taking HRT is a lot like being a victorian mad scientist
“two years past, i began a series of forbidden experiments. forced to work in secret, i was left with myself as the only suitable test subject.
“my experiments were highly successful. i have been invigorated beyond my wildest dreams, my faculties are increased, i have gained youth and beauty untold.
“the experiments, however, came at a cost. once a week, i must inject myself with the serum, or i begin a transformation most monstrous…”
Calling it "adulting" makes a lot of sense because "adult" is a culturally constructed role. When you are "adulting" you are often performing tasks to satisfy society, not yourself. You are doing tasks that have been obligated to complete simply by virtue of being an "adult".
Current status: trying to work out how to do stemming in different languages reliably despite the frankly shit language coverage in many relevant libraries
I have extended my tech corp detection to corps in general by also detecting a "Careers" button
This week I finally finished a project I've been working on for the last few weeks: A map, laser-engraved into a ca. 60x70 cm piece of plywood, showing the @spaceapi opening states of hackerspaces in central Europe using red/green LEDs. All of that in a nice wooden frame, now on the wall at @CCCBasel.
Details on the project can be found in our Wiki (in German): https://wiki.ccc-basel.ch/index.php/SpaceAPI-Karte
or in the git repository (in English): https://git.kabelsalat.ch/s3lph/spaceapi-led-map/
Not happy about the CPU time yet; it's currently clocking somewhere between 15 and 50 milliseconds of CPU time per request, which really isn't acceptable, so that needs much more optimization I think. Profiler time, I guess?
lmfao, I've implemented a feature that ignores tech company sites effectively by looking for any occurrence of the text 'Pricing' as the sole content of a HTML element
dependencies, hot take, potentially confrontational but honest
Avoiding dependencies as a matter of course suggests that you believe yourself to be the most qualified expert in every possible aspect of your project, not just the core idea, and makes me trust your judgment of ability a lot less because basically nobody is
“You’re so lucky! I wish I could lay around all day.”
No. You don’t. The reason you think laying in bed all day sounds “fun” is because for you it’s a CHOICE.
It’s not fun when you can’t leave your bed. When you’re so sick you can’t watch tv, listen to music or talk to others.
Also don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of non disabled people acting like we’re “lucky” to be housebound/bedbound or that disability is some vacation - when they wailed and screamed about temporary stay at home orders.
When staying home was suddenly NOT a choice - it was the worst thing to ever happen to them and a violation of their freedom.
I can’t get out of bed - but I’m “lucky”. Ok then.
My search engine crawler so far seems to be perfectly fine with about 20MB of heap size (ie. "true" memory use), though it doesn't do the actual content indexing yet. Promising results so far though!
At first glance, I seem to be getting a roughly 4% robots.txt rejection rate on a pile of personal websites, which is honestly lower than I had expected
idle thought maybe hot take
The whole thing with "official fan $thing" and the paradox therein, seems like it's really just a version of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" phenomenon, where someone is trying to appear grassroots and independent, but really their actual hope in doing so is to become the Big Guy, not for legitimate grassroots reasons
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
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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
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.