Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@joepie91 I feel like LLMs destroyed my love of programming, and it feels hard to rebuild that when it was built on curiosity and desire to help people, something that seems completely at odds with what software has become.

And like, I would also be fine with maintenance work on something open-source that's already useful, but it's surprisingly hard to find a project that fits the bill there?

Like, I'd want to work *with* someone, without a hard scheduling commitment (because ADHD), using tools that I am comfortable (even if not familiar) with, which mostly means non-monolithic JS, and be confident that the project doesn't veer off to something miserable like "AI" or cryptocurrency.

And those constraints filter down the available options way more than they should, honestly.

Aside from generally feeling miserable about the software industry and who it serves, I've also been struggling with a lot of programming just being... *boring*.

Like, this is definitely the ADHD brain talking, but a lot of new software development is just the wrong kind of routine work for me. It's not novel and it's also not caring for something that people already use and rely on. And I understand programming too well to still find much enjoyment in it.

So I've been needing something novel, something I don't understand yet and which I can work on in an exploratory way, where I *don't* know where I'll end up yet. And I think I've found it? It seems like (inclusive) malleable software fits the bill - it's both exploratory and practically useful.

Yeah, I'm so over it now. I'm just going to unfollow and possibly mute people who aren't CWing, or at the very least, hashtagging their political shit.

I know what's going on. Horrible, horrible shit is happening every day. I have my news sources that I trust, and I am getting my news in doses that won't drive my mental health into a chasm.

For the love of whatever it is that you personally find holy, CW your shit.

#Hashtags #ContentWarnings

https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/114679882247156017

when there's a reckoning in the future around what roles people played in facilitating the genocide in Palestine, it is a moral imperative that journalists + the ownership class of the news outlets they work for must be held to account

don't forget this: by repeatedly, systematically refusing to call out Israel's crimes, these bastards have caused as much shedding of innocent blood as though they were on the ground pointing the fucking weapons themselves

PLEASE BOOST: Icelandair broke two wheels off my new suitcase. I'm stuck in KEF airport in Iceland. Is the reach of Mastodon powerful enough that it can find someone nearby who can help me get a new suitcase that has dimensions that can be checked on Austrian Air? I think that's 158 cm linear.

Dear people of the Fediverse,
Do you have any suggestions for a good, not necessarily free, spech-to-text recognition / dictation app that saves the audio and allows exports as txt, and, most importantly, does not force you to sign over your data to hundreds of "legitimate vendors"? If the same app also works on a desktop - even better, but it's not necessary.

Edit: Android and Windows.

Ah. No ethnic minority person in my compartment, so no passport check. Police just look. But - like in Kehl last week - the train waits in Frankfurt (Oder) while they do the illegal controls, so we accumulate more delay…

the problem when all the things it does to enjoy itself are either physically or mentally intensive and thus even when it is "resting" it never actually rests it is just applying too much energy to fun things instead of unfun things it has to do

it needs shit it enjoys doing that is actually restful for its body and brain...