r343l

r343l, 14 days ago to random

@charliejane @annaleen Thanks for mentioning The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy on your podcast. We’re only 4 episodes in but so delightful.

r343l, 29 days ago to random

Health insurance being able to dictate how you get certain drugs using their pharmacy is one of the most fucked up things about our system in the US. It seems like nothing but a scheme for corruption.

r343l, 1 month ago to random

The Danny Westneat of economics bloggers thinks he’s great despite the absurd autocratic tech fascist cosplay. https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

This article is just wild and yet another reminder that the top folks “in tech” are often not wise, thoughtful or caring.

r343l, 1 month ago to washington

Heck yeah high school and college students in #Washington and the #Seattle area! Walkouts and protests occurring at high schools and colleges to call for an end to Israeli violence in Gaza! https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/student-walkout-updates-as-wa-students-protest-israel-hamas-war/ #EndGenocideInGaza

r343l, 1 month ago to random

I am reading The Spice Must Flow by Ryan Britt which is a kind of loving fan history of the Dune books and media. In it, I learn Herbert got $2,295 for the serialized first part of the first book published in Analog. That’s like $22k today and wow.

So many fun details about the two attempts to make the book into a film before Lynch’s — and before Star Wars. I only knew about Jodorowsky’s which sounds like it would have gone poorly even if visually amazing.

r343l, 2 months ago to random

For the first time in a while #pottery went okay and I (a) was able to go physically and emotionally and (b) am not leaving horribly disappointed at what I did. Also I threw some weird (hopefully gaiwan lid) things off the hump which was my first time trying to throw anything off the hump (they look like little floppy plates because I can’t cut level).

https://flic.kr/p/2pJUrQm

r343l, 2 months ago to random

I have mostly converted a large monorepo of typescript packages that build up a handful of servers from targeting CommonJS (CJS) to ESM. My brain is now (more) broken.

I begin to believe that a future malicious AI has been time traveling to influence the development of Javascript to waste as much human effort and physical resources as possible.

r343l, 2 months ago to random

Partner: “I’m sure it can run in Docker like everything else.”
Me: “do you even know what Docker is?”

(Turns out partner has a roughly correct idea of what it is presumably from my rants and all y’all tech weirdos tooting about it.)

r343l, 2 months ago to random

Me: OMG why is escape key just making a noise and not putting me into command mode?! Is my escape key broken?!

<turns fn key on and off a few times for good measure in case that is related, start searching for mac escape key problems.>

Me: $Partner!! My escape key is broken!! (They are the household hardware support person even though I'm the programmer.)

<They come over. I realize I'm in Notes app not VIM. Notes app doesn't have command vs insert mode.>

r343l, 2 months ago to random

I’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past via Switch Online using the Switch SNES controller projected onto a big screen at home and it is amazing. Quite comforting to this genx/elder-millennial who hunted down an SNES as an adult just to play it (family couldn’t afford one when it came out) but which I foolishly sold 4 moves ago.

Also I’ve caused both me and my partner to earworm on the perfect versions of certain Zelda game songs. Do-do-doo!

r343l, 2 months ago to random

‘These same folks might say of Alphabet or Meta, "If you're not paying, you're the product." Why would this be any different for corporate development tools?”

Hands clapping furiously

(sadly appears rest of thread might be deleted.) https://hackers.town/@signal9/111565769494583776

r343l, 2 months ago to random

Thinking a lot about the post @jacob wrote about celebrating when folks get paid to do open source. Why was Redis VC-backed anyway? Why did the company’s leaders feel the need to change license terms? Why doesn’t that kind of choice seem to work? Why is it that major tech companies depend on so much free software? Why are there so few sustainable examples of open source that don’t involve huge companies, jerky licenses or maintainers being paid a pittance?

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

r343l, 3 months ago to random

Two days is not enough weekend sometimes.

r343l, 3 months ago to random

@MonaApp fyi that some admins are going to consider the app reporting itself as an old version of Safari as malicious. I think I know why you did it but it may result in other problems for users of Mona. :/

r343l, 3 months ago to random

Maybe one company shouldn’t be handling nearly 1 out of 3 patient records in the United States. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24087105/united-health-black-cat-ransom-ware-hospitals-payments

r343l, 3 months ago to random

My mom found me the queer space oreos. Cream filling has pop rocks!!

r343l, 3 months ago to random

A wild thing. I just finished listening to the second part of a two parter of Behind the Bastards about a person who allegedly created the hacking-for-hire industry in India. The episodes were of course about a lot more including what kinds of people, companies and countries (allegedly) hire hacking businesses and some of what they do with it. I saw a link go by about journalists critical of something being targeted which reminded me I wanted to share the episodes. They are gone.

r343l, 3 months ago to random

Thanks @jacob for this piece on how important it is that we just celebrate anyone making any kind of living even partly on work they do for open source / free software. https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

r343l, 4 months ago to random

If you’re a resident of the United States, have you called or wrote the members of thr House and Senate that represent you to demand they push for the ending of the United States support of Israel committing genocide in Gaza? You can tell them as often as you have the stomach for it. #EndGenocideInGaza #FreePalestine

r343l, 5 months ago to random

So very familiar. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tom-scocca-medical-mystery-essay.html

r343l, 5 months ago to random

I’ve done public records requests in Washington state (multple agencies at different levels of government) and it is a huge pain regardless. But, wow, largely better than most Aaron Gordon experienced while trying to gather data for the Kia / Hyundai theft story. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9qna/i-filed-136-public-records-requests-with-police-and-learned-why-our-system-is-broken

r343l, 6 months ago to random

I am reminded by some convos on bluesky (folks who aren’t here, sniff) of one of my favorite essays about the popular culture idea of Captain Kirk being wildly different than the actual performance in the original series (or most of the Star Trek novels I obsessively read growing up.)

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/

r343l, 6 months ago to random

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

r343l, 6 months ago to random

Remote dev team hygiene: if a person had to have been in a meeting in order to successfully understand and complete a task independently then the design and tasks weren’t properly documented.

r343l, 7 months ago to Seattle

KEXP is playing Dance Commander by Electric Six RIGHT NOW!! #Seattle #KEXP