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KatS

@KatS@chaosfem.tw

50-ish trans woman; aspiring ladylike dyke. At least as feline as the profile pic implies.

Alleged software developer and occasional musician, former and possibly future infrastructure engineer, goth (ever and always, body and soul).

AuDHD-type.

Far more politically-engaged than I'd prefer, and salty about the fact that it's been made necessary.
I'd prefer that my music and code be more of my identity, and that my gender be in the background with hair-colour and handedness, but here we are.

I miss crows. Crows are nice.

#Goth #CommonLisp #Bass

Profile picture: a charcoal sketch of a cat sitting on a tree-stump, looking away from the viewer.
The cat's head is tilted in a way that makes it look contemplative but, honestly, they probably just slipped a mental cog and now their brain is in some kind of phantom neutral.

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hazelweakly, to random
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I find it fascinating that we talk about over engineering as if it's a thing in software engineering. It's not, cut it out, stop talking about that.

If I'm a contractor and I over engineer something, guess what? It works for that use case and all the future ones. The only thing I wasted was money and time. Did you make a 10 ton capacity deck when you only need 2 tons? Cool... It's still a deck.

Software engineering? We don't have over engineering. We have "building to solve the wrong problem"

KatS,
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@hazelweakly Nicely said.

The one thing I disagree with is about YAGNI: it's part of identifying the shape of the problem.

KatS,
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@hazelweakly Fair: it's a design technique that's as easy to misuse as any other.

What I've learned to do is make sure the design allows for adding it later, while avoiding as much as possible of the actual implementation. It's been an effective way of deferring the maintenance burden until there's a concrete use-case that makes it worthwhile.

maxleibman, to random
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Interviewer: It looks like your previous job only lasted three months. Can you share why you left?

Me: Sure! All new employers are subject to a 90-day probationary period, during which they are evaluated to make sure they are a good fit with my personal culture and can perform their duties satisfactorily. Not all companies make it.

KatS,
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@maxleibman Yes yes yes!
Probation goes both ways, and not enough people realise this.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Where to buy picture frames in .nl?

KatS,
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@quixoticgeek Just the frames, or a full framing service?

I used this lot in Amsterdam, and loved the results: https://www.encadreur.nl/

jonny, to random
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I have an increasing hunch that blank nodes in are just a local minimum byproduct of ppl insisting that all names need to be globally unique, and if u relax that then u can avoid a lot of the graph isomorphism probs at the expense of having some mechanism of referring to nodes relative to one another

KatS,
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@jonny I think you're describing the reason I came up with dependent resources.

I'm finding it very useful to be able to define things that only exist in the context of (and with some specific relationship to) some set of other things.
Among other considerations, they only need to be unique within the context of their parent resource.

KatS,
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@jonny Now I do: https://www.sysc.at/display/Wikipages/Syscat_HTTP_API_-_conceptual_overview

It's a first draft, but sticks almost entirely to the conceptual, without getting bogged down in the details of the API itself.

KatS, to random
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That moment when you realise you're becoming the kind of woman you always wanted to be when you were a boy, but didn't believe you could.

SecurityWriter, to random

Your yearly reminder that ‘layoff season’ is an American invention that infected the rest of the world.

Layoffs cost a company 35% more than retaining a core staff over 3 years.

The only purpose is for inflating investor reports.

Layoffs in tech immediately degrade the product, reduce security, create safeguarding issues, and inevitably destabilise the future of a given product.

KatS,
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@SecurityWriter I had no idea that "layoff season" was an established phrase.

However, I do remember when Citigroup laid of 10% of their IT workforce in September without notice, to improve the bottom line for the annual investor report.
Three years running.

And how, for the two more years I was with the company, senior management noted with concern that morale in the IT department plummeted alarmingly in August.

kitoconnell, to queer
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Apparently the " is a slur" discourse is back on social media and look, y'all, we settled this in the 1990s. Get with the century. We have a right to reclaim these words and we already have. Get the fuck over it, and accept my queer as fuck self or get into some therapy.

KatS,
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@timbray @kitoconnell If it's in phrasing such as "queer folk sure could use a break here," the only people you're going to upset are those who want it to be a slur.

KatS, to random
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Diagnosing what appears to be a clock-related problem, and... of course ntp has been replaced with a systemd service.

Now waiting for the day Vim is replaced with systemd-emacs.

jonny, to random
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OK unofficial OWL spec, go home, you're drunk
https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/blob/5910a59a6f46c1f8ec9fb028bd8bbb65a7332e4e/vocabulary/activitystreams2.owl#L837-863

KatS,
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@jonny My regret at re-examining RDF and noping the fuck away from it has been incremented by zero, remaining steady at its usual level of zero.

kevinteljeur, to random
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How the absolute and ever loving fuck is 1993 31 years ago? THIRTY ONE YEARS AGO

KatS,
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@kevinteljeur Dude! Not cool!
Did you have to use violence?

