Notices by James Smith 💾 (floppy@mastodon.me.uk), page 2

Incredible scenes: had a takedown demand from a large unnamed miniature company for a model I remixed and published on Thingiverse.

- It only uses CC-BY sources
- it’s a proxy for a unit that does not have a purchasable model
- it looks completely different from anything they ever made

I think this is purely because it uses one
of their trademarked words in the description and tag, and it’s been caught by some script.

Shame I have it completely self-hosted these days… https://manyfold.floppy.org.uk/models/pzw2fmgd

@freya the figurehead being a white nationalist (see his blog if you want), and the Rails team being OK with it while a lot of us weren’t.

I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this.

https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org

(If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214

This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise.

https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

@evan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMxpfBONLEA

@evan yes AND

I am ashamed of the fact that I’m stuck on #Rails because of the sunk costs of what I’ve already built, as are *so many* other project like Mastodon.

We cannot “just move”, the cost is enormous.

The Rails core team seem utterly compromised and under his spell. Nobody will speak out.

We need a hard #RailsFork. Now. And we need to coordinate to do it together and build a team.

I’m in. Who else?

DHH has now gone even more full “send ‘em back where they came from” along with “stop trying to fix climate change” and “AI hypercapitalism yay”

I cannot express enough, FUCK THIS WHITE NATIONALIST ARSEHOLE, and anyone not wanting to cut the #Ruby and #Rails communities ties with him should be *fucking ashamed of themselves*.

I'll regret asking this I'm sure, but let's say I was sick of VSCodium / VSCode being incredibly slow, what nice simple genAI-free IDE should I try out on macOS?

I like GUIs, but just want code editing, a terminal, a file browser, and version control. No other cruft required, and absolutely no genAI shite. What's good these days?

To pre-empt some answers: I'm unlikely to use vim. Emacs is a possibility.

@dansup @smallcircles the name's Wagen, Bond Wagen

@smallcircles @dansup I hear Manny Fold is a cool guy

@dansup is #PixelFred a friend of #JohnMastodon?

@dansup was it "should I delete this poll?"

Trying to solder something and it’s an exercise in frustration, as my iron appears to be dogshit. Maybe at 50 it’s time to treat myself to a decent one.

Recommendations welcome. I don’t do much soldering, but when I do I’d like something that *works*

@dansup as long as you don't say to anyone in Dublin that it's in the UK, you'll be fine 😉

@dansup ooh - coming to the UK? We need to get a beer if so.

@dansup sadly I think they only ship in the EU! But next time you come to Europe... :D

Some new #HTTPShirts available: 102, 303, 406, 409, 507, 508, plus bonus spline reticulation and burning printers: https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

@dansup battery storage was one of the first things I printed too :)

@waldoj also does anyone know what the stars mean? If they say they do, they're lying.