Notices by Byron :computerfairies: (level2wizard@mastodon.social)

2025-eve #introduction / #bio

Leftist punk-ass impatient cspammer who is kicking down the door and here to help.

Max-level devops just below the rich decision makers. Lower class, low class, punches above weight class; champion disallower of false modesty.

Good thread on the current state of uspol. https://mastodon.social/@AnthonyJK@mastodon.redgarterclub.com/113434554869590751

I forget how hard my #introduction / #bio goes. Still accurate as of 2024, I'm

- whatever the max-level title is at your company for DevOps given that the ceiling is 'below the rich people who matter'

- perpetually underrated and always punching above my weight class

- champion disallower of false modesty

@AnthonyJK let's not forget the campaign strategist + consultancy teams. Dems are deeply unserious about winning elections and deeply serious about fundraising

@kaia challenge: impossible

@inthehands Is there a real person somewhere in america who is waiting on the endorsement of a specific paper? A person who has been scrupulous on learning nothing about both the current election cycle and the forty+ years we have known these candidates.

Is there a person awaiting the GWB endorsement that wouldn't already know who Cheney is and was?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for WaPo/LA Times/newspaper hate. It's just weird that _this_ is why people are getting mad at the paper now

@kaia 'let's troubleshoot synchronously' buddy I would rather be given a sturdy plank and a length of rope

@inthehands @naomikritzer I like the article about the board seat but there are some pretty serious issues with the presidential article write-up.

With full disclosure that I'm only voting Green b/c I live in Alabama and PSL isn't on the ballot there

@kaia smart -- the only potential downside is that nobody wants to talk to HR

@kaia pure `git` + SSH if all you want is code hosting;

`gitea` if you need more than that. Containerized well and although it's a pain in the ass it can be backed up / restored which is more than I can say for other options

@lain at least for her first public appearance she clearly took somebody's advice and got some media training, and she's (so far) dodged the things that make her unpopular. Trying to tabula-rasa her way I think

We'll see how long it holds up. She'd already been buried for 2 years to keep her out of the media spotlight

@lain 'get that horrid [nonpatriot] out of here' - lain, at me, apparently

@GossiTheDog haven't been able to verify this yet but maybe it hasn't hit the news cycle? Wild if true, I thought they would never get him to do it

@bartholin @kaia frantically typing out an article "Kinkshaming: Let's Increase It"

@lain where are you getting these, I want the whole set

Reminiscent of the spock/heineken energy

@lain @kaia somebody slap the roof of their house, plz

@kaia separately, LLMs/web scrapers being trained on my output is just an ancient wound I didn't know I had (and the same for others who couldn't control the uses of their code -- not a 'new' problem). So, there's not much we can do collectively in the way of condolences except to watch out for such things in future.

The eventual consequence is knowledge becoming more silo'd and less accessible, which is bad :(

@kaia I appreciate that, thank you. Your third paragraph there is worrisome to me -- 'dialectic approach' and 'time [...] is minimized' are severe red flags.

I would strongly suggest in cases where the dialectic/time pieces feel good when you get an LLM answer to immediately contradict the LLM 1-5 times, record all responses, and then ask a person with domain knowledge to validate the output (as opposed to accepting the first). That's not perfect, but 'better'

@kaia

If you read this far, thanks for bearing with me. I have Strong Opinions in this space but want to be welcoming and open to folks who are diving into their first experiences with building software in whatever form that takes.

I'm happy to answer questions, point to other sources, or generally give advice _where solicited_.

(8/8) - fin

@kaia

- you do not need to read the guide in its entirety to get the important parts for reading code in most languages -- sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 are the shortest-path that covers everything you need.

- although the foreword says "you should have experience in another programming language!" this is not true. The guide includes the info you need at each step without linking / forwarding you to other sources.

(7/x)