Lady @Lady@cat.family

« Community members are decidedly NOT free to build ties that might oblige others to explain themselves, which is exactly what women’s groups do, and exactly why they are considered problematic. If someone does not like being in one software project, the accepted course of action is to simply start another project else- where, not create an obligation for that community to include you. This particular form of exchange means that others can push the technology along further only AS individually willful agents who have taken it upon themselves to ‘read the f***ing manual.’ »

« Members often describe their work as ‘scratching an itch’ by producing something tangible and craft-like. Scratching an itch is a common reason why people become involved with communities and why they stay. Yet tradition and repetition, key elements of other forms of craft production, have no place other than as building blocks upon which to take one’s own work further. Re-doing work similar to that of other coders does not scratch the itch satisfactorily, whereas it generally does among craftspeople. In this way, the craft system looks suspiciously like a system of science. It is not considered interesting to just make a media player or word processor, but only NEW KINDS of media players or word processors that exemplify some transformation in knowledge. »

my very asleep girlfriend just woke up enough to flop on top of me and pin me to the bed

oh nice new BERWYN

there are definitely engineering decisions which are complex and weigh a lot of factors and require technical and theoretical expertise to evaluate, but those tend to be interesting problems

hard problems tend to be more like “i have known what needs to be done for six months but it is so aesthetically repugnant that i can only work on it for a couple of hours a week before my brain loses the ability to focus”

a hard problem is simply a problem that is hard

this was also a fine bit but in my head what i heard was “grandma can’t be doing that, she has arthritis”

here’s the actual clip if you’re curious

all other things aside, biden saying “i’m the most pro-union president and you all doubted me, but guess what, the data is in” and then leaning close into the mic and whispering “when the unions win, we all win” WAS pretty great

putting these in a separate repo like this does create an unfortunate situation where i’m going to constantly be having to update a subrepo hash but frankly if i’m going to have to run a manual build every time anyway might as well

there’s a repo now; i’ll use it somewhere eventually; more to come https://git.ladys.computer/Fortune

me @ my gf

that thing where dogs are Not Having A Good Time and they just pout at their owners like “Why?”

“umbreon is like a My Little Pony”

i don’t want to see people doing cool stuff with the things i make (because then i have to support it), but i do want to see people doing cool stuff LIKE the things i make

it sure would be nice if everybody else formatted their fortune cookie quotes exactly the same way as this approach i invented a week ago

« Simulated thinking may be thinking, but simulated love is never love. »

« I go and attribute all of these qualities to the computer and condescend to get mad at the computer and give it the dignity of my emotion wasted on its stupid metal framework… »

for the record i don’t have a strong opinion on the “Biden serves until he dies and then Harris takes over” VS “Harris takes over now” debate but if they’re going to do the first one they should stop making such blatantly politically toxic moves