected] im so sorry you had to experience talking to someone at HN. hope you're doing okay

@soatok suboptibissmal

@soatok But all documentation about birth is usually issued as per local timezone. The only real exceptions that I can think of would be for people born in Antarctica, or possibly aboard a plane flying rapidly across multiple timezones.

@soatok oh, oh my.