politics, personal PSA
Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.
I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.
Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:
No, I will not be at #38c3. I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.
A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.
If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.
PSA: personal health, surgery and risks, availability
If all goes to plan, I will be receiving a kidney transplantation on November 12 (2024), followed by an unknown recovery period. What to expect:
After the transplantation, I will not be around online for a while; this could be anywhere from a few days to a few months depending on how well (or not) the surgery goes. Even after I return, I will likely be avoiding stress for a while, which also means I may drop out of things unannounced.
In the time leading up to the transplantation, I will become less and less consistently available, and you may see me around less, as I deal with the preparations for the surgery.
I'm receiving a kidney from a living donor, under pretty much best-case circumstances (no dialysis), so the chance of success is high, and the chance of complications is low, but it is not zero. Likewise, survival chance is high but not 100%.
If the transplantation succeeds, I will be able to live a mostly normal life, but I will be on immunosuppressive medicine for the rest of my life. Among other things, this means that you're probably only going to see me at (hacker) events that take sufficient precautions against COVID and the like.
So if you want me and other immunocompromised folks around at those events, ask organizers to take those precautions! Ventilation/filtering and CO2 measurement is a good baseline.
If you have any questions about all this, feel free to ask, but I may or may not have the spoons to answer them.
Why I do not like hanging around liberals anymore
Because they're like oppression lootboxes.
The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.
This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.
With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.
With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.
Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.
I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.
I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
@Sharksonaplane on that note: I've been boycotting Amazon for 5+ years, and surprisingly there have been maybe 2-3 times where it's been more than mildly inconvenient. One was when I was gifted a Ring device and had to ask to exchange it bc I didn't want Amazon systems in my home, bit awkward. But the rest of the time it's just a bit of extra friction.
For reference, at least 2.5 of those years I was living in the US, and 3 in the Netherlands.
War
Fuck
I hate how unaware USians are of how it feels to have war happening in your own land.
Joking about WW3 naively, with the underlying security that they won't be the one to flee, leave everything behind, give up on their hopes and dreams, have friends and family disappear, be maimed, tortured and die - only if they volunteer for the last one.
This is a scary subject, don't let the political buffoons convince you it's not
Oh well. If nothing else, I've come out of this with a bunch of nice new debugging tools.
So, this change fixes the bug. In my reduced testcase. But not in my actual code...
There is apparently a *second* race condition in there somewhere?!
That's going to be tomorrow me's problem...
I wasn't kidding about the misery thing: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/push-buffer/commit/9abf7b2631abc90d113c0d646074109810029f31
I think a lot about the formative experience of first getting on tumblr and reading posts from angry radicals and going "well I don't like this but I can't find any real faults in their arguments that don't boil down to my discomfort" and I want everyone to have to confront that
I think one of the most basic skills to cultivate is to hear something you don't like, acknowledge you are reacting to it negatively, and still then try to assess it rationally
Just one more async queue abstraction bro, just one more, then I'll solve async queue management forever
And it involves this miserable pile of async complexity: https://www.npmjs.com/package/push-buffer
(And that's already the nth revision I made of that package, turns out this is just a very annoying problem to find a reliable and sufficiently flexible solution for.)
At least the problem *probably* isn't with push-buffer itself this time, but rather with something using it, but I still have to read annoying push-buffer logs to work it out...
I have been trying to track down the same bug for the past 5 hours or so, and nothing has helped. I've implemented debugging tools, reduced the problem case, tried many variations to see what influences the behaviour, improved logging, even did a diff between full-blast "log absolutely everything" output to play spot the differences between the broken and working case...
And I *still* have no idea where it's breaking.
Businesses under capitalism are literally just dictatorships and nobody wants to talk about it
the bus I’m on still has a city of toronto “stay warm” PSA from the winter which I can’t stop staring at as I sweat absolute buckets from this heat wave #dlws
I'm repeating this call for support, anyone wants to stay up all night in a beautiful summer night chasing off Nazi cowards along with some fierce immigrants, go to Witten at any point, even at night
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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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.