(And also running a script to automatically delete the 850k or so spam users on my Forgejo instance)
(Do not tell me to "tune my Synapse" unless you intend to *commit* to help solve these performance issues to its full extent)
Amazon has a big strike going on right now, and people are saying "Don't buy from Amazon! It's crossing the picket line!”
Au contraire. This isn't that kind of strike. This is a strike where they WANT Amazon to feel the pressure of orders backing up. They want capacity problems. Buy all the stuff you need but not in a timely manner! Back up their queues! Make it hurt!
Note that the Union is not calling for a Boycott at this time, if they do then that changes things.
reflections on abuse, self-worth, and "fair" (+)
jasmine just said "abusers always view the abuse as fair" to me
i already know this... both intuitively and from my own reading about these dynamics.
still, it really hits me when i think about this.
for years i internalized that "fairness".
it has made healing from the abuses of my life that much harder, because on a fundamental level i viewed the abuses as fair. i was told they were fair.
even today, i will credit my upbringing with equipping me to navigate power structures in this absolutely fucked up world of capitalism and hierarchy.
the reason i credit my abusers instead of celebrating my own resilience to handle this world despite my abuse is that i justify the abuse to myself as fair.
i was told that i had to be abused to prepare me for the world, the abuses of the world feel the same as these abuses i was raised to endure. the justification feels true, but the psychological research says otherwise. the way i react to sweetness and love says otherwise. my inability to truly thrive despite my successes says otherwise.
one more reason to get rid of my ideas of "deserving".
one more reason to redefine "fair" under my new value system.
one more reason to love myself even harder for being authentically me.
New #webdev concept: The VNC test.
If viewing a website over a VNC session uses less data than directly loading it in a browser, it fails the test.
Edit: Not a new concept, thank you @cybertailor for this reply!
re: kink, question
Incidentally, creatures in (Flemish) Belgium also qualify, for all practical purposes and intents it's close enough :p
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.