@mrconorae @Qyriad you just nerd sniped me into spending almost an hour on this joke, I hope you're happy

urllib3, #Python's most-used HTTP client library, is fundraising to add HTTP/2 support and ensure long-term sustainability of the project.

Retoots and shares are appreciated 🙏

https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-is-fundraising-for-http2-support

Not a new concept for most of my circles, but I do like the name: “limitarianism”.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/04/ingrid-robeyns-limitarianism-makes-case-capping-wealth/677925/

If you love #Murderbot, and imo you should, you will also probably love reading this talk by @marthawells about it and other things:

https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html

H/T to @gvwilson for bringing it to my attention.

I've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.

But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”

There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!

The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.

This is bad.

The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”

The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”

These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.

1/ Once you look past syntax and "paradigms", many programming languages (Java, Python, Racket, …) share a common semantic core. But students seem to understand it very poorly, which leads to endless confusion (as often seen on here). What to do? ↵
https://blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/12/behavior-misconceptions.html

I ran into a bug in a program but logging is off. I'll just enable logging and run it again, surely I'll quickly run into the same bug again, it'll definitely reoccur!

Behold, a fool.

The real reason that a minute isn't an official SI unit is that it's actually a highly variable length of time. I've been working for 3 days on a job that I was assured would just take a minute

Feeling better both about ditching Kagi during the whole Brave thing in hindsight.

RE: https://hackers.town/users/lori/statuses/112255132348604770

This may be the sole reason I wind up with a Steam Deck in the future.

She will forgive almost anything once. Twice, if you’re lucky.

On the third transgression, there will be consequences.

Once, she could be easy. Once, she could be a childhood pet, a mother’s maiden name, an elementary school’s mascot. Once, she was unbreakable. Now, she is become endless strings of letters and numbers, incomprehensible, unpronounceable, holy and profane. Speak her secret names aloud and wake the end of days.

Continue: https://leemoyer.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/automata-hari-small-god-of-passwords/

I stay subscribed to the BabyBuddy DST issue if for no other reason than to relish S being old enough so that I’m not awake at those times to run into those bugs anymore.

Also another reason self-hosting open source software is so great - I actually did fix one of those DST bugs that I ran into with S. I mean, what else are you going to do at odd hours of the night/morning anyway, right?

i love ruby

Question: what's the most common byte on your (decrypted) hard drive?

I wrote some rust to calculate this https://github.com/tahnok/byte-counter and on my mostly full ext4 debian partition it's....

`o`

full result: https://cdn.tahnok.ca/u/sda-sorted.csv got by running it over `/dev/sda`

SPL announces massive closures this spring as city goes all in on austerity for everyone but cops https://www.thestranger.com/news/2024/04/11/79463199/the-seattle-public-library-announces-1500-hours-of-closures-in-the-next-eight-weeks

TIL that there’s a new floating bridge under development that will replace the 520 bridge as the longest floating bridge in the world when it’s done: https://thebridgeguy.org/2021/01/update-bjornafjorden-crossing-design-progresses/

Enjoyed this article that covers Trimming the Herbs and goes a little deeper on TAS.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/how-to-cheat-at-super-mario-maker-and-get-away-with-it-for-years/

@noracodes Yeahh! :D

One of my pet peeves here is that I feel like we often confuse relational databases (great!) with SQL (useful but flawed).

I wonder if because it’s still the industry standard way of doing things today, it gives it the impression it’s not been around forever?

The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.