Rémi Rampin @remram44@framapiaf.org

WHY IS NAMING THINGS SO HARD.

"Elsevier wanted to keep meeting with us, and we have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow (Friday), but yesterday they approached our faculty directly — faculty who are editors of Elsevier journals, who they have working relationships with — and also the media, and presented a rosy view of the offer they’d made to us. Their characterization of the offer left things out, and they didn’t mention what we’d proposed as conditions. They went public with it. So, we announced the end."

✏️ New essay: "We Need Chrome No More"

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more

This is a public service announcement.

If your job uses Slack, please remember that the administrators that have been configured can view any channel and download all files and all information published, including channels that are "private" or between 2 individuals.

Your discussions are not secure and can be snooped upon, even private conversations.

In other words: there is no privacy on Slack. Period.

This is the end of this public service
announcement.

(Don't ask how I know that)

I successfully navigated my first ever contract negotiation with a publisher

You know what else is rude? Telling New York Times opinion writers to go fuck themselves. But I can still do it!

@godotengine Can I get a boost?

Looking for hobbyist game devs who use Godot to join our community: The League of Leisurely Ludological Independent Pursuits of Passion (Lollipop). Here is our mission statement: https://www.pyremonk.com/lollipop/

PM me if interested! 🍭
#godot #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

My colleague Sarah and I taught #Taguette today at Seton Hall Uni

Taguette is a #FLOSS qualitative analysis tool --- one of only two open and free tools in this space

Try it out -- you use it on your desktop, our server, or self-host!! https://taguette.fr

I JUST BEAT CRYPT OF THE NECRODANCER FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

I get too many emails to be productive on any given day

@emmanuelc Harry dit un truc similaire dans #HPMOR.

“When you do a fault analysis, there's no point in assigning fault to a part of the system you can't change afterward, it's like stepping off a cliff and blaming gravity. [...] Once you look at it from that perspective,you realize that allocating blame never helps anything unless you blame yourself, because you're the only one whose actions you can change by putting blame there.”

http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/90

#responsabilité

(cc @cybergrunge)

If you have submitted patches (or translations) to Mastodon before and they've become part of the software, you can go here:

https://opencollective.com/mastodon/expenses/new

And submit an invoice for your work 💰

@grainloom @Oz Honestly these discussions are even further muddled by the fact that most websites, that is, non-social-media websites, deal with textual links indistinguishable from other text, while platforms like Twitter, Discord and Mastodon only allow linking URLs in the first place, which have a distinct visual syntax.

Not highlighting textual links is indeed stupid.

@Oz I've always accepted accessibility improvements into Mastodon in the forms of contrast improvements and screen reader markup. But this is the first instance when it requires a major design change. The interface is busy enough as it is without needing any more horizontal lines.

I've said, let's change their color then! With sufficient color contrast, it will help color-blind people too. But the PR author is adamant that it has to be underlines or nothing.

@Gargron