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cohost.org, paedo shit 

went to check on cohost again to see if they'd improved their rules situation, but nope. they're still refusing to take a hard stance on loli and other kinds of sexual art of minors. in fact their list of "mandatory content warnings" (i.e. things you must always CW) is essentially exclusively for this! https://help.antisoftware.club/support/solutions/articles/62000226150-mandatory-content-warnings

ah... but shipping from the US is of course prohibitively expensive, costs at least as much as the puppet itself

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adhd questionnaires should just be "how many hobbies have you (tried to) pick up in the last month"

ohhh next up is Adam Savage building a GLURP, which are actually quite affordable diy puppet kits at ~50$ youtube.com/watch?v=TjvX8GiYA5

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meta 

looking at the fediblock hashtag on m.s is quite unusable, good thing we've had worm.pink blocked for quite a while huh

mastodon.social/tags/fediblock

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

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

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

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 :|

meta meta, disqordia 

If an instance keeps showing up on fediblock every month, every time for a different incident, with every time people saying "it would be unreasonable to ban over this one incident, I don't see the problem", that's maybe an indication that you should be looking more closely and that there's some sketchy rule-skirting shit going on

once again evaluating backup software and realizing there's still nothing that does quite what I want...

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