Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Good morning! Don't just seize the day, steal the day. Pirate it. Take it. Shoplift the day. It's yours. Who's going to stop you? The Day Police? All you have to do is hide out until night and you're golden.

My method for creating fictional world maps:
1) go for a walk after rain
2) take photos of drying spots on the sidewalk
3) draw over them ✨

#worldbuilding #worldbuildingart #cartography #fictionalmaps

Meanwhile, in the #NixOS moderation debacle: jonringer, one of the dudes who has been harassing marginalized folks for years, posts a screen-ful screed that boils down to "our behaviour should be free of consequences, that's the only way to be neutral, and also you should ban everyone who told us 'no'".

Except in flowery 'respectable white dude' language so that it reads like a completely unremarkable report you might need to read through for work, and I am not confident that moderators will see through this.

This person works at Anduril, by the way; the arms dealer.

This is *after* they have already been told to "accept it and move on", which they have ignored on multiple occasions to keep pushing.

I would hope that the moderators eventually realize that the demands from these people will never stop, that the 'trust' they complain about will never increase, up until the policy is "no moderation whatsoever". So far, this realization does not seem to have landed yet.

Over 1,300,000 civilians and military died in the Vietnam War. Politically it was the 60,000+ young, Americans who died that forced a shift in the way the US conducted warmaking.

The US public wouldn't tolerate such death tolls, at least not from drafts. The deaths of foreign civilians didn't make a similar impression. (But should have.)

The protests and anger over the draft and Vietnam War might have seemed futile at the time. But, it did force a change. Those protests mattered.

The result is that I’m reading a Stack Overflow question right now (“why does sin produce different results on different computers”) and a lot of well-meaning people have responses that boil down to “you can’t really expect anything from floating point numbers”.

Programmers learn about strings being character arrays and then they learn about Unicode and it traumatizes them so much that they just assume that like you can no longer do any useful operations on strings. And they will confidently go up to people doing this and say as such

I have noticed a worrying trend in computer science where topics that are have surprising, non-intuitive properties are now taught as “oh, treat this as a magic black box, you will never understand it”. I hate this as people then “teach” by discouraging exploration in the space

Germany is accelerating in its shift to the right and I’m not seeing any sufficient resistance. Partially this can be attributed to even the try of doing so being heavily prosecutable. Yet still there’s a difference between not wanting to be subject to state violence and complying with a shot societies rules. There’s ways you can fuck around and ffs I’m not seeing it.

I’m seeing how shit that was implemented five to ten years ago being enshittified to death.

I’ve recently reconnected with a few lost friends and the first things I get to know of about the mean time are:

non prosecuted sexual abuse in numbers that are actually scary and I can count myself in the statistic
ridiculous medical & drug abuse, including the worst way to learn that oxycodone is actually available

I want to look away and run, but once again I can’t - I’ll not refuse to at least try no matter how much it’ll be worth.

#OpenCore means "we won't accept the contribution you worked hard to implement on your own dime and time because we need to keep it a proprietary feature in the Enterprise Edition".

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #SoftwareFreedom #Community #COSS
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266#issuecomment-1984106576

Okay. We all know children are not miniature adults.

Like they do NOT have as good of coordination as an adult, (and in a lot of cases, yes that is worse if you are autistic)

But a lot of kids LOVE drawing and coloring, especially if grownups will participate while they do that.

Here is the thing:

if you are drawing (or coloring) next to a young child, use your non-dominant hand to draw and color.

Because otherwise, you end up with semi-decent (for someone without art skills) lines and curves that child CANNOT make, and they get discouraged.

Like I think a child expects you to be a LITTLE better, but not LEAGUES better.

I made a little guy feel bad about himself because I was Better at drawing than him. He didn't want to draw anymore. Just wanted me to draw. because there was no point.

What I told him, was that I loved his drawings, he WOULD improve, and then we drew a monster together (basically, I would draw a body part and then he'd draw one, and I tried to make it as silly as possible). After that I always made sure to use my left hand.

It is okay to not be the best at something, but a lot of children aren't okay with that, partially because we as a society are not okay with that.

I mean this is a message I struggled with my whole life (and to this day). A lot of us weren't taught that it's okay to suck at doing something, and that you'll improve if you keep at it. But this sort of thing starts young. So use your other hand

To make things a little shorter: fucking mask, wash your hands & encourage ppl to do so as well

Are you marginalized in some way, and have you had a poor experience in the #NixOS community that was not handled properly by the moderators?

I'd like to talk to you about it! I'm not a moderator, but have spent years (behind the scenes, as a community member) trying to resolve the safety issues in the NixOS community.

I've reached a point where I think it's time to start documenting incidents publicly, pseudonymized if needed, given the apparent tendency for them to be "handled" (or rather, not handled) privately.

I'm reachable on Matrix as @joepie91:pixie.town, or by e-mail as admin@cryto.net. I won't publish anything without your agreement, but please talk to me about this before sharing your story, to make sure that we have the same expectations!