*generation alpha voice* old people use emoji-faces (pictures of round faces that appear between words). REALLY old people do faces like this: ;) which are laying on their side, because these people are so old that they have died

it's always #TDoV on Fedi. only full-time dev on Mastodon other than Gargron and lead dev on Glitch? trans woman. lead dev of Akkoma? trans woman. GotoSocial? three-quarters of the core team are trans and/or enby. Calckey lead dev? they/he pronouns. one of the two editors and three of the five authors of the ActivityPub standard? trans and/or enby. dozens of other server, client, and tool Fediverse developers? trans. (including me.) and that's just the code side of things.

cis people: you are on our turf.

Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

Welp, I’ve been looking for a reason to self-host my own RSS aggregator anyway…

I guess in retrospect VCs not having any idea what actual intelligence looks like was predictable.

Dammmmn

#comics #guns #GunSafety #gunlaws

so, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!

I found @jacob 's write-up of The Hardest Problem In #SoftwareEngineering #Management to be pretty inspiring, so I wrote a detailed response from the perspective of my own career history.

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/03/incompetent-but-nice-response.html

Would agree, the Scholomance trilogy was one of the highlight reads from my last year.

RE: https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/110107147094888658

@josephholsten I’m debating how much effort I want to put into using zellij due to that issue.

The Borg queen on #StarTrek implies the existence of a middle class of Borg, the Borgeoisie

Just sayin': We wrote a whole paper in late 2020 (Stochastic Parrots, 2021) pointing out that this head-long rush to ever larger language models without considering risks was a bad thing. But the risks and harms have never been about "too powerful AI".

Instead: They're about concentration of power in the hands of people, about reproducing systems of oppression, about damage to the information ecosystem, and about damage to the natural ecosystem (through profligate use of energy resources).

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It remains absolutely wild to me that Jalopnik, of all things, has one of the most enlightened editorial views on car culture and windshield-perspective.

This is a blistering editorial that would get you fired from just about any mainstream newspaper for writing.

https://jalopnik.com/its-not-the-bike-lanes-fault-youre-a-bad-driver-1850269918

@trochee The somewhat icky term for it that I see used is “tribal knowledge”.

Who needs libraries when you have curl? https://github.com/kejadlen/pirate-weather.alfredworkflow/commit/1fdea20df07fdcd3fe44f8620f407a7e0507e178

(This is also my strategy for not taking dependencies which are just API wrappers.)

Back when Raquel Vélez was my boss at npm, inc., she had a name for when somebody would give you an ill-defined task and then would get upset when you didn't do it "right."

She called it "Bring me a rock." When I asked her what that meant, she would say "Bright me a rock... no, not that one." It was a pretty clear example.

She recognized quickly that I hate, with all of me, "Bring me a rock." It's the least good game.

Anyway, was thinking about that tonight.

Everybody should use that.

A good percentage of my friends are Nazis. That percentage is zero; that’s a good percentage of Nazi friends to have.

@josephholsten I don’t know whether it’s worth maintaining a fork with just this change though…

I don’t know how many hours I waste a year in bash due to forgetting to use --raw-output with jq. It’s a lot, though.

@josephholsten Funny you should mention that - I was giving it a test run last week, but ran into some issues with how it deals with key bindings, specifically ^j: https://github.com/kejadlen/zellij/commit/3e73bccc9859e378d4020fec0d004f2e93dbb65d

The maintainer is a bit wary of doing this since I think he’s suspicious about EOL issues on different platforms, and I don’t really feel like convincing him that raw stdin is a different beast.