Notices by tef (tef@mastodon.social)

it looks like my role is about to be made redundant, so i might be looking for a new role, staff developer, remote uk/us

my resume/cv is here: https://tef.computer

i am pretty good at the whole "fixing distributed systems" stuff but i'm also pretty good at the "levelling up a team" stuff too

@whitequark no-one in the labour cabinet does apparently

or if they do, they're thinking about winning over her killer at the ballot box

@whitequark the last labour mp with a spine got shot

@whitequark meanwhile ICAO suggests any numbers should be in roman numerals, like "John Doe III"

@whitequark uk, but they're transliterated for passports

@whitequark @erincandescent i am not a fan of message brokers but i did like the policy that any dropped messages get sent to a human operated address

because this is mastodon, the edge case is this:

merging the branches together works when the source repos are non overlapping. it also works if you have two repos with a common history, and those repos do not have any other init commits.

however, if you have some repo that merges in another repo, and try to weave them together, you can't

as you're effectively asking it to merge two different histories for a single repo, and that just doesn't work out

i spent a few days thinking "how am i gonna handle this weird edge case" and eventually i realised "throw a better error message" was the right answer

on the plus side i got to replace the caveat in the readme with a "it only breaks if you put garbage in" note

to be clear, when a recruiter, manager, or ceo says someone is a "genius programmer" or "10x" or similar

they mean "someone who works 80 hour weeks and we only pay them for 40"

every time

https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair/

incredible writeup of one of the best running jokes in programming

anyway yes to be clear: protest always causes problems, pulling the fire alarm can have negative consequences, much like blocking a door, a road, and you might not like it, but that's a conversation you can have elsewhere

to be clear i'm not going to fosdem, i don't work in open source, i'm only a hobbyist

it's pretty funny to see infosec people telling me this is a bad idea

when all i am doing is disclosing a vulnerability and noting that it requires very little technical skill

"what do we want" meaningful political change

"how do we want it" without any inconvenience to those in power, or any interruption to the status-quo

same as it ever was

*casually walking up to a monk on fire* you know that's carcenogenic right

the thing about pulling the fire alarm to stop a talk, you don't even have to be in the same room, just in the same building, or somewhere on the same fire circuits, it's pretty impossible to stop

that, and with large enough buildings, they can't turn the alarms off without having someone from the fire service check

the more you know huh

it's funny to note that the systemd guy doesn't protested at fosdem because despite the invective, he isn't as despised as jack dorsey

the thing about nerds at fosdem,

socioeconomically speaking, it's full of people who had access to computers at an early age, and people who earn well over the median

so, well, there aren't many people who've ever had to fight or protest, which is why you'll always hear "have we tried not causing problems" as a preferred option

it's the same sort of brainrot logic of "blocking a road could block an ambulance" where a theoretical consequence blocks any action with a result

someone has explained "pulling the fire alarm causes problems" and "the event organizers can suffer consequence for it" in what i can only describe as an incredible achievement in understanding a post

btw if you're planning on protesting a talk, the easiest way is to pull the fire alarm

and if you're at fosdem, you can say "i just saw a vape cloud i guess" if anyone asks why