jeang3nie

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jeang3nie, to random

Still having a love/hate relationship with automobiles. Shortly after sorting out my transportation issues and now we're dealing with my SO's car grenading itself with a stuck valve and no compression. After two weeks of waiting for word on whether the warranty will cover the damage, we tried to talk to a salesperson about trading it back as-is. They will do so, but the payment figures they came back with are impossible for us.

nixCraft, to random
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Truth 😅

jeang3nie,

@nixCraft I pretty much skipped straight to 3.

hosford42, to Autism
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I have a list in my head of all the assholes who treated me badly because I'm autistic, from the guy who kicked me out as a roomie leaving me homeless, to the group of thugs that held me down and beat me, to the random assholes that punched me in the mouth for looking at them the wrong way or using the wrong words, to the bank manager who decided I was being flippant and did what she wanted with my money instead of what I asked, to the judge who yelled at me and humiliated me in court for asking questions about what the different pleas actually meant, to the boss who nicknamed me "autistic boy", to the boss who refused to promote me and picked me to lay off because of my social skills, to the boss who actively tried to get me fired for refusing a command that I couldn't understand... It goes on and on. If you think ableism isn't real, isn't an actual source of disability all on its own, or is a thing of the past, think again.




jeang3nie,

@hosford42 this sort of thing is why I don't generally reveal that I'm autistic at work. I can say though, without a doubt it's getting more difficult to act "normal" as I age. There are times it has caused problems for sure, and times when maybe some misunderstanding was caused by the other person not knowing, but I don't trust employers in general to either protect from harassment or give equal opportunity, so I keep it to myself and keep masking.

amici, to Funny
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jeang3nie,

@hosford42 @amici my daughter is an artist and one of her major sources of income is selling at comics/sci-fi conventions. I was hanging with her last year at one of her tables, Shatner was there that day, and so was David Koechner, who was randomly walking around the crowd seeing if anyone recognized him and talking to people. He came and sat with us at her table for a while and just hung out like a human. His take on Shatner:

"Shatner? Fuck that guy. He treats his fans like shit."

drewdevault, to random
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The forbidden topics

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

jeang3nie,

@drewdevault I think that fact is strangely validating of the points you were making.

jeang3nie, to random

unsolicited porn ads coming from mastodon.social again.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I somehow never knew this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

jeang3nie,

@lowqualityfacts well when you black out and wake up later the next morning in a Tijuana alley missing a tooth and a kidney, it's hard to say whether the headache is from the tequila or just good old fashioned dehydration.

drewdevault, to random
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In which Drew gets annoyed by the "Americans are so dumb lol" european circlejerk again

jeang3nie,

@drewdevault it's not actually as simple as it seems at first. If you work on cars at all, you'll probably know that pretty much every fastener in a modern vehicle is metric now, no matter what it's country of origin. I do think Americans will eventually switch completely, if only because it makes no sense to keep both standards going. It just might happen over generations. Or we might reach a tipping point, after which there is a rapid shift.

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Frequently frustrations about the Browser oligopoly rear its head on and people talk on creating alternatives.

Such projects exist. Chances for success may benefit from trimmed specs.

To discuss the ideas for a , a project 1st started by @alcinnz on Codeberg, a chatroom was created:

https://matrix.to/#/#weblite:matrix.org

Anyone interested in lightweight engines, and trimmed down and possibly too is welcome there.

https://codeberg.org/weblite

jeang3nie,

@alcinnz @kik @smallcircles one thing I would love to see is a serious fork of the Mozilla codebase to make it embeddable into other projects, like it used to be. I feel like when Mozilla dropped support for Xulrunner it was a betrayal of the community.

They then turned around a few years later and made big promises for an embeddable engine with Servo, which they then (predictably) abandoned.

drewdevault, (edited ) to random
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Hacker News

jeang3nie,

@drewdevault I specifically don't have comments on my blog, but instead have links to my Mastodon profile and Codeberg account, from where you can easily find my email. I'm happy to discuss anything I've ever written about in those places. Posting links to my blog on HN feels like an end run around my intentions for how I wish to engage with readers. I very much wish it would go away.

Codeberg, (edited ) to random
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currently suffers from high load, and we are having a hard time to stay ahead of the scaling issues.

If you mostly test our software or sync your small private projects, consider using https://next.forgejo.org for the time being.

Benefits include:

  • it runs on the same hardware and stack managed by Codeberg
  • you can make use of the latest features
  • better performance
  • dogfooding helps the Forgejo developers (please report problems!)
  • it reduces the load on Codeberg

Read on …

jeang3nie,

@sam @Codeberg I think this strategy has merit but is only feasible after federation is rock solid in forjego. Otherwise you limit contributions to only those willing to add another account.

Private
jeang3nie,

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic exactly.

My ex wife: The trash needs taken out.

Me: Yeah.

6hrs later...

The ex: I thought you were going to take the trash out?

