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David Blue ※

the Mario Tennis World Championship has been exceptional viewing, so far. twitch.tv/mizkif

David Blue ※

Some dudes actually find it easier to imagine Privacy-Protecting Advertising Surveillance than to imagine the end of Capitalism.

Luis Villa

@jwz need an easiertoimaginethantheendofcapitalism bot

cc @nora

David Blue ※

Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing."

Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does"

Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.

This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.

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Piousunyn

@TechConnectify One can believe in many things, but knowing with certainty is many less.

DanDan420

@TechConnectify Yes! Or it can be simply "I don't know." Obnoxious blowhards would sooner make up an absurd bullshit answer than admit that they don't know or were wrong about something.
Also, lying without shame is passed as "telling it like it is".

Yakyu Night Owl

@TechConnectify Oddly enough, the pretengineers who stride with confidence, and have to be picked up after like incontinent elephants, are part of that base. A very large part of that base.

Striding confidently into a Walmart with an AR-15 "for protection" shows a lack of confidence. Like peeing your pants whenever you see a spider, but driving an exterminator's van.

David Blue ※

While browsing RoutineHub, if you ever wonder:

• Is this developer still active?
• What are the latest shortcuts from this developer?
• Can I sort these #shortcuts by updated date?

Then RoutineHub by Date is the answer.
routinehub.co/shortcut/19162/

David Blue ※

not as if it hasn't been a very long time coming, but it's still sad to finally arrive here.

I will never forget you, Anchor.

((also: fuck Spotify till the casket drop.))

David Blue ※

While I do make regular use of Apple #Shortcuts, and have done since the earliest days of Workflow, I do wish the dev team at Apple would be able to make it stable after so many years on the case.

Every week at some point I bump into some weird and not so wonderful behaviour. Today’s issue paints the picture unfortunately all too well. My suggested actions list vs my all available actions and app lists. I hope the next OS finally starts to get this sorted.

David Blue ※

please enjoy my very first handset-rendered FLAC file.

David Blue ※

.flac support in Ferrite! (3.1.9)

this feels like a big deal but probably isn't actually lol.

David Blue ※

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David Blue ※

well, at least I finally got around to figuring this shit out.

David Blue ※

Every once in a while I come across a post that goes something like this: "Hey, I built this very cool tool that lets you do this really useful thing. [Link]" And sometimes (like 1 in 100 cases or so) I would really like to try that tool, because it would really be useful to me too. Or at least interesting or fun to try. (In contrast to all the other tools that are built for developers and not for ley persons like I am.) But then the link to that tool goes to github and I'm lost. 🤣

This is not a complaint. I just realise that there are so many amazing things going on "behind the scenes", or rather in various niches, that I won't have access to -- and people who aren't even interested in peaking behind those scenes or looking into those niches will never even know about. Technology, the web, digital communication holds such a huge potential. And only a fraction of us will ever tap it.

I also realise that I'm interested in way too many things. I don't understand most of them and never will, because my brain has limits. I should focus more on things I can understand. 😅

#internet #SocialMedia #technology

Every once in a while I come across a post that goes something like this: "Hey, I built this very cool tool that lets you do this really useful thing. [Link]" And sometimes (like 1 in 100 cases or so) I would really like to try that tool, because it would really be useful to me too. Or at least interesting or fun to try. (In contrast to all the other tools that are built for developers and not for ley persons like I am.) But then the link to that tool goes to github and I'm lost. 🤣

This is not a...

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