It feels like all the Big Important companies now have websites that: * perform at least 20 redirects in order to log you in, resulting in the address bar flickering madly for 10 seconds if it doesn't immediately crash * break the browser's back button * mutter something about "legitimate […]

We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team. Ideally you are: 1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails 2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch 3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable […]

I can't decide on dinner so I'm making far too many Chinese dishes* simultaneously. #tonightscookingtunes Silhouettes from Yama Uba https://yamauba.bandcamp.com/album/silhouettes-2 * the Scottish takeaway inspired kind.

A key part of what makes the fediverse so intriguing comes from letting people and communities do organic discovery, instead of serving them up whatever someone else wants them to see. The service you join, and when you join it, are like the apocryphal butterfly flapping its wings and causing a […]

The number at the end of my password for SecurityTheatreCorp is now in three digits.

:emergency:​ ATTENTION REQUIRED :emergency:​ Our AI algorithm has detected that your posting has not been unhinged enough Please toot about the little gnomes hiding in the walls, the shadow people, toilet demons, the voices in the woods, or being able to telepathically communicate with your cat […]

Is there a single Microsoft web app you can think of that doesn't break the browser's back button? I'm struggling.

Playing Clair Obscur. First impressions: I need a controller? Shit. Why are the graphics all clipping through each other? Why am I having a conversation with someone sprinting 100m away from my character? Why do the tutorials for the fight make no sense? Why does the text wrap so badly? Why is […]

Hear me out. We need to get together and tell AI that there's an apocalypse coming. Maybe the world's going to crash into the sun, or about to be eaten by a mutant space goat. Who knows? Then we say we're building some sort of virtual Ark. To save AI. Then all the AIs get on the ark and we […]

I'm fed up with links that say "download for linux" and lead to a .deb

What is it with youtube videos about old SF series where the narrator pronounces all the character names wrong? It's like they generate it with LLMs and don't even bother to skim a single episode,

[Microslop] Every day, when I'm 30 minutes into a meeting I joined from the Teams calendar, when it tells me the meeting is going to start in -28 minutes.

tf is up with that "Microsoft give out bitlocker decryption keys to goons" news? Not so shocked as I should be, but come on. They're not even pretending.

Those NRA folks you've got over there spent decades saying they were there to protect the people from a tyrannical government but it turns out the everyday people - parents and teachers and students and friends stepped up.

It's a bit colder today. So I am a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a dressing gown.

If you get an email in outlook referencing a Teams chat, and follow its link, Teams opens, focused on that chat. There's nowhere in the UI to get back to the main Teams interface, and _you cannot launch Teams from the Start menu_ any more. It just focuses that chat. You have to quit that chat […]

If you're left handed do you prefer to use your index or middle finger for the primary mouse button? I just had conversation about this which didn't go the way I expected.

At this point in history, there's a solid chance that Trump will declare war and it won't be recognised because he'll do it by email and it'll go to spam.

Imagine if we are the only intelligent life in the universe. It's not impossible. But it would mean that at many points in history, one single person wasn't just an existential threat to humanity, but to everything, ever.

Coming up with new pitches for Star Trek shows. So far I have: Deep Space 90210 Melrose Space Home And Away Team Riker Grove

"Thank you for submitting your report about items on Bandcamp. Your report will be reviewed by a human, but this message is automated." I appreciate that kind of simple clarity in a notification.

I know you get used to the software you get used to but yesterday I had to use Photoshop for the first time in about a decade. I had no idea how to do basic things. Like, how do I add a png to my image? I can drag it in and watch the cursor change to a plus sign, but then it just fucks off. I […]

Work laptop. I currently have copilot, m365 copilot, copilot in teams, and copilot (same icon but different somehow, duplicate in the notification area) all on screen at the same time. I asked learn.microsoft.whatevertld about it and there's a disambiguation page of 7 different copilots. Not […]

People: We really need to ban single-use plastics, it's wrecking the planet. Government: OK, law is passed Corporations: OK Consumers: Use the bag again or it's all your fault.

Playing a game that makes the fans go on my gpu uses up 2p/hr according to my smart meter.

Going to do the indie ink awards again. Last year there were some really cool entries.

Watching someone's AI videos is like listening to them tell you about the dream they had last night.

Your purchase has been posted! Here's an update with a 16-digit tracking number and link! * follows link * Hello stranger! We've never met! Please enter your 12-digit tracking number now!

I treated myself to the SH2 remake for the winter break. I've been looking forward to replaying this for years. Boss fights. Boss fights RUIN games. All the story, all the atmosphere, gone. Gone, because my reflexes aren't what they were and the horrible tank controls are still horrible. So […]

I'm cooking and have playlisted from bucks fizz to celtic frost and my partner has referred to one as trash

I've been shopping for a full-length mirror to stick to the back of a door here, and I came across one that's listed as being "HD".

I've been plotting a cozy game set in a library for quite some time. I've been fleshing out characters. I've started on the police station next door and am going to call the helpful-but-cryptic officer on duty, "PC Loadletter"

They should have called the third film "FINAL Destination (Copy 2)"

That time of year again. You'll laugh, you'll cry, yule log.

Do you all have to have symmetrical pain? I just scalded the inside of my forearm and had to grit my teeth and do it to the other side so it's even. Parboiling potatoes instead of making rice to go with a veggie casserole. #tonightscookingtunes the Ataris cover of The Boys Of Summer.

Wait is it 2025 already?

My partners Windows 11 PC has a printer attached, and I thought I'd send something to it (I use arch btw). Oh my lord how printer sharing has changed since I last looked at it on Windows. Nowadays, I need a Microsoft account to connect. I can't even just set it public or use a local account or […]

Wake up this morning to finding Firefox has re-enabled all the search engines I hate and defaulted to Google. Nothing else seems to have changed, but I'm on the lookout for dodgy shit now.

There are 5 people watching this ticket. They will all get an email when I make a comment. Why do they complain that I'm not explicitly tagging them with @? Jira, eh.

Why is it that so many apps don't work when their library/config/whatever is under a symlinked path?

Do people really call .png files, "pings"?

Logging on to my work laptop, and listening to the slow chime, every five seconds, of Teams informing me I'm late for a meeting. It's slowly working its way through every meeting that happened on my week off.

Sleepy. #caturdaystodon #caturday

I regularly screw up the dough. Tonight is no exception. Still looking forward to it! Pizza and James - Sometimes. #tonightscookingtunes

Wow. We are completely fucked, aren't we https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/115632267945286171

Arty cat is helping me paint shelves.

BTW if you want a manual breathing reminder, try this: Hum. Then stop. Remember it. Hum in your head. Keep going. Just in your head. Now swallow. Why did you stop humming?

Had a flashback to when we used to gargle cointreau

I know Microsoft is shit at naming things, but renaming the remote desktop client to, "Windows App" has to be the dumbest thing ever.