Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

you might want to rename this one

is donald trump really trying to deploy a mastodon instance without complying with the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License

which personally is not something i would necessarily want to draw attention to without concrete ideas for how to improve the situation

just gonna say that most people do not use computers for ideological reasons, they use computers because they have things they want to accomplish

if people use computers in a way which does not line up with how your ideology thinks computers should be, that is a damning indictment of either :—

1. the people who share your ideological commitments, or

2. the ideology itself

—: and their/its ability to actually meet people’s real material needs

« Associations are extremely useful, but they are not magic. » unlike everything else in Rails

i’m rereading all the Rails Guides since i haven’t worked seriously with Rails since sometime in 2018 and like 90% of it is just me going “oh so that’s what that spelling means” and the remaining 10% is me digging through the source code and becoming gradually more horrified at what i unearth there

okay i’m gonna admit i thought there was going to be more to this chapter than there is

« During the normal operation of a Rails application, objects may be created, updated, and destroyed. » whew imagine if they mayn’t be

anyway, time to learn about the LIFE CYCLE of ACTIVE RECORD OBJECTS 🌎🌱🌧🌴🦒🦁🪦😭

it is a VERY cute tiger face

tiger is the only one which really surprised me here

things which are baby according to macOS character picker, in order of appearance :—

1. crying face
2. cat
3. chick
4. hatchling
5. baby bottle
6. tiger
7. human baby

today i learned that Litten’s fire attacks are hairballs that it sets alight

anyway moral of the story is google is better

not sure how this relates but 🆗

always get those two confused

me: in britain they don’t say “goal” they say “gaol”

me:

me: oh wait nvm that’s “jail”

you can’t use TWO SEPARATE METHODS OF CASE‐INSENSITIVE COMPARISON for DIFFERENT VALIDATORS

oh my fucking god rails is a mess