JoscelynTransient, (edited ) to trans
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TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE FRIENDS:

Since coming to terms with your gender, how often have you wished you were just a regular cis person of your gender? (E.g. trans fems wishing they were "just another cis girl")

And if you could reply, I'd love to hear why you have those feelings or thoughts. 💜

KatS,
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@JoscelynTransient It's never occurred to me to wish for that. Probably because I'm still figuring out exactly what that is beyond "physically female-shaped. Mostly. More or less. OK, but definitely with that hormone."

dgar, to random
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The thing is about Australian wildlife is that most Aussie animals won’t back down from a fight, but most of them don’t go looking for a fight either.

If you’re worried about visiting Australia because of our deadly fauna, here’s a hint. If you see an Australian animal, walk away from it.

A kangaroo has trouble disemboweling a retreating person because its attack involves rocking back on its tail and kicking you with both feet. It’s not really able to do any damage on something that’s moving away.

Magpies will generally let you know where their territory is, and if you stay out of it while they’re nesting, they won’t knock a hole in your head.

You literally have to get in the water to be bothered by sharks or crocodiles. Swim where the locals swim.

Snakes and spiders are about the only thing that you might happen upon by surprise and they tend to be happy to let you leave, but will happily fuck you up in self defence.

Y’see, Aussie wildlife mostly kills idiots who approach it, try to pat it, or catch it. Our animals mostly kill and maim stupid people.

I guess, my point is, we don’t have anything like lions or bears that will chase you down, pull you out of your car and tear you to pieces.

Also, the chances of being shot in this country is almost non existent.

Australia’s a pretty safe place to visit, comparatively.

KatS,
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@andrewfeeney
Survivorship bias is a hell of a drug 😛
@dgar

KatS,
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@Soupy51
You jest, but...

A while back, somebody solved the mystery of crop-circles in Tasmania when they spotted an unconscious wallaby beside one.

See, there are poppy plantations down there, to supply the hospital painkiller industry. Plants don't understand fences, so the roads are lined with medical-grade poppies.

Fences don't slow wallabies down much, either.

Turns out some of them were getting into the poppy paddocks, filling their bellies with these delicious flowers, getting monged out of their tiny little brains, then hopping around in a circle for hours until they passed out.

Eventually they'd wake up and bugger off, leaving a ring-shaped WTF for humans to puzzle over.
@dgar

KatS,
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@dgar
True. However, it'd be a different story if you fed some Bundy OP to a boomer :)
@Soupy51

KatS,
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@gerowen
NZ only has katipo, which are basically redbacks that wanted less-crowded beaches. Other than humans, they're it.

However, in both NZ and Australia, the creepie-crawlies are really just decoys. It's the countryside itself that'll kill you.
@dgar

KatS,
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@dgar
Isn't that more of a huntsman trick?

I have heard of tree wetas leaping onto people, causing them to soil themselves, but they're not directly dangerous to humans.

Granted, that changes when you factor in second-order effects, that is, damage incurred due to any leaping, whirling and screaming in fright. Especially if you were (past tense) in control of heavy machinery at the time. They may be harmless, but they do look terrifying.
@gerowen

zombierustpunk, to random
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Sometimes I think about how brands like 7up and Pringles made 16bit video games for marketing purposes, and wonder why Uber and DoorDash haven’t done the same thing. Those companies in particular seem like obvious choices, because adapting the actual job to a videogame seems pretty straightforward.

KatS,
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@zombierustpunk Also Mr Wimpy (a UK burger chain) back in the '80s.

Reading about the game was how I learned of the chain's existence :)

KatS, to random
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Just mispronounced a physics phenomenon as "the double-slut experiment" and now I have some important research to do.

I may need a lab-partner or two for this one...

KatS,
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@Terra It's good to know I have friends I can count on.

goodthinking, to random
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I’m tired of hearing about billionaires jacking off to the soundtrack of our disappearing future.

Are there any good “leaders” out there you can point to?

KatS,
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@goodthinking I think it needs to be us.
Like, all of us.

KatS,
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@goodthinking Honestly, this is the one thing that's given me hope recently: that growing swell of "this system is completely fucked and unsustainable, and the whole thing needs to be replaced."
The problem is not just in your country. It's a widespread thing, and we have it all over Europe as well.

But that recognition is spreading, too.

A couple of weeks ago, I was resigned. Now I'm hopeful. We can do this.

cfg, to random
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I want to be like, 1950s mommy goth. Like Lucille Ball, red wig, housewife dress + tattoos + dramatic makeup.

How’s that sound?

KatS,
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@cfg Sounds like you're aiming for gothabilly - goth/rockabilly crossover.

As an aesthetic goes, it can be great, as long as you throw yourself into it.

filippo, to random
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This is not a carefully worded statement, but fuck Appelbaum, fuck the people who sheltered and supported him these past years, and fuck those who are allowing his unrepentant attempt at a comeback and putting people and communities at risk.

KatS,
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@orsinium @filippo This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum

Short version: computer security researcher who's accumulated many credible accusations of sexual assault.

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