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my thoughts re: calendar poll 

i think the 6-day week is fucked but included it for good measure; i’ve historically leaned 10-day but i’m starting to feel like 8-day might be better

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calendar poll 

which is better?

1) a 10-day week which alternates 3 days of labour and 2 days of rest

2) a 10-day week with 6 straight days of labour and a 4-day weekend

3) an 8-day week with 5 days of labour and a 3-day weekend

4) a 6-day week with 4 days of labour and a 2-day weekend

reply) some other week configuration which evenly divides 40 or 30

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goals for january 

i *really* need to make my calendar

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#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№2 – “Set yourself some goals for the coming year.” 

My goals for 2024 are split between the creative and the curatorial.

On the curatorial side, I want to build a better online home for my fannish presence—including a place (or two) to host my fanworks, but also including homes for other activities like webshrines, meta, ⁊·c. I’ve been steadily trying to build the technological infrastructure for this, with the most recent attempt being <git.ladys.computer/Shushe>="⛩️📰 书社".

It’s very easy to get bogged down with technological aspirations (federated tagging, update tracking, linked data), but there is also low‐hanging fruit, and I have been pretty good about making slow, steady progress in this area. It is difficult going alone! I wish I knew more technically‐minded fans with similar inclinations, but in fact it feels like most of both the tech world and the fannish world are trying to solve very different problems from me right now.

On the creative side, I really would like to write more. I hardly wrote at all in the past year, partially because I moved across the country to live with my girlfriend and partially because I spent so much time on the above technical work. I have so many wips that I haven’t been able to devote the time to finish and I feel like my writing craft has somewhat fallen by the wayside of late.

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kind of long ramble on design, accessibility requirements, and information technology re: links 

@noracodes i do think that if you are building a website which people are choosing to view instead of needing to view, you can assume a generally slightly higher level of technical proficiency and lean more on user tools (most people who view any website i create, for example, will be people who voluntarily enjoy using the internet)

accessibility requirements increase the less of a choice someone has in accessing your information. technical documentation needs to be readable to anyone who might need to use it. government resources need to be accessible to people who have never used a computer before. knowing your audience is important

i wish the web was in a place where users had more control over how things are displayed, although we’re getting better with things like CSS media queries. i wish tools like reader view were more robust and customizable and people were more versed in using them. it’s annoying to me that old patterns like named stylesheets have fallen by the wayside, so everybody has to implement their own stylesheet picker from scratch.

i do also think that design is a form of human expression, and a diversity of designs reflects the diversity of human experience. for personal websites, i think sometimes the scales tip towards authentically representing YOUR experience over being accessible to everyone else’s. but again, knowing the content and your audience helps you make decisions here.

i think having choices is good :). i wish more of the choices could be picked by the user, instead of having to be implemented by the content author

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@noracodes if it’s a longer document, it might be worth putting a “links look like this:” somewhere visible near the start of the page

generally the concerns are (1) visual distinctiveness of links (you have that covered), (2) ability to intuit that a given style implies a link (not obvious without knowing to try hovering one’s mouse over it, but fixable by stating as much somewhere on the page), and (3) cognitive load of remembering what links look like on this page versus any other page (always in conflict with any customization; able to be mitigated on the user end with things like reader view)

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re: prrgrrmmng 

semi-relatedly, double-escaped entities is the single most cursed aspect of X·M·L

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re: prrgrrmmng 

it was indeed a bug: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2

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@coriander idk, i think the sith would win either way but i think the clone wars was genuinely a war between Palpatine and Dooku and if Dooku had won Palpatine would have had a hard time seizing power from him

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#SnowflakeChallenge update: Snowflake Challenge 2024№1 – “Update your fandom information.” 

The first Snowflake Challenge™ is always to update one’s fannish profile, which is awkward in my case as I don’t really have a fannish profile to speak of. My profiles on A·O·3 have gotten progressively more light over time as I have increasingly tried to divest myself from that platform, and I don’t spend much time frequenting fannish social media spaces or forums. This feed might well be the only significant fannish online space I am currently actively putting energy into.

With that in mind, here ⁜is⁜ my current profile: My name is Lady, I have a bunch of other monikers I go by inside and out of fandom (too many to list here), my fannishness derives primarily from the fact that thinking about and creating stories is one of the ways that I process and engage with media, my first fandom was ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’, and I mostly spend time in that and other Nintendo (or Nintendo‐adjacent) fandoms, despite not being particularly satisfied with any of the scenes there.

I listen to a lot of music and making playlists is a part of my process when it comes to thinking about and writing fanfiction. I love listening to other people’s playlists as well!

<ladys.computer/about/#lady> has a more generic profile, including contact information, which is still current. The rest of my fannish online presence is still a work‐in‐progress for now.

