silvereagle

@silvereagle@furry.engineer

Hi! I'm Silver Eagle 🥈🦅. He/🥚/They, Furry, LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈, Leftist, Open-source Software Developer and Disability/Accessibility Advocate.

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silvereagle, to random

I'm not going to link the posts (as I suspect it would be block-evading), but some of what people are saying about me right now is kinda veering into "dangerous" territory:

These people are determined to cause racist harm. I know what I want to happen to them

Block me all you want. Disagree with me all you want.

But if all I've done is repeatedly make the point that "it's hazardous to constantly escalate the rhetoric so everyone who expresses a criticism is seen as a bigot and a hazard to the community" and your response is to constantly escalate the rhetoric so as to make me seem like a bigot and a hazard to the community, and to then respond to that with all the same harshness...

Don't do that, please.

silvereagle,

Oh my god, I just got pointed at something that is...oh my god.

https://archive.ph/t4EvI

Hey Silver Eagle. If you're not evading this block then you won't see this and it'll be fine.

I'll see you in real life. I know people in Austin that'll get me your info. I'm in Austin on a yearly basis. I don't know who tf you think you're talking to, but you'll pay for how you're treating me. Offline. Period.

https://archive.ph/6wD7K

You wanna stalk Black people's accounts that have you blocked? You wanna terrorize us?

Okay. You'll know what terror is.

That...oh my fucking god y'all I'm in actual fucking danger over this shit.

I have to call the cops about this shit. That's a sincere threat.

I don't believe it.

silvereagle, (edited ) to random

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    silvereagle,

    @ConnyDuck I eagerly await Tusky correcting the record on here in a way that isn't just replying to me and telling me I'm "full of shit" or "fucking lying" because it would be awfully handy for us outsiders looking at this situation and piecing it together from what we can see if you gave us more information than just that.

    silvereagle,

    @mcc @ConnyDuck What I'm linking are public posts that paint a pretty obvious picture that's rather hard to draw much of any other conclusion from.

    Are you sincerely telling me that the following things didn't happen:

    • A thread from someone saying they uninstalled Tusky over the community manager's anti-TBS stance alerted Tusky senior staff of this "problematic" behavior on the community manager's part;
    • Those senior staff said, publicly, that they'd never work with anyone who didn't support Ro and that it was against what the project stands for to do so
    • They went into the Matrix chat or whatever and said something, at which point
    • The community manager quit and apologized profusely.

    I get that you have a vested personal interest in not getting folks mad at Tusky, and part of that involves getting out and controlling narratives, but just yelling "you're full of shit!" at me is about the worst way to go about it.

    silvereagle,

    @mcc @ConnyDuck That's weird because that's the exact information I'm working from and it's exactly what I've linked to and quoted in this thread.

    Take issue with my use of the phrase "forced out" all you want, but I'm not making up quotes out of thin air.

    I'm not trying to harass people or misinform the public, I'm trying to piece together a complicated situation with limited information.

    It's fine to be upset at me for calling this kind of negative attention toward your project, but before you come yelling at me I'd like if that anger was rooted in a more concrete set of counterclaims and less just yelling shit at me.

    silvereagle, to random

    I think, if I've learned nothing else through all these latest defederation disasters, it's that people like me really shouldn't be in charge of instances.

    Instances don't do well with loud, principle-driven and strongly opinionated people at the helm. It's not fair, but their statements and actions get held against their whole server, and everyone who's just there looking for a place to peacefully exist often has to pick up the pieces any time some polarizing thing is said or done.

    Perhaps the ideal Mastodon server administrators are the quiet teams of nameless moderators who exercise heavy restraint in making big decisions, who never comment on accusations or claims about them except when strictly necessary, and who do all their work of protecting their users subtly behind the scenes.

    Of course, the problem is, these aren't the people who are often drawn to run instances. 😔

    omgubuntu, to random
    @omgubuntu@floss.social avatar

    If you're triggered by GNOME's new executive director having /checks notes/ interests that aren't Linux related… Give your head a wobble.

