i'm sure railway operators don't act like little spoiled kids in a playground wanting to protect their castle at all cost and be all defensive about letting anyone else use the same sandbox
wow Europe is so good at international cooperation and can agree on so many things i'm sure they have figured out everything about railways and #CrossBorderRail in general that it's not a problem in the slightest to quickly, cheaply and comfortably cross the continent without flying
there are certainly no problems with booking, changes, responsibility for problems with trains crossing borders or any of that
right?
right????? 😅
something feels so off about this article on the unveiling of Aaron Swartz's statue. I'd never describe #AaronSwartz as a tech bro 🙄
"The 312-pound statue, carved from Carrara marble sourced from Italy, was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving. Peniche invested $10,000 of his own money into the project, with the remaining $53,500 scraped from donors that included Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe and Mana CEO Max Novendstern."
I am willing to bet that if Aaron Swartz was alive today, he'd not be happy about SF's capitalists using his name to sound like they give a damn about what Aaron stood for..
https://pubby.games/nesfab.html fascinating…
Pretty productive day, honestly.
Cautiously went back to (some) paid work after my surgery (I have bills to pay!), cleaned up a good chunk of my e-mail inbox by creating an absurd amount of folders and filters, migrated my Forgejo, and made a start on a little automation project.
Definitely hadn't expected to get this much done today when I woke up this morning!
Todo: delete the many many spam accounts that have accumulated because Gitea/Forgejo do not really have any meaningful spam prevention
To me, advertising is fundamentally adversarial. You try to colonize my thoughts with your brand, and I try to remain as unaware of your business as possible. There's these billboards I've been seeing for like a decade that don't contain enough information to figure out what the fuck they're advertising, just an inflammatory url that they're trying to intrigue you into looking up. Today I saw one where they actually talk about what business they're in and I'm so mad to know that now. I was winning the war for my neurons, at least on that one small front, but they couldn't let me have it
The migration involved:
1. rsyncing a few data folders over to the new (not really new, just different) server
2. Cut-and-pasting my NixOS/morph config for Forgejo from one machine definition to the other and running the deploy script
3. Fixing some file permissions due to a user/group ID mismatch, oops
4. Changing an internal port because I hadn't realized there was a port conflict, oops
5. Switching over the CNAME with 5 minute TTL in my DNS over to the 'new' machine's host
galaxy brain techbro takes that require brain bleach
Some highlights, paraphrased:
"Forgejo is just another fork by people who do nothing except take other people's work to earn money from it"
"If you want to see a company that successfully figured out how to make open-source work for a business, look at Gitlab"
(For those unfamiliar: Gitlab is open-core, not open-source)
US politics
if you're in a position where a government doing terrible things is relying on you to help do them, this is an opportunity.
do NOT quit in protest, do a bad job on purpose.
accidentally forget to make backups of important information.
send back subtly wrong answers to questions.
wrap everything in as much red tape as you can get away with.
you're smart and competent, turn your thinking around: how can I make everyone around me less efficient.
Doom läuft auf allem, auch im PDF – warum nicht auch Linux? Das dachte sich ein Tüftler und startet ein Minimalsystem im PDF-RISC-V-Emulator.
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.