@claus ok cool we can agree to disagree i'll be over here reading about my computer sequenced genome and writing computer software on my computer which was designed by computer and manufactured by machines with computers
@yojimbo the solution to "where do you store your secrets" has been defined for a long while now. on the macos there's keychain, on linux there's gnome-keyring, KDE probably has some equivalent, and I'm sure Windows has something, too.
I'd be willing to bet there's even some library that abstracts them all for crossplatform Electron apps. If not, that's a good Innovation Token to spend.
the crypto wars are back.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/
i didn't know this. did you?
@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30015740
@millenomi your computer, your rules.
@millenomi i love computers, this is a trendy and bad take, computers give us everything good in our lives
@tulpa @alexandra generally you don't do things while you're sleeping, and people don't do things to you. obvious?
2 mins using pixelfed and i'm finding ridiculous basic broken stuff :/
@tulpa @alexandra i would be terrified if i lost continuity of experience like that. how do you know it was you?
my list of things wrong:
1) this is a useless feature that should have been deprioritized and the time used elsewhere
2) it should be a freeform text field, it's way more time/effort to make a list
3) now someone has to update the list because there isn't an "other..." option, increasing the time sunk into this useless feature
4) the 99% use case is not at the top of the list
5) nobody, and i mean nobody, knows that you need to command-click to select multiple items in a multiselect list
pixelfed.social has an itemized list of pronouns you're allowed to use on your pixelfed profile. you can't just type into a plain text box, there's a list that you can choose from. you can choose up to 4. they're almost all made up words that don't exist.
there are many things wrong with this. at least 3.
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