Notices by Sammy is a :fox_dance: (theresnotime@iscurrently.live)

Elon has declared that "cis" and "cisgender" are slurs, and that anyone using them risks being suspended 🙃

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841

um maybe a dumb question but y'know the lithium they mine for batteries..? Is that "the same" lithium as the mood stabiliser..?

I mean, I know it's the same chemical, but does it directly compete with battery manufacturers? 😅

Computer has just fucked it's user profile just in time for the work day 🙃

how have you done this Windows.. 🙃

genuinely think it might be new (non-Windows) PC time.

Watch this space, mastodon.wikimedia.org is on it's way...

⚠️ CAUTION ⚠️
Foxes are known to be operating in this area

If girls are so good why didn't they make girls 2 :fox_think:

Thanks science, now what am I meant to do with all this blood 🙄

Fedi
As
Fuck

Stay classy #BlueSky..

(don't get me wrong, the fediverse has the exact same issues, it's just we have moderation tools — when was the last time you saw comments like that on your local timeline?)

What if we held hands in the abandoned WWII bunker? ?

It's almost time for another 24 hours of depressingly unfunny "jokes" on #Wikipedia — I look forward to the day we finally replace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rules_for_Fools with just the word "don't." ?

Why do some feature requests/bugs/whatever-s, even when they have defined acceptance criteria in a task, slow to a crawl at code review?

Excluding the obvious (no one doing reviews, improvements to code, etc.), a lot of the time it seems to boil down to *opinions*. Now, I'm not talking about "opinionated code style" nit-picks (though they're rarely constructive) — I'm referring solely to the sorts of -1s and comments which go:

- "I reckon.."
- "I'd prefer it if.."
- "Normally I would.."

Your opinion as a helpful software engineer reviewing a patch is incredibly valuable, and often those opinions help produce better code, reduce technical debt and ensure the acceptance criteria of the request is actually met.

Rarely though, they don't.
They bog a well-defined, criteria meeting patch down into days and weeks of needless discussion, until either the submitter gets bored and moves on (resulting in no new feature), or they give in to the opinions, modify their patch and walk away feeling brow beaten.

Guides like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_a_healthy_code_review_culture go a long way to try to capture some of these concerns and frustrations, but they're fairly pointless if people don't bother to read them.

I love open source software but *damn* it stings to have little recourse against shitheels like (CW: this link contains purely fascist bullshit) hxxps://fascipedia[.]org using #MediaWiki

Changing my last name to Fox, so then I can finally be

Sammy Fox ?

Y'all known you can "listen" to #Wikipedia edits being made, right?
Just don't enable the #Wikidata option…
http://listen.hatnote.com

Gentle reminder folx — if you're going to a protest, especially one which will be busy and/or has the potential to "interest" the police, *don't post about it*, even here. ?

- Don't publicly say you're attending
- Don't take pictures and publicly post them
- Wear a mask

me when I get like 2 boosts and a fav on any post ?

This happens WHENEVER I try to do any work ?