Notices by lj·rk (ljrk@todon.eu)

@jascha It was a canary from the get go. Not support, just a useful canary indicator.

@soatok Partially explains why a lot of "us" have imposter syndrome?

Aaah, die Bücher sind wirklich gut!

»Du siehst, da ist nirgendwo Kunst. Wenn sie ist wie die Aorta, dann bin ich eben ein toter Mensch, eine Maschine, Metropolis' Maria. Ich lebe nur um zur Uni zu gehen wie ein Zahnrad, das nicht aufhören kann sich zu drehen.«
[…]
» […] du bist schon zu unglücklich, um zu bemerken, dass es dir schlecht geht.«

so verdammt relatable -- passend dazu aus Buch No. 2:

»Ich bin mental auf alles vorbereitet«, erwiderte Nike grimmig, und das war sie tatsächlich, und deshalb hatte sie auch so wenig Spaß im Leben.

whelp.

@jcvogt.de

"Du musst so unermesslich stark sein, Mama, sonst wärst du längst nicht mehr da. [...] Wenn Frauen wie Mama endlich schreien würden, würden alle Elendsviertel dieser Welt zerbersten, und die Scherben würden bis auf die Villen der Bourgeoisie regnen."

@jcvogt.de in Anarchie Deco.

@cwebber This. I do think that writing code oneself and running it through checkers (any, and the more the better, roughly, as long as they don't replace humans) is a good thing. But these checkers should run sandboxed, just flag issues -- as any linter. And if that stuff is LLM-powered, so be it. But agentic coding? LLM-driven suggestions/refactoring? I'm soooo weary of this.

CVE-shitposting

By now I'm convinced that one of the primary causes of education failing in school is that people

a) underestimate children's intelligence, while at the same time
b) setting high expectations on knowledge/experience.

Unfortunately, when they're expectations in (b) are proven wrong, they do not provide them with an appropriate definition or learning materials. Instead, they further go down (a) by lowering their estimate of the children's intelligence.

ChatControl, or the French initiative to reduce the amount of cat girls in heat within the EU.

@ryanc No FLINTA* SingStar/Karaoke?

It's kind of hard how we ADHDers suffer from the paradox effect of ADHD. Yet, many of us (includijg me) do like our morning stimulants to "help us get awake". But's not the awake thing really, at least not how neurotypicals feel it (AFAICT). I'm not stimulated. I'm just... less overwhelmed. Not more awake, just less tired. Less "ugh". But that's not the same thing as being awake!

@strypey @nate Yes and no. From a legal or technical standpoint, all this is true. It is legally allowed, technically necessary. But this doesn't mean it's ethical and that it doesn't violate consent.

I can walk up to two people speaking in "public" to eavesdrop on their conversation. But just because I can, doesn't mean it's right. I can scrape endless pfp images from WhatsApp through their contacts API. But doesn't mean it's right.

So no, just because it's possible it doesn't mean "permission enough". It' just means that it's necessary and people have accepted the risk. Explicit permission is something different entirely. This is about consent, a human property, not about technological or legal constructs.

@nate @strypey Absolutely, there's this difference. But I'd argue it can only be consensual if whatever happens is somewhat "expected". And depending on the service in question, this isn't always the case. Some people go to the Fedi because they don't want to have their stuff on AT...

Realizing "hey gays" is broadly gender neutral, yet actually not inclusive to everyone. Good that this usually doesn't matter because all my friends are gay.

Hey gayyys! :3

QT @alice
https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/114736690113006188

Is that your pubkey in my ~/.authorized_keys, or are you just happy to see me?

There's many theories what the "forbidden fruit" in the paradise actually was, and most scholars agree that it was unlikely to be an apple (just as Jesus wasn't white). One theory is that the fruit tree Eve stood below was a date palm.

Which means that basically Adam & Eve got expelled from the paradise because they had a date and God hadn't. Would a triad relationship b/w the three have fixed paradise? Why does monoamory and envy always ruin things?

@inthehands ugh!

@inthehands I've been to a Starbucks once because they had a toilet. How do they make macchiatos there? :'-D

Apple just works. They're the UX pros.

@lanodan @ska Oh absolutely, I won't argue against you on that! It's just... that some in the committee have (had?) the habit of basically claiming any UNIX as alive as long as they could spin up a VM of them... .

Of course this is absurd because then one couldn't do any changes at all that may break old UNIXen. But that's the state that POSIX has indeed been in for quite some time unfortunately :'-D

Oh, also fuck Alien UNIX

@lanodan @ska absolutely! but arguing about a UNIX being "gone" is very difficult territory in a working group that's defining what UNIX™ is and mostly about cosplaying a time where this matters. I love POSIX, I really do, but I've attended one of the Austin Groups meetings as an intern. And that was enough for a lifetime.