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oh man i've fallen down the rabbit hole of Adam Savage puppetry videos and I really want a puppet now. not that'd i'd probably be any good at it lol

youtube.com/watch?v=JYwNuP7cwJ

re: hackerspace finance stuff 

@whreq yeah, the combination with all the other information we do cover during the meeting (and *maybe* transcribe elsewhere) is nice.

but also, effort :p

re: hackerspace finance stuff 

@whreq supposedly will be presented this June, covering the past 3 years

uni, "free" time 

at least easter is nice because I have tomorrow "off" so I can work on the uni stuff I also have to do most of the day

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well.. spent most of today working on the hackerspace financial year report, but I think it's done now

i'm sorry your honor, it was my cat that committed financial fraud by walking over the keyboard

cats meds shitpost 

the cats seem very interested in my Ritalin, and I can't even imagine the amount of zoomies they'd get lol

re: hackerspace finance stuff 

@toxicity@chaos.social oh cool, fairly similar to ours I think. I kept re-using the document outline our last treasurer used (fifth year now). Mostly struggling to write the bits of free text/analysis but maybe they're not that necessary anyways

hackerspace finance stuff 

hm yes i wanted to take a peek at how other hackerspaces are publishing financial reports but all I could find are *way* less detailed

@Shrigglepuss cracking your phone screen also kinda works. sucks I also have a laptop to doomscroll on tho

re: Fediverse moderation 

@kawaiipunk @dumpsterqueer@ondergrond.org then we quite possibly just wouldn't exist i think

@whreq yeah, borg definitely hasn't been that great so far either..

rant, programming misconceptions, long 

The problem with weeding out widespread misbeliefs about programming languages is that they are rarely isolated cases; usually, they are built on a whole tower of lies.

Take this seemingly simple turn of phrase, for example: "slow, interpreted languages like Python or Javascript". It's a phrase you've probably seen or heard in a few places.

The first problem there is that the classification doesn't make any sense; under typical circumstances, these two languages are in *entirely* different performance classes, and they're really not comparable at all.

But the deeper problem there lies in "typical circumstances" - because if you want to make this point correctly, then the *next* misconception that you have to correct is that performance is a property of the language; it's not, it's a property of the runtime and/or compiler.

And it doesn't stop there; because "interpreted languages" isn't correct either! Whether something is "interpreted" is, again, dependent on the implementation and not on the language.

And that doesn't even hold true for the common case for JS either; almost all JS is actually run through a JIT compiler, not an interpreter. Python is used in many different execution models. And so on, and so forth.

And just like that, a quick correction of a misbelief has turned into a 10-minute rant about how everything someone believes about programming languages is wrong, and you'll have spent your entire 'credibility budget' that way, and the listener will probably believe *none* of the points anymore.

But you *also* can't make those points individually, because then they sound out of line with what the listener already believes about how programming languages work in a general sense... and that's how these beliefs stick around, and any attempt to correct easily-verifiable misinformation turns into a holy war :|

@whreq and I do want to try s3 storage, but that makes it harder to add persistence like just doing disk snapshots on a repository storage

@whreq true append-only / assymetric encryption would be nice but isn't too important because most of my server's current data is a superset of historical data. I'm more worried about a compromised server deleting all the backups.
Kopia *might* be able to do something there but reading their github issues and slack did not inspire much confidence at all

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