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hrefna, 4 days ago to random

Evidently a few men have tried "would you rather talk to a woman or a tree about your feelings" as kind of a weird "clapback" to the man vs. bear thing and I'm like… you'll talk, voluntarily, out loud, about your feelings and not make it some poor random non-therapist's problem? Really?

Please do men! Go forth! Spill your secrets to trees. May you find it to be very fruitful.

hrefna, 5 days ago to random

An example of my problem:

Arkansas is ranked above Colorado. Alaska is one of the top 4.

Arkansas does not have discrimination protections for gender orientation or identity. It does not have a hate crime bill and the "watered down" hate crime bill it does have does not include gender orientation or identity "implicitly or explicitly." They ban trans people in athletics.

They passed a bill to allow healthcare practitioners to deny healthcare to LGBTQ patients.

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hrefna, 5 days ago to random

There's a chart going around either from or citing #SafeHomeDotOrg that "ranks" LGBTQ "safety grades" by state.

It's an object lesson in why the assumptions behind your data matter significantly and in how not to communicate data.

First red flag: there are no dates anywhere on it.

Second red flag: A large chunk of its data comes from hate crime reporting rates.

What is a hate crime and how often do things get filed as such matters significantly for these things.

This misleads.

hrefna, 7 days ago to random

One idea I've toyed with before that I think is really interesting is the idea of having a persistent inbox but an offline processor

So think of it like this:

You have a queue that sits online with a webserver in front. The queue has some logic (the kind you can configure with RabbitMQ) for deduping and routing, but is still just a queue.

That's the only persistently online piece.

(@jenniferplusplus mentioned this earlier as well, this is not unique nor original to me as a thought)

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hrefna, 7 days ago to random

It'd be very convenient if I could negotiate with ants.

There are a group of western harvester ants in a rather inconvenient spot and I'd love if they could move like… 20' over. Or a few hundred feet in any of three different directions.

But right where they are is not ideal.

hrefna, 7 days ago to random

There's a design pattern that is (somewhat tongue in cheek) named multi-single-tenant.

The idea is basically that you have individually created (and often provisioned) systems that are run on the same base system, sharing many of the same core pieces of infrastructure but in a way that keeps strict separation between them.

So I can deprovision someone and that's basically a wipeout. No tracking data to weird places, it's all under one provisioning handle.

But, we share infrastructure.

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hrefna, 9 days ago to random

"Greater than 200x compression rate is required. It also must be lossless compression, work under low power and be able to compress data in real time"

I'm partial to blue dragons, personally. Though the gem ones are awesome if we can break out of the chromatics for our dragon choices.

hrefna, 9 days ago to random

Me: <sees a book on girlfriend's shelf titled 'The King in Yellow'>
Me: <picks it up and glances into it>
Me: <sees that it is a play>
Me: <IMMEDIATELY SHUTS THE BOOK>
Me to girlfriend: "…why do you have this?"

Her: "Because it makes a great LARP prop and people have one of two reactions to it. They either think it is a weird play or, noticing that it is a play, they throw it across the room. It's great."

hrefna, 9 days ago to random

Great I got blue marker dye on my hands -.-

That'll come out maybe a few years after I die, pretty sure.

hrefna, 9 days ago to random

One of my least favorite management antipatterns:

"Can we just try this for a while to see how it works?"

Not because that phrase should never be uttered, but because at least half the time when it happens it's happening because the manager(/exec) wasn't listening to feedback at all or had already made a decision without collecting feedback first.

If you want to use that phrase, you need to schedule a point in the future when feedback will be collected and the decision analyzed.

hrefna, 9 days ago to fediverse

Some of the areas where I am most critical of #ActivityPub are areas where it is clear that the design is focused around how to represent the world rather than how a healthy system behaves.