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Status update: New topic at status.ladys.computer: SnowflakeChallenge 

The “Snowflake Challenge” is a celebratory Ⅎandom* event, hosted primarily on Dreamwidth (but also on other platforms). It’s about celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of fandom and its participants. The name is explained as follows :⁠—

« The band My Chemical Romance put in a guest appearance on the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba that December, singing about every snowflake being different, and that was what I wanted us to celebrate—how each one of us was unique and beautiful, broken and imperfect and intelligent and talented and lovable. »

(You can read <snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth>="their post introducing the 2024 challenge" for more on the challenge and what it is for.)

I normally keep a pretty low fandom profile so I thought it might be fun to spend a little time this January exploring it (in public) a bit more. I’ve never done one of these before, so we’ll see if I love or hate it by the end.

As with everything I post to status.ladys.computer, all of these posts will be crossposted to Mastodon, and you can also follow along via <status.ladys.computer/topics/S>="the SnowflakeChallenge Atom feed" once I make the first post.

* “Capital‐F Fandom” has already been taken to mean something somewhat different, so I’m using “Turned Capital‐F Fandom” for this iteration.

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royalty headlines(??) 

« Like King Charles III of Britain, Prince Frederik, who will soon ascend to his country’s throne, is part of a younger generation of royals »

King Charles III:

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re: The Annual Music Recap Playlist (15 songs from 2023) 

honestly wild how many of those tracks have bandcamp links

music is getting good again

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The Annual Music Recap Playlist (15 songs from 2023) 

01. “End of Everything” by Mega Bog
megabog.bandcamp.com/track/end

02. “To Me It Was” by Samia
samia.bandcamp.com/track/to-me

03. “Worst Case Kid” by Tommy Lefroy
labrecords.bandcamp.com/track/

04. “Close” by Dizzy
dizzytheband.bandcamp.com/trac

05. “More to Lose” by Shit Present
shitpresent.bandcamp.com/track

06. “Radial Chatter” by Janice Kwan
janicekwan.bandcamp.com/track/

07. “Fading” by Swimming Paul
headroomrecords.bandcamp.com/t

08. “Purple Tiger” by Milky Chance
youtu.be/7mVydFThdp4

09. “NAKE” by SAI
youtu.be/xbihHyu188U

10. “The Heat” by Paper Bee
paper-bee.bandcamp.com/track/t

11. “Jo Jah Jo” by Afriquoi
youtu.be/H5iqfGa36Fs

12. “You Know How” by Vagabon
vagabon.bandcamp.com/track/you

13. “Hesitate” by Hazlett ft. OSKA
youtu.be/aJ492Cqvrng

14. “Into Your Room” by Holly Humberstone
hollyhumberstone.bandcamp.com/

15. “Bell Ringer” by TRUE||FORM
truellform.bandcamp.com/track/

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re: mozilla 

@aescling @wallhackio there’s been a blogpost going around criticizing a different blogpost their president (not c·e·o) made (this one: <blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ma>) in which mozilla implies that it is pivoting away from firefox development and into a·i investment, and indeed, in the past year, firefox has invested huge amounts of money in a·i while usershare (and profits) from firefox have been in a steady decline

but i’m also old enough to remember when they thought it was a good idea to hire “industry color specialists” to create limited‐edition firefox themes that nobody wanted (<support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p>), or that time that they non‐consensually downloaded a browser plugin on every firefox installation in order to promote a television show (<theverge.com/2017/12/16/167846>), or, you know, every other firefox marketing or capital‐raising venture mozilla has attempted in the past decade

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re: women 

@aescling @wallhackio men of woe more like mon of weh

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mozilla 

mozilla’s current c·e·o is bad, but friends, mozilla’s old c·e·o was also bad

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web standardization history 

mozilla didn’t just directly profit from a situation where only large browsers manufacturers had any say in the direction of the web, they actively created it

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web standardization history 

remember when W3C leaned too hard into user-centric design and modularity and new X·M·L technologies

and Brendan Eich, noted homophobe, grew concerned with this, not because of its impact to ordinary people, but because he thought that monolithic web browsers manufacturers would wind up losing out to newer, bespoke applications

and so he got Mozilla and Opera together to write a letter saying that the future of computing on the web should take place entirely within the web browser using nothing but HTML, CSS, and a whole lot of Javascript (a language he created)

and they forked HTML from W3C, setting up WHATWG, an organization controlled entirely by web browser implementors, to decide the future of the web going forward

and then Mozilla used the fact that they were “the only nonprofit with a seat at the table of standardization organizations” in their fundraising campaigns for the next decade

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re: thoughts on mozilla 

@unspeakablehorror @Satsuma GNOME Web, also known as Epiphany, is built on Webkit

i’m not sure what the current status of it is since i think most Linux distributions have switched to Firefox, but it seems to still be putting out releases

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