My mind: Why would you think that? All I did was agree that it needs doing. It's pretty much at the same scale to me as "someone should abolish the electrical college" or "I really think we should stop having a two party political system". I had no idea that you thought I was the person who should be handling this.

Me: yes dear.

jeang3nie,

@yourautisticlife @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic typing on a phone, sorry. Electoral college.

jeang3nie, (edited )

@yourautisticlife @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic oh it gave me a laugh.

drewdevault, to random
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That Lobsters post about Ares is absolutely awful. Based on knowing nothing of the project whatsoever the response is an immediate dismissal and an expression of "disappointment" at the fact that such a project even has the audacity to exist in a language other than Rust and/or is written by the big bad witch himself.

How can someone even write comments like these?

jeang3nie,

@drewdevault if it helps at all...

I've been using Rust for @ 5yrs, but have started seeing flaws. Pointing them out got me the pitchfork and torches routine on HN and Lobse.rs.

At the same time, I've been exploring simpler tools. I've gotten reacquainted with C, and I'm loving it. And I'm also loving Hare. You made a lot of really smart tradeoffs in it's design. In fact I'm idling in the and IRC channels most days just out of curiosity.

I appreciate what you're building.

jeang3nie,

@drewdevault also if you weren't aware there's a pretty favorable segment on Hare in there last episode of the Linux Lads podcast.

https://linuxlads.com/episodes/108

Maybe some good feedback would counterbalance the bad? Their podcast is more for everyday Linux users than highly technical ones, but good press is good press.

jeang3nie, to random

There's an issue at the ballot box in my home state today. Currently, a simple majority is required to amend the state constitution. Issue 1 would raise the requirement to a 2/3 majority. Taken at face value this doesn't seem terrible, although one has to wonder why now, when we've gone this long with the current requirement.

1/?

jeang3nie,

The simple reason is that Republicans are trying to head off any move by Democrats to enshrine hay rights, reproductive rights etc in the state constitution, in reaction to the legislative push to attack those rights.

2/?

jeang3nie,

I would be fine with the idea of the 2/3 majority, if it wasn't coming as part of obvious political maneuvering. In particular, this is political maneuvering to make it harder to protect vulnerable groups, which is disgusting. Even more disgusting is how it is also being used to distract from other pressing issues.

DrTCombs, to Podcast
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TL;DR: how do you ?

My super nerdy kid has decided she wants to spend the rest of her hot summer break creating a podcast in which she teaches parents how to help their elementary aged with .

She's all in. First episode recorded, eps 2-4 sketched out.

What comes next?? How do you go from recording to ? Not looking to make money! Just trying to support her efforts to find her true calling and save other kids from their clueless parents.

jeang3nie,

@DrTCombs Networking with other podcasters can be huge when it comes to promotion. You could try hitting up some of the established people in the tech podcast space directly and just asking for tips. I imagine Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux might make some time for a brief conversation? There's a bunch of others, and a lot of them are surprisingly easy to approach.

jeang3nie, to random

My private Gitea instance went down today after a package upgrade. Annoying. Anyway, seems like a good time to evaluate options as it's probably too heavyweight for my own needs anyway. Anyone have any opinions on a good self hosted git viewer alternative? I've used GitWeb previously, but what I'd like is something a bit more attractive (like Gitea) but without necessarily requiring as many interactive features and being light on resources. Bonus if it's written in a compiled language.

jeang3nie,

@selea @forgejo I did get it working after some troubleshooting last night. There were two separate problems. A stale configuration directive was keeping it from starting, and the other one was a bit of a bug.

jeang3nie, to random

A long time ago, after Apple took the khtml codebase and dramatically improved it into WebKit, I fell in love with a little browser named DWM that had a modal vim-like interface. After that went away I switched to it's spiritual successor, Qutebrowser. But I've been weaning myself off of that experience in favor of Firefox for purely philosophical reasons. If we as the people who actually understand what's going on don't fight to stop it, Google will soon destroy what's left of the open web.

pwaring, to random
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Google Chrome reminds me more and more of Internet Explorer in the early 2000s. Everyone ends up using the same software because initially it's better in some way, but eventually it becomes stale due to lack of competition. Same thing was the case to a lesser extent with GCC until LLVM came along. I wish we had a more vibrant ecosystem without dominance by a single vendor.

jeang3nie,

@pwaring I likely wouldn't have noticed that. I think it was around 2009 or so Chrome stopped being able to run completely on my system due to the lack of sse instructions. That sounds laughable today, but at the time that AMD processor was only about 5-6 years old. Hard to do a head on comparison when one of them wants your perfectly fine computer to be e-waste.

JoeRess, to random
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Would anyone buy LNL merch? If so, what would you want to buy beyond t-shirts. And more importantly, how much would you be willing to pay?

jeang3nie,

@JoeRess I'd buy stickers to put on my pile of laptops. Always looking for those.

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