Notices by Kate Temkin ????❤️ (ktemkin@chaos.social)

mistake: letting @puckipedia and us near a thermal printer

today in "linux version number discontinuities", the latest linux release has been bumped to "linux mint 21.3"

@whitequark yep; and the real danger of environments that make your system reproducible is they remove all the urgency from upgrading your per-app configs

I can just hang on to that olde version for a few more years, right? >.>

folks tend to think that NixOS users spend a lot of time fighting their configuration — but the truth is, often we’re doing something that boils down to “fighting some app’s personalized configuration format so one never has to worry about configuring it again”

@whitequark you’re on a whole different level, since you actually reliably *maintain* the things you write

that’s *way* harder than making good code

type of girl whose twitter posts are all “i never accomplish anything due to my chronic illness” but whose resume lists dozens of prolific projects

crystal mysticism, except it’s all just obfuscated descriptions of semiconductor lattices and their behaviors

“When this Low-Oxygen Quartz becomes infused with natural metals, it begins to channel the positive and negative energies of the universe. When brought together, they reach a state of balance that naturally blocks the flow of certain energies, allowing us focus and direct those natural energies, and empower ourselves.”

if you keep your maiden name in a professional/public context, but have a different legal/personal last name... does that make your maiden name an Undead Name?

(at the end of the day this is way more selfish than it sounds; it lets me be part of “solving cool problems” and participating grand visions without like… having to fight a bunch of differing FOSS opinions to get pull requests merged)

honestly the weirdest thing about having gotten older (and maybe more burned out) is that now I get way more joy from doing things like infrastructure and management and documentation and cleanup than I do from just Making Things

like suddenly “have a cool project be admired by others” sounds exhausting, but “providing an environment where other people can shine and accomplish their dreams because they actually have a good support and. mentoring system” sounds like the most perfect place to be

the joke here is that --

wait there's no joke. nix is just like that.

common language preprocessors
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C: C preprocessor
C++: C preprocessor
Objective-C: C preprocessor
Fortran: C preprocessor
Bash: Nix

tfw someone else has been court ordered to destroy your prior work

in more positive news, we now know exactly how long it takes for a major corporation to renege on a verbal deal made in good faith

just remember: emulation-as-piracy is a fake issue; nintendo’s sales didn’t actually change in any meaningful way before and after f-g was released, nor when any of the tools being blamed were

hey, just a reminder: if you have software you like, archive it locally! self host it, if that’s appropriate! send a copy to the internet archive! burn it onto archival media and bury it in a time capsule in your backyard, if that’s your thing!

don’t let it die when some megacorp manages to bully a small group until they can’t afford legal defenses

important life lessons: a multimillion dollar company can, in years, *almost* approach the output of a ragtag group of lesbians working for two weeks

btw, if you’re of the opinion that phrases like “checking if X is sane” / “sanity check” are awkward/inappropriate language to use in code/docs:

the phrase “sensical” or “consistent” often fill the gap nicely (e.g. “ensure the value X is sensical” / “consistency check”)

eight and a half hours of client work later and I’m supposed to be able to do the things on my personal todo list, now?

how does anyone keep up with this? >.>

@eloy If you can't accept risk in at least some sense, you can't reduce risk -- you'd be spread out all over everywhere with no priorities!

You have to decide what you're willing to accept in order to figure out what threats you want to most mitigate.