The Unclear Impact

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

Look around you… Who is the most marginalised?

That’s who you should be protecting.

If for no other reason than if you don’t, you will be next. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But you will be next.

(Or you will have to do things that will make you wish you’d been next.)

That’s just how fascism works.

And this is fascism.

#transRightsAreHumanRights

@noracodes a fun question is whether it’s entirely hallucinating (coming up with vague but convincing-sounding bullshit using the words it is given), or it has enough capacity in its parameter space and enough examples in the training set to encode the connection between the two fields (affine types for borrow checking vs linear types to encode unitary operators in functional quantum programming languages) to some degree and thus is more likely to come up with this specific sort of bullshit

nevertheless, it’s pretty useless without any form of logical grounding, to say the least

@pigworker i thought javascript has horrifying semantics – but this thing has horrifying syntax

Q: When is it okay for a program to reach out to the internet?
A: In response to an explicit user request for it to do so.

Q: How much data should be included in network requests?
A: The minimum necessary.

another cleaning tip: use a thin piece of plastic, about 3 mm wide (a cut it out from a transparent plastic sheet meant as a cover for documents) to knock out stubborn pieces of lint from under the wheel in its casing once the mouse is disassembled