Car culture is, and I say this as someone who has a car and drives!, going to get us all fucking killed.

@xgranade While I am grateful to the folks inside Meta who use the resources that they have to do good things, the fact remains that they would not be allowed to do this if it weren't at least *somewhat* aligned with benefits to their employer. CloudFlare is also a big sponsor. And we can turn […]

@xgranade But it's simpler than that: Python is just deeply dependent on huge amounts of corporate money. Some of it is relatively unobjectionable (Fastly is one of the good ones… for now). Some of it is deeply distressing — many of my favorite events are largely funded by Meta. Which, you know […]

@xgranade I think it doesn't even need to be as deep as the subtle structural effects of "AI". I tend to agree that AI is structurally fascist, but I think that it is, in good faith, possible to believe that it isn't, because the connections are complex, tenuous, and incomplete. Certainly less […]

actual helpful explanation: There once was a guy from Chu (think "Florida") who lost his sword overboard while sailing across a river. He hurriedly marked the still-sailing boat with his dagger, so he would know where to dive later to find his sword. "Mark a boat to find a sword" = a solution […]

WRT the Ruby takeover, I've seen several posts calling for Ruby to learn from Python about how to structure governance to prevent fascist takeover of infrastructure. Which, yes, I agree. But also, I would encourage the Python side to not get complacent. A fascist takeover is a thousand percent […]

Gah, I can hardly believe there's been another shooting already of *exactly* the shape that fascists love to use as a pretense. I don't know anything, everything is too uncertain, but if there's anything I've learned from the Kirk shooting, it's that the truth doesn't matter to these people.

Julian: Sorry I’m late. I can no longer conceptualize time

why is everybody posting about the rapture. did a rapture happen? did a demographically significant proportion of the population get raptured? is this going to affect the midterms?

Using object notation to represent a sequence of nodes was always a hack, partially because of the (IMHO) entirely unwarranted backlash against XML. I really wish runners adopted a *standardized* schema compatible with local dry runs, based on a node-based language like KDL (ideally, KDL […]

I feel like this should be read as a cautionary tale about what hosting right-wing extremists like DHH does to your community and projects. https://ruby.social/@joeldrapper/115254240567396139

[uspol shitpost] who called it the "musk/trump feud" and not "alien vs. predator"

It is surreal watching the New York Times accurately covering and debunking medical disinformation from the Trump administration, approaching it not as political horseracing, but as an issue where one side is factually correct. You know, the very thing they abjectly refuse to do when trans […]

An incomplete list of things that one might hope are pedantically correct, or at least would not lie to them: • Programming language documentation • Disassemblers An incomplete list of things that I have seen hooked up to machines that can only lie, just in the past twenty four hours: • […]

I'm going to go on and offer a synthesis to two recent thoughts, one my own, and one that I boosted. https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115249521306919865 https://hachyderm.io/@confluency/115249546873110413 Namely, I think there's a lot of room* for someone to explain why some obscure, boring […]

Saving this to use as a react image

Finally watched John Oliver's episode on the Kimmel suspension, and I like that he kept it pretty strictly to the mechanisms that the Trump administration used to go after Kimmel. I'm obviously strongly of the mind that Kirk was an absolute asshole, and that the world is better off without him […]

In related news: We're doing an art contest. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Please forgive the Amazon link, but this is the kind of thing I wish was a little less sketchy and a little more commonplace. Hostile interoperability is *good*, actually, as is finding uses (modulo safety concerns) for a product outside of what the manufacturer finds profitable. Power tool […]

Had an interesting conversation about how to represent villains in media, partly prompted by a fictional story that wound up accidentally being about Charlie Kirk, despite having come out well before the shooting. But still, it's an interesting thing to reflect on sometimes: how do you make a […]

I don't how how to say "it's a bubble" more clearly than that the Zojurishi rice cookers that I've sworn by for years and years are now sold as "AI powered."