Basically the focus is almost entirely on "how do I describe what humans are doing?" Sometimes in great detail, but very little emphasis is on "what is required for a set of health distributed nodes to talk to one another successfully."

hrefna, 9 days ago to random

Be careful about saying something correct but that can be snipped out of context as "short, quippy, and wrong." Especially if you put the short, quippy, and (contextually) wrong piece into a meme.

Memes get shared much, much farther than the context you wrote to go with said meme.

hrefna, 11 days ago to random

As a kid when I first heard the story of Odysseus and Polyphemus I always felt bad for Polyphemus.

You broke in, killed his sheep and goats (ended up after all of this stealing his favorite ram), and hung around—against the advice of your crew—because you thought he might give you a gift?

I'm not surprised that he decided you would be tasty. Nor when you give him your name, address, and social security number am I surprised he reported you up the chain, as it were.

hrefna, 13 days ago to random

I should give my "How I learned to stop worrying and love the JIT" (not my original title, but someone suggested it and I'm stealing it) talk again.

I also need to do a followup "Fear and Loathing in HotSpot" talk about "things you are seeing as problems, why they exist, and how to address them."

hrefna, 14 days ago to random

"No one said not to do harm reduction"

Except I have multiple examples of people doing exactly that.

Come on, this isn't particularly difficult to find.

hrefna, 14 days ago to random

"Harm reduction is just reformism"

No, "reformism"—or whatever particular brand of "rebuild society" you are for—is about what you are doing with the other 365 days out of the year and how you are looking to drive change.

Harm reduction is about reducing harm in the meantime.

hrefna, 14 days ago to random

"Person who won't do anything claims that the problem is no one else will do the only things they approve of, film at 11."

hrefna, 15 days ago to random

"I miss the old internet, when the cruel people were contained to one or two websites I could ignore"

What internet would that be, exactly?

It certainly wasn't any internet I've been on, and I've been around since the 1990s.

This "nostalgia for the 'heyday of the internet'" almost always seems to be rooted in these rose-colored glasses about how things were.

I won't argue about whether things are better or worse overall, but this idea that the internet was somehow nicer is weird to me.

hrefna, 17 days ago to random

Being vague about specific harmful experiences with groups who you won't name and just advising people to "be cautious" is the opposite of helpful and further propagates the problems of the culture of silence around these topics. In this essay I will…

hrefna, 17 days ago to random

Just in general I see saying "oh btw there's a whisper network you aren't apart of and no I won't invite you, but there are actively unsafe situations I'm aware of that you should be cautious of, no I won't even tell you the genre of concern so that you can ask relevant questions" to be… at best in poor taste.

hrefna, 17 days ago to random

At least the first book of #EightySix (Asato Asato/安里アサト) is a masterclass in talking about the limits of being the privileged savior. The limits of your ability, of your experience, of your capability to empathize

Again and again it drives its point home:

That when you have privilege you cannot "give up that privilege." You always have it, and you cannot understand what those who do not have it go through

About how prejudice is systemic and genocidal, and how the system propagates itself

hrefna, 21 days ago to random

Converging on perfect, non-problematic language:

1. Isn't possible.

2. Erases a lot of identity in the margins.

3. Will not fix oppression. Especially when your target audience are the group that uses that label.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

hrefna, 21 days ago to random

Cis people sitting with each other and saying "protect trans kids" to each other and then undermining that in every interaction with a trans person or in any opportunity to actually support trans people is…

…well, it's definitely a thing.

hrefna, 22 days ago to random

"But you will be using AI in…"

Possibly! I don't dispute that it may happen! I've seen a lot of thoughts in that direction for other technologies that never panned out, but I've also seen it go the other way.

Finding a use for the generative AI tools in the development process won't surprise me. Especially if the cost comes down.

What I balk at are replacement narratives or the idea that somehow it will invalidate human engineers.

Also: you should unionize to fight them trying.

hrefna, 22 days ago to rust

The #RustLang "Rust by Example" is absolutely brilliant. Mad props.