    (And please stop sending me "news tips" about it.)

    silvereagle,

    @omgubuntu Isn't the concern here that there aren't just a whole lot of things she's done that are Linux-related? If...ya know...any?

    silvereagle,

    @omgubuntu Yes and lots and lots of nice degrees. I read the thing too.

    I mean, if you look at an org like the GNOME Foundation and all you see is "a non-profit" then yes, I suppose that's the only relevant experience you'd be looking for, but I can hardly blame anyone for thinking the position should have a pretty strong passion for the actual thing in question as well.

    I'm not saying she'll do a bad job, I'm just saying her statement that "I’m entering the GNOME community as a humble newcomer" is a little bizarre for someone who just got named Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.

    silvereagle, to random

    Using Discord for everything sucks for lots of reasons, the long-term preservation of web-indexable history being huge among them, but you also can't just run around demanding that every FOSS project self-host a full suite of applications for itself in perpetuity without fucking paying their hosting bills to do it

    silvereagle,

    "If you're not able to sustain yourself, just use free services that are out there"

    Well yeah and that's how we wind up with every project on GitHub and Discord and CloudFlare

    It isn't just convenience pushing people toward those things, it's also the sheer unsustainability of surviving while maintaining free software, and you gotta tackle that part too

    silvereagle, to random

    Laravel, more like scare-avel, more like beware-avel, more like don't-care-avel

    silvereagle, to random

    It's shit like this, Windows...

    In the Explorer UI, if you wanted to move something "up" a directory into a parent one, you could just literally click and drag it to the parent directory in the file listing.

    In the newest reworked Explorer, not only have they pulled this feature, but they went through the effort of showing a "Can't do this" cursor when trying to do it.

    This was an immense time-saver for a lot of little things I do, and they could've left well enough alone, but they went through the effort to not only remove it as a feature but to really drive home that it's missing. That's pretty fucked.

    A GIF screen recording showing an attempt to drag a file named "test file thing.txt" into the navigation bar of Windows Explorer. In earlier versions, this would let you directly drop the item into any of its own parent directories without having to copy/paste it, but now instead you just see a "do not enter" icon on your cursor.

    BathysphereHat, to random
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    I promise you that it's ok to find misogyny and degradation hot in the context of sexual play without it really meaning anything in particular about who you are in the wider world. Just please stop writing up arguments about why being a full time bimbo slut is anticapitalist. I'm begging you.

    silvereagle,

    @BathysphereHat Leftists have an immense problem with conflating personal preference and individual decisions with moral "goodness" overall. It's funny because you'd honestly expect that kind of problem to be the stock and trade of the most sanctimonious religious right-wingers, and yet it's quite common here.

    You see this manifested in lots of places. One big one is the "tenderqueer"/"puriteen" wing of "progressive" thought where every preference is made through a moral argument of whether it's right or wrong, and everything you personally aren't into becomes fodder for justification as to why it's actually bad for anyone to like or do it.

    Another is the rhetoric used by people in the community in their disagreements with one another. You often don't find a subtle, nuanced "I just don't like this guy's opinion on (thing), but otherwise he's decent", you find more "his opinion on (thing) is wrong and that's a danger to entire marginalized communities" or some such hyperbole.

    silvereagle,

    @BathysphereHat When you see interpersonal conflict of any type as a righteous struggle for the future of our society, for our principles as people, for leftism itself, etc...it's easy to go off the rails really fast.

    And of course, when emotions are so easily heightened like that, urging restraint is a conversational third-rail. Even when you tiptoe on the eggshells and make it clear that you're not invalidating anyone's emotions, just trying to stop them from spiraling toward the most drastic claims of "moral superiority vs. moral failing" and the decisions that prompts them to make, you tend to just become collateral damage yourself.