Newest thing to ruin my project idea: Pine64 seems to have a *maximum* order size right now, due to tariffs. God forbid you want to order a pinecil *and* thermal inserts in the same shipment.

``` sys.path.insert(0, sitedir) ``` oh, no

My experiment with building ARM images from NixOS failed... maybe one day I'll try again with Lix and Auxolotl, but for now, I need to figure out how to run rpi-image-gen instead. That has a hell of a lot of implicit and globally managed dependencies, though, such that I'll still probably need a […]

I'm not going to link to it and give the fascist more attention, but *wow* at the Karen stripping in a schoolboard meeting to protest against... trans people existing... or something? it honestly isn't clear what she's mad about, given the whole meeting was adjourned once she got down to her […]

I really, really need to move off of Proton, but have just been lazy about tech migration lately. The latest annoyance, that Mail Bridge panics and yeets its own credential vault whenever Secret Service boots up too slowly, may be the kick in the ass I need. That's always been the case, but […]

OH from the other room: "give him a handshake, you freaking asshole." Must be GBBO season!

Oh, dear gods, this is a mess, what an indirect way to manage dependencies — with bonus mutation of global system state, too. https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-image-gen/blob/master/install_deps.sh

Thesis: GOTO is bad for managing complex code. Antithesis: GOTO put humans on the moon. Synthesis: going to the moon required less software complexity than modern frameworks require of "apps." https://mastodon.social/@hynek/115236967047216841

OH: they put a man on the moon with GOTO

OK, the Peak Design line of straps and anchors is really neat. Kinda wondering now how practical it'd be to use them for laptop bags, etc.

Nix doesn't say "log off and touch grass," it says `error: executing '/nix/store/mwhhghlx6y7ynpf4mnmybsq2ycgjyki7-bash-5.2-p15/bin/bash': No such file or directory`. Just gotta learn the lingo.

Finally, the Disney boycott will get everyone to give up on Star Wars and join us on the Star Trek side of nerddom. Instead of ABC/Disney, we’ll enjoy the product of CBS/Paramount, which hasn’t cravenly capitulated— *puts hand to earpiece* Well, crap.

photography 🤝 music theory: two or three sigfigs is good enough to represent any radical

OK, this is puzzling. Got photography advice that you should never delete photos from a memory card, only reformat the whole card. Being a computer toucher, I am curious why that advice exists. Is it just folk wisdom, or is there an actual problem that solves?

Wearing a mask is gay. That alone is a good enough reason to do so.

It's me, the gayest motorcycle rider currently at this particular camera store. Possibly.

Hey, honey, I'm going to the Nix store, can I grab you anything while I'm out?

Naive NixOS (not Nix in general, specifically NixOS) question: what's an idiomatic way of calling something like `buildNpmPackage` from within `configuration.nix`? Or perhaps more accurately, what's an idiomatic way of writing `configuration.nix` such that `nixos-rebuild` will make a specific […]

I am a long-time and documented probably irrational SPA hater, but when an SPA doesn't include page state in the navigation stack, such that the back button leaves the entire application instead of navigating within the SPA.... that's when I get extra salty.

IEC battery nomenclature is fascinating. #insomnia

Huh. https://github.com/meshtastic/framework-portduino

I am incredibly upset that Susan DelBene voted to honor Charlie Kirk (most famous for being a Nazi, currently a dirt snacker). I really worry about how hard Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland are radicalizing, and her vote is a very bad step in that normalizing that radicalization […]

Ugh, OK, posting something a bit more fun instead of thinking about TIVE again, and how fucking scary that is. Um. Er. Playing Hades II in prep for the 1.0, and can somewhat reliably make it to Chronos? Beat the first phase of, and got wiped on his second form. But it's progress, in a genre I'm […]

The same Netflix that fired all their trans employees for criticizing Netflix's deal with Dave Chappelle? Or the same Apple TV whose CEO just handed Trump a golden statue? Not trying to be a jerk, just pointing out that this is endemic in corporate media, and isn't limited to one or two bad […]

It takes no exaggeration to see that things are very bad for trans Americans, and since we're only mid-way through month 9 of a 4 year term, they're likely to get much worse. Will they go door to door arresting us tomorrow? No. Is it a possibility before 4 years is up? I genuinely think it is.

[lewd, cursed, possibly on top 10 cursed ideas that have intruded into my brain] Girl who gets "this machine kills fascists" tattooed on her dick as preparation for penile-inversion bottom surgery.

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A thing I wish urban planners in Seattle understood: if you build a bus-only lane, and you don't enforce it, then you haven't build a bus-only lane. You built a Tesla lane.