Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@jzb I mean, these people are using products based on ignoring consent, and that has bled over into their attitude to the world

naming files once again like

Project Arrangement v5.3:FINAL-Mix v10.2:NEEDS APPROVAL - easy-car-listening-seq.flac

takes me back to the desktop publishing days

so, I’m sub-tooting here an offline IRL situation, but,

any time you find yourself in a situation on the weaker side of a power imbalance you can’t just walk away from and among other people also on your side of that, you need a backchannel to communicate amongst yourselves in a place the stronger side of the power imbalance can’t monitor

This is true of being an employee, a tennant, and probably others

It is probably illegal for whomever holds the power to try and prevent you from establishing said channel, and the more they don’t want you to have it, the more it reitrates the need for it

@sstephenson in already at the point of “stick with the newly-outdated version of my DAW for the next decade because the new version sucks” bit I’m like one well-argued justification to my wife away from getting a max’d out prev-gen Mac Studio and making that my workstation for the next decade as well

@sstephenson I'm still on 15.7

and, yeah, it was using an entire core here as well before I killed it a few days ago and then turned off contacts syncing

those of us who do audio work tend to take eeking out every ounce of performance somewhat seriously and holy fuck I wish I could make music production on Linux viable for my workflow

this, uh, this seems a bit sus

@cwebber I have two identical-looking jars of fridge tea, one is Yerba mate and the other is herbal and I’m supposed to share it with my kid

@thomasfuchs oh fuck; their tree sneakers are the only shoes I’ve found comfortable for near a decade, and we can’t have nice things anymore…

@forestine that is an amazing joke

@tk I was hoping someone would pick up on that ;)

some dude who got lucky and never has to work again calling people who aren't embracing evil "out of touch”

that's rich

response to a linkedin post this morning

@c_reider
Music Has the Right to Butts
To Bring You My Butt
Actual Sounds + Butts
Ok Butt

@mhoye right; that’s not what I was implying, at least I hope that’s not how it came off

Personally the only real difference I see between Spreadsheets, Functional Reactive Programming, and node-based visual environments like PureData, QuartzCompositor, or silimiar “flow”-like things is the method of organization, addressing, and connecting things; I’ve been working on a prototype new fourth form of this for a few years

and, yes, many times the domain experts I’ve built rules engines for are primarily women. I actually quit one job because leadership wasn’t taking thier concerns seriously

@mhoye this has come up in my work a number of times, creating rules engines which let domain experts specify logic. They’re not writing code, they’re manipulating things that get stored as database rows, and yet they’re also defining behavior, and *that behavior* needs all the harnesses of developer tooling: versioning, tests, rollbacks, review, etc

I’ve brought this up multiple times, it tends to go to SVP-level people, and they’re like, well we have load-bearing Excel spreadsheets, we can deal with the risk of not having that stuff compared to the cost of building it

I don’t have a good name for this sort of thing; it tends to be called “no code” but that’s not *right*, it’s more like, “code-less engineering” except without all the ergonomics we normally build into engineering pipelines

@Khyrie this is exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about

@technomancy @ofs that data looks… bad; but I can try to help you with this sometime. I know people have soured on Graphql but I still think it has its uses, just not by implementers that clearly don’t know what they’re doing as expressed by the output you’re getting from them

that bodybuilders forum thread on how many days in a week is good, but have you heard musicians and programmers debate which note is middle C?

I went back to the co-op with a list of complaints about this publication and how its values don't align with those of the co-op or our community and discovered they had already recycled the issues remaining and aren't going to carry it anymore

I love my community

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again am reminded that domestic abuse is absolutely the flagship threat model in this industry, the place the victim is closest to real physical harm and has the least recourse and resources available to them. The hardest problem, almost totally unaddressed, exaggerated when the victim is underage.