    Leftists love eating other leftists. That this, in and of itself, is a controversial statement that would provoke that same furious reaction, is just icing on the strawberry shitcake.

    silvereagle, (edited ) to random

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    @stuart I'm inclined to agree. Defederation isn't just a tool to express disapproval of one single person on an instance, it's to say that you feel like that server is irredeemably prone to abuse in some way, whether that's being a hive of spam or hate speech or whatever. Defederation severs very important human connections between people, especially when it splits apart communities that would otherwise be very closely intertwined, and to use it like this is just terribly destructive to our collective solidarity.

    Techaltar, to random
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    This 14 year old video is still arguably the best tech video on YouTube 😂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ

    silvereagle,

    @Techaltar I still refer to things as "time vampires" because of this video

    silvereagle, to random

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    silvereagle,

    @gay_ornithischians Tyson Tan gave ownership of the mascot to the project itself, subject to the same license as the software itself, which (at the time) was Apache 2.0, so presumably it still is :)

    silvereagle, to random

    Gotta admit I appreciate the brutal honesty that on a MS page ranking Windows dev frameworks, it sure looks like, on the balance of it all, the best option for developing on Windows is React Native, the thing made by Meta that has the very least to do with .net and the Windows ecosystem

    silvereagle, to random

    Is Markdown support in core Mastodon or is that like a Glitch addon or something? Because Fosstodon does not have it, and I'm spoiled by having it on this server and I'm increasingly angry that I can't use it on the FOSS project.

    silvereagle, to random

    LB: Google really did kill off Pixel Pass, a new-phone-every-two-years plan, after exactly 22 months a month shy of the Pixel 8 release, giving people who subscribed to it a $100 credit, automatically renewing all the stuff in the pass to the various monthly (more expensive) versions, and despite paying for months, nobody's getting a new phone.

    It's an exceptionally dirty rug-pull on Google's part. It may not be lawsuit-worthy, but damn if it isn't just one more log on the absolute bonfire of reasons not to trust that company with anything.

    silvereagle, to random

    Dev PSA: If you're using Nodesource as your provider for Node/NPM packages and you were previously using their setup_x (i.e. https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x) script in your builds, they've deprecated that script (as of Aug 29) and recommend you replace it with new direct setup instructions, which you can find here: https://deb.nodesource.com/

    I only noticed this after seeing that my CI build times went up slightly, which was because they put a big warning with a 60-second delay to make sure folks notice it. If you update your builds, they should get a little faster as a result!

    silvereagle, to random

    Well my back's gone out on me again so I'm laid up in bed, but yay laptop dickin' around time!

    I've looked into the static site builder Astro and switched a little tiny single-page project over to it and it's pretty cool. It sits on top of Vite but has a much heavier emphasis on building out static HTML files instead of JS components, but with fancy dynamic "islands" if you need them.

    It's very cool and indeed yields pages that are quite snappy and lightweight, though I think it's hilarious that to do that, it needs some 310 dependencies in node_modules. Good lord, talk about bloat in one place to avoid it in another.

    silvereagle, to random

    To anyone who refers to any sort of software that follows any set of defined rules whatsoever as "AI", even if you've never referred to that same code as that before in your life, just to get your slice of the bullshit pie going around nowadays...please fucking stop

    silvereagle, to random

    Chrome: We're automatically opting you in to a new feature that sends your home address to advertisers but puts little asterisks over parts of it, and we're calling it Ultimate Privacy Protection

    Firefox: We're encrypting every step of the DNS and HTTP connection process so nobody on the planet can know what you're doing online, because fuck anyone who would want to know

    These two are not the same and should not be regarded as equals

    silvereagle,

    @EppyNWS I've completely switched over to using Firefox as my daily driver. I've yet to find any workload for which it isn't well-suited, though there are some cases where Chromium extensions do make some workflows a little easier.

    For those limited workflows, I just run a basically disconnected-from-everything Chrome instance.

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