Christian Basler ๐๐ป @chrigu@mastodon.dissem.ch
Husband, father of two, software developer and creator of some Bitmessage stuff.
I have actually done this
โThe secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.โ
"Demons'R'Us, how can we help you today?"
"I have a history test today, can an old demon possess me and pass it?"
"Certainly, that will cost a twentieth of a human soul."
"Can I pay with a hamster's soul?"
"Absolutely not! Sacrificing an innocent animal? Shame on you! Good bye!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
After struggling to get Zanata running, I just realized it doesn't even support Android's strings.xml ๐
Back to WebLate, I guess. Pity, it does look nicer and I'm all for nice looking and easy to use software.
One fun thing I discovered about Visual Chatbot: no matter what the photo is of, it will always report there are at least a couple giraffes.
It learned from answers that humans gave, and apparently nobody ever asked "how many giraffes are there?" when the answer was zero.
Hi USA, here is my college. (Ciencias - UNAM) It has a good worldwide ranking and it has a $0.25 MXN/year tuition and a $0.25 MXN/year admin fee to study there. ($0.025 USD/year total) I think foreigners pay a little more (like 50 USD/year) but the cost of living is also very low. Classes are only in Spanish though.
Just putting it out there as an option as student loans/debt get worse and Trump gets tired of too much winningโข with the trade war vs the whole world.
Y'all in the morning
"Oh, looks like I can do this easily with this platform call..."
"avalable on Api 28+"
"nooooooooooo"
#androiddev
I want to change my translation service, as I once again have issues after upgrading the Docker image. Zanata looks nice, but the fact that the latest image is broken and has been for a month with no one noticing doesn't exactly make me feel optimistic.
I don't get the fuss about GitHub belonging to Microsoft now. Apart from the fact that Microsoft has changed a lot in recent years, Git repositories are super easy to move to another server. So let's just relax knowing that if GitHub goes Sourceforge, we have replacements.
Once again, I'm considering dropping support for Android 4.4 KitKat. I just think there aren't enough happy users (remember, you need a powerful processor to send messages) and it's quite a hassle to keep it running on both platforms. Any thoughts? 
Java is to JavaScript what Ham is to HamSter
Welch ein Arschloch klaut eine Brotkiste? Nein, keinen Commodore 64, nur so 'ne Box zum aufbewahren von Brot! ๐ฉ
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
"If everything was legal for like twenty-four hours I'd start a communal garden."
#thepurge #purge #latestagecapitalism
Free posters on the do's and don'ts of designing for accessibility https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/ #accessibility #a11y #oer #onlinelearning See also https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/accessibility/blog/2018/05/08/how-to-fix-and-prevent-accessibility-issues-in-your-canvas-course
Nothing.
Patreon.Com/chrishallbeck
#webcomics #comics
