masukomi

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“

Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.

These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.

Please spread this knowledge.

Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.

masukomi, 11 months ago to accessibility

I want to take a moment to talk about code #accessibility. Like How accessible your source code is for your fellow #programming

Practically speaking I count as a "Low vision" user. My need for larger fonts means that lines wrap earlier for me than most users. Wrapping sucks, so when i write code I typically use 80 characters as an upper limit to width. There are computing history reasons for 80 but it also just works.

The problem is other dev's perception & reaction

🧵 1/?

masukomi, 11 months ago to random

Had a sad realization the other day.

I love occasionally explaining repeating tasks in pseudo #basic. E.g.

1. do x.
2. do y
3. GOTO 1

No-one learns basic anymore. Most folks can follow what i've said but they don't actually know why i said GOTO. and they don't know why that really would have been written 10, 20, 30 instead of 1, 2, 3.

1/?

masukomi, 6 months ago to random

Today in AI bullshittery:

Nvidia has trained an LLM on their codebase to save senior designers having to answer junior's questions about what some code does.

I don't know how many times i have to say this, but these are not search engines. They are not inference engines. Their answers are 100% "what would be a plausible sounding string of words to respond to that input?" that's it. That's all they do.

1/2

masukomi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

For those of you considering starting something with Patreon, it's fully moved into late stage enshitification.

This poor creator was given $583 by their patrons, and Patreon took $109 of it in fees. 🤦‍♀️

Go use Ko-fi, they're still run by humans who actually care about creators and don't try and screw them at every opportunity. Also consider Ghost.org. They're working hard to make an Open Source Patreon style platform w/ NO fees beyond simple hosting cost.

masukomi, 3 months ago to random

#TechWriters matter

Discord is NOT documentation

masukomi, 28 days ago to 3DPrinting

A little over a week ago I put my #3DPrinting Filament Stackers up for sale on @cults3d & Printables. I'm happy to report a handful of sales 😄

quick numbers, commentary, & screenshots of sales pages in thread.
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masukomi, 3 months ago to 3DPrinting

#Makers #3DPrinting
I reached for my digital calipers the other day, and they were flickering like an LCD in a horror movie. Unsurprisingly, I did not have spare LR44 disc batteries on hand.

I decided "Eff this. I never want to need my calipers and have them not work because some battery died." So, I ordered these. Mitutoyo is a brand known for good precision, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the $100 to $300‡ for their more precise ones. These were only $35.

‡ still unemployed

masukomi, 25 days ago to random

Following @dachary 's morning discovery of the impending enshittification of 1Password I'm giving ProtonPass https://proton.me/pass a test run, because they've always had a great reputation.

1st observation: No VC, 10 years of community supported development!! They definitely could have had investment by now if they wanted it. So Values Alignment ✅

BUT... how hard will it be to migrate > 1,500 items from 1P?

🧵 1/?

https://dacharycarey.social/@dachary/112377102369005988

masukomi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to 3DPrinting

#3DPrinting where to sell a model?

My Filament Stackers are ready to go, but I've reached an impasse. Thangs.com wants me to set up ongoing plans that people subscribe to. MyMiniFactory wants me to pay like $25 a month.

Are there any 3D printing focused sites that would just let me sell a model for $6 and just take a cut of the sale with no monthly fees or buyer subscriptions?

[edit: I went with Cults 3D for now: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/vertically-stackable-3d-printed-filament-shelves ]

masukomi, 10 months ago to random

Apple arbitrary code execution drama update:

🍎's fix breaks many web sites: WhatsApp, Zoom, Facebook, Instagram... So apple pulled it. You CAN downgrade if you've already updated. BUT that'd open you up to the vulnerability again.

On desktop just don't use Safari.
On iOS you're screwed if those sites matter because Apple won't let browsers with different rendering engines on the app store. All iOS browsers are just reskinned WebKit.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/10/apple-pulls-ios-16-5-1-macos-13-4-1-rsrs/

thanks to @chrismarquardt

masukomi, 3 days ago to random

Someday, I will come up with a useful way to organize this drawer. Today is not that day.

masukomi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to 3DPrinting

#3DPrinting Interesting support learnings last night

Needed to print a piece larger than my bed, but small enough to fit the cubic workarea. Attempted to use the manual support technique described in this Slant3D video https://youtu.be/8NKVNwVaZU0

It failed in a somewhat predictable way, but also... not. I was treated to a surprise when i removed the support plane.

a 🧵

masukomi, 6 months ago to security

#Security geeks. Please help me understand something.

One of my apps runs a tiny local JSON API server. By default this is port 5749, but you can make it whatever, and there is zero need to expose this port to the network.

I have a potential user who says they can't install it because their Co forbids running apps with "open ports". I'm like ⁉️ because I don't understand how this could possibly be a security risk if you don't expose that port.

What am i missing?

#secops

masukomi, 9 months ago to Lisp

I miss lisp.

