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glyph, 4 days ago to random

Nothing has ever given me a "the simulation is breaking down" feeling more than learning, only last year, that a guy I mostly knew when I was 9 as "Mrs. Freudenberger's husband", a member of the community where I grew up and whose house I spent many hours at as a child, is literally the guy who invented burnout <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Freudenberger#Burnout>.

He was a pretty cool guy and his family helped mine during some tough times and more people should know about him, though.

glyph, 4 days ago to random

This is … just amazing. The pace drags a bit and is repetitive in places but it is worth bearing with it when that happens because (a) this is a very important thing that western audiences should know about absolutely wildly extreme racism in our media, and (b) the ‘orientalist’ composition of “William Wallace music” had me laughing until I cried https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU

glyph, 5 days ago to random

glue pizza with left rock

glyph, 6 days ago to random

I seem to have accidentally discovered a new Fucking Guy that the leftist podcast/blog/youtube-o-sphere has not yet found, who writes and streams and podcasts about the usual garbage ("IQ", race science, misogyny) it is very frustrating, because he has a tiny audience and I don't want to give him more attention, but the fact that only his grifting victims have discovered his books on Amazon means that his reviews are all 4-5 stars.

glyph, 6 days ago to random

For OPSEC reasons I cannot disclose whether I recently had, or may soon have, a birthday, but I probably was born at some point. In honor of that fact and inspired by @mcc's excellent #Glitch4Andi hashtag, if you are so inclined, please post a story about or picture of a time (ideally in the last ~year) that a computer did something cool and fun and improved your life in some way, using the hashtag #FunTech4Glyph .

(Bonus points if it looks cool and/or uses Python, but very much not necessary.)

glyph, 6 days ago to random

This is really bugging me now that I'm thinking about it. Screenshot-don't-link is common "don't boost bad people" advice… on Fedi it's less of an issue, because screenshot-with-caption is … fine, I think … but in general, how does one make Discourse About Crappy People accessible? If we can't figure out a way to accessibly talk about line-steppers without boosting their engagement, we leave potentially extra-vulnerable people out of crucial warnings about bad actors. https://toot.cafe/@matt/112549564106609279

glyph, 9 days ago to random

You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.

What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?

glyph, 9 days ago to random

okay so for no particular reason I'm watching way more MSNBC today than I normally would, and I just have one question: do they have a gofundme to crowdfund some sound treatment for their studios or what

glyph, 9 days ago to random

Finally got around to writing up some stuff we talked about at the Twisted BoF at PyCon: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/twisted@python.org/message/XGSMXM3X2IVD7GEUI3AKYTP2YTJK356M/

glyph, 9 days ago to random

Worth re-upping my boost of this one today, just before anyone gets carried away with edgy jokes https://discuss.systems/@ricci/112174382514043747

glyph, 9 days ago to random

I've wanted this function for years and years and it never seems worth it to just go write it, but, the second best time to plant a tree is today, so: https://twisted--12189.org.readthedocs.build/en/12189/api/twisted.logger.Logger.html#handlingFailures

glyph, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

Update: fixed, see thread

I keep wanting to experiment with VLANs but I cannot get them to work. I make one in the Unifi UI, I make sure that my port's "Tagged VLAN Management" setting is "Allow All", then I go into the local Network system settings pane on my mac, create a VLAN with the tag on the HW interface, it creates a new interface (and I see vlan0 in the terminal too) but dhcp just never acquires an address. Network engineering friends, is there something obvious I'm missing here?

glyph, 9 days ago to random

Apropos of nothing I really wish that somebody would acquire the rights to Volition’s “Summoner” series and just do straight remakes of the first 2 entries (and maybe a Summoner 3, the ending felt a bit rushed and like they were clearly building to something bigger that never happened). Their reach exceeded their grasp by so much, and the pretty great story could easily be massively enhanced by modern graphical capabilities.

glyph, 11 days ago to random

@mcc me thinking about using systemd: "I don't understand why people are so mad about this, launchd is better than sysv init, this is just launchd for linux, I guess they couldn't just port it because some low-level stuff is different but I'm sure it's basically the same"

me actually using systemd: "fuck fuck what is this shit what the fuck why didn't they just actually port launchd to linux, there's no excuse for this"

glyph, 11 days ago to random

It suddenly occurs to me that tremendous amounts of programmer culture are just various, mostly-failed attempts at managing the work associated with keeping pace with a changing world. Specifically: SemVer, LTSes, “commercial support” funding models for OSS, Win32’s “Old New Thing”-style compatibility, SaaS interface versioning, and, arguably, the popularity of the x86/amd64 architectures themselves are all aspects of a fantasy world where you build something once and have it work forever.

glyph, 11 days ago to random

I heard many folks at PyCon — including a few very prominent ones who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty! — claiming that “black text on a white background” is uniformly and obviously the superior accessibility choice for conference presentations, for various reasons. This is, at the very least, debatable, and I think it would not be too spicy of a take to say it is straightforwardly incorrect. Some evidence follows: 🧵

glyph, 11 days ago to random

I'm writing something about … sigh, god help me … "free speech". This is a draft I've been attacking off and on for years, and as I review my notes and citations from the last time I dug into it, I'm realizing that my "list of times somebody prominent was a deliberately obtuse, sophomoric dipshit about a serious 'free speech' issue, it's… literally just Matthew Prince running interference for Nazis over and over. Surely, at least Elon did something dumb in an identifiable cultural moment?

glyph, 11 days ago to random

You can't just ask. The beastie boys were right: you've got to fight for your right to third-party app stores https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/23/japan-could-be-next-to-force-third-party-app-stores-on-apple

glyph, 13 days ago to random

Had the dissonant experience today where I saw a newsletter claiming that it had “content in this issue” from … me … and when I looked to see what that meant, it meant that they linked to my blog. They’re not pirating my writing or anything, and more exposure via links is fine so… good, I guess? I don’t want to complain but it seems like such an odd and misleading way to phrase it

glyph, 13 days ago to random

honestly not sure how I feel about this trend discovery, exist.io

glyph, 14 days ago to random

Poking my head in on Twitter to do my monthly check for new crypto scams and block and report a bunch of bots, and … folks, it is dire. If Black Twitter is still willing to tolerate this level of dysfunction order to avoid interacting with the problematic elements of the Mastodon experience we have GOT to find a way to do better over here

glyph, 15 days ago to random

It’s friday, so it’s time for a Glyph update! This one, predicably, is mostly about PyCon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-104876830

glyph, 15 days ago to random

Whenever I post a bunch of stuff on here I get superstitious. Has the site actually managed to process my toots yet? Sometimes I get bursts of notifications that cluster together in odd ways. Sometimes things are so close to real time this feels like a chat app, sometimes it feels like a fidonet email system with even initial reactions delayed for hours. I cannot help but wonder if this is the architecture of Mastodon or some property of my audience or just Internet weather.

glyph, 15 days ago to random

Normally I’m a purist with TV shows and episode order, but I’m running out of ideas: fellow nerds, if you wanted to introduce a 6-year-old to ST:TNG, is there a watch order you’d recommend? I keep wanting to do this but Encounter at Farpoint involved way more soliloquies about WWII than I remembered, The Naked Now is erotic horror and there’s no way we’re watching Code of Honor, possibly ever. Do I just jump into the last third of Season 3 and hope they pick stuff up from context?

glyph, 16 days ago to random

PyCon is a magical experience, but maybe even more magical is multi-gig wired ethernet at home. Many things about the conference and the hotel were very thoughtfully put together but 0.3Mbps internet wasn't one of them