I've decided self-hosting Mastodon is too much of a hassle, as I dislike the language it is written in and would prefer not to keep the whole toolchain on my server
Does anyone have any suggestions for instances to move to?
I have previously been on mastodon.{social,online} but apparently that's Bad, Actually
It's okay to be in over your head. That's one of the fastest ways to teach yourself to swim.
Just make sure the people around you know, and are not relying on you.
Good: doing a coding competition even though you don't know the language, just to see how far you can get
Bad: Getting hired for a job you have no qualifications for whatsoever, planning to learn as you do it
Guess which one I'm doing 🙃
I passed the aptitude test though which means I might not actually be in danger of drowning
Okay so Arabic is a beautiful language but I think it's best if I don't try to learn to read it because my eyes already hurt from jumping forward and backward
anyway #TIL
@melerva to read that your eye jumps back and forth, and it kind of doesn't work across line breaks and it's generally pretty messy. for what it's worth Arabic numbers are written left to right despite the rest of the language being written right to left, so people are used to their eyes jumping back and forth a little bit.
@melerva that said, there are situations where people will typeset Latin names in the middle of a run of Arabic text, usually for proper names, but this isn't really "correct" it's more of a shorthand and a concession to the fact that the reader is likely proficient enough in a Latin language to be able to sound out the names. notably, this doesn't happen in the reverse, which is a testament to the hegemony of the Latin alphabet. this is a screenshot from the Arabic Wikipedia article on NASA.
Although this post was mainly meant as a jab against Facebook, here's Amazon and MS to round out the pack:
Amazon
Cons: treats massive number of workers like expendable robots, slowly destroying all competition in the "everything" industry, AWS is an overpriced hot mess that somehow makes them all the money
Pros: They aren't kidding about the whole "customer obsession" thing
Microsoft
Cons: Has too many sins to count due to long history
Pros: Helps keep the relatively open PC platform popular
Chapter 1 is rewritten. I only changed 19 lines and now the entirety of Chapter 2 has to go.
It's better now though.
Rewriting everything again to change a minor plot point :D
22, she/her, trans, plural
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