I'm writing these hashes of hashes of whatever in ruby and thinking.... golly i wish i was using lisp.
...
That being said, i !@#$! hate every hash/dictionary implementation i've ever encountered in a lisp or scheme.

100% writing macros to give me ruby/pythonish dictionary interactions.

If you know of a lisp that does this well PLEASE let me know.

#lisp #scheme

masukomi, 4 months ago to ADHD

Practical example of why #ADHD really is a disability.

Today it's extra strong. This morning within a ~10 minute period I...

• forgot I was in the middle of making tea, and started making cereal
• forgot I was making cereal
• retrieved wifey's breakfast burrito from toaster oven and attempted to put it in a bowl instead of a plate
• couldn't figure out which utensil was appropriate to give her to use with it. fork? Spoon? fork? Spoon? Big fork? No... spoon? Fork!

🧵1/?

masukomi, 10 months ago to ruby

#ruby geeks do any of you know of a built in Ruby or Rails mechanism that will convert "foo/bar/baz.txt" to ["foo", "bar" , "baz.txt"]

Basically i'm looking for the opposite of Rails.root.join("foo", "bar", "baz.txt")

something that'll work in an OS agnostic way to give me the path as an array of elements.

And yes, i know i can just path.split("/") It just feels weird that we seem to have an OS agnostic way to MAKE paths from elements but not UNmake them.

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

In my experience companies don't want a real expert. They don't want quality. They want a competent developer who'll say "yes" to whatever sales promised the customers. They definitely don't want someone who'll make them face uncomfortable realities like the value of QA people or planning for the future, or including other teams and taking into account their workloads.

masukomi, 7 months ago to random

Continuing with the many Adulting tasks, I am attempting to connect the battery leads of the ambulance to the two new batteries of the ambulance.

I have been out here for at least half an hour. I have utilized hammers, boards, wrenches, and desperately wished for a car jack that was only 1 inch high in its closed state, I have 1 positive lead on completely & the other positive lead on mostly I am going to attempt to screw it down now, because I honestly don’t think I can do better than mostly

masukomi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to 3DPrinting

#3DPrinting How do you measure angles?

I’m looking to measure angles on physically small things. So, basically I want calipers, but for angles. I don’t want to hold a protractor up to it and go “ummm… that looks like maybe 38°. I think”.

Small things, as in I want to measure angles on things where the widest points of the angle are less than 1cm apart.

I'm talking sub-degree precision.

[EDIT: answer: "Vernier Bevel Protractor" or "Universal Bevel Protractor"]

cc #machinists / #engineers

masukomi, 1 month ago to random

It has begun… again.

It is 6:17 AM and there is already a stream of traffic heading north. I am just thankful that we didn’t do anything stupid yesterday and that the dog is not stressing out like he has in the past.

#eclipse #Vermont

A view out the car window. You can see the silhouette of a mountain with the light colors of dawn behind it. A few nearby trees poke above the Ridgeline of the mountains. Mirror to the car. You can see a pond with morning sunlight, reflecting off of it. There is a guard rail with heavy motion, blur, and the car mirror.
The line of traffic ahead of us you can see five cars stretching ahead around a curve. Decides of the road are lined with dark trees. In the distance you can see pale blue mountains. Beyond them, you can see a smooth sky, cascading from reddish Orange at the bottom to whiteish blue at the top

masukomi, 11 days ago to random

I need shorts. Target suggested these as an option.

Just... no for SO many reasons.

I have avoided shorts for years, but if I'm going to keep overheating like this (evidence suggests yes) I'm going to need some.

Looking through the options I realize i have NO clue what would look good on me, but I'm pretty sure it's "not these" ;)

masukomi, 3 months ago to macos

#macOS I'm looking for an app and need help. I want a small converter app. Maybe menu bar. Maybe widget. Easy to get to quickly. Primarily for converting imperial to metric BUT the thing that's making this search hard is that it must support fractional measurements like converting 3/8" to mm without making me do the math to convert that to decimal first.

There are lots of small converter apps. None of them mention supporting fractional input. Or, none that I've found.

recommendations please?

masukomi, 7 months ago to macos

I made a mistake of restarting my computer because I was having weird keyboard issues.

This was a mistake because apparently I am now upgrading to Sonoma. I did not want to upgrade to Sonoma. I did not ask to upgrade to Sonoma. I do have automatic updates on, but in the past that has only ever applied patches, not full version upgrades without your consent.

#macOS

masukomi, 5 days ago to esperanto

I'm seriously thinking about quitting Duolingo, because the more advanced the conjugations get the less clue i have what the fuck is going on because they literally Never explain Anything.

Ex. In #Esperanto "el" means "from" & "de" means "of"

I came FROM the United States
Mi venis EL Usono.

The House OF Usher
La domo DE Usher.

and yet, it's insisting that when you go FROM France to Germany it's

...DE Francio al Germanio

and that EL Franco is definitely wrong.

